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So much of this is wrong. Preacher #1 has been more than $10 since about 2 weeks after it came out. There is absolutely no chance it had a "healthy six figure print run" Last year you could have gone to a big show and been lucky to buy 5 copies at $40+ each. Not sure it really matters, but I was buying them off ebay all day at 15-20 a couple years ago. Show prices were definitely in the $40 range, but they could be had for less. I've bought many,many copies of this book over the years. And yeah, no chance there are 100K copies.

It's as good a new book as any to have a few copies of. It has a high print run and there are a lot of people with stacks of them, but TWD has enough fans that it could still gain traction if it becomes a true 'key' book in the series.

Did you have a stack of Preachers too? FYI if anyone was on the fence about going, there was zero wait at the CGC booth and every time I walked past it, there was just a few people there Yep, that was me. Did we talk for a minute? End up dropping off anything for grading? No we didn't, my friend I was walking by with pointed out your killer stack of stuff as we were going for a smoke break and we said to each other in stereo "Way to flood the market" haha. I dropped off 5 books and got a Crow SS done, planned on having more stuff slabbed but money's tighter than usual this month thanx to my golden age horror shopping spree That's cool. One guy stopped over while I was going through the stack and started talking about how hot Rat Queens is. I'm probably not going to flood the market with 23 copies of #1 though. I actually believe in the book long term, so I'll probably do a board offering of maybe 10 #1 9.8s and a couple of the 2 and 3 B covers (enough to cover all my grading fees), then sit on the rest. Good luck with your grades!

Did you have a stack of Preachers too? FYI if anyone was on the fence about going, there was zero wait at the CGC booth and every time I walked past it, there was just a few people there Yep, that was me. Did we talk for a minute? End up dropping off anything for grading?

Wonder who that was?

Yeah, I don't have any #2 second prints in my Rat Queens stash.

Just get a dealer badge. You have months to convince someone to sell you one at a resonable price...

Agreed. Unless...one or more of the new crew become popular, key players. Then it could pop a bit. The print run might be high enough to keep it from hitting WD92 numbers, but I can see it passing 108 pretty easily.

Hey man, why's that crazy? it's the best ongoing series!

I think most of us made money throwing that mess on the internet, not the other way around.

Yup. He had the same pages for years at various cons and the prices were always quite high. For example a page that would have been $70 from Y the Last Man (equally hot at the time) was $250 from Tony. I bought one of the best interiors from #2 at that price. The one damn page that haunts me is that zombie/tank splash from the Atlanta sequence. Every time I saw it the price went up a grand.

Too easy. But still the right answer!

The Rat Queens following at ECCC was almost a little scary this year. Cosplayers, a clothing line, a packed charity party. The book definitely has a following with or without a show.

dat arm...

I've sold an A-level Jill Thompson Sandman page in the $3-5K range and I don't think it was an extreme outlier or anything. Might want to add her in.

He want's a bigger time gap for his 'Walking Dead: The Lost Years' spinoff series debuting next year. I knew your page wouldn't last very long. Yup it's a good one going to a great home!

He want's a bigger time gap for his 'Walking Dead: The Lost Years' spinoff series debuting next year.

I would also buy: Justice League Europe 37 Superman 62 Detective Comics 639 Electronic Gamer Monthly Oct 1991 Disney Adventures November 1991 ( sonic mini comic ) This might be the first appearance of Darkwing Duck too but I do not know for sure. Dude, you are a walking encyclopedia of obscure (and sometimes questionable) first appearances (thumbs u

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Sandman looks just like Neil Gaiman - he is his own prototype! Anyone have a copy of his high school yearbook? Also, I'm pretty sure Mcfarlane drew a black soldier somewhere in the ASM Assassination Plot storyline (Spawn prototype right there).

Right. Those are typically one-shot characters created to test out concepts prior to launching the marvel lineup were all familiar with. Not even remotely similar to Wooster.

Because that was the first time Latour drew him. What if you interpreted "prototype" as "inspiration", does that help? Just. Stop. Sorry, forgot this was the internet. No room for logic. Prototype means a very specific thing in this hobby and it's very different than "inspiration." No comic has ever been broken out as a key because of "inspiration" which is clearly a vague and nebulous thing, since we're still discussing this. Does logic dictate that this issue should be worth 10x cover because it's the first time an artist drew a very generic character that looked like another generic character he'd later draw in a book worth 1.5x cover price? If you answer yes, then may god have mercy on your soul.

There is still plenty of time for Scalped to be flash in the pan as well. How many options have actually become real tv shows? 2-3? out of 40? I have now tried to read issue 1 of Scalped about 4 times. I can't get through it...I wouldn't bet a cent on Scalped #anything but that's just me... Try a little harder to finish. I didn't think issue one was all that great either but by the end of the first trade I was hooked and finished the series in a week.

Because that was the first time Latour drew him. What if you interpreted "prototype" as "inspiration", does that help? Just. Stop.