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Very happy to obtain the cover to my (2nd) favorite Marvel Book at ECCC. Moon Knight # 191 by Jacen Burrows. Also was able to Have Donny Cates sign a page from my #1 favorite Marvel book - my Cosmic Ghost Rider page form Thanos 13. Thanos # 13 , page 13 by Geoff Shaw. Intro of Cosmic Ghost rider. Also picked up a Batman who laughs from Mirka Andolfo of Teen Titans 12 fame. Pretty good ECCC weekend IMO Cheers!

IMO Marvels pulling a fast one. Red Goblin will not be Norman Osborn. My money is on Liz, or Ned who just came back in the annual.... Just my

Yeash. Hoping to have Dell'Otto ink/paint my 2008 Emma Frost in Diamond Form pencils piece someday. Seems I may be waiting a while (If ever!) Cheers!

I was more concerned with this guy, who claims he marks his books with a pen or sharpie, in a "secret spot" that cgc never catches, so he knows he gets his books back, not swapped out for a different book. claims he gets 9.8 every time, and they never catch his re-marking. This dude is ridiculous.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ComicBookCollecting/permalink/1638703966195661/ One guy even says he intentional marks his books sent to CGC to make sure they don't swap them out, and they never catch him writing on his books..... Pretty serious allegations... Thoughts?

New avengers 10 is 1st cameo appearance of Thane, on one page, pre-transformation. Boring. Infinity #4 is 1st full appearance. Whoops, typo. Thanks for the correction

SAGA! Cheers!

I went through my speculation box's this weekend , and below is a list of sleeper 1st appearances I have collected over time. OPINION? Future Potential, pure garbage, or never heard of them? Cheers! Amazing Fantasy vol2 # 10 1st Nina Price - Vampire by night Aquaman # 7 1st The Others Infinity # 4 1st full Thane Infinity #6 variant 1st Thane Cover New Avengers # 4 1st Maria Hill Mighty Avengers # 4 1st Quickfire Ultron Forever #1 1st Danielle Cage FCBD Civil War II / Avengers #9 1st Nadia Pym New Wasp New Avengers #9 1st American Kaiju Avengers Academy # 21 1st White Tiger Ava Ayala Batman #1 (rebirth) 1st Gotham Girl Batman # 21 Duke Thomas Detective #647 1st Stephanie Brown Detective # 608 1st Anarky Infinite Crisis # 5 1st Jamie Reyes Blue Beetle 52 week 11 - 1st Kane Batwoman Battle Scars #1 1st Nick Fury Jr Captain America 208/209 1st Armin Zola Captain America 3 1st new Falcon Joaquin Torres Drax #1 (2005) 1st Modern Drax Dragons claw # 5 1st deaths head (non-uk mag) FF Annual # 6 1st Franklin Richards 1st Annihilus (still way cheap IMO , have a small stack o copies stashed away ) Green Lantern # 201 1st Kilowog Green Lantern # 0 1st Simon Baz Justice League # 31 1st full Jessica cruz Totally Awesome Hulk #1 1st Cho as Hulk Totally Awesome Hulk # 3 1st Kid Kaiju all new Invaders # 6 1st Radiance Harbinger # 10 1st HARD Corps Iron Man # 7 1st RiRi Williams Inhuman # 4 1st Reader and Iso Inhuman # 7 1st NUR and Auran All-new Inhumans #1 1st Captain Swain Marvel Point One # 1 1st Sam Alexander Nova Marvel Tails # 1 1st Peter Porker Spider-ham Next wave Agents of hate #1 1st Modern (red hair) Elsa Bloodstone New Warriors # 4 (2005) 1st Debrii Secret Warriors # 7 1st Manifold Sentry # 1 Shadowland Power Man #1 1st Victor Alvarez Powerman Shadowman # 13 1st Punk Mambo Silver Surfer # 73 1st Modern Nebula Stormwatch #37 1st jenny sparks, Hawksmoor, etc Supreme Power # 4 1st Modern Nighthawk Sub Mariner # 50 1st Namorita Amazing Spider-man # 565 1st Anna Kravinoff FCBD 2007 spider-man 1st Mr Negative Spider-man Re-new your vows #1 1st Annie May Parker Spider-man Deadpool # 8/9 1st Itsy Bitsy Lois Clark 1 /8 1st full Jonathan Kent Teen Titans # 26 1st Terra Teen titans (2003)# 8/9/10 1st Rose Wilson as Ravager Venom 38/39/40 1st Mania Valiant War Mother #1 1st War Mother Wildcats # 21 1st Ladytron Uncanny x-men 317 / generation x # 40 1st "M" Monet St Croix x-men 65/66 1st Cecilia Reyes New X-men # 134 1st Quentin Quire Cheers!

Was happy to find this beauty, in a $1 box bagged and boarded, on a recent trip to Southern Oregon. Cheers!

Darkseid War Special # 1 for Grail's Origin. I was able to obtain the (almost) complete story (Pages 7-15, they were missing page 8, ) at ECCC from Paul Pelletier and Tony Kordos. That Darkseid Page If anyone knows where that page 8 is, help me get the family back together. Cheers!

VERY happy to pick up this Emma Frost bursting into diamond form on the morning of FCBD. Have been looking to add a Dell'Otto to the OA collection for years now, and never expected this to fall in my lap as it did. Sorry for the sorta-fuzzy scan, does not do it justice. His shading and line work is top notch, and this was done almost a decade ago now. Cheers!

Three main shops in my area got two silvers and one gold. May be different elsewhere. Cheers!

WTTB (Welcome to the Boards.) It's the 3rd print. Cheers!

Only a 9.8 could make it any better.

Jezz, you post some of the books you have been hunting and then... Thanks Aweandlorder I believe I have said this before, but... I collect and enjoy comics in three ways overall: 1) I read books. Alot. 2) Second and foremost, I collect original art. Rule of 2 with the wife: only one, we keep it (art, yellow label ss/sketch). More than one copy? sell it and search for the other one (comics). Thanks to this rule, I own some OA that i have no business owning at that price... 3) In between, I play the market and make small investments on 1st appearances and under appreciated variants IMO. This stems from my old high school days collecting sports cards (ugh, I know, it was a sickness) some of that small time investments in undervalued rookies and up and coming stars carried over to my comic collecting. Difference is Spider-man isn't real, and wont go shoot up a club and destroy any value or career. Slabs are just big baseball cards anyway right? (sorry, had to go there...) I look for characters that are up and coming that I enjoy, and believe others will as well, and that are also being pushed by the publisher. I literally look forward to combing through previews to see what characters are being pushed by Marvel and DC on that publisher level. They cant force you to like anything, but if they are trying, then i'm buying. (looking at you Moon Girl, not my favorite, but Marvel loves her, so I rode the train, and those 23 copies I bought of issue 1 variant last year for under $10 bucks look really nice now ). For variants, I look for underappreciated awesome covers or artists I like, that may have been looked over on a wednesday, or even years ago, due to timing, or another "$100 out the gate on wednesday variant". love those Wednesdays, as everyone is chasing some Adi Granov Elektra 1 variant, and I'm picking multiple copies on the cheap of Checchetto and Torque variants ( yes, my two favorite under appreciated cover artists right now). Heck, Arthur Adams is hot again and has moved into what seems to be exclusive cover work, lots of under the radar variants/covers that are just as good as ones of Wanda, Emma, and Majik. Take a look, that Doom FF variant from about six years ago is great. Only one VF on the bay if your interested.... I also ALWAYS put my $$$ where my mouth is. When i post here, I do not hide the fact that these are books i have ALREADY been buying stacks of for myself. Now that I got mine, I'm looking if anyone else feels the same. I already have spent the $$ and have 5-10 high grade copies of all the variants I already posted this round. All for under $10 give or take. Its what this thread is for, right? Its not that much $$ either, as all it takes is one of the twenty characters i like to blow up, pays for all the other 19 straight up and more! When Fantomex hit before Uncanny dropped like 6 years ago i was well over 100 copies before it even hit $10. Made enough on that move to fund the next few years of speculation. You can go back through and see my 1st app picks in this thread previously. when I post in this thread in the past about new character like Blue Marvel, Fantomex, America Chavez, I am already on the train and its cool when people also agree and they become hot as predicted. If not, whatever, I bought them cuz i like them. I win far more than lose. If you guys wanna help a brother out, my short box of Marvel Boy and Quinten Quire are ready when you are... Cheers, and happy hunting.

Those were not signed by four legends...

C2E2 metal preview signed x 4

My top ten variant (and two regular) covers that are WAY undervalued IMO, that I have been buying: Captain America RTW Mattina variant FF #1 Adams variant All-new Wolverine 13 Adams Variant Hulk 2 torque variant Punisher War zone 1 Checchetto 2nd print variant Squirrel Girl #6 Shirahara variant Uncanny Inhumans #0 Opena Variant Death of New Gods 1 Sook Darkseid variant. JH Batwoman 24 sketch Variant. Batman getting socked by Kane Batman and Robin 23 JH Jason Todd variant. BONUS: FAVORITE CHEAP NON VARIANT COVERS : Young Avengers 3 America Chavez cover Birds of Prey 8 Artgerm cover Happy Collecting, Cheers!

Tec #850 is the beginning story to GCS and leads into GCS #1. They have teamed up prior to TEC #850. This book came out the same month as Catwoman #89 (according to wikia). All front and center...but not a GCS story. I don't care what is finally decided, but Harley Quinn 3 for the win IMO! HQ3 and GCS1. Those two covers together .?.....good enough for me.

Is the self-published sketch book slowly creeping up to be the seven to enternity version of the "Saga RRP"? http://m.ebay.com/itm/Jerome-Opena-Limited-Ed-Sketchbook-NYCC-2016-Seven-To-Eternity-Signed-OPENA-/291992571428?hash=item43fc1d0e24%3Ag%3ALQ0AAOSw8gVX%7EW8i&_trkparms=pageci%253A03ca63c9-da6b-11e6-b5c7-74dbd18056de%257Cparentrq%253A9d83e5f81590a605d6da2fc2ffbea2fd%257Ciid%253A1 http://m.ebay.com/itm/JEROME-OPENA-SKETCHBOOK-SEVEN-TO-ETERNITY-2017-CGC-9-8-NYCC-EXCLUSIVE-1A-/332091259223?hash=item4d522e7957%3Ag%3AxrsAAOSwImRYeRGf&_trkparms=pageci%253A6f14aaed-da6b-11e6-9c60-74dbd1e05f28%257Cparentrq%253A9d86a5191590a624b7fd3bdfffbf776d%257Ciid%253A1 Last raw sale double the previous...only a 9.8 available on the ebizzle asking $499.00

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2017/01/08/marvel-sell-thousand-variant-covers-retailers-knock-prices/ Anyone with a full list wanna share?