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ASM 50 is yours. Thanks.

I am reopening this thread for one last chance before the books are off to other venues. I will also be adding a few new slabs over the weekend.

There will be one store that will have it for $1 in Calgary. It will eventually hit their overstock boxes and be blown out. I can remember a couple of Calgary Expos ago pulling out 5 - 20 of each Spawn homage cover and selling them for $40-$100 apiece at my booth. I know a couple of people that had nice scores with DH Star Wars there recently as well.

Ask Another Dimension how many copies of the 1:50 that they sold - I heard earlier in the week they had pre-sold over 20 at $120 or $130 per copy before last weekend (and before FOC). I would not be surprised if it was closer to 40 copies of the 1:50 = 2000+ copies of the regular 2nd print cover. Another Calgary store had similar numbers. Be patient, and I bet that Comic Kazi will have 100s in their dollar bins within a couple of months.

I went back and bought every copy I could find after reading it. I think I can still get a couple of 1st prints at one local shop that ordered heavy. There was speculation early on re: the series being optioned, and Tynion hinted at that in his blog again in December.

Yeah, the FSTT 2 B cover is a nice one. TT Academy looks like the DC answer to Strange Academy. That title would likely become an animated show.

Also, from a DC perspective, check out FS TT 1 and then the upcoming TT Academy 1. FS TT 1 brings Red-X into continuity, and TT Academy 1 will introduce the character that becomes Red X.

Aargh. I am sorry to hear that. Thank you for giving me the heads up on the Virgins from his site. High Republic was always a long term play. The people flipping them now will be missing out on the big gains. Disney has said it is a multi-year multi-media play all along. The first three phases have been announced from a publishing perspective, and the film/TV play is yet to come. The first HR related D+ show, Acolytes, has been announced and there will be more coming as time goes on. Buy your copies for cheap now and hold for a bit.

It would have had to have come at Marvel's request.

The problem with the rumors is they came after FOC on December 6th. This notice to retailers came out in November. I guess that could be viewed as a tipping of their hand as well in hindsight.

What is insane is that sellers are getting over $20 for the High Republic 1 2nd print. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Star-Wars-High-Republic-1-2nd-PRINT-2021-Marvel-Noto-CVR-pre-order-01-27-2021/274618110687?hash=item3ff083d2df:g:sAYAAOSwGJJf3WTz

I agree, but I can see how stores missed it as well. I had one store owner explain his ordering rationale on this book to me. First, SW 1s have been low sellers in the recent past so there was some hesitancy to go big based on that. Secondly, Marvel had a disclaimer added to the bottom of the Previews solicitation for retailers that this was not tied to any current projects for D+ or movies a couple or so weeks out before the FOC, which he felt would dampen demand. Then, they dropped the fugly raw Sway 1:25, and the Hans cover was revealed late. With a lack of any promotion the week leading up to FOC and no increase in requests from customers, he ordered accordingly. I am guessing a lot of store owners used this logic as well. Then Disney dropped the Acolytes show a few days after FOC and the requests flooded in. He knew before Christmas that he did not order enough to fill additional requests. I know two stores that ordered extra - my file LCS here in Edmonton and one in Calgary. Otherwise, the other stores in both cities did not, and some were sold out a week or two before release due to file requests for copies.

True enough, but with proper marketing they could have hit Three Jokers #1 levels easily in the current supercharged SW spec environment.

They did not ship them in cases as far as I know. My file LCS had the numbers for cases and they were not shipped to them that way.

Nowhere Men was a winner for a while until the artist had some health issues, unfortunately. It was a great read and cool concept at the time. Thankfully, I sold my last 20 at $35 apiece to another dealer at a show just before things fell apart.

I don't understand why Marvel took the approach they did with High Republic #1. Look at the heat that IDW is getting pre-FOC for High Republic Adventures #1 by dropping the Yoda 1:10 variant. It is going to blow up orders in a good way. They put out a rough version of a sub-par 1:25 pre-FOC which likely reduced orders, prior to that they sent a note to retailers that this was not tied to any of the current D+ and movie plans (and then a week after FOC announced the Acolytes show ), and then did not do any promotion of it until the livestream event on January 4th? Like I posted earlier, I am happy for IDW and hope this is a huge win for them. Being a small publisher is a tough game and hopefully this provides them with a nice pile of earnings to start the year off.

No, if it had been 150K it would still sell at a premium due to it being SW and introducing new characters. That being said, this is a long play book that will pop more once Acolytes launches and other new D+ shows are produced. If I can still get $10 for raw 2015 SW 1s at shows, then this book will sell for much higher once conventions start here in the fall (hopefully). That being said, it looks like first print orders that topped 100K for all three regular order covers is right for High Republic #1 first printing, and likely a bit high if stores ordered more of cover A. Here is the label on one of my cases for HR #1 cover A from the printer (Fry Communications) to Diamond, which puts the shipped to distributor Cover A print run at 198 cases x 180 copies per case = 36,540. For comparisons sake, here is the distributed print run on one of the Crossover #3 Intermix McFarlane secret variant covers. I have to believe it is for the 1:4s as that would put it at just over 100,000 print run. If it is for a higher number ratio, then that is an insane print run. Here is a blast from the past label for one of three cases of TWD #163 I still have left from chasing the variants (back then, the 1:500 and 1:200 sold for enough to generate a profit, and left you with a few years of 25 cent firestarter). The interesting thing is that Image claimed 730,000 to 750,000 copies were ordered based on the source, but based on the case numbers, only 513,720 of the regular 25 cent cover were shipped to Diamond. Image either fudged the numbers back then, or they overprinted and kept the rest to give out at their booth during the convention season. Seeing as stores would have paid roughly 12 cents per copy with their discount, it must have cost Image well less than that to print it.

I still hate it.....................but I will take the money for it. This is the cover they should have used for the 1:25

Personally, I think going to the larger format and higher cover prices on some titles is going to hurt DC. Time will tell, I guess, but how many people want to drop $7.99 on a book for an additional story focused on back up characters?

What was the title that a board member was trying to corner the market on - Black Acre?

And that is why the 2nd print was announced that week or the next on a four day order window. FOC had closed before the announcements and stores had people calling in. Marvel solicited a rush 2nd print, and will dropping the third print this week as well due to demand.

Check Previewsworld for the weekly comic Final Order Cutoff (FOC) lists. They post them for all of the Marvel and Independent books they distribute weekly.

Right now a 100K print run is not as rare as it seems. Here are the numbers that Comichron has posted for the first two month they have for fall 2020. September 2020 1 2 Venom 28 $3.99 09/23/20 Marvel 130,000 155,000 2 1 X of Swords Creation 1 $6.99 09/23/20 Marvel 115,000 140,000 3 5 Thor 7 $3.99 09/16/20 Marvel 110,000 130,000 4 15 Spawn 310* $2.99 09/30/20 Image 90,000 115,000 5 3 Web of Venom Wraith 1 $4.99 09/09/20 Marvel 90,000 105,000 6 6 Iron Man 1 $4.99 09/16/20 Marvel 80,000 95,000 7 8 Department of Truth 1* $3.99 09/30/20 Image 75,000 95,000 8 7 X-Men 12 $3.99 09/16/20 Marvel 75,000 90,000 9 10 Fantastic Four 24 $3.99 09/30/20 Marvel 75,000 90,000 10 4 Marvel Zombies Resurrection 1 $5.99 09/02/20 Marvel 75,000 90,000 October 2020 1 1 Amazing Spider-Man 49 $9.99 10/07/20 Marvel 155,000 170,000 2 2 Venom 29 $3.99 10/21/20 Marvel 150,000 165,000 3 10 Spawn 311* $2.99 10/28/20 Image 125,000 150,000 4 3 Amazing Spider-Man 50 $5.99 10/14/20 Marvel 105,000 115,000 5 5 Thor 8 $3.99 10/07/20 Marvel 105,000 115,000 6 11 X-Men 13 $3.99 10/21/20 Marvel 90,000 100,000 7 6 Wolverine 6 $3.99 10/07/20 Marvel 85,000 95,000 8 7 Spider-Woman 5 $4.99 10/21/20 Marvel 66,500 74,000 9 8 X of Swords Stasis 1 $4.99 10/28/20 Marvel 61,500 68,000 10 14 Walking Dead Deluxe 1* $3.99 10/07/20 Image 48,500 59,000 Batman Three Jokers #1 had a 300,000 print run, and the other issues were 200,000+. Batman is a regular 100K+ seller.

Take a look at big orders in 2020 for books with no first appearances and then tell me this book has a high print run considering we are in peak SW hype phase right now and there are 3 covers.

100,000 is not a big number for a book with 3 covers, especially a SW #1 that introduces a new era and new characters and has been telegraphed as a major focus for future development for at least a year. FWIW, each issue of Three Jokers topped 200K during the summer, and a number of other Marvel and DC new #1 books that are a rehash of characters do more than that regularly. What hurt this book from a pre-order perspective was the fact that Marvel/Disney did not hype it until after the 1st Print FOC. Speaking as someone who speculated heavily on it, I was giddy that FOC was before the Marvel Investor presentation as it was telegraphed/rumored that there would be an initial HR related announcement (Acolytes D+ show). If you watched the livestream on Monday where they outlined a multi-year, three phase development plan, then you can see that Disney/LucasFilm is putting significant resources into developing this as a non-Skywalker SW property. IF they had done that livestream before the FOC for both the comic and all of the novels, I bet that they would have hit ore exceeded the 200,000 - 250,000 print run for the HR #1 released today.