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I can't believe the prices the #2 2nd prints are fetching now. Looks like I have to pick some up from the LCSs......

Is there any interest in the McFarlane cover Marvel Tales issues?

If anyone is at the con this weekend they need to talk to some Image folks for some big news........

At the Image booth last weekend I heard that they are putting it on hold for the summer and planning on going bi-weekly this fall as a thank you to the fans. Issues #7 - 20 will be ready to go then.

Smells like someone bet heavily on Ninjak once upon a time. Wow ! I feel like Ninjak was the first Valiant character to cause the bubble to bust in the 90s. The print run on those books had to be high because there were stacks of them everywhere. I enjoyed the heck out of Valiant books and especially Bloodshot, X-O, and Eternal Warrior. Still, I think Ninjak sealed the deal. Geomancer helped! Haha ! I forgot about him. There were some really great books early and even some of the later stuff was good but there were some absolute duds mixed in. Turok #1 is the one that issued in the end. When I was cleaning out the LCSs of their Valiant backstock (pre-unity, late run and incentives) they all had leftover longboxes of Turok #1, but only half boxes of Ninjak #1 left if that. I think it sold better due to the cover.

Sounds like there will be some wicked speculation opportunities with DC SA and BA books for the near future.

I think most of us made money throwing that mess on the internet, not the other way around. Exactly. It was easy money that could be turned into older keys or more moderns to flip for a profit. I still have two or three 1st print sets sitting in a long box someplace, those were paid for a long time ago. FWIW, it is probably worthwhile holding onto a couple of spare #1s just in case the series is relaunched. It worked well with buying pre-unity, incentive and late run Valiants in the late 90s after the implosion and will likely hold true for popular Image titles as well long term.

Check out the prices on the Image Firsts copies as well. Not bad for a $1 book that is still on the shelves at LCSs. Mind you, the most recent printing of Image Firsts #1 sells for up to $10 at shows here even though they are still in most of the LCSs.......

It is sitting at $2390 with the BP as of tonight....... Final hammer with BP was $2868. Not quite $3000, but not too bad either.

Saw the movie with my son last weekend. We both loved it. As much as I missed the White Queen, I liked this movie better than First Class. The Sentinels were one of my favorite villains due to the original Days of Future Past storyline. It was great to see them on the big screen finally, and it was a bit sad to see some of my favorite characters as a kid being killed off by them. Poor Colossus just does not get any respect.........

It is sitting at $2390 with the BP as of tonight.......

It's not like these are extremely undervalued books, though. Except, of course, in the Annual Big Book of Unrealistic Values. Don't forget X-Men: The Search for Cyclops 1-4, which deals with the aftermath of Apocalypse's machinations. These books used to sell for good coin online a few years back, the Wolverine issues especially. I cleaned out all of the copies I could find at LCSs, and still buy them now for cheap when I can find them.

Without speculators, most copper books would be struggling to break the $5....

The lines around the mask that are the cut lines went over the ears, not around them. Really silly and costly reason to recall, IMO. There was no recall. They just asked retailers to destroy the bad issues. And most of these issue will not get destroyed. I have heard some people say their retailer would not sell it to them. Only because they can get more for them on eBay! I picked one up at a LCS last night for cover on the week old rack. Hopefully I can stil get $10 for it.

These came in a couple of weeks ago, but I have not picked up any new Silver for a long time (since last summer) so I figured I would post them. Both are courtesy of board members.

How much are 4.0s going for at shows in the USA this year? $3K?

How high will this copy go? http://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superhero/the-brave-and-the-bold-28-justice-league-of-america-dc-1960-cgc-vg-40-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/121424-13153.s

Fixed it for you. Think of it like getting a few free IQ points. Wrong. If people were investing their money in comics intelligently, they'd be buying blue chip "stocks", irrelevant of age or grade or pedigree concerns. Maybe you're wrong FD, Buying stocks isn't for everyone and you're taking a bigger risk, the only way to make money with stocks is to sell them, you have to turn the stock into money otherwise you're only "rich on paper" Ummm......I believe the reference to blue chip "stocks" was key comics based on the "irrelevant of age or grade or pedigree concerns". I agree with that - buy the keys and you will be fine.

+1 re: #138 up that reprint AF #15 then ASM #1 onwards. They also come in CDN price variants if I recall correctly. If I can find them this weekend I will post them.

The Scalped #43 situation is a great example of how boardies can move markets.

A little over cover if you look .. Not much at all Thanks, that's good to hear (thumbs u After a nice spike late may it looks like they are settling into the $10 - $15 range now. Interesting to see how cheap the Veronica Pepoy cover is relative to the Betty variant. I take it fanboys prefer blondes?

Paying GPA or slightly over works fine on bigger SA and even BA keys. Paying GPA or slightly over on flash in the pan "hot" BA and more recent keys does not. BTW, I am beginning to really appreciate the CGC barcode "date of grading" function on the website right now as their grading has really loosened over the past few months.

Thanks, but that is my current highest graded copy so I will hold onto it until/unless I can luck out on an upgrade someplace.

A nice 4.5 just closed on ComicLink at $3100+. I was actually really surprised of how low that went for. Inferior looking 4.5's have sold for 3500+ recently, and that was before confirmation of the movie release date. -J. +1 I was surprised it did not go higher as well. I put in a max bid of $3200 at the end thinking it would go well over that and my bid held. The only problem now is I have to move something else to pay for it now.