No, you're mistaken. You're off by about 5-8 years.
If any issue of Magnus sold for more than $10 after the Fall of 1993 and until about 2005, I'd be very surprised.
Umm.......Magnus #12 was going for well over $10 in the 2002/2003 peak. You are off by a couple of years on Valiants. I posted my sales results a while back when we first debated the prices I was receiving for Valiants at that time.
Ok.
I'll just point out that the only sale of a Magnus #12 in 9.8 in 2002 was for $44.
And in early 2003, two 9.6 copies sold for $33 and $36.
And those are for slabs; raws, of course, sold for less.
I was a near-founding member of Valiantsfans.com (2002), and a founding member of the eBay comics board (1999), in which Valiant prices figured a big part, but hey, what do I know...?
I know some folks have talked about a "Valiant peak" in 2002/2003, but I was actively buying Valiants on a regular (daily, if I could) basis in that time period (as before and since), and I don't remember anything like that happening.
And all of that really isn't the point, is it...? Magnus #12 was a ONE HUNDRED dollar book in early 1993. It was NOT ever again (except in slabs.)
That's the point.
That was not your point. Your comment (see your quote above) was that no Magnus books were selling for more than $10 apiece between the Fall of 1993 until around 2005. In addition to #12, Magnus #0 was well over that price in 2002/03 as well. Whatever the last issue is was a $20+ book back then as well.
We already debated the 2002/03 peak a few years back and I posted actual sales data from eBay back then. FWIW, I was a member of Greg's original board well before 2002. When he started the new one in 2004 it had been a year or so since my last post on the old one........