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On it's debut, it sold between $80-$100. So $232.50 isn't reasonably insane. What's insane is why people want that ugly cover in the first place..... is it a dell otto? Blasphemy!

Ha-che ma-che All-New Inhumans #5 1:100 Hip-Hop Variant $232.50

Looks like shill bidding. I don't see any. The 30-day summary has really cut down on being able to verify shills.

What happens in Man Thing 3? First Foolkiller. Grrrrr. Was just about to list one of my Man Thing 3s, and discovered it was missing the Marvel Value Stamp. Don't sweat it. It's not the same Foolkiller anyway Maybe, but some people will look for the first appearance of the first iteration of a character. At least I know that I didn't spend more than a few bucks on any of my copies That is a crapshoot with certain characters and could do either way and while FK 1's origin story was a Steve Gerber gem, he was only in 2 issues. FK 2 has a longer body of work and I'd think that people buying a 1st appearance because of the Deadpool series would want the FK who is in the series. But that could just be me The biggest example I can give is GOTG. Marvel Super-Heroes #18 took off in price and that iteration of GOTG had nothing to do with the characters in the movie. Different time, different characters, etc. The only thing in common was the name of the group, Guardians of the Galaxy. Agreed, the first appearance of the cinematic or modern GOTG is in Annihilation: Conquest #6. Same thing with Groot's appearance in the TTA - he was just a big dumb tree-monster back when Kirby and Lee were churning out monster books. Maybe it's a prototype? Same with his second appearance in Hulk Annual #5. His first modern appearance as the hero he is known as today is in Annihilation: Conquest - Starlord #1. All of these books are relatively cheap compared to their unrelated Silver Age counter parts. Yes, there are plenty of collectors that can't afford hundreds of dollars for a single issue. They look for the modern counterpart. Even more recently, look at El Diablo. There are about four incarnations of him, but the latest mini and the character in the Suicide Squad movie, Chato Santana, seems to be more sought after than the original.

There are a lot of people that want the statistical data over years, not just the past three months.

People started paying attention to Valiant again when the movie news happened. That's when all the pre-unity stuff started to move towards their 90's prices.

Looks like Nathan Fillion is going to play Wonder Man Simon Williams in GoTG2. Fixed that for you.

Don't worry, the check is in the mail.

I would assume Batman 608 RRP would fall under that same category, but it doesn't have a UPC and it looks like it was released the same month.

Every variant that's in the new shipment of Five Below combo packs New shipment

The latest Captain America #7 Venom Variant listing finished quite a bit higher than previous sales. Recent All

It was 3 "go's", isn't that when you clean house?

Bleck, Amanda Conner art.

what?? For what's it's worth, I think you provide a lot of knowledge to these boards and are an asset. But what you did is the exact definition of a "pump and dump". You made a thread specifically about the issue when there is already a BEK thread. Then pointed out how the sales were doing of the specific book and then sold some. Let's put the "situation" under different circumstances. Let's just say it was, oh...I don't know, maybe Preacher instead of BEK. Would that be an attempted "pump and dump" then?

It's the first "variant". The regular cover is denoted with a '1'.

I understand that is when it was distributed but was it actually run off as and intended to be a "third print", or was it printed along with the first print and held back until and then distributed at the summit? -J. If they are following the barcode format it's a second variant of the third printing: 00111 March - First Print 00112 March - Second Print 00113 April - Third Print 00123 April - Diamond Retailer Summit Variant (third print, second variant) Good thinking. It's a 3rd print variant from the UPC. RRP UPC reads "00123", correct? 1st issue, 2nd cover variation, 3rd print 3rd Print, Regular Cover UPC reads "00113" 1st issue, 1st cover, 3rd print

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Great book and looking forward to issue #2 but tell your friend to lower his prices. Raping buyers on a new unheard of (by most) series won't gain him many return customers but..... but.... but.... there's only 150 of these sssshhhh.....the pump and dump is in full effect.

It outsold all but the top 44 comics in March 2016. Seems high to me. Not for a Marvel

Agreed, but the OP stated it must be 3 years old.

Sold a book. Nice smooth transaction and paid promptly. Would recommend!

Now that is a good post.

That was short lived.

"Manufactured collectible" is a term that describes something made on purpose to sell for more money than usual, to declare itself a "collector's item", or to be a (ratio) incentive to generate more orders. Newsstand books didn't do any of those things. Sure, that makes sense. But that's your definition. Personally I don't like the term, was just joking around. Everything is manufactured and everything is collectible to someone, so it has no real meaning. It's not just my definition. "The terms special edition, limited edition and variants such as deluxe edition and collectors edition fall under the category of manufactured collectibles, since they are used as marketing incentives for various kinds of products" -link (not my site) No, it's not just yours. I see it thrown around on here from time to time. Actually, if you search for that term, CGC comes up pretty often in the early results. Couldn't that be said for all comics? Or are you saying that variants are not meant to be read? Why introduce new characters, that become "keys", aren't there enough already to just make good stories around? Obviously I'm being but there is a speck of truth in that.

I think there will probably be a few more years before the 1995+ newsstands regularly sell for double the direct editions, even if that's $4 vs. $2. I'm not sure we'll ever see 35cent price variant levels of difference, even for key issues. The one newsstand I've been following for 10+ years is Amazing Spider-man #300 UPC vs. direct. There's only a slight premium for UPC (20% or so), even though there are about 20 direct for every 1 UPC high grade slab. If a 2000% ratio only creates a 20% premium in the price... it either isn't understood yet (the education question)... or it won't ever matter much (the indifference question). Throw in the Canadian question and it's all unknowns... though I think most would agree that USA comics intended for USA markets are generally their own kind of animal without adding the various foreign aspects. Don't the late 90's Spideys do well in Newstand? A ratio variant is the same comic, just with a different cover, and only on the front.