GeeksAreMyPeeps

I heard there's going to be a Micronauts movie.

Understood. Agreed as well on your opinion of the run. That was good stuff.

There are a bunch of first appearances in the run prior to Morrison taking over. Whether any of those characters show up in the show is a different question though.

Probably. Marvel's Infinity from a few years ago (1st Corvus Glave) sells as well, but not at these prices.

No one can legitimately claim a raw book is going to grade 9.9-10, even if it looks flawless

The funny thing is that, from what I remember from when you posted a pic of your 10.0 (maybe over on the Valiant boards?), the wrap looked a little off to me. So it's entirely possible, were a person to be able to examine your book alongside one of their 9.8s (I have 4 OO copies that came back 9.8), they might find they prefer their own copy. That, of course, would not make a bit of difference were you to sell it, as it would likely fetch close to 5 figures, if a 9.9 is going for over 2K now

That's a hell of an investment

Out of curiosity, what did your 10 cost you?

Book looks like Black Lightning threw it through the window with the pusher

That is additional relevant information.

17-year old me would have probably considered that valuable then. With cover prices at $1 then, that would be the equivalent of a $36 book today.

The key obstacle that I see with most books not published by the big 2 (and even some that *are* published by them) is longevity. Marvel and DC's big characters are going to be around for a long time in some form. Lesser-known characters that get a tv or movie boost have a better chance of sticking around a shared universe, I think. When you consider a book like Deadly Class, the creative team has a story to tell, they'll tell it, it will end, and eventually followers will die out. The Walking Dead may be the exception now, but I think the same will happen there. Eventually the tv show will end, and eventually the comic will end, and it's not something that is going to lend itself to being endlessly rebooted even if Kirkman were to sell it to someone else when he's done with it.

I did mention it in the discussion over the past few days. If I'm in the market for a book, one of the factors in deciding what I'm willing to pay for it is the number out there potentially for sale.

I laid everything out in previous comments. Try reading them

I'm a collector first. I tend to not speculate on books that might be expensive to start with, which incentives tend to be.

More information would be better, yes. But some information is better than none

The way copies are initially distributed is most definitely a piece of information relevant to the number I am trying to find.

By definition, some guess is going to be the *best* guess based on the information available. It may be inaccurate, but it's better than pulling a number out of a hat. And if you read my earlier comments you'd see that I made no claims about print runs.

The funny part here is I'm making no claims about print runs.

If I'm in the market for a book, I want the best information available to determine what I'm willing to pay for it. How many might be available is a factor in that determination.

Maybe try reading everything I wrote rather than selectively responding to a single line of it. Because some of what you mention was directly addressed. One thing I do want to address though; if a retailer is big enough to order 500 copies of a book, I would think it's possible they're going to have at least 2 customers in the bunch that are willing to pony up for high-end variants that would make it worth their while to up the order to qualify for another. Either way, I point out in the one comment you chose to address that it's a starting point. Apply a little critical reasoning and you can adjust the estimate. Pay attention to chatter about giveaways and you can adjust it again. The point is arriving at a *best* guess.

Yeah, I get it. I thought laying out all of disclaimers ahead of time might help avoid this, but I was mistaken.

Explain to me why you think it's fair to criticize my use of "huge" or "flooding" when you're using "bunch" to back up your claim. Note that you made your claim before mine. And you're trying to substantiate your claim that "thousands" of books were available in the variant dump by making another unsubstantiated claim, that the books were produced in the thousands?

My answer was a perfectly reasonable answer. But I guess not accepting it is a good way to not have to back up your own claim.