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That's about market value for that book. I wouldn't bite on one now as he is flooding the market with covers swipes. The only good thing is usually they are very limited. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2055119.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xdead+pooh.TRS0&_nkw=dead+pooh&_sacat=0 Why would anyone pay that kind of $$$ for cover swipes from that title?

+ 1 There is no surprise to the excitement and purchasing of tickets in advance. Did you know ANYONE who was excited about this movie before the last trailer? Do you realize how big Fast & Furious is / was? Major trilogoy ON TOP of one of the last appearances before his death of one of the lead actors who was also well known. Furious 7 did over $1 BILLION at the box office. More than Deadpool? OK, he was not a major character live Avengers or Superman in mainstream before the movie. More than Avengers? It could be argued that the first Avengers movie was the second big leap for comic book movies. The first being Iron Man. The sequel had high expectations. Most of the non-comic collecting people I know are excited for BvS but not at all for Captain America Civil War. I have talked with comic collectors at shows the past 3 weekends and they are all saying the same thing - Deadpool surprised them and they are looking forward to the sequel, they are excited for BvS (with some buying two shows already) and subsequent DC movies, but they are starting to get tired with the Marvel movies. They all mentioned how AoU was a big disappointment as well........

Why not? Batman is the biggest comic book character, then you add Superman and introduce Wonder Woman in the same flick. It should be a big opening. FWIW, I am surprised the female audience for opening weekend is so low. I expected it to be higher due to Wonder Woman.

Nice set of books, Rick. I will have to see if I have any pictures of my old Adams GL, Batman and TEC hoards to post. I accumulated them in the late 90s - 2001 and was happy to unload them all in the mid 00s when Batman #227 & 232, Tec # 400, and GL #76 hit $200+ in VF.

Same here. Me too. Although, I have been selling the Adlard cover for $25 for the past year. The variant covers as $6 - $10 books as well. There were a couple of LCSs that still had them out at cover up to early last year.

As much as I would like to see them stick to the WD #100 storyline for the "meeting" between Negan/Lucille and Glenn, I doubt they would show that on TV. If they do, then I can see #100 spiking big time for a short while due to the shock value.

Who the heck is Gregory? 1st Jesus has been a decent seller in the $40 - $50 range the past couple of years so it has some history at good prices to build from.

Makes sense...in my mind the issue is not that it's harder to get a 9.8 at the moment, it's more that the standards needle is obviously moving a bit back and forth as the years pass. Now when you pick up a 9.8 you need context around the grading era to know what kind of 9.8 you actually have. Maybe CVA stickers will make a comeback I find their grading to finally be accurate again right now. The submissions I have received since December are much tighter than it was for most of 2015 (and 2014 for that matter) which was great to see. The problem right now is that due to the issues over the past two years the market has had to accept that loose grading is the norm, rather than the exception.

There are too many copies of NM #98 in 9.8 for it to hit the $1000+ level right now. BA #12 in 9.8 is a book I would compare it to, and that one is priced higher to there being "only" 406 universal 9.8s vs. 1973 universal 9.8s for NM #98.

I'm getting 25 of them. Bringing them to Calgary again like all of your variants last year?

I wonder how watches compete nowadays against Apple's multi-functional device. If anything, this ends up as a collectible more than anything else. Old school watches have become more of a fashion and status statement than anything else. Most of the friends I have in the tech sector have their Apple watches but collect and wear Rolexes most of the time.

I picked up a run in a collection last fall that has a #1 signed by Gaiman and McKean from a show that the OO went to in the late 80s or early 90s. Unfortunately, it pre-dates sig series so the signatures are a detractor. On the positive, I sent in the #8 and it is coming back as a 9.8 so I may have to submit a few of the other books as well.

Was that ever used as a cover?

Wow. That is a great Dr. Strange cover!

I had a quick chat with a LCS owner yesterday when I popped into his store quickly for some supplies. They had new copies of NM #87 ($80 CDN for a FNish copy due to storage wear) and #98 ($700 for a VF) in the display case and he was commenting on how he was surprised at how well #87 was selling. He mentioned that he found a box of each sitting in storage from back in the day, but unfortunately sold most of the 98s for $30 apiece a couple of years or so ago. He was happy to be doing better with his 87s. I remember when he sold 10,000+ back stock books to another store in the early 00s that he had actually moved close to a long box of NM 98s in the deal. I wonder how many more he has sitting from speculative purchases in the back? When it came out he would have had 3 locations if I recall correctly.

My observation over the past three years has been that grading is loose from May through October due to convention season and then it tightens up from November through March/April. Assuming that the on-site submissions at shows results in a big seasonal volume increase, this makes sense as they will be rushing to push the books through as close to as on time as possible. I have also noticed that you end up with more plastic or other chips/tiny pieces in between the inner holder and outer slab during this time as well. I doubt that they are doing this on purpose re: CBCS. It is likely due more to the volume of books they have to go through than anything.

I know that 10% figure is tossed around a lot, but it is such a rough number as to almost be rendered useless. I'd sure like to get much harder, more realistic numbers out there. I just a couple of minutes searching online, and a couple of quick notes re: potential comic distribution: - in the 1980s there were a over 20,000 book stores in Canada vs. an estimated 220,000 in the USA (roughly 10%) - 7-11 stores - in 2013 there were 484 in Canada vs. 8,144 in the USA (roughly 6%) - the number of gas stations and grocery stores is in the 10% range as well. How many carried comics is unknown, but it looks like 10% is not an unreasonable estimate of Canadian comic sales relative to the US market. This does not include the direct market, which could sway things a point or two either way.

It's become evident that loose grading has led to significant discounts on their books. I know I refrain from buying them unless they are offered well below GPA prices. I know some one who deslabbed a whole bunch of books from one and had them reslabbed by the other, and had the complete opposite outcome. Were they new or older CGC graded books? There have been some fugly CGC graded books the past couple of years as well that I could see CBCS hammering. That being said, the two CBCS books I bought due to their discount to GPA would not grade as high with CGC.

Agreed. I have a New 52 Batman #1 news stand copy I am still sitting on as a result of this.

If the ratios hold on Canadian news stand editions, and the sales volume was only 10% of what was sold in the USA (based on population here), then you can see why the later Canadian editions in 9.4+ condition are so tough to find.

As we have discussed in this thread before, it is a common problem with keys graded over the past couple of years.

The Canadian newsstand editions/price variants will be the least common of the regular editions of books available due to the low print runs. Add in the spinner rack/news stand damage, and they are very tough to snag in 9.6 and above. The 1986-1988 Canadian editions (95cent or $1.00 Canadian cover price) are the hardest to find in high grade. Almost all of the 9.8 Canadian newsstand editions I have slabbed personally have come from one collection I snagged three years ago. The OO would visit several 7-11s for "perfect copies" and just bag and board them.

Looks like the pre-pack version in 9.4 likely sold for a decent premium last year: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Batman-357-CGC-9-4-Pre-Pack-VERY-RARE-1-of-only-2-on-Census-1st-Killer-Croc-/281766843877 Based on past Canadian newsstand variant sales, there should be a premium for this one:

Really? The 8.0 ended up at $19K and the 7.5 at $16K on Heritage. Those were softish prices, but DCs tend to do better on Heritage based on what I have followed the past few years. I like to buy DC SA keys on Clink as I have found more deals there over the years.