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  1. Sandman #19 also has a fairly common error version with some pages out of order.
  2. The stickers don't bother me too much. It doesn't obscure any relevant information, after all. I don't like them, but they're pretty far down the list of things that annoy me.
  3. You are in for a huge treat. I wish I could read these for the first time one more time. Ellis' run starts with Stormwatch #37 of Volume 1. It continues through the entirety of Stormwatch Volume 2 and it also includes Stormwatch/Aliens. It ends in The Authority Volume 1. I think Millar's run on The Authority should also be included. He closed out the first volume of the series. You will never look at superheroes the way after you read these books. The Authority and Planetary took liberties and shots at both Marvel's and DC's complacency imo. The only thing I would add that you might want to read with these runs is Action Comics #775. It was DC's answer to how Superman stacks up against an Authority like group. Had his time come and gone or was he still relevant ? The Authority is my favorite series of all time but there is no question that Supes had his place even during that very tumultuous time. Thanks for the info. Looking forward to reading it. It's an amazing run that I wholeheartedly recommend, but it's WildC.A.T.S./Aliens (two covers, same story).
  4. Maverick also got a solo book in 1997... I don't think most people know him now. Maverick's solo book
  5. Well no, it didn't really, because as RMA says it didn't become relevant until much later. I finished off my original 100 issue New Mutants run in 2001 when I bought 50-100 in a lot on eBay for $35. A few years ago I slabbed the 98 as a 9.6 and the 87 as a 9.0. In the early 2000s there was not a lot of interest on the Liefeld books as back issues. Price guides from this era still exist, it's not like we have to just pontificate on it. Anyone have a scan or photo handy? If not, I'll try to get one posted after work.
  6. Why would you burn them? X-Force showcased the best in belt pouch fashion. But yeah, I look at my X-Forces and think what the hell was I thinking. Thankfully I didn't buy a long box of X-Force #1. I think there's some Apocalypse origin material in #37, but it might take another decade before anyone cares.
  7. I'm way behind on my reading, and just got through #1 a few nights ago. I didn't care for the art, but I was willing to go along with it for a while. The thing that did get stuck in my head and completely broke me out of the story was when the pirate called the family "Salusians." It's like that moment where you see something that you can't unsee and it totally breaks the moment. Hey, Rick Remender, when you think you're making up a word, maybe Google it. Maybe you'll find that you're reusing a term that has already been used in comics for more than 25 years. Salusians Maybe Ninja High School doesn't sell as many copies as Remender usually does, but the series has been around for 176 issues of the regular series and a whole pile of spinoffs and specials.
  8. Back when multiple variant covers were so uncommon they could all be given names! All Dolled Up, Lin-GEN-rie, Verti-GEN, GEN-et Jackson, etc...
  9. I can tell you that this is one of the reasons why people get riled up. No one likes their positions to be so wildly mischaracterized. No one has doubted that there were only about 600 made, and some of those will certainly have been victims of attrition somehow. Your initial claim was that there are only about 30 known copies, which set this all off. You've come up to maybe 100, but have reduced everyone else's arguments to the absurd. Plentiful and falling out of trees? How is that helpful? Then, end your statement with a . The books were handed out at a signing. How many people didn't want a GLOD slab with "Name written on front in pen" and are happy with their CoA? How many people like to look at their full run of the series and don't want to break it up by having one or two slabbed for no reason other than to have an "official" grade? How many people put away their comic collections after the series ended in 1996 and have no idea there's a company you can pay to put your books in a plastic case? I don't know the answers to this, but I assume there are at least a few in these categories, and more besides. You think it's more obvious to assume that these copies no longer exist somehow. You indicated that you've lost most of your OO Sandman collection. Do you think it's more likely they no longer exist, or that they were sold/traded/stolen years ago and you don't remember? If so, they still exist somewhere in some store or collection. You cite both the Census and GPA for numbers, but those aren't really two separate sources; nothing will be on GPA that isn't already on the Census. Your sample size may be smaller than you think.
  10. Well, I've wanted a Sandman #8B for years but just kept putting off actually picking one up. My Sandman collection is complete except for 8B and 18B. It's bumped up in priority now. I'm sure I'll lose interest in Cerebus #1 before too long, since I have no real draw to it. The only thing I really have to do is avoid finding one of these temporary fascinations before the appeal wears off. I'm sitting on several recent Image slabs in which I have no real interest because they were readily available on eBay when the urge struck.
  11. I guess I'm easily impressionable, but I really want a Cerebus #1 and Sandman #8B now.
  12. Unsubstantiated anecdotes! That guy's a fiction writer anyway, basically a professional liar. Not a credible witness.
  13. I'm baffled by how quickly we're going back over this. Here's a link to RMA posting a transcript from the Feb 9, 1990 issue of Comics Buyers Guide: RMA and Jaydog talking about this in the Copper Forum For the linking impaired, this is key: So, in a quote from none other than Neil Gaiman himself, who was there when they were given out, the books were immediately recognized as variants and given out during his appearances, even further reinforcing the supposition that these variant copies are mostly safely in the hands of collectors who are keeping them.
  14. Did you not see the photos of Wizard that I posted, or not care because it wasn't GPA? The cover date for Sandman 8 is Aug 89. By Apr 92 it was a $100 comic in Wizard. That's only about 2.5 years. It's a much faster progression of values than Amazing Spider-man 300, New Mutants 98, or Walking Dead 1 demonstrated. I don't have the 90 or 91 OPG to check, and that was the oldest Wizard I had. Multiple owners of the book have come forward to say they have it raw and see no reason to pay someone $20 to put it in a plastic case for them. The book was originally marketed toward adult collectors. The "mature readers" label, art style, and themes pretty much kept it out of the dirty hands of children who were wrestling each other for the one-panel Cable preview in New Mutants 86. I think this comic suffers for having a variant that is not immediately visible from the outside, and not even immediately identifiable to the uninitiated (as opposed to a Mark Jewelers insert or pages-out-of-order error, both of which are pretty obvious). There are probably several copies in peoples' collections that have not been identified. ("I know there's a valuable variant, but which is it? The one with the article by that female executive? Oh. Karen Berger or Jeanette Kahn? Hmm. Oh well, I probably don't have the variant, I just got it at my local comic shop in California.") The Sandman series ended in 1996, and back issue demand began cooling fairly quickly thereafter. The entire series has been in continuous reprints, with at least two different waves of hardcovers, an Absolute set, and an Annotated set. There is no reason whatsoever to buy back issues if you only want to read the stories. But since CGC didn't begin until 2000, the peak of Sandman interest had already passed. Thus, GPA only shows the recent resurgence in price, not the whole picture.
  15. Here is some documentation I offered a while ago... From Wizard 8 (Apr 1992) Known to be $100 less than 3 years after it came out. For comparison, ASM 300 is $27, Batman 232 is $14, Brave and the Bold 60 is $50. This was clearly a huge book. From Wizard 130 (Jul 2002) By this time the series had ended and most new fans were coming in for the TPBs, so it's dropped to $60, but still not something you'd throw away unless you knew absolutely nothing about comics. Personally, I'm on the watch for some former-goth soccer moms...