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Print out checklist of all the figure updates (print). Lots of people did opt for signed figures, they came with a signed plaque and an extra club weapon. But I went unsigned, which was the cheapest option.

Yeah and it's all resealable too. Even the comic comes in its own holder in there. To be fair ... Toddfather did collect an additional $0.65-1.4M above and beyond the $3.4M to fulfill

My Kickstarter Spawn figs arrived today after a year!! I bought the regular and classic figs, unsigned, which was the cheapest way to participate. I got everything in the campaign except one club weapon and the B&W toy comic that came with the artist proof figure. Apologies for the photos, with all the clamshell within clamshell I cannot do it justice.

I'm rooting against this title and company. I don't like it. No sir. I think someday we'll mention Bad Idea in the same breath as DC's split with Diamond and 'rona as contributing factors in the burst bubble. Just like we talked about Marvel's bankruptcy and Valiant's sale to Acclaim.

The lady shared with me that the Mouse is doing an Aphra pride cover in June. It gives me hope that they will be true to the character upon adaption and not completely fudge it up or retcon her straight or whatever.

I liked #6 as 1st full appearance when I was reading the title but she also appears in #4 ... Part of the story but unnamed and masked. She also one of Aphra's lovers. Personally I'm more bullish on #6 vs #4 but the market may well disagree with me

Spawn #10 2nd print Dave Sim Kickstarter) Sketch blank

When this issue came out I was actively speccing on comics. And I missed the first print but I worked at a Kroger that carried newsstands. So 2-3 weeks later I could pick up the newsstand version or later printing newsies. At the time reprints and newsies were placeholders in the collection. I settled for them. In my other favorite genre or comics, underground comix, it was the same way. We assigned more value and desirability to the first printings. The original versions.

These days... all it takes is the right story/movie/tv show to catch a character on fire. Comic characters can play 'games' for 75+ years or more. In future cancel culture... you can be the best and brightest sports athlete on the planet, but you can also then get cancelled after your career (15-20yrs) and have the collectibles associated with your name devalued. But comics can keep playing games. Keep racking up those Ws.

This is the rule of 20 in action... New money card collectors entering the hobby and ignoring all the rules, just like 1990. That is his main point... new card money does not care about our old comic rules. They don't care that comic old guard worry over census population. They don't care that as the price of a common copper 9.8 increases, it will draw more books into the census. The census increases. They don't understand the census is not the equivalent of a population count in card collecting (he was using ~3.5K 9.8 copies in the census vs popcount of 6k for this card or 12k for that card). They think the census IS the print run. They think Deadpool has a rookie card. That said, I think the general premise... new money doesn't care about the old rules. There is something there.... and if one can tap into it, as many on here have (see also the Modern / Copper heating up threads) then they are staying ahead of the curve. What other rules does the new money not care about?

Bags unlimited has a few options. A flip too box and a smaller than normal Ultra shirt boxx. https://www.bagsunlimited.com/category/55/comic-storage-boxes

Yeah one year on the Comics Price Guide message boards we all bought micrometers and measured our Zap 2-4 covers. Moreso than most you can really feel the cover stock difference with #3. Make your comparisons versus typical modern stock and you should be pretty safe with this issue. I like to lie the book flat, open it up and kinda bounce the cover in my hand to gauge relative springyness.

This book has a Harvey Pekar story that predates American Splendor

First appearance of Fritz the Cat in this issue.

Spawn collectors call them barcode adjustment stickers and view these as variants of the newsstand release. I'm leaning toward a small bookstore vs BN, that makes sense to me. There is no doubt going to be a market for these. I once bought a barcode adjusted Spawn #64 for $2 and sold it for $182.

150+ instances in the last few days on eBay alone. Bad Idea better get to work! I have observed Comics Warehouse and Golden Apple sell them for cover... But $9-10 shipping per book.

Bad Idea deliberately ignored preorders or deliberately under printed and then they deliberately decided to supplement preorders with additional printings at the same time. They put tongue in cheek expectations on LCS in order to appear reader and fan friendly when in fact they are just trying to manufacture Pre-Unity Valiant hype. Hard pass.

Not modern and not comics but damn. First to market HG star wars is following the Marvel cards. In this case these are 1977 ad pac General Mills cereal promotions (down to just one set from about 6 in years past).

Welcome to comic collecting. Hopefully you stick around and let us know what you collect and what kind of comic characters or movies you like. It helps tailor answers to your request. Your question drew a lot of responses and we respond more if you gave us a little more information. I collected comics on and off for 22 years before I ever bought a book for more than $300. I remember how exciting it was. There is so much fun you could have in our hobby with $500, where do we start? It really is a competitive price point that spans all ages of comics from low grade gold and silver age books to high grade modern speculation books. Don't buy raw and spend the time and money to submit one book. There are too many pitfalls for you as a noob and we have whole threads dedicated to these. Whole forums (e.g. restoration). The right book, right grade can be bought with the slabbing fees already taken into account. In some cases you can buy a slabbed book for cheaper than it would be for you to send it in. Having it already slabbed helps with resale. Buy from one of our guys or from one of us. Like High Grade Comics. https://www.highgradecomics.com/. This will also help reduce risk. Buy a first appearance of a character or a Classic cover only. You're not really a comic guy and you're not displaying it so it has to be cool to look at or a first appearance of a character people will know. Otherwise what are you going to talk about if people ask? Display your sweet comic in some type of UV protective CGC frame. They are about $30.

I'm kinda planning to sell two and hold two. Sell all the reprints except the 4th. Hold it.

Bad idea ... One per person... NOT! 0.5 per person or less No variants ... NOT! Now we have Not 1st print variants You will get the same number of #6s as you did #1s... NOT! Your #1s were allocated but we'll hold you to that higher order for the rest of the series

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