GeeksAreMyPeeps

There's not an argument to be made that it is the first Domino. Regardless of your opinion on whether the concept of the character counts as a first appearance, the first appearance is still either New Mutants 98 or X-Force 8

I think because it's Liefeld, and I get the sense that he liked the idea of establishing that there is a big pre-history to the character, and he did that by indicating that it is volume 2, rather than actually having to write a back story.

I have a 32 that I was going to put on ebay; haven't checked the condition yet. Just checked the special and it's not a 9.8 anyway.

Does it have to be the 32, or is Quasar Special 1 an option as well?

You ever start this? While going through some books to list, it seemed to me that a bunch of Marc Spector: Moon Knight issues might fall into this category. When that came out, I was rarely buying from newsstands, yet a bunch of my issues have barcodes.

I know, it's eye rhyme, but I think it works

Should have gone archaic with "dost"

The Batawang is no longer the only topic of discussion

This is pretty much it. Or perhaps "without changing the value." For an insignificant book, a knock down from, say a 5.5 to a 5.0 may make no difference in the value.

Well, you may be inviting mods to delete some posts.

Lower print run, but also much less going for it than Venom. But error like this will always find buyers. Mostly depends on how many eyes it gets, so value will vary. The unverified sig is also a wild card here.

This is a probably a long shot, but does anyone remember Neck: the Magazine for People with Necks? I recall it being a fanzine of sorts printed BW on newsprint. Maybe got it as a freebie at a con? Maybe only in the northeast? Don't remember much about it, other than that my teenage self thought it was funny. I think it was a combination of comics and prose.

Because you had to buy two if you wanted to keep one unopened and also read it.

I love this market. I've got 11 copies that I bought new when I was young and stupid in regards to comic collecting for investment. It's nice that some of those books are finally worth something

Ignoring for the moment that there tends to be a dropoff in sales after number one, I imagine there are a lot of people who believe they will still be able to snag a copy of the first issue on the aftermarket, if they're the type of buyers that buy to collect. If they're buying just to read, it's usually cheaper to trade-wait anyway

But then are 2000s comics just the first decade, or anything after 1999?

It's interesting that so many people value Batman's peen that much

Yes, I can read Wikipedia as well. But what you posted has to be broken down properly. "Author" means the the creator (i.e. owner) of the original work, if it's not a work for hire, which all work for Marvel and DC is. In this sense, it's referring to a screenplay as an original screenplay not based on source material (those exist, which is why there are separate Oscars for original screenplay and adapted screenplay). In short, an option is the exclusive rights to develop a movie based on source material. Unless Marvel and DC is making a movie for which there is no source material, creating wholly original works to incorporate into their cinematic universes, they already own the rights. And if they *are* doing that (seems unlikely, since they already have a lot of stuff to work with), then there are no comics to be purchased from others for stuff that's been optioned

There is no "big 2 that get optioned." They're both corporations that already own the rights to their characters. (With some exceptions that won't be resolved through options)

IIRC, Marvel was publishing one annual per week during the summer for a few years in a row back then (first with the full-line crossovers – Evolutionary War and Atlantis Attacks – and then with family crossovers), so to wait on publishing the X-Men Annual would have screwed up the rest of the summer's annual releases. I imagine the story was written with the idea that it would be published after 266, but the schedule didn't work that way. So yeah, the Annual came first, but since no one knew who Gambit was his role was minuscule in the story, which is probably why it's referred to as a cameo, even if he is on multiple pages.

There were several Valiant first issues (A&A: The Adventures of Archer & Armstrong; and Harbinger: Renegade) that had second prints released the same day. I imagine that these were planned all along, to get another "variant" out there

If we're going by "initial demand for the original," then New Mutants 87 2nd should only be considered a reprint as well.

Understood that they're all reprints. It was identifying as a 2nd, 3rd, etc. that gets hazy. Hulk 377 3rd falls into this category too, I'd say.

Like so many other things in this hobby, there are probably books that fall into a little bit of a gray area with this. For example, the reprints of Action Comics in the late '80s are pretty clearly reprints, as it onyl reprinted the Superman story. I'd say the same of the Marvel Milestone series, especially since the price was a lot more. The Chromium Amazing Spider-man 300? Probably a reprint, since a pretty significant time had passed, and the production of the cover was different. But what about New Mutants 87? Cover price is different (because about a year had passed between first and second print) and an additional gold ink was used. But it still feels like a second print. But then those differences also occur on the Amazing Spider-man 101 & 265 books from around the same time, but they feel more like reprints than second prints. I think this is one of those areas where collecting is more of an art form than a science.

The market doesn't decide what the first appearance is. The market decides what is more desirable by voting with dollars.