GeeksAreMyPeeps

Don't be a pedant. You know what I mean.

Part of the problem is that HOS 92 is more of a prototype. In the long run, I expect that demand will be balanced between HOS and Swamp Thing 1

To answer the question posed in the topic, no.

I put up my CGC 9.4 double cover of Avengers 294 at $100 and it hasn't sold yet. Had I believe an offer of 50 and 70 or 80? Maybe more covers makes it more desirable and therefore worth more? I guess the question is, how badly do you need the money? If you don't need to sell it soon, then start it off at a high minimum bid. It may not sell for the first few auctions, but I imagine that eventually you'll attract some watchers. If that happens, maybe lower the minimum and you'll get some action? Or change it to a BIN and allow offers? With something like this that has a niche collecting pool, I wouldn't start it at $.99, because if enough multi-cover collectors don't see it, it may go really cheap.

Do the Brood still appear in Marvel comics? If so, I wonder if we'll see a subtle shift that explains that they're the xenomorphs from Aliens. Not sure if it was ever explicitly confirmed, but they always seemed to be an Aliens ripoff.

Hulk 180 *is* the first appearance of Wolverine

Bloodshot, not Rai, has a movie coming. While the two characters are linked in the original Valiant universe, there's quite a difference between them. Still, a successful Bloodshot movie might help Valiant books in general since their readership is much lower than the big two, and the early Rai books have relatively low print numbers for the time.

That generally leaves a stain which will make it grade far less than 9.8

The common wisdom is "buy on the rumor, sell on the news." Generally a good play is to sell when the first trailer hits (which, granted, is usually well after the news). Makes sense, because then there's something tangible to get people excited, and trailers are designed to make a movie look as good as possible, even if it turns out to be . The only movie that comes to mind where this wasn't the best policy was Black Panther, as that movie was so good that a lot of people were looking for books after the movie was released. But generally you want to sell before.

It (and any other book) is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Check ebay results to get an indication of that. If there are no recent ebay results, then at best you can guess based on older results. It's not like a stock where a company can be valued.

Since the price is the same as the 50th anniversary one, this is probably Copper; try posting there

Not entirely accurate about what happened. The early Valiants were well done and had fairly low print runs for the time. The high quality combined with low availability (especially pre-Internet) led to high prices. Once it became generally perceived that buying Valiant books was going to be like printing money, the sales skyrocketed. While the quality maybe fell off a bit for some books (certainly they weren't as bad as the much later Valiant books that had low print runs), the cause of the crash was that there were just far too many books out there and too many people buying multiples of them, for there to be anyone to sell the books to at a profit. When people realized *that,* that's when things crashed. The quality wasn't all that relevant.

1956. DC's Silver Age was basically a reboot of the characters that they weren't still publishing, which is why we got "new" versions of the Flash, Green Lantern, etc.

Claremont, Byrne, whatever. The point is still the same. Someone has to do something interesting with the character for anyone to care. If GS X-Men wasn't a forced attempt to create an international team, I wonder if anything interesting would have been done with Wolverine

There were discussions about a television series earlier this year as well. At the very least, some people in power at DC recognize some future potential here.

Are you disagreeing with the "only" portion, or the "meaningful" portion? Hitman had a solo series that lasted 5 years and was somewhat popular during that run. And the run has been reprinted in trades. I'm not suggesting he's an A-lister. My point was that he was the apex of importance that same out of that summer's annuals.

The same thing happened in 1993. Both Marvel and DC's annuals that year featured a new character in every book. (Laughably, Marvel promoted their characters as characters that were built to last, unlike Squirrel Girl.) The only meaningful creation to come out of those books was Hitman, but a few characters had minis or short-lived series, or appeared briefly as regulars in team books. The bottom line is that you need a writer to craft stories that make you *care* about new characters. I question whether Deadpool would become what he became if it wasn't for Joe Kelly's work. Or Wolverine, if it wasn't for Claremont, etc.

The 25th Anniversary issue of New Mutants is one of my favorite stand alone comic issues. Great story!

What do you mean by CGC recognizing them?

Only the black cover used silver ink for the webs. On the green cover, the webs are gray, printed in the normal (CMYK) printing process. Since gray is generally printed as a combo of all those separations in 4/C printing (as opposed to a tint of black, if you're printing something 1/C), if your yellow is running a little light, or your magenta is running a little heavy, the gray will appear purplish. This is one of the reasons that the Hulk was changed to green after his first appearance. It's much easier to keep a green consistent than a gray.

Are you saying that CGC will yellow-label them?

Apparently he *did* draw something else. A few "decoy" covers were created

I need to unload mine. I managed to grab three at cover when the hype began, but they had been sitting on the shelf long enough to get a bit of that color rub that seems common, based on the copies I'm seeing on eBay. Any opinions on how much that affects the condition?

Ha ha. That sounds like my story exactly. Pretty much all of the Star books I have or had were newsstand issues that I bought within the first couple of years of collecting.

For whatever it's worth, Comics Values Monthly had Aliens 1 on the cover of its September 1988 issue. I wonder what it says inside