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A gentleman never kisses and tells.... I closed on another collection out of town that I have to pick up tomorrow. Next weekend will potentially be the out of province road trip for the newsies. 😉

I was at the LCS last week and ran into a collector friend there. He has just come back from visiting family in another location in Western Canada. He decided to hit the used book store in town. The had just picked up a collection with 30 longs of newsstand books (collector bought of magazine stands in town). He cherry picked all of the keys that were left, and now I am debating whether I take a few hours trip to get the rest. 😂

Did the 9.4 Bob Storms sold last year resurface already? If not, it should soon based on a conversation with time owner earlier this year.

My 7.0 sold for a nice price in the Clink July auction, but it will not be reported. This is the only Heritage book I have bought that I was disappointed to receive. The reason - I thought I was bidding on a copy of FF 5 but bid on the wrong book after a few beverages. When I got it I was pissed and went to quickly check the auction results thinking it was a shipping error. 😂

Indeed, it's a very early SA Marvel. And yet, like every SA Marvel and most SA DC books now, as long as you are willing to pay you can buy a copy 24/7/365.

Yes, CPV = Canadian Price Variant or newsstand edition. The collectors have been there for a while, it is just now that the speculators are catching up. I have been buying regular newsstand copies as well as CPVs whenever I see them for the past 20+ years. I figured it was only a matter of time for them to pop. That being said, the price jumps for regular newsstand editions and other books is primarily due to COVID cheques and a lack of conventions this year. Look at prices on key or variant Copper and Modern books across the board, or the latest issue with a 1st appearance from Marvel or DC. Right now we are in a phase like the early to mid 90s blow off. The smart play is to profit from it while it lasts.

How so? Newsstand copies are being sought after just like CPV copies, 30/35 cent price variants, etc. before them. The market decides the prices, and there are plenty of variant collectors/speculators of every type.

FWIW, I ended up getting over $1300 for my UXM 266 9.8 newsstand copy on Clink last month, while direct edition copies are in the $450-$550 range. The gap is starting to hit 2 - 3x (or more) across the board for a lot of books now.

The GR 10 was sold by a fellow boardie.

Well......after the Clink auction this week I am not out of the Marvel Spotlight #5 affiliation. At least the 9.4 went for a nice price.

It was ordered heavily by all of the store owners I talked to here in town as well, including the ones that had cut back the past couple of months due to COVID recovery. Now that their cashflow is back up to more normal levels they are all ordering more shelf copies of 1st appearances. They whiffed on SA 1, Thor 2-6, and Venom 25/26, Batman 89/90/92. It looks like the COVID downturn may not last as long as I was expecting, damnit.

Adam picked up a couple of early X-Men from me on time payments. Every payment was on time, and he is a great boardie to deal with. Thanks!

Definitely the Action #15 cover. The FF has always been an overrated title that became irrelevant in the early 70s.

We should find a time for a few of us to go.

Interesting. We should be able to watch this at the new Landmark, right?

It is, and it must be for you to say it is better than the Avengers movies...........

You did the right thing. It is much faster to start a new thread and have someone else do the digging for you. It works every time.

Good old English 100 for Engineers.

No, but looks eerily similar to a guy that used to live at res with us in university.........

We will see what the market decides.

And this is the evolved Really Really Darkest Knight RDK taking a hit of venom before springing into action:

Here is the first image of RDK that my friend's uncle's aunt's sister's cousin's nephew guaranteed to me to be true:

Still beats this for a 1st appearance:

Most stores have been struggling the past two years. A couple of friends and I looked at buying two stores in 2018, and passed on both, but the drop in sales from 2015 to 2018 was startling. In both cases, the asking price was not justified by the financials. The smaller store went under, and the other one ended up being an employee buy out (and it has been struggling since). A third store changed hands here as well - they kept ordering a ton of shelf copies while sales dropped from 2015 onwards and were sold for pennies on the dollar as a result. Being a LCS owner is not an easy way to make your primary income IMHO.

The Death Metal stuff will have limited shelf life this time around. The DC books you want to focus on are the regular ongoing titles. Now that Tynion is staying on past Batman 100, his new characters will have some staying power.