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Those are beautiful. I've got the bottom two, I've never run across the others in decent shape for a price I wanted to pay. I may need to get around to scanning my copies. I think I got my KCO 107 around 1996, my RK 22 around 2006, and my KCO 100 in 2016. A decade per book seems fair, no? Seems about right for books like these at decent prices!

Those are beautiful. I've got the bottom two, I've never run across the others in decent shape for a price I wanted to pay. I may need to get around to scanning my copies.

Are you setting up? Nope, just bumping the thread for anyone interested. I won't be in SA until Alamo City (we are setting up there again).

Coming up!

I posted what I read this morning. Looking like Vulture and Carnage are strongly rumored, and I don't know how we get to Carnage without Venom. Nothing concrete yet, but shaping up to be convoluted. Yeah Carnage without Venom is just ridiculous. I honestly cannot see Marvel allowing it, although I can totally see Sony doing something so stupid They do have an established track record.

I posted what I read this morning. Looking like Vulture and Carnage are strongly rumored, and I don't know how we get to Carnage without Venom. Nothing concrete yet, but shaping up to be convoluted.

Here we go again. Three villains reported for new Spidey flick. Three, maybe four villains in Homecoming.

Seven weeks away! Not sure if I'll make it to this one or not this year...

Date changed!

Four months away!

Ten months away!

I was very pleased to find these three difficult books, among others, between Fan Expo Dallas and some other stops on the way home. The WW is a rag, but it will do as a stand-in while I continue to hunt for a nicer copy.

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Did you know U.S. Marvel comics are also distributed to more than the UK overseas. I traveled Europe last year and just about every shop I visited had new Marvel comics. The exact same ones we have in the U.S. In English. I saw this in France, Belgium, Germany, etc. It would be interesting to know how much those sales account for. I can see another 15% or more easily just from the other countries. Aside from a few other European countries like Sweden, Netherlands, Switzerland, etc there's also... Australia, new Zealand, INDIA, Philippines, Singapore, and probably some others. Do these constitute HUGE #'s? Maybe, maybe not, but in aggregate it MIGHT in some cases represent another bump in variant print run, which may not insignificant, and may or may not be consistent (some variants might not even be offered internationally for whatever reason, or at different incentive levels). The point is not that any single factor causes sooooo much uncertainty, although in some cases it might, but the point is that there's sooooo MANY factors that going into deciding print run (of any comic, including variants), with 99% of them being unknown to the public for any given issue, that essentially you're just closing your eyes and throwing darts at a moving board and then making a guess at what you hit. The variants we get are distributed through Diamond N.A. and there is nothing that I have ever seen that even suggests that they are offered overseas. Again, what I see are foreign reprints that use many of the variant covers but with different interiors, or covers that are unique to the overseas market that we don't get here. It is a different market and should not be a part of the conversation. -J. Is this fact or opinion? Those same stores that carry those U.S. comics also had the same exact Diamond Previews. I guess it is possible those overseas shops are counted in the North American numbers. Do we have any non-North American/non-UK posters who can tell us how comic shops overseas order, if the U.S. variants are available there, and if the comics are distributed from a warehouse in the U.S. or overseas? I honestly don't know, but after having seen how popular U.S. comics are overseas, I am interested in learning. The international market represents maaaaaaybe 10-15% over and above the published N.A. numbers, and I have never seen Diamond UK offering the same variants (although that's not to say the UK market doesn't get a crack at the same loser books like everyone else during the occasional variant dump) and publishers like Panini are offering different books altogether in the non-English speaking countries. -J. At least you've finally conceded that Marvel does have occasional variant sales, which would also imply that you concede that they print more than they distribute.

Since we had the dates I thought I would post them for OCD overplanners like me. A scant fifteen months away! Thanks to Catrick for digging up the date. Home Page Edit: It looks like they changed the dates...

About five weeks away.

Bruce bought a stack of Batman Beyond books, paid immediately and communication was great. I'd happily do business with him again!

They'll do just fine if they focus on their best 8-10 shows and get out of tiny markets like Des Moines that can't support them.

Out of curiosity, how was the crowd?

good. Would work better with a grumpy cat meme. I'm sure it takes zero effort to find out how, but I have no idea how to embed a gif or create a meme.

Wizard definitely appears to be cutting shows right and left: Albuquerque was moved from 2015 to 2016, and has disappeared Orlando also moved from 2015 to 2016, will it also vanish? Madison is not on the 2017 schedule yet Minneapolis is also not on 2017 schedule I'd bet Des Moines doesn't get a 2017 date

This weekend. Based on the apparent demise of both Madison and Minneapolis this may be the last WW Des Moines too.