KRS_SD

Picked this OA up from Mark Brooks last yr at SDCC with the help of DScott.

always sold out within the first 2 hrs at SDCC. This was the only book they were limiting it to 1 per person.

Boom goes the dynamite ...

 

 

 

http://comicsalliance.com/hasbro-infinity-gauntlet-thanos-imperative-action-figures-box-sets-sdcc-2014-exclusives/

 

 

 

I'd prob have to line up at 3am just to get these at SDCC.

Anyone know the print run on the 2nd print?

Since this is turning into a Cable lovefest, a book that is underrated is X-Factor 68. This book is essentially the origin of Cable. Especially with movies coming up titled X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Force. I wouldn't be surprised to see little baby Nathan shipped off to the future at the end of Apocalypse and come back full adult for the X-Force movie.

 

Of course Singer would have to find a way to get Cyclops and Jean Gray back into the movieverse first...

 

I think the whole Whilce Portacio X-Factor run is a little underrated.

 

 

+1 Enjoyed Portacio's run on X-Factor!

Geez...

ASM 300

One more point: the internet. The internet existed, as everyone knows, before this, but it didn't become mainstream until 1995. The first "dot com" ads in the media were 1995, and that's also when eBay (then AuctionWeb, and frequented by no one) was founded (9/95.)

 

That, as much as the collapse, is what fundamentally changed the comics industry. No longer were buyers beholden to retailers to obtain what they could not. Now, they could trade amongst themselves. People didn't have to take their collections and sell them for 5% of OPG. Now, they could sell them directly to others.

 

And....by far, the most important effect the internet had: information became instantly accessible, not subject to the editorial whims of the media.

 

Total transformation of the industry.

 

I'm not entirely sure if it was a transformation of the industry as much as it was a transformation of the marketplace - on this I agree with you 100%. I think the industry lagged behind until mid-2001 - there's a long period of just drek where sales were in the toilet from the late 1990s. Amazing having a print run of under 20,000, things like that.

 

 

Yeah, I agree with that distinction. Consumers reacting instantly, while publishers and retailers were a lot slower on the uptake.

 

I would put the "Modern Age" starting with Amazing Spider-Man 30, Fantastic Four 60, some of the other reboots that started right around then. Maybe Daredevil 1? There's a completely different feel from Amazing 25 to Amazing 30, for example. Call the period 1993-2000 the "Dark Age", something like that. Terrible art, terrible stories, no sales, etc. etc. etc.

 

I definitely think the era of 1993-XXXX does need a negative connotation to it. I see the turning points of Mid ASM V2, USM #1. Loeb/Lee Batman run as big turning points where stories and art got good again.

 

There was some awesome stuff that came out during that period as well. I guess most of if toward the end of that period, but still....

 

Off the top of my head:

 

The Invisibles

Bone

Transmetropolitan

Morrison's JLA

Starman

The Authority

Flex Mentallo

 

Renaissance or Early Modern period.

 

So the age is going to be 3 years? 1993-1996? I'd figure it would be at least a decade.... 1993-2003?

 

No. The 1993-2003(Walking Dead) or 1991/92- late 2000(Ultimate Spider-Man) periods will probably be called the Chromium age or something like it with certain books exhibiting qualities of the Modern/Digital age...

My Modern collection begins with 2000's Ultimate Spiderman #1 . My Copper collection ends at the year 1999 until theres an official name and time frame for the Dark/Chromium Age. Then the OCD in me will re-organize my collection accordingly.

anything is possible these days with noobs purchasing/pursuing these so called hott books.

 

While that is a part of it, over the past couple of years I have seen way more early 20s collectors enter the market and for them the Copper Age keys are the big books tied to their youth. They have jobs now with decent disposable incomes to chase the funny books that are key to them, and it is not BA or SA. If they follow the trend, they will eventually migrate to BA, SA and GA books, but right now CA is what they are most familiar with and that is what they are chasing. It happened with SA back in the day, then BA, so it only makes sense that demographics are impacting the CA market now as well.

 

I think you mean people in their 30s, but I see your point.

 

Yeah, I'm 35 and I am most familiar with CA books. Those were the books I was buying off the shelves when I was 10-13.

This is spot on.

Staples and BKV both confirmed for SDCC.

This just happened...to someone with 0 feedback:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/290913500254?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649

I think a big factor that people are not considering is that Ebay was not the force that it is(or even existed) during the first bubble in the mid 90s.

Not to mention social media, movies, TV shows, cgc and message boards. This bubble may just continue to grow because of the driving forces I just mentioned.

Later this month I'll be down in Anaheim signing at Wondercon -- Image doesn't have a booth there but I'll be headquartered at the Geekscape booth. If you don't know the Geekscape podcast please check it out -- Geekscape.net Hope to see some of you at Wondercon!

Nice! See you there!

for Nowhere Man

Not going and bummed to find out image wont be at Wondercon

Got my Todds signed today at LCS in Anaheim today.

 

Ken is an awesome dude and even gave me a free print! Finally nice to put a face to the name.

 

Thank you good sir!

 

Thanks for coming down today -- great to meet "JerryAmsterdam" in person! Had a great time -- that place has an amazing setup and a nice vibe.

 

 

Hey Ken,

 

I missed this...are you local? Will you be at Wondercon next month?

 

I'm LA-based. I will be wandering around Wondercon, for sure. But Image doesn't have a booth and neither do I.

Ah man that blows. Image being there was one of the only reasons I wanted to go Wondercon. How is Image not going to be at the 2nd largest con in Socal? Love the book!

Got my Todds signed today at LCS in Anaheim today.

 

Ken is an awesome dude and even gave me a free print! Finally nice to put a face to the name.

 

Thank you good sir!

 

Thanks for coming down today -- great to meet "JerryAmsterdam" in person! Had a great time -- that place has an amazing setup and a nice vibe.

Hey Ken,

I missed this...are you local? Will you be at Wondercon next month?

New Mutants 98 haters or realist?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/05/wednesday-runaround-the-scarcity-of-deadpool/