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I posted this in another thread earlier, but to say that NM 98 was not speculated on in volume is not accurate. It definitely was, but moreso by store owners since the Leifeld NM run was selling well for them. Here are some local examples: 1) The smallest LCS owner in town that was around at the time has been selling off his last case of NM 98s over the past two to three years in dribs and drabs (I started buying them at $50 per book up to $95 per copy recently). He bought it to speculate on the 1st appearances in the book and does not have cases that I know of for the other Leifeld issues. 2) Three or Four years ago one LCS owner had to raise $$$ fast (family illness, I believe) and another one picked up 10,000 backstock CA and early MA books. While there was a lot of , he pulled out a long box of NM 98s in the mix. There were no NM 87s in the stash, though, which backs up the claim that Cable was the big draw. I have seen other smaller hoards of NM 98s (and ASM 300s, etc.) locally as well. While it was not speculated on to the extent that X-Men #1 or McSpidey #1 were, there are still a lot of copies out there.

Put an ad on Craigslist for buying comics and see what happens. It is easy to buy CA collections for $1 - $3 per book (has to have some BA and even SA at the high end) in high grade with all of the keys in them. Case in point, a primarily 3300+ book CA Marvel collection I recently closed on for less than $2 per book with some nice SA and BA ASMs (#100 in VF or better and #121 in VG - looks better but has a piece of tape on the cover ) and X-Men (#96 up with multiples of most). There are tons of collections out there like this - primarily 80s through 90s with some decent SA and BA scattered about - that can be had for cheap as the owners get married/have to clean out space in the house as the kids arrive. Too bad vaillant is in Italy. Then he can put an ad on the Italian/EU version of it for books. There have to be some out there.........

Too many printed & squirreled away in hopes of making a million off of it later for it to have any real value. -slym Yeah I thought that about NM 98 too. As RMA has pointed out in his 50 point thesis, this was not the case with NM 98, which was no more hoarded/speculated than any other second tier Marvel title. Hence we can have Iron Man 282 being worth something as well. A local store owner has been selling off his case of NM 98s the past 3 years bit by bit. He broke out a case of Spider-Man #1 Silver and Infinity Gauntlet #1 for the big local show in September. There are still plenty of LCS owners that have books in storage. WRT NM 98, 3 or 4 of years back one LCS owner had to raise cash fast and another LCS owner helped him out by buying 10,000 overstock books, mostly CA and early MA - there was some in it, but he also cobbled together a long box of NM 98s from it. Remember, the Leifeld run was hot due to the artwork and Cable. There are still plenty of copies out there.

Put an ad on Craigslist for buying comics and see what happens. It is easy to buy CA collections for $1 - $3 per book (has to have some BA and even SA at the high end) in high grade with all of the keys in them. Case in point, a primarily 3300+ book CA Marvel collection I recently closed on for less than $2 per book with some nice SA and BA ASMs (#100 in VF or better and #121 in VG - looks better but has a piece of tape on the cover ) and X-Men (#96 up with multiples of most). There are tons of collections out there like this - primarily 80s through 90s with some decent SA and BA scattered about - that can be had for cheap as the owners get married/have to clean out space in the house as the kids arrive.

That is a risk, but if the max you set your bid at is a significant discount to guide (I usually use 40% of guide on multi-book lots) then it does not matter if they bid you up - you will make money all day long with max bid wins. (thumbs u

Here are a few more for tonight. I can post some Joes and Transformers I just picked up if anyone is interested.......

Care to define significant sum?

I am finding that 6.0 - 7.0 copies of most of the more expensive Copper Keys are an easy move at half of NM prices, maybe a bit more. As long as they present well, there are collectors willing to pay decent $$ for them. Case in point, ASM #300 in VG for $40-$50, FN for $75, VF for $100 - $120, slabbed 9.4s for full GPA.

Interesting that Saga is nowhere to be found on the list above........is interest waning?

There were other books with the insert during the same month if I recall correctly.

No one really bids until the last 10 seconds . . . I do. Seriously - I put in the max price I am willing to pay for a given book/auction lot early and just let it ride. No sense in chasing at the end - my competitive instincts kick in and that thrill of winning at any cost = overpaying on books.

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Congrats to the seller. Now let's see if they actually collect the payment.........

Some of the later DC variants had interesting prices:

What is the demand side, though, outside of Greggy and one or two others.......

Here are some I posted before plus a few new ones I snagged at a small local show a week ago. I have some Transformers and Joes kicking around someplace as well that I can post later.

Good point, even though the 100 page Giants are overrated........

No, it is just the first big jump on the book just like any of the other SA/BA/CA/MA (Next Men #21 is modern, right?) books we have seen spike due to a movie or new series in the past. It runs up, plateaus, settles to a higher number than what it used to be at, then slowly creeps up until the next run. The key is to get in before the big jump and either sell on the way up or wait for the pull back and start accumulating at the new higher ceiling for the next run. People keep throwing out print runs, but a year or so ago NM #98 and ASM #300 were easy to find raw at 25-50% of the current prices if you were patient. There are tons of them out there, but that has not stopped them from continuing to rise......

how is it undervalued if it doesnt sell at this price? is it the most valuable Adams Batman with past sales??? I think it is for almost all grade points. The next closest would be Bats #252 or Tec #411, and maybe Tec #400 although it has fallen a bit over the past couple of years. That being said, the 9.6 Tec #411 sold for $3K in September, which puts it well ahead of Bats #227 in that grade........

Love the sales pitch in the item description. (thumbs u Whenever I see things like that I am reminded of the newspaper subscription call with the Seth character in the Boiler Room.

Late October until Xmas is usually a great time to be buying, not selling, on eBay and the auction houses. (thumbs u

I wonder how many long boxes are sitting in the back storage in most comic shops that were around in the day. I can remember snagging a small stack of #282s from two long boxes full at a store in the early 00s.

anyone have an estimated print run on this book? 350,000- 425,000 copies? Uncanny X-Men was one of the, if not the, top selling comic from any company at that time. It was shortly after this thhat the stories started to go out of control, IMHO, and that hurt the book. It still sold well, but that stupid going through the mirror storyline build up and afterwards killed all the momentum coming out of the Mutant Massacre as far as I was concerned as a X-Men reader and collector back then.

282 has gne up in value? It's been quarter bin fodder for years. Over the past couple of months, I've sold 3-5 raw NM Uncanny #282s for $8-10 each. It is almost up to New Mutants (vol 1) #1 price levels.

I agree... Batman Adventures 12 was released between Batman 497 and Batman 500 and only a couple of months after the return of Superman (#500, the die-cut covers, etc.). The industry was still riding high. Stores were starting to go under up here by the end of 1993. I started university that fall and two of the stores I used to go to prior to that in the area closed down. Even with those highly speculative books, you could see the unwinding of the market beginning, especially the small card stores that went into to comics as well. They got wacked first due to the card market cratering before comics. However, there were a couple of comic stores here that went under early as well. In the case of one of these stores, the owner had a lot of good early SA Marvels, but he did amateur resto on them. In 1999 or 2000 I had a chance to look at the stock he sold off when he closed up - the person he sold them to paid top dollar and was screwed royally due to the resto. With the other one, it worked out well for me over a multi-year span as the owners had a chain of used book stores in addition to a larger comic store. When closed, they moved the leftover comics to the basement of one of the used book stores. I cleaned up as the pulled out back stock over the years, especially with OA. (thumbs u