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There are Canadian newsstand editions of the TMNT Adventures early issues.

Looking back at price action the past 4 or 5 years on a 6.0 copy, the best time to buy is November/December, while the best time to sell is during April - August. This jives with the comic market action in general. Buy at the end of the year to flip the following summer.

Not much auction or price activity on the book leads to lack of discussion, I guess. I am thinking of putting one of my copies up soon just to test the waters.

True enough, but I have opened spec cases where 20 books are mangled due to the way Diamond packed they. They can be brutal with their haphazard packing IMHO.

I was shocked by how low Batman sales were considering it was such a huge seller just a couple of years before that. It goes to show how huge the star artists were at the time - Image was killing it.

I wonder if the way Diamond handles the books isn't part of the problem. I see horrible batches of books on the shelves at LCSs on a regular basis.

Looks like the message from DC is this - buy the polybag, not the book.......

No love for the classic DKR #4 battle?

I cracked three open yesterday at home and got one of each (color, pencil, B&W). The color is the best by a wide margin IMHO. If the print runs are the same for all three as I have been told, the color version should do the best long term.

x1000. My kids and their friends didn't talk about MOS 2 years ago and aren't talking about BvS today. I wish they would. But it's too dark and too gritty. Not doubt, WB will sell a TON of tickets to the 18 to 34 demograph, but then it has to reach to draw in the younger and older. Marvel is clever. Casting Robert Redford in the last Captain America film? Brilliant. You've just attracted the Baby Boomer audience. Throwing in humor and color (literally, color) and toning down the gratuitous violence? Brilliant. You've attracted the sub-18 crowd and their parents (see, e.g., a 3rd tier character or group like Ant-Man or GOTG). Collectively, that's a TON MORE in ticket sales. That's what Marvel (and Disney) do correctly. And my kids (10 and 11) both like MOS. Their friends have seen it and liked it as well. This past summer they all saw AoU, but hardly any (including my kids) saw Ant-Man. My daughter thought that Ant-Man was a lame concept from the trailers and had no interest in it at all. I heard the same thing from her friends as well. I don't think it had the same crossover appeal that the other Marvel movies with strong female characters in the trailers did for tween girls. Add in the fact that Paul Rudd is not Chris Hemsworth and my wife had no interest in seeing it either. Interestingly, my kids have only watched the AoU DVD once since we picked it up, while with the first Avengers movie they watched it several times the first month we had it. They prefer GotG to AoU. I don't disagree with them on that call - AoU was a weak film. As far as BvS, they are both keen to see it based on the first trailer. I have shown them the Civil War trailer as well but they were kind of with it at this point (I felt the same way). My guess is that the second trailer will be better and they will be more excited. I will be taking them to both movies regardless.

This. FANS weren't pleased with the Doomsday intro -- as I pointed out, the criticism has outweighed the praise. SPECULATORS were pleased, which resulted in overnight increases. The _only_ difference between the Doomsday & Black Panther reveals is that speculators already knew BP would be in the movie a year ago & get his own spin-off flick (so FF 52's already realized huge increases), whereas Doomsday was rumored, but a surprise. But the fan reaction I've seen to the brief Black Panther shot has been both insane & positive. And I have heard from plenty of people that BP spot in the trailer that was indifferent or negative (or, in one case, "Who is that hero in the small Iron Man suit?" ) Outside of us comic nerds, nobody really cares about BP or Doomsday.

where are you getting your numbers from? several thousand seems like a lot since I can get an OA sketch done and a con for about several thousand less.... That stupid Vader Down variant is getting $3000 plus, and you are going to tell me that somebody out there will not pay a stupid amount of money for a comic that will have a pedigree like this one? I really think the winner could get several thousand dollars. I have no actual numbers, just a bet. I'm not saying it wont. i'm just skeptical. Anything is possible. But, paying that much for a book that can be replicated on any blank cover for thousands less seems silly. While it can be replicated, it would be on a regular blank and not the one and only original sketch edition blank cover. That is why it would carry a nice premium.

Aargh. Major dilemma now. I ordered a small stack (50) of copies to flip at shows next year. Should I open them to check for the OA cover or keep them sealed?

I grew up in Fairbanks Alaska and the coldest I saw was 68 below one year. Life pretty much stops at that temp since the air in your tires deflates and you get frost bite in a matter of minutes. I've been in -55, which is insanely cold. -68 sounds like being on Mars. I've been ice fishing at -48C (-55F). It was fun for the first while, but made for a very long day. The fish would come out of the water, twitch and freeze solid. It was a pain scooping the ice out of the holes every minute or two.

I am just curious to see whether they actually show the meeting between Glenn and Lucille or not. That is likely going to be a tad too graphic for TV audiences. I told my non-comic reading friends that like TWD TV show that Glenn can't be dead since he had not met Lucille yet. They did not understand, and I told them if the show follows the comic they would.

Nice score! Was it from the same LCS you nabbed that 8.0+ GSX #1 from for dirt cheap a couple of weeks ago?

Peter, going for the over. not even close It was a good price for the buyer. I'll say! Though I still think my 4.5 white pages looked nicer. That is exactly why this copy did not do much. The ending time was not the issue, the poor quality of the book for the grade was. There were a number of other gift graded books that did not do well today. Maybe the market is finally wisening up?

So......the fugly 6.0 ended up at $3824 on HA today, which is lower than the last GPA sale a year ago in the same grade. Not a great result, but it looks like bidders shied away due to the weakness of the copy (the fugly gift graded CGC 5.5 B&B #28 suffered the same fate).

I am fine with the delay. Let it be a bit longer until Feb 2016 for the start of the spring convention season so it will be easier to sell my remaining multiples of #1 and personal run of #1-6.

Sure there is. Bulk price in a collection for $1.00 or less.

You know this only means one thing then.. MORE REBOOTS TO COME This gag has got to get old at some point. I am beginning to wonder if the way to play the non-Deadpool reboots is to just pay the initial cost from your LCS for the best variants and leave it at that. While I like flipping the new #1s for a quick 2x or 3x at shows, there are way too many duds from the continuous Marvel reboots.

It is interesting to see that the Star Wars titles are even dropping month to month now. How long before the best selling title is below the Snyder Batman numbers?

Amazing what a proper grading/labelling does with our perception of a book. The 4.0 is a nice copy. Congrats!

I am surprised CGC gave 9.8 for this copy despite two stress marks that broke the color. If those two stress marks were literally the only defects on the book, then what should the grade have been? 9.4/9.6 - basically 0.2/0.3 per mark. I have noticed this summer that CGC is being lenient with creases. Check out the SC #22 6.0 in the current Heritage November Signature Auction as a prime example of this.

I have submitted 1000s of books as well over the years and we will respectfully disagree on the grade of the SC #22. As far as my Avengers #4, I bought it on Clink last year (or the year before?) because it looked better than 5.0 - 6.0 copies I was looking at snagging instead. It also helped that it ended just a few days after I sold a weaker 4.0 copy for $200 more on eBay than I paid for this one.