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It is interesting to see how popular Bone is with my kids. My daughter brought home all of the collected volumes from school last year, and now my son (a year younger) is doing the same. This may be a good book to hold onto for the long haul.

I grabbed a couple of copies from my LCS as it should do well in the back issue market due to the cover. (thumbs u

I can play in the Club now too thanks to these two just back from Sarasota:

It looks like the Conquest Comics Campbell variant of #4 is still the one to have, but the Ramos cover is kind of cool as well.

Cool, they don't really sell for much more than cover either and have lower print runs. I can get $8-10 for the 3rd and 4th at local shows, and $12 - $15 for the 2nd print (best cover IMHO)

Figment has sold well at the fall shows. #1 for $12, #2 for $10, #3 for $8 and #4 for $6. I am down to just one set of #1-4 left that I held back, and maybe one extra copy of #1 that I had in the wrong box.

If you're looking for rare Harely you're probably better off with #1 later prints: 2nd - 5,600 (unconfirmed) 3rd - 3,000 (unconfirmed) 4th - 8,047 (if it was the June '14 release) Already have them all.........

+1 I could not get into the few episodes of Arrow I watched until I caught one with Deathstroke and Brother Blood during the summer. I might start tuning in now as he is a great villain for the show. MAOS bites big time. I stopped watching it after episode 3 or 4 and have not tuned back in. Gotham has better potential than both IMHO as it is really just another Police/Law & Order/NCIS type show at its roots. The benefit it has, though, is that the characters and storyline are already well established.

It's basically like a 2nd print. There are lot's of 2nd prints that don't crack that mark and aren't worth cover price. Agreed, but it is Harley and significantly lower print run. I am going to grab a couple just in case. FWIW, I get $8 - $10 for the regular Detective Comics 32.X with Harley on the cover from last year..........

Potential sleeper book for the future - Harley Quinn Future's End #1 regular edition had less than 14,000 copies printed.

The book still sells well at local shows for good $$$. #1 regular and the Betty cover move quick at $25 apiece, #2 at $10 - $15, #3 - 6 at $6, and the #5 and #6 Pepoy covers at $8-10 apiece.

Was not commenting on making money off of the book as I have a few copies of it. My comment was more geared to the fact that Spidey has sucked as a read for over 20 years now........

Slott is messing with ASM again. Gwen might be taking over. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/10/03/why-gerado-sandoval-ended-up-at-marvel-instead-of-dc-and-the-spoilers-future-of-spider-gwen/ Yet another Slott gimmick. They need to get back to doing great stories like they used to.

How can I get in on that action?

There was an article on Bleeding Cool or some other place speculating that SpeedBall would be coming to Agents of SHIELD this year. When I was old enough to know better I used to get a chuckle out of the character's name as I thought it was cool as a kid buying books back then.

Congrats on the great run, Bob, and I am sorry you have to let them go. In the past, whenever my wife would get on me re: the space my collection (not the stuff I buy to resell) takes up, I would kindly remind her about all of the shoes and clothes she bought that she never/rarely wears. Those were the only conversations I have had with her that ended with a W for me. After one or two times she did not comment anymore.

Does the #1 registry set of Batmans coming up later this month on Clink belong to anyone here? If yes, very nice books!

So, the market for NM 98 is kids and people that sound like you? I don't forsee a lot of $1000 bills coming out of those wallets, after the speculators have had their fill... But...............these kids grow up, get a job, and then chase the books that were significant to them. Same thing happened with GA, SA, and BA books. I can remember when we used to say the same thing about people buying HG Hulk #181s for top dollar in the early 2000s....... That being said, this past weekend we had kids in their mid teens asking for NM #98s. I was sold out a couple of shows ago, but if I had them then raw 9.0-9.2 copies would have been selling for $250+ no problem as local stores are getting $300 for them already. Given that none of them have or will read NM 98, I am not 100% sure they will want it at all. Honestly, the same thing can be said about Amazing Fantasy 15 or Hulk 1, et all. Since when does collecting comics have anything to do with actually 'READING' them? I've never ready most of the keys in my collection, yet somehow, they made it in to my collection. The kids these days are watching Deadpool on Ultimate Spiderman and Superhero Squad, playing as him on Ultimate Alliance and dressing up as him for Halloween. That, and a good movie in 2016 (asking alot from Fox), might be enough to drive demand for this book 25+ years from today. I think that is a leap in logic and faith. I can't speak for all markets, but in the shows the past two-three years in Alberta there has been a definite upswing in two collector demographics - pre-teens/teenagers and female readers/collectors. The books they buy primarily - Harley and Deadpool, followed by WD, Batman and Spider-Man (in no particular order). I have more collectors between 10 - 25 years old digging through dollar bins for older back issues (I put low grade SA/BA and mid grade copper in them from collections I buy) than older collectors. It could be that we are the exception, not the rule, but I am even getting people at work talking about comics due to new auction highs and the Big Bang Theory. 5 years ago comic shows were primarily Gen X and older buyers. Now it is more the Gen Y crowd. This past weekend I sold two cheaper copies of X-Force #2 (FN for $5 and VF- for $15) - one went to a kid that was likely only 10 or 11 as he did not have enough saved up yet for the NM #98 he wants........

So, the market for NM 98 is kids and people that sound like you? I don't forsee a lot of $1000 bills coming out of those wallets, after the speculators have had their fill... But...............these kids grow up, get a job, and then chase the books that were significant to them. Same thing happened with GA, SA, and BA books. I can remember when we used to say the same thing about people buying HG Hulk #181s for top dollar in the early 2000s....... That being said, this past weekend we had kids in their mid teens asking for NM #98s. I was sold out a couple of shows ago, but if I had them then raw 9.0-9.2 copies would have been selling for $250+ no problem as local stores are getting $300 for them already.

ASM V2 #25 does have a variant. The regular issue has a yellow rectangle in the center whereas the "variant" has a silver foil rectangle. The listed copy shown here is the variant. I thought this was discussed elsewhere and the non-foil cover was the rarer version?

If they bring her back will the value of ASM #121 drop? Did X-Men 138 drop after the X-Factor launch? (Not a rhetorical question; I hadn't started reading comics then. Also, I realize that the gap between events is much different, but it's the only comparable thing I could come up with immediately.) People are taking my comment too seriously. I posted it as a joke. (thumbs u

Never surrender. My file LCS blows through runs of Deadpool at higher prices that what you mentioned. At shows, we get $8-$10 for the common issues from the 1997 series and it runs up from there. This past weekend I sold a slabbed 9.0 of #54 (Punisher x-over) for $60, a #4 for $20, and several others in the $8 - $10 range. We were also getting $15 and then $20 for Marvel Now #1, $8 for #2, $6 for #3-10, and $5 for everything up (except for $12 on the #27). Even the last couple issues that are still on the stands at LCSs were selling well for $5 apiece. Mind you, we were also blowing through Death of Wolverine #1s and #2s at $6 apiece, the Deadpool DoW #1 variant at $10 and then $20, and Harley 3D at $6 then walked up to $10 apiece.

The Ghost variant looks the best to me. Very cool. (thumbs u

If they bring her back will the value of ASM #121 drop?

To be fair, occasionally CGC's grading is as bad as Divad's. I sold a raw Silver Age book as a VG a few months ago, the customer submitted it and it came back as a 6.0. It was truly appalling grading by them and a good demonstration of the fact that sometimes they're just plain wrong. It happens. No grading system is 100% correct all the time when they have to go through the volume of books that they do. Lucky for my LCS that the book that slipped through was the most valuable of the submission.