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Absolutely there would be newsstand editions ending up in the back stock of comic shops, probably through the purchase of collections. But these are books which were purchased new.

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True. The interesting thing (I think) about the Hulk books I posted is that it perfectly illustrated why the Hulk was changed from gray to green in the '60s. Because grays generally entails printing with multiple separations, it's very difficult to ensure consistency in the color in a large print run.

It's been creeping up for a while. I snagged a couple 9.8s for about $100 a piece a few years ago. Knew that would pay off reasonably quickly

Kids today will never understand what it was like to find porn magazines in the woods.

I don't think AOL ever used the large floppies. I used them to save games for the Commodore 64

It doesn't hurt that it's all Starlin, as well.

Some of us had to do that with floppies

Well, he could always be a villain that Spidey takes down before the opening credits. Just not the big bad.

And now I'm happy that I didn't yet re-list my Marvel Age lot that includes that, and the issue with Sleepwalker

At the same time, there are a lot of valiant collectors that like to have at least one of everything (perhaps because it is manageable, much moreso than Marvel or DC), so errors like these might fetch a little more. There's a Valiant Buy/Sell/Trade group on Facebook if you don't want them

They're not errors or variants. They're the result of print *variations* in the four-color printing process. There's no reason for them to be labeled differently.

Okay, argument time: if they're releasing all of the issues at the same time, are they all legitimately first appearances of characters that appear in multiple issues?

If Warner Brothers is smart, they'll build towards a Cosmic Odyssey movie the way Marvel did Infinity Gauntlet. Put all the players on the table first and then have a big crossover.

That's the way things have worked in this thread pretty much since it began. Between book catching fire, topic seems to go in all sorts of directions.

Your temper. I use these: https://www.geminicomicsupply.com/product/comic-flash-mailers-set/ They're pretty cheap, and I haven't heard any negative feedback about them yet, but they are a little less sturdy that some other cardboard mailers I've received from purchases.

And some of them do eventually rise in value. I sold a few Gotham by Gaslight this year. Now just need Longbow Hunters to take off.

Cry For Dawn makes sense. But G.I. Joe 155; other than having a low print run, is there anything key about it? There are plenty of last issues with low print runs

Is Marvel Age 41 hot simply because of the Stan Lee cover? If so, I wonder why we don't see similar action for Marvel Vision 4.

Silver Surfer 44, Thanos Quest, or Infinity Gauntlet 1 might need some consideration for the next year. If we're including 1992, Eternal Warrior #1 & Rai #0 should be considered, now that the Bloodshot movie is in production. Who gets the boot? I would say Transformers #1 or Suicide Squad #1 can go.

What are the chances that some Newsstand Editions would have been distributed to comic stores in the early '90s? I ask because I'm going through a bunch of my comics now to list on eBay, and I'm finding that there are a few issues in runs that I have multiple issues of (like, I have 3 copies of every issue) that are newsstands. That is, I have 3 direct editions of a number of issues, but one book in the middle of the run I have only newsstands of. I did hit some 7-11s and stationery stores when I started collecting in 1987 and over the next couple of years, but by 1991 I was pretty much only buying books from comic stores. If I happened upon another non-comic store venue that sold comics, I might buy them, but then, I should have direct edtions *in addition* to the newsstand versions, but I don't. They're pretty much random issues (Hulk 397, Marvel Comics Presents 97, Spirits of Vengeance 9, etc.) so it's not like they would have sold out at comic stores. I know there are some books in this period (Moon Knight, Doctor Starnge) that had barcodes on the Direct versions as well as the newsstands, but these books I'm finding seem to have versions without barcodes. Could it be that some stores had orders filled with Newsstand versions by accident? Or deliberately, if direct versions weren't printed in sufficient quantity?

I started collecting comics after the release of Batman: The Dark Knight, but before The Cult. I remember at the time thinking that another Batman book published in this prestigious format was certain to be the next book to skyrocket in value. It wasn't, of course (I was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person teenager who didn't know a ton about collecting then), but I imagine there are many people still collecting now that may have been at a similar age at the time, and perhaps thought the same. That in itself might lend a little bit of notoriety to the book; the idea that it would eventually be valuable.

True. but then, there are plenty of people that simply like selling a book at a profit, even if it's offset by losses. There is definitely an enjoyment factor in the speculation game for some. Perhaps many. Otherwise, people wouldn't spend the time to hunt through bargain bins at conventions for that missed book.

It took me a while to get a system in place to save time for cheap lots, but I managed it. Even with packages under a pound, you can often ship priority for the same price as parcel select with the ebay shipping discount

I have a bunch of Priority boxes on hand too, but most of my sales are only a few books, and shipping is cheaper with the small shippers