Rickyrudd-migration

How are you defining flippers? Anyone willing to sell the book? Anyone who bought the book in hopes of it increasing in value for future sales? Considering the number of dealers on here I'm sure there are 50 "investment " copies in people's boxes... At the right price virtually anyone will sell almost any book. I consider someone who buys a book with the hope of getting a better return on that investment within a year, a flipper. More than a year would be considered an investor, and for one's own personal collection, would be a collector.

I believe that of the 1400 copies out there, at least 500 of them are owned by flippers, you can see it on ebay and there are always copies on the big auction sites. I bet on here, just on the boards, we can find 50 copies that are just for flipping. Anyone want to take that bet?

As opposed to when? The 80's X-men run by Claremont and Daredevil run by Miller is up there - I don't recall seeing 5 variant covers, embossed, poly bagged issues during that time. There has never been a time in the history of the company when a good product was more important than a punctual product. At least not in continuity. Quality of writing trumps style back in the day. Readers were more into substance. As I've said earlier, "they were in MORE for the money" during the 90's. Marvel tried making money by pandering to insufficiently_thoughtful_persons. Every company's goal is to keep shareholders happy. Everybody knows this. They were making money without the cheesy gimmicks - they just got greedier in the 90's because the market allowed it (speculators). I could be wrong, but wasn't it DC who started the 90's debacle. With 5 different covers for Robin 1, that was followed by Marvel and bagging X-Force 1 with 5 different cards, then X-Men 1 had 5 covers, then foil covers, then Bloodshot 1 had Chromium and Marvel went nuts with Chromium, and so on and so forth, and somehow we ended up with X-Statix, and Doop. Wow, I just had a horrible flashback.

Fixed that for ya I agree with that perfectly. I just never read much Deathstroke, It's just that Deadpool has Wovie's healing ability, Punisher's guns and Spidey's mouth. Most of the books of his that come out are as bad a Doop, IMO, not much story, just humor, and if you like that, then go at it.

I tend to agree that more flippers own this book than real collectors, and the bubble will burst and down will come flippers, wallet and all.

I can do such a thing, it's still 6 days until Memorial day, perhaps a nice United States flag waving in the distance. Maybe the words to Hulk Hogan's entrance theme. Also, Deadpool is Canadian. Are you cool with that? NO! Next you will tell me that Wolverine is Canadian, or that Peter Rasputin is a Russian.

I can do such a thing, it's still 6 days until Memorial day, perhaps a nice United States flag waving in the distance.

According to the census. I guess I am the only person without one, and I just don't get it, Deadpool has always came across to me as a combination of Wolverine, The Punisher and Spider-Man. I sure don't understand how the price has maintained around 400 dollars or so for as long as it has, but that is one of the joys of this hobby, you can never figure it out, when you think you have it, it proves you wrong. I do find it distressing that some of the books I would like a 9.8 copy of are very few and far between, Captain America 217 is one of those, with only 5 copies out there, if and when Quasar makes his big screen debut those 5 will be going for thousands, then the dust will die down and they will be worth a nickel again. Do you think the market is going to make a correction on graded books in the near future or am I going to have to pay around 400 bucks for a first Deadpool if I want one in the next couple of years?