david20009

If you bought it from any of the big auction companies wouldn’t you be hit with the same taxes you need to pay on eBay?

I thought this was worth a mention.

While I am not a Lady Death collector (and have never read one) I do quite enjoy the fantastic job they have been doing with all their homage covers and picked a small number off eBay.  
 

I liked these covers so much I decided to place an order from Coffin Comic’s own online store.  I ordered about 15 homage books.  A couple days later I received an email saying one of the books was out of stock and I was being refunded for that one book but the rest of my order was still going through.  I was a bit disappointed as the Hulk Annual 1 homage cover was neat plus had a print run of only a 150 or so copies (meaning the books on eBay are over priced).  Plus with overseas shipping getting as many books at once is important to me.

I received the books today and was very surprised that they included a free book with a cover limited 99 titled “Sorry We Effed Up”.

I was really impressed by this and thought they went above and beyond with doing this.  
 

We spend a lot of time complaining about publishers and sellers so I thought that this case of someone doing something nice was worth highlighting.

For those interested here is the cover.  It is a girlie pin-up cover not a homage cover.

On 7/16/2020 at 5:01 AM, Brock said:

 It seems to have been produced in partnership with Zellers, which was a nationwide chain of department stores that ceased operations in 2013. They were a lower mid-range retailer, roughly equivalent to KMart in their market positioning,

Ouch.  That is harsh.  Zellers might have been the lower end of the Bay stores but K-Mart level.  Ouch.  
 

I have many a good childhood memory of rifling through the hockey card packs at Zellers and Bi-rite.  Zellers always had the 3 packs of comics too.  Got my 10 nights of the beast Batman out of them.

I am going to do my happy dance now.  Pretty cool to know this is actually happening now.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/usagi-jojimbo-animated-series-james-wan-netflix-1234707176/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

22 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

Looks like Albedo 2 and TMNT 1 are cooling.  Anyone know how cerebus 1 is holding up? Can't find much data. 

 On 7/10/2020 at 11:51 PM, shortboxed said:

On 7/10/2020 at 10:09 AM, david20009 said:

Turns out my expectations were correct and this copy sold for a bit less than the last. Three of the 10 CGC 9.8 copies trading hands in less than 14 months is a lot of the market to absorb. Also I do not think this is the type of book you sell at Heritage. It is a ComicLink type of book. I think Heritage is better for golden age while ComicLink has the customer base that follow silver age to copper age.

In any event $31,000 (May 28, 2020) to $22,750 (May 27, 2020) to $19,800 (July 9, 2020).

Hopefully the next 9.8 will not come up for sale for another year or two so things can start trending upwards again.

This book has what looks to be a spine tick that you could see when you zoom in on the hi-res image. That alone kept me from bidding on this book, and I assume others may have noticed as well, hence the lower hammer. Otherwise I would have taken it past $20k.

27 minutes ago, shortboxed said:

This book has what looks to be a spine tick that you could see when you zoom in on the hi-res image. That alone kept me from bidding on this book, and I assume others may have noticed as well, hence the lower hammer. Otherwise I would have taken it past $20k.

I noticed that too when I was studying the scans.  Made me happy that I bought the second ComicLink copy instead of going after the one on Heritage

1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

I would generally temd to agree with this comment, especially if you are referring to CGC highest graded copies of books from the more common BA to CA time periods, as CL is the go to auction house of choice for the CGC label chasers.  

Agree, although I wouldn’t refer to Albedo 2 as a more common book with only 2,000 copies printed originally.

Turns out my expectations were correct and this copy sold for a bit less than the last. Three of the 10 CGC 9.8 copies trading hands in less than 14 months is a lot of the market to absorb. Also I do not think this is the type of book you sell at Heritage. It is a ComicLink type of book. I think Heritage is better for golden age while ComicLink has the customer base that follow silver age to copper age.

In any event $31,000 (May 28, 2020) to $22,750 (May 27, 2020) to $19,800 (July 9, 2020).

Hopefully the next 9.8 will not come up for sale for another year or two so things can start trending upwards again.

11 hours ago, LDarkseid1 said:

Sorry I’m a little late to the game with Albedo 2. Could someone explain to me why it’s become soo 🔥 🔥 🔥? I mean I get the print numbers were super low, like 2K run if I recall. Other than that any other reason?

Because it is the first appearance of Usagi Yojimbo and Usagi Yojimbo is awesome and next to the Barks ducks likely the best anthromorphic comic character in history (with TMNT running third).

5 minutes ago, Chaos_in_Canada said:

Pssst...The most expensive modern Baseball card & most expensive VINTAGE/modern Basketball card is in a....BGS holder!

You did see where I said “Beckett grades a ton of modern stuff but anything before the trading card boom is done by PSA.  If done by Beckett you can likely assume it was a card cut from a sheet.  ”

The numbers don’t lie PSA has graded many many multiples the amount of pre-boom cards than Beckett.  Beckett focuses on modern cards.  

15 minutes ago, Chaos_in_Canada said:

C'mon...The most important PSA card is a SHAM!

Pssst...it's trimmed  

 

www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2016/09/22/a-heinous-crime-may-be-lifting-a-1-8-million-honus-wagner-card-now-up-for-auction/amp/

Yes and the story is above for those who are interested.  (The trimmer did spend 20 month in jail due to his shady practices). There are plenty of people trying to get by all the grading companies in each hobby and there are too many stories of those who do.

Is PSA perfect - no.  But neither is Beckett or CGC or PSE. All are legitimate though.

PSA still rains supreme.  Beckett screwed themselves when they said they would grade cards laser cut from sheets by collectors.  Beckett also screwed themselves with their crazy big card holders.  The space 3,000 PSA cards take up would likely be less than a 1,000 Beckett holders.

Beckett grades a ton of modern stuff but anything before the trading card boom is done by PSA.  If done by Beckett you can likely assume it was a card cut from a sheet.  
 

I have a massive amount of PSA cards and I don’t see CGC making in roads into sports.  I will be avoiding them.

It would be cool if they focused on non-sport cards as I think PSA/Beckett could be taken over in that segment of the market.

Transformers #9 - 1st Circuit Breaker from the local 5&dime in a farming community.  Canadian price variant to boot.

On 7/3/2020 at 11:04 PM, William-James88 said:

 

These painted covers are beautiful and man these might be the cheapest silver age comics out there. Are the stories any good, I never heard of this guy.

Are you in for a treat if this is new to you.  Solar and Magnus launched Valiant back in the 90’s.  Pre-Unity and Unity Valiant are among the best ever stories put out.  Remember when Valiant launched and it, along with Image, was giving Marvel and DC a run for their money.  In fact Valiant had at least one month when it outsold DC.

These Solar covers are from the pre-Valiant Day

http://www.valiant101.com/101/category/pre-valiant/

The Gold key characters in the Valiant Universe

http://www.valiant101.com/101/gold-key/

And Pre-Unity

http://www.valiant101.com/101/pre-unity/
 

I can’t tell you how much I recommend Magnus and Solar.  

There is a short story inside.  Since it was very short and had few words on each page I spent the 129 seconds it took to read it.  The story is not great.

Summary is Hardlee goes to “DC” comics only to find out her title has been canceled as readers only want to read about female characters who look anorexic and not voluptuous like Hardlee.  This causes her to become very mad and appear to go about killing off all of “DC”’s star female characters so she will be able to keep her title.  When confronted about her killing spree it turns out Hardlee didn’t kill them but rather took them to a buffet where the characters enjoy being able to eat food once again.  As they are no longer stick thin Hardlee gets her series back.

Not sure if this is the only story beneath each Hardlee Thinn cover or not.  As it appears they have been publishing the number #1 for years I hope not otherwise they should be 2nd to 50th prints.

All I want to know is how many action figure covers there are (and to acquire the ones I do not have for my action figure collection).

4 hours ago, IkewithMike said:

DF is Dyanmic Forces

No I do not think it is in this case.  I agree with the above poster on that point.  

Counterpoint does make it very confusing  

Given how many covers they have someone must be buying them.  Help an action figure cover collector out and let me know the checklist of them.  (I know nothing about Hardlee Thinn outside of the mock Star Wars covers.

   I am hoping that someone can help me out here as I do not collect Counterpoint Comics or their Hardlee Thinn title.  What I do collect is all action figure covers and Hardlee Thinn had action figures for issue #1.  Thus I am trying to find a complete list of the variants.  There are quite a few of them just for the action figures (and it seems like an endless list of #1 variants for this issue).

I have found:

1)Bespin Gown - Normal cover (out of 30). Have

2)Bespin Gown - Normal cover (DF).  No idea what DF means or how limited it is.  Have

3)Bespin Gown - Chrome Cover (out of 10) Have

4)Bespin Gown - Chrome Cover AP (out of 10?) Have

5)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Normal cover (out of 30). Have

6)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Normal cover AP (out of ?).  I do not have but this does not appear to be Chrome from the photo.  Appears to be different than the cover below it.

7)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Chrome AP (out of 10?).  Do not have.  Appears to be different from the above but I am not sure if they are the same)

8)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Chrome (out of 10) Have

My questions are:

1) What covers am I missing?  Would there be a DF regular cover for the Ace Comic Con?  If 6 and 7 are indeed different covers is there an AP version of the regular non-Chrome Bespin Gown cover

2) Are slots 6 and 7 different books or are they the same book?

On 6/11/2020 at 11:44 PM, 1Cool said:

I'd think it will look similar to the record market of today.  There will be some key books that will hold their value but most (98%) books will decrease in value to the point they are just garage sale fodder.  There will be a small niche group that buy new comics and maintain a large collection of books but the days of old will probably never happen again in terms of books sold.  The younger resellers (flippers) will take a beating at some point and not look back when they move on to other means of making quick cash.  I'm sure there will be spotty increases in demand (like records do every now and then) but comics should become an obsolete medium (paper reading material) that will only be enjoyed by a few people.

This is my view too.  I am fairly pessimistic about the value of books outside of keys in the next 25-40 year time frame.  
 

That likely means that the books I am heavily collecting like VEI incentive covers and Rosa ducks and the like are probably poor investments.  I have always viewed my interest in comics as a hobby and not a money making venture so I buy what I like, not what I think will appreciate the most.

On 6/3/2020 at 11:31 AM, david20009 said:

2) Harbinger (2012) 1 Chinese Edition - 2028585003.  I am confused why it cannot have its own slot.  There were two Chinese editions of Valiant books released at a media event three years after the books they reprinted were released.  They have different covers from the regular issues and are the two most expensive and desired Valiant issues since the 2012 relaunch.  The other book - Bloodshot 1 - Chinese edition has its own slot in the registry (although it should be more than 24 points - but that is a discussion for another thread).  Why can't Harbinger 1 Chinese edition have its own slot as well.  I am attaching a snippet from the registry showing Bloodshot 1 - Chinese edition being separate from Bloodshot 1, the regular Harbinger 1 cover (from 2012) and the Harbinger 1 Chinese (from 2015) If there is a demand for it as well as a decent volume graded, you can request a foreign edition set for a particular run or publisher. Creating a separate slot for a foreign edition can open a can of worms for our collectors as this would allow German/French/Mexican/Etc editions to be included in all sets if applicable. Unfortunately, you will find inconsistencies for this issue (as the registry has been around for a while and has had many admins) it is a gray area but I hope to clear that up soon with more concrete guidelines. 

 

Matt - Again thanks for all the hard work you have done on putting up the Valiant books.

I completely agree that it would be very annoy if foreign editions of titles were mixed in with regular series in most cases.  If I was collecting the Amazing Spider-man I would not want the 1969 Amazing Spider-man series sold in Spain to be mixed in with its registry set as they are obviously very different runs.  

Valiant Entertainment does not sell overseas foreign language versions of its comics.  It has done 4 comics in a language other than English, but they are not foreign editions.  It published a comic staring Rai with a Japanese incentive edition since the main character is Japanese. The Valiant #1 , which I mentioned in a post above, had a French incentive edition for an event Valiant was doing in Quebec. 

The two Chinese books, Bloodshot 1 (which is in the Registry) and Harbinger 1 (which is what I am asking to add) were published to commemorate and announce when DMG, a Chinese company, bought shares of Valiant Entertainment in 2015 (and last year they became the majority shareholder).  These two Chinese language books remain among the hottest Valiant and most expensive Valiant books.  The Top 10 May 2020 Valiant books has Harbinger #1 Chinese edition as the hottest book and Bloodshot #1 Chinese edition as #3    ( http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=53325 ).  No master set of Harbinger or Bloodshot would be considered complete without these two incentive books by any of the major Valiant collectors.  As it is an incentive cover and not a book found on foreign newsstands I hope you can reconsider and add Harbinger 1 Chinese edition to the registry.  Had DMG not become involved with Valiant their likely would not have been the Bloodshot movie (although whether DMG's involvement since becoming majority shareholder of Valiant has been positive is a topic much has been written about).  

On 6/2/2020 at 1:33 AM, david20009 said:

Over the past 2 weeks I have added a few hundred Valiant books to my registry to prepare for the upcoming awards.  A number of books are not listed in their sets (and a few sets are not created which I will add the request in the appropriate thread).  Can you please add:

 

4001 A.D.
1 ComicsPro Edition - 1344520002

 

Harbinger (2012)
1 Chinese Edition - 2028585003 (note this is a book that sells for $1,000 in CGC 9.8) - Added to existing #1. It cannot receive its own slot. 

 

Rai (2014)
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2014 Edition - 0260129011 One slot added. Both of these share the same exact book title and variant name.
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2016 Edition - 0278879012

 

The Valiant
1 Editions Heros/Canadian Edition - 1447972011 Book added to existing #1 slot

 

Matt, first thank you so much for adding all the covers.  I really appreciate it and I know Valiant books can be especially confusing as so many of them seem to have a dozen different covers.

I do have a few questions though about the remaining books though.

1) 4001 A.D. 1 ComicsPro Edition - 1344520002 - I think this one was missed @david20009 we had to adjust this one in the system as it was labeled as 4001 and not 4001 A.D. The changes will go in effect next week and I will add the slot

2) Harbinger (2012) 1 Chinese Edition - 2028585003.  I am confused why it cannot have its own slot.  There were two Chinese editions of Valiant books released at a media event three years after the books they reprinted were released.  They have different covers from the regular issues and are the two most expensive and desired Valiant issues since the 2012 relaunch.  The other book - Bloodshot 1 - Chinese edition has its own slot in the registry (although it should be more than 24 points - but that is a discussion for another thread).  Why can't Harbinger 1 Chinese edition have its own slot as well.  I am attaching a snippet from the registry showing Bloodshot 1 - Chinese edition being separate from Bloodshot 1, the regular Harbinger 1 cover (from 2012) and the Harbinger 1 Chinese (from 2015) If there is a demand for it as well as a decent volume graded, you can request a foreign edition set for a particular run or publisher. Creating a separate slot for a foreign edition can open a can of worms for our collectors as this would allow German/French/Mexican/Etc editions to be included in all sets if applicable. Unfortunately, you will find inconsistencies for this issue (as the registry has been around for a while and has had many admins) it is a gray area but I hope to clear that up soon with more concrete guidelines. 

3) Rai (2014)
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2014 Edition - 0260129011 One slot added. Both of these share the same exact book title and variant name.
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2016 Edition - 0278879012 I reached out to our graders to see if we need to make an adjustment as both of your books are listed as the 1/16 issue in our system 

These are different books from different years.  I am attaching scans of the two books.

4) The Valiant
1 Editions Heros/Canadian Edition - 1447972011 Book added to existing #1 slot books.  The Valiant #1 has a few different store/convention variants and this is another store/convention variant cover.  It has a unique cover from all the other Valiant #1's.  It should have its own slot.  I am attaching a scan of the cover. Same as above

It can be terribly complicated to be a Valiant fan.

Opps missed two books and since we are not supposed to edit posts

The Death-Defying Doctor Mirage (Complete)
Death-Defying Doctor Mirage 1 Sketch Edition - 1514230003 Slot already exists. 
Death-Defying Doctor Mirage: Second Lives 4 Doliveux Variant Cover - 2107089016 Slot Created. 

Over the past 2 weeks I have added a few hundred Valiant books to my registry to prepare for the upcoming awards.  A number of Valiant series do not have runs (and some books are not in their sets but I will add request in the appropriate thread).  Can you please create series for the following Valiant titles:

Bloodshot (2020) (ongoing) Set created on 11/12/20
Bloodshot Rising Spirit (8 issue series) Set already exists but added missing slots on 11/12/20.
Bloodshot USA (4 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/12/20
Delinquents (4 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/12/20
Eternal Warrior: Days of Steel (3 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/12/20
Eternity (4 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/12/20
Generation Zero (9 issue series) Set created on 11/18/20
Harbinger Renegade (8 issue series) Set created on 11/18/20
Harbinger Wars II (or feel free to add the the Harbinger Wars set).  (Has a prelude issue, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and aftermath so 7 books, multiple covers) Created a separate set for this on 11/18/20
Ninjak vs the Valiant Universe (4 issue mini-series) Set already exists
Qunatum and Woody (2020) (ongoing) Set created on 11/19/20
Rapture (4 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/19/20
Secret Weapons (has 0 issue, 1, 2, 3, 4, Secret Weapons Owen's Story 0, so 6 books, multiple covers) Set created on 11/19/20
War Mother (4 issue mini-series) Set created on 11/19/20

Over the past 2 weeks I have added a few hundred Valiant books to my registry to prepare for the upcoming awards.  A number of books are not listed in their sets (and a few sets are not created which I will add the request in the appropriate thread).  Can you please add:

4001 A.D.
1 ComicsPro Edition - 1344520002

A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong
7 McKone Variant Cover - 2107089001 Slot already exists. 

Armor Hunters
3 Suayan Variant Cover - 1573236021
Armor Hunters: Bloodshot 1 Chrome Edition - 0241177030
Armor Hunters: Harbinger 1 Chrome Edition - 0241177028

Bloodshot Reborn (2015)
1 Nord Variant (Ultimate Comics)- 0270781015
18  Gill Variant Cover - 2107089009

Bloodshot Salvation
1 Stadium Comics Edition - 0361477038
8 Hairsine Variant Cover - 1270548022

Book of Death (Valiant)
1 BAM!/2nd & Charles Edition -  1447973012

Faith (Complete)
10 Gonzalez Variant Cover - 2107089020
Faith and the Future Force 2 Lafuente Variant Cover - 2028585002

Harbinger (2012)
1 Chinese Edition - 2028585003 (note this is a book that sells for $1,000 in CGC 9.8) - Added to existing #1. It cannot receive its own slot. 

Ninjak (Valiant 2015)
11 Johnson Variant Cover - 2107090012
15 Silas Variant Cover - 2107090013
20 Variant Cover D - 2057833009

Ninja-K (2017)
4 Larry's Comics Edition - 1573063001 Slot already exists.

Rai (2014)
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2014 Edition - 0260129011 One slot added. Both of these share the same exact book title and variant name.
1  Rai One Dollar Debut - 2016 Edition - 0278879012

Shadowman (2012)
7 Waite Variant Cover - 0264403007

The Valiant
1 Editions Heros/Canadian Edition - 1447972011 Book added to existing #1 slot

Unity (2013)
22 Variant Cover - 2107091005

Wrath of the Eternal Warrior
1 LaRosa Variant Cover  - 1447973019
2 Pollina Variant Cover - 2107091007
3 LaFuente Sketch Cover - 1224024023
5 Valiant x CGC Variant Edition - 0294285030
10 Guinaldo Variant Cover - 1446135002
11 Silas Variant Cover - 2028586019
12 Henry Variant Cover - 2028586010
nn - 1446135019

X-O Manowar (2017)
11 Pullbox Edition - 1208954020

And one none Valiant book:

Warriors of Plasm
Plasm 0 - 2107526005