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Marvel's 1949-1953 series Suspense (under Atlas imprint) was a licensed tie-in to (and largely adapted from) John Dickson Carr's Suspense radio program, which aired on CBS Radio from 1940 to 1962. Marvel's Timely imprint also had Blackstone the Magician (1948), Mighty Mouse (1946-1947), and Terrytoons (1942-1947).

I'm working on a evaluating a big collection at the moment for a third party. It includes a TON of limited edition Zenescope comics, mostly from the 2015 to 2020 period. I'm looking at tens of thousands of dollars spent on editions limited to 100, 150, 250 or 350 copies. Is there someone here who knows the Zenescope market better than I do? Because these books are typically scarce, it's hard to find sales data. I know that there will always be examples of SOME books that do well, but GENERALLY what conclusions can we draw about value? Oh, and trust me, I've already made all the good jokes about Zenescope covers...

The next two crossed off the list, courtesy of a seller in Wisconsin.

I was still recovering from my birthday weekend... Grades are in.

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I think you may be missing the implications of @ThothAmon's post... What's hot right now? Licensed properties of all sorts... TV shows, video games, cartoons, toys, role-playing games, etc. We all watched what Scooby Doo did over the last few years, and now other titles are following in its wake. There are a lot of Bronze books in this space that are doing very well at the moment.

They’re not modern, but I think Gold Key books are starting to move more broadly.

Just a reader set for cover price… it was my last set, so I was glad to move it.

A new animated Elfquest show was announced.

Bronze and Copper books are the bulk of my recent sales, but Modern sales so far in December/January for me include ASM #30, some Batman Adventures, a Batman: Three Jokers set, a Gear of War lot including #1, Last of Us #1, Marvel Super-Heroes 10 & 11, One Punch Man FCBD, Shonen Jump #1, miscellaneous Spawn books in the 60s and 70s, Ultimate Spider-Man #1, Uncle Scrooge #310, a Warhammer lot including #1, Weeknd Presents Starboy #1, Wolverine #55 (Land variant) and Zatanna 1 & 2. It's the crossover stuff that seems to be selling - video games, movies, TV shows, music, anime, etc. - but not the typical MCU/DCEU stuff.

If I split hairs, though, your question was actually "Was there ever a DC comic book prior to the New 52 that had more variants than Adventures of Superman 443?" Many of the variants that expand these three lists come AFTER the New 52. By that standard, Killing Joke probably still comes ahead, with 20 variations on the list that @masterlogan2000 shared, plus possibly a stickered variant or two. Of course, we still don't know for sure how many mall variants there are.

comicspriceguide.com shows 17 variants for this one, but that includes only a single foil cover. A quick glance at eBay suggests to me that there are at least 6 foil variants (red, blue, silver, pink, black, Breeding 1:25, etc.), putting the current total for this book around 22.

Agreed on sales across the board - my sales have been at pandemic levels since November. I’m not sure how much Hickman’s new Spider-Man has to do with it, though. It looks like pure FOMO on USM. I guess if people are raving about Hickman, that helps.

Ultimate Spider-Man has gone berserk. Did another round of Covid cheques come out?

My sense is that we are less likely to see a new Superman comic from Dynamite, for example, and more likely to see efforts like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Millionaire Lex Luthor (public domain 2036) hires a group of shadowy adventurers including famed mariner Popeye (2025), Doc Savage (2029), the Shadow (2027) and the planet-hopping John Carter (2006) to track down a mysterious Super-Man from the distant Planet Krypton (2034). Ace reporter Lois Lane (2034) teams up with detective duo the Hardy Boys (2023) to find him first. Some of this could be pretty good, but a lot may be terrible.

This rings a bell for me, and I may have a copy of this somewhere... My personal database shows a Battlestar Galactica: Origins "Special Edition", which I note as an "ashcan". I did purchase the Battlestar Galactica Boxed Blu-Ray sets from Future Shop in Canada. I don't actually know where it is at the moment, but I will keep an eye out for it.

The technology to see inside the book without opening either the case or the book is readily available already. See the following video from the University of Kentucky for a more complex example already in use: https://youtu.be/Z_L1oN8y7Bs?si=1J25GYw3ZtBukkk1

Well done! This is a great resource, and I really enjoyed the format and layout.

For then Whitman bag collectors here, this eBay seller just posted a number of bagged sets: (2) Action Comics DC Comics Presents DC Whitman Two Pack Sealed FN 1978 JJC047 | eBay

Two tough ones, courtesy of a seller in San Diego, and one step closer to the full set - though it's a loooong journey. This also means I now have a CGC-graded undercopy of Flash 286, if anyone's searching...

Gears of War, Valiant Nintendos and Warhammer have all done well for me lately.

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