You just ensured I'll have to get my copy off from ebay.
-J.
Pre-sales are up at $40 but at least it's a 1:25 and not a 1:50 so I'll have a chance of finding one next week when I make my rounds. I can't see the bigger LCS's ordering less than 25 copies of a new #1.
I don't wanna start the usual "where's your proof of the print run??" BS concerning the Dell'Otto Avengers Assemble #10 1:50, but the Diamond numbers for it were just over 32,000. This seller says there's less than 600 of the variant. This one could be the next "white whale." Thoughts?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AVENGERS-ASSEMBLE-10-Variant-1-50-Gabrielle-DellOtto-Marvel-NEAR-MINT-RARE-/222045322902?hash=item33b2eebe96:g:SD0AAOSwh-1W3Kox
Avengers Assemble #10 is a 3+ year old book with exactly two copies on the census and one GPA sale. It is one of his rarest Marvel variants, and has disappeared from ebay. I would highly doubt that it had more than a two case print run (~450 copies). If someone wanted to track down all of his hardest to find variants with one of his best covers that would be on their short list. It's rarer than all of the Original Sins, and X -23 #1 and would probably give the ASM 667 and Winter Soldier #1 a run for their money.
-J.
On a side note as not sure if any one mentioned it in here but the avengers assemble #10 is actually a connecting cover with the cable - x force #3 just need to send my avengers 10 off and will have them hanging on my wall