Beige

I love the Walking Dead - it got me back into reading comics 9 years ago. I have to disagree with the chap that said there is no profit to be made in moderns. If you buy every issue of a series - say Preacher - you have been lucky enough to enjoy a great read and will be able to sell #3-60 for cover when you have finished. #2 gets you a 2-3x profit and Preacher #1 is now a $75 - $100 comic and has been for a few years. I guess its all relative but $3 into $100 sounds like a good deal to me. I purely collect moderns - I pre-order #1's only and store them to the best of my ability. Sometimes I get lucky. Thanks to a very generous dealer with too much stock I was able to buy Alpha Girl and Peter Panzerfaust #1's slabbed CGC 9.8's for $70 delivered from USA to Australia. I think thats a great deal,I doubt if the dealer covered his expenses so kudos to him for his generous spirit. If they aren't succesful (Alpha Girl is on print run 3 I think, PP on its second) then I have 10 copies raw bought at cover price that I can sell to cover my original costs. Thats break even - I get to enjoy the comics and I'm not out of pocket. When they are successful like : Walking Dead Thief of Thieves Chew Y - The Last Man Then there is a tidy profit to be had for foresight at buying them at time of issue. Newer ones such as: Saga Manhattan Projects Nonplayer are all happily tracking at 3rd - 4th prints with 1st print #1's at $30 - $40 per issue at least. Older (!!) ones like: Preacher 100 Bullets Watchmen etc are $50 - $100 and have been for 5 years. So I guess if you buy moderns at cover you won't make a loss and could turn a modest profit overall - whilst still enjoying great stories. I have pre-ordered: Revival Punk Rock Jesus Think Tank Fashion Beast for those very reasons, and I am stocking up on The Vault ($3 - $5 J.Depp has aquired film rights), The Red Star ($8 - $20 was $3-$8 6 weeks ago - movie has green light), Zombies v Robots (2 films in production - one a Dolph Lundgren vehicle ;-( but the other a major studio) and the Irredeemable Ant-Man (as after Black Panther, it's next to be made and the word is that Ant-Man is going to be 'a shield agent with extra armour and weapons) so that must include the O'Grady Antman so at $1 a NM copy atm you cant go wrong! And you get to read the comics. Sweet deals all round to me. (thumbs u

Uh-huh. So...you are proud of your stupidity, and feel that you should be allowed to abuse the privilege. Is that it...? Well, then...as you were! Certainly don't let any of US stop you! I honestly have no idea what you are talking about here. Does this make any sense to anyone other than Krey? You can sell "legitimately" on these boards if you do it in the right place (i.e., not on the "Moderns Heating Up" thread). Do you know where the sales forum is...? You were scared by others into pretending that your item isn't worth anything...? So...! You DO know where the sales thread is! GREAT...USE IT! But wait, I'm impressed...you really have a Walking Dead #1 CGC 9.9? WOW...!!! Is it like this one? (I'll give you a hint: It's the one in the middle)...(wink, wink) OK, you know how it works...I've shown you mine... I am impressed beyond words at that photo. May I ask,did you buy them on a hunch early on or pick them up more recently? Either way, they look awesome. Is there a jealosy emoticon..

That's %&Y$ing fantastic Much agreed Rock!! Congrats dude!! That is a beautiful comic. Love it and much kudos to you Sir.

Ah - got it. Well they are going to have an orgasm here then - the first to hit $1000. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/221055168604?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649 Is there an emoticon for that? ;-)

Sorry - as a new person to this forum, I don't understand. Have i said something daft?

I have been saving ebay sold prices for the last 2 weeks. Its now close to $400 for #1 regardless of quality. Buy-it-now averages $680. Thats literally 50% higher over the last month. Has the series got the green light at last?

Thanks for that,thought that it was waaaaay too low but couldn't be arsed to read the 'wars of the comics'...

Sorry to butt in but did I read that correctly that Saga #1 only had a print run of 500 for the first print? I skipped over most of it because I had no clue as to what you were arguing about..... So was it 500 or did I just skip too much? Thanks. PS: some of you chaps get quite jolly heated at times.

Managed to get a first print #1 signed by Nick Pitarra and its NM so I was very happy. Anyone know the print run numbers for #1 first print?