Jaydogrules

I wouldn't be surprised if some people think they can buy on credit, relist and sell it to pay the debt off and keep some cash. Buying comics on margins...... -J.

Wow nice grab. -J.

Damn. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Superior-Carnage-1-B-1-25-Marco-Checchetto-variant-movie-HTF-1st-printing-/371821584069?hash=item56924b1ec5:g:wVIAAOSwA3dYVKNY -J.

....with a lot of garbage variants nobody wanted in the first place. If they are sought after people would have bought most by now. There might by 3-5 of a hot variant that they did not previously have accounted for. I agree, there's at least a chance that there are some in there that some customers (or possibly retailers) didn't buy some of them initially because they didn't want to pay above cover, but would consider at a reduced price. Or possibly that a book or creator has gotten hotter in the time since the book was initially released That is typically the case. I remember someone saying they got some of the Dell 'Otto Original Sin variants last time. None of the Dell'otto's were offered. Copies of the 1:25 of a couple of the other issues were though. The only two books of note that were offered in any of these that were worth anything were the Ramos variant to ASM 4 and the variant to Ultimate Fallout 4. -J.

There's no way that book has been sought after ever since it came out and extremely hard to come across in 9.8's. Yes it is easily and hands down the most sought after and expensive Batman variant in existence. For over a decade now.

That's what I saw as well. I'm gathering whatever remaining doesn't sell here is the sort of stuff that ends up in five below packs at the end of the line. -J.

These look like the same ones that were sold last summer. Mostly non-ratio based and/or low 1:10s that tempted few retailers. In other words, the same excess inventory, unordered drek that you always see in these things. -J.

Maybe higher? Iirc, an article mentioned Cover A still tends to get more orders when there are free to order variants. Either way it looks to be a fraction of Saga 1... -J.

Same thing happened with Saga 1 though. And look at that. Anybody know the print run on the Cover A, more or less ? -J.

Looks like that ultra high feedback bidder stopped at ~$250. Two other bidders got at it to the final hammer of $295. -J.

Wow. I thought it would have stalled out at about $225. Finished at $295. -J.

This book is definitely picking up some serious steam : http://www.ebay.com/itm/192055843745?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT -J.

I didn't. If I would have known about it beforehand, I would have. -J. Back up http://www.ebay.com/itm/351952687118?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Thanks man. Not quite as enthusiastic at over triple the price though. -J.

Sounds high. Last one sold a couple months ago for $4050. Of course there hasn't been another one offered since. More realistically, I would think $5k now, maaaaaybe $5500. The book has definitely picked up steam of late, along with many of the other "Top 5" on the list. -J.

Not a part of the Dirty Dozen because it's a reprint, but still, wow. Is it just me, or do a lot of the more established variants in general seem to be kicking it up a notch lately? -J.

*sigh* Bleedingcool... That variant sell off was from over seven months ago, last summer, and other than a couple of 1:10's, most of the books in the screen shot in the article aren't even ratio variants. -J.

Dude's art just looks so much better when the covers are virgin. That might very well apply to most any artist though.... -J.

Excellent haul congrats. Those ASM 688's are a tough 9.8. -J.

I know where over half of the 9.8's (and a handful of non-9.8 raw copies) live and all of the owners are well aware of what they have. And from the very few non slab, non 9.8 sales that we have seen, it's readily apparent that other sellers of this book also know what they have. It's sold for a mint and built momentum since virtually the day it was released. -J.

Private sale. -J. And this current sale? Was it EBay or private? Both times, started on ebay, sold private. -J. So no GPA again. And EBay is out their cut twice, while providing free advertising. Most comic sales are private. Last sale on GPA for the book is $4000 for a 9.6 seven months ago. Only 7 total sales of it on GPA. -J.

Private sale. -J. And this current sale? Was it EBay or private? Both times, started on ebay, sold private. -J.

Private sale. -J.

Yea, we know one person was willing to go to 9K, would anyone else have? Jerome If someone is willing to go to $9k, why not $10k? It would only take two kamikaze bids at the very end of an auction for it to happen. But we'll never know, because the seller opted for a fee-free sale (that would have been his net at a $10k auction hammer price anyway). Incidentally, this is now at least the third ~$8k+ price that's been paid for this book. This 9.8 copy (twice now), and another boardie did a trade for a slabbed 9.6 (FMV $4k) plus $4k cash for a very nice raw copy that was previously offered (raw) on ebay for $8k. The boardie subsequently sent it in for grading and was lucky enough to ace the other new 9.8 this past summer. It now sits firmly entrenched in his awesome registry. -J. I must have missed this. So the seller that just sold for $9k had $8k into the book himself ? He bought it for $7300 a couple of months ago . -J.

Yea, we know one person was willing to go to 9K, would anyone else have? Jerome If someone is willing to go to $9k, why not $10k? It would only take two kamikaze bids at the very end of an auction for it to happen. But we'll never know, because the seller opted for a fee-free sale (that would have been his net at a $10k auction hammer price anyway). Incidentally, this is now at least the third ~$8k+ price that's been paid for this book. This 9.8 copy (twice now), and another boardie did a trade for a slabbed 9.6 (FMV $4k) plus $4k cash for a very nice raw copy that was previously offered (raw) on ebay for $8k. The boardie subsequently sent it in for grading and was lucky enough to ace the other new 9.8 this past summer. It now sits firmly entrenched in his awesome registry. -J.

Or you just made at least a half dozen people more anxious for the next copy that may or may not roll around in another 3-4 years. Seriously though, the book's dearth of sales in 9.8 (around and otherwise) is obviously a reflection of its rarity. Look at Batman 608RRP for another example: there are 64, 9.8 slabs out there. Yet only 1-2 copies have come up for sale publicly going on four years now. There are 14, 9.8 slabs of ASM 667, with the last sale nearly four years ago, and only 7 total sales of any slab type in five and a half years. Most sales of all comics are done privately anyway , and I would be surprised if we ever saw a 9.8 copy of ASM 667 auctioned publicly for a very, very long time, if ever. Furthermore, the $2100sale of the raw VF copy a year and a half ago, and the 9.6 copy that sold for $4k seven months ago easily support your price. Hell, you might have still been too cheap. -J.