MrWeen

On 4/14/2024 at 1:44 AM, fastballspecial said:

I can only speak to my area of the country, but unemployment is at 2.2% in my work county. All the counties around my areas are 2.3 to 2.7% even the metropolitan area. We my company are paying yearly stay bonus and in the past year have paid relocation expenses of $5K for people who move more then 75 miles. We can't find workers and we pay very well with great insurance. The labor market at least in my area will not be tightening at all for the forseeable future. My children have never had to worry about finding a job. My first kid had 3 offers before he even got out of college. My second has already been offered full time employment and she hasn't even finished college yet.  The labor market in my areas is fantastic for anyone in their 20s. Its great to be that age and be able to leave jobs for more pay and benefits which I see yearly currently.  I know that's not the case in other areas, but its still shocking to me considering how many applications I had put within a 200 mile radius just to find a job out of college years ago. 

The Supply chain in manufacturing was just starting to get in good shape then the bridge fell over in MD which will affect us component wise at some point. Our suppliers suffer from lack of labor and critical party components they are getting from overseas vendors which again is the supply chain.  Our GDP has shown positive results for several quarters in a row now. 

Traditionally the market slows in the summer months. I have not seen that yet, but I do try not to sell traditional books I specialize which gives me a better sell thru rate. I expect by June to slow down like usual.  My shows locally have shown positive results average dealers at the show make between $1k to $2k on a one day show with some dealers making up to $3-5k per show depending on what they bring. Low end is $500 to $1k for dealers. Volume makes your sales some dealers rely on making a big sale too much while others sell 100s of $1 $2 $3 books easily. Some dealers hit it big with a nice sale then some go home not doing as well because they needed to rely on that big sale. Don't be the 2nd dealer in that example. 

Sales the last couple of months have been very good. Not record setting but constant. Speculators are entering the market again after having taken their lumps on slabs. That glut is going to sit there around some people's necks for awhile. Local shop was blowing out slabs for $25-35 a pop and they had probably 20 boxes they were selling.

X-men 97 right now is fueling sales of X-men books and let me tell the X-men 97 show is fantastic so far. 

Invincible sales still do well as they introduce more characters this season. I continue to see strong sales for Simpsons, Spider-Gwen, Dazzler singles, and off all things Alf at local shows. Couple of women buying strictly Gwenpool and Spider-Gwen. Golden Age buyers are still strong looking for good cover books like EC covers. I didn't have any large sales, but had dozens of sales from books $15 to $50 this time around. 
1st Marvel Zombies, Cap 241, Hulk 181 Foils, Dazzler 1, Watchmen 1, Marvel Age 12, DC Versus Marvel Set, Showcase 96 3. Nothing huge but solid books I sell consistently either on or offline. 

We did a card show with our comic book show this last time and it did not go well. When one group advertises alot and the other does not they cannibalize money from the other group. My advice is never do it. Dealers still made money, but I learned a lesson not to do it again. 

Invincible fascinates me because prices have steadily reason for most of the series.

On 3/8/2024 at 2:04 AM, littledoom said:

My friend just sent me this 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Power+Rangers+Fruit+of+the+Loom+comic&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1
 

Does anyone have a picture of the loom comic with the underwear?

On 2/18/2024 at 6:43 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I think this has been optioned.

On 2/19/2024 at 2:02 PM, kimik said:

Yeah. We should split Moderns into three - the Chromium Age (say 1992-2000) and then the Ultimates Age (2000-2010), and then modern.

 I prefer  Pyrite Age to Chromium Age. 

BE careful, I think Spotlight has some that are print to order.

On 11/29/2023 at 6:45 PM, KolmarAvenue said:

Thanks for the info! Do you know if these are in English or Japanese?

I believe the are in Japanese and have a transformer included with the comic. There should be English translations online though and there are some key first appearances in some of these.  I would kill for a set but they are not cheap.

On 11/27/2023 at 10:06 AM, fastballspecial said:

wrong book, you want issue 11!

Thee are comics in all of these too.Transformers: Legends of The Microns

There are also comics in Video Games that a lot of people just do not know about in case you are looking to expand your mini collection.

Here is one of the hardest to find from Walmart which took me forever to track down and a couple I didn't see on your list.

Also Avatar the Last Airbender has multiple DVDs with comics, I believe the first one is in Book 2 Earth Volume 1.

On 10/23/2023 at 10:25 PM, KolmarAvenue said:

Not sure if I'll actively go after these...Didn't realize how tiny the DC First Appearances inserts are! (4 1/2 X 3 in.).

There is a Teen Titans mini from those figures!

On 10/15/2023 at 7:15 PM, jdandns said:

Here are some from a pretty informative CBSI article

https://comicbookinvest.com/2017/04/17/not-resale-dvd-comic-special-part-1/

Not sure if the author ever wrote a Part 2.

I've got some of the above, and I think a few not shown. I used to buy a lot of DVDs and kept pretty much everyone I ever got, although I do remember selling the Amazing Spider-Man #300 mini for $50 about 5 years ago. I'll try to dig out my collection and see if I can add any not shown.

There are VHS comics too.

A lot of Dathomir books are still cheap. This makes little sense to me.  Too bad there are no comic first appearances for the Mortis Gods.

On 10/4/2023 at 4:54 PM, kimik said:

First time I saw his or her work was on the Action Comics swimsuit variant this year so I have no clue either.

Here I fixed this

On 8/2/2023 at 3:03 PM, PeterPark said:

When it came out, everyone thought it was the first appearance, but I think ASM 698 may have been held back or something? I don't think it was supposed to be...UXM annual 14 all over again...

On 2/9/2023 at 9:00 AM, F For Fake said:

See, I keep waiting for Wilcats/Aliens to pop. way back in the day, it was "hot" because it was considered the first Authority, as it finished off the old Stormwatch team. I have a few of these because I'm an Aliens comic hoarder, but so far it hasn't really popped enough for me to sell my copies. I have the single highest graded slab, a 9.6, but I'm keeping that one for the personal collection.

I'm feeling like a genius for picking up a bunch of Stormwatch slabs at CLink last fall. Got most of them for $12-$17, many of them were one of only two or three slabbed 9.8s, a couple the only copies. I sent most of them to MCS a couple of months ago, put $50 on them, and let them sit.  I became aware of this announcement when I suddenly sold several of them. Good times! I'd held onto the Stormwatch 4 9.8, which I'd paid about $170. Put it up at $500 after the announcement and it was gone in a couple of hours. #5 and #6 also sold quickly for me at about $100 and $75.  Also finally cashed in on the raw Stormwatch 37's I'd picked out of dollar bins over the years. I didn't have many of them (they've been under the radar spec for a lot of people for a long time) but they flew outta here.

So, thanks to Stormwatch and Authority, it was a very good week for me!

ON the flipside, a couple of weeks ago I thought "You know, I should get a first Damien Wayne, for my personal collection". There was a 9.8 655 on MCS for about $160. I put it in my cart, intending to go back and get it. Well, I clearly screwed that one up, it'll never be that cheap again.

Stormwatch 11 is a better bet for first Authority over wildcats/aliens  depending on how we would  define a team first. 

On 1/3/2023 at 1:49 PM, Jimmy Linguini said:

In what sense? is the argument that he held onto the books or that he released before the sale date? Im not sure what you mean by production date.

Right so what is the release date for that comic?  He doesn't have one.  He has a date the book was manufactured as comics often do.

On 12/30/2022 at 1:20 PM, PeterPark said:

That's too bad. The first Knull cover was a Frankie's variant

I did a lot of research on that and he cannot provide a date that proves it predates the actual first Knull cover. All they can provide is a production date.

On 12/10/2022 at 8:44 AM, Semicentennial said:

I'm fully aware of that.   NHS #38 was considered her first appearance for the longest time. 

Here is the thread I started way back in 2015 regarding the book.  

 

Excellent, you just didn't mention 37 which is why I added it. If anyone had bothered to do a little research Ben Dunn confirmed all this in a video and inside actual comics back then.

I am surprised WN books aren't getting much love as the new season is out and the show does appear to have a following.

On 12/9/2022 at 5:34 PM, Semicentennial said:

The only book I can think of that may answer your question is Ninja High School #38.  It was thought that it was the Warrior Nun Areala 1st appearance, even though she doesn't appear in the book at all.  Someone just assumed it was her on the cover.  As the price of the book got higher, more and more people started calling that book her first appearance, but no one actually looked inside the book to see if that were true.  It wasn't until a few years ago until people started to find out that it wasn't her first appearance, but there are some still trying to sell the book as her first appearance.  

You have the wrong book I think.  Shanna Masters appears first in issue 37.

On 12/7/2022 at 2:27 PM, 500Club said:

Yep.  And X-Factor 23/24. 

Doesn't he appear in 22?

On 12/6/2022 at 6:06 PM, fastballspecial said:

Then go back and read established criteria for 30+ years. Yes there are examples of where that area is grey, but 
until the last few years when card collectors and investors came back into the market this wasn't a problem. 

Hulk 180 will never be a thing. I would avoid the examples you listed and then there isnt a problem. 
 

The problem is that there are many examples.  I don't disagree that the market sides with wallets either and we all want money.  But the value someone places on something doesn't make it a truth.

On 12/6/2022 at 5:05 PM, catch21 said:

 

Both of you are editing out key words which makes it confusing to most people. It's "1st appearance in cameo" NOT "cameo". Those are two different types of appearances. You both are shortcuting my words, cgc, cbcs, and overstreet words. 

 I understand what you said!

Here are Overstreet's definitions as they have always been.

CAMEO-The brief appearance of one character in the strip of another.

     This makes sense in comics because the nature of serialized story telling almost always puts a new character's first as a cameo.  They are unknown and new....to another character's book.

DEBUT ( First appearance ) The first time a character appears anywhere.

     Overstreet doesn't leave much open to debate with this definition.

The value may often be in the first full but that has little to do with story and more to do with cover. Honestly, I can see why the first time we fully see a character after having been teased in shadow results in a more desirable book. Just don't tell me it is a first appearance.

On 12/5/2022 at 7:43 PM, 500Club said:

No kidding.  Good luck changing several decades of comic hobby terminology.

Might as well offer up an angry diatribe about why people without a same parent shouldn’t call each other ‘bro’.

This definition  originally comes from Overstreet editions that are quite old.

Honestly isn't the cameo itself more important when we are discussing narrative?  That cameo that usually happens at the end of the book is the the awesome splash that gets you to buy the next book. The shadowy appearance builds interest which also gets you to buy the next book.    That next book usually has the first cover appearance which is really what gets people to buy it not because it is a full. Before the web people  believed a lot of  erroneous information about comics that could not be corrected at the speeds we have today.  So when we say that things have been done a certain way for many decades so what should it change? Well....

I would argue that the cameo is far more important as a first cover most first fulls aka 2nd firsts.

She appears in 117.