GeeksAreMyPeeps

I think there's a limited life span of any IP that is owned by the original creator, until and unless it's sold to a corporation that is primarily interested in keeping active as an IP.

Did anyone pick up the Star Wars 7 Black & White Boba Fett Action Figure Variant from John Tyler Christopher a couple years ago? If so, is the back cover misprinted so that the magenta ink didn't print at the far left? I just noticed this on one of my copies as I was prepping it for the 'bay. Was wondering if it was a common issue:

Not Modern, but Captain Marvel (1st series) 18 (Carol Danvers gets her powers) also seeing some decent results recently.

I think MSH 13 is a great long-term play. Captain Marvel has the chance to be Marvel's Wonder Woman (i.e. premiere female super-heroine). I started looking for copies a few years back and had my eye on a nice 9.0 auction that unfortunately ended a couple days after they announced the movie, and skyrocketed out of my range then. (On the bright side, I did snag a Captain Marvel 17 2nd print with Kamala Khan for $4 while looking for appearances, so there's that.)

Already commented on this, but have to again. This is such an incredibly ridiculous statement. There are plenty of Bloodshot storylines to keep Hollywood busy until we're all dead and buried before even thinking about Deathmate. And considering different parties own the rights to the characters, working that out would be a nightmare. For a story that is pretty much universally considered sub-par. Deathmate Black (and the Gold version) is pretty much the only of those books of significance, for the first appearance of Gen 13. And *maybe* the gold books, for the completist collector, but even those can be had for like $5 if you're patient. far too many of these books out there.

There is absolutely nothing of significance to Bloodshot in the Valiant/Image Deathmate crossover.

DOOOO EEEETT!

Only DC and the printer know for sure.

I see this on Valiant books all the time. Definitely from print production.

I have an Avengers 294 with 2 covers (seems like the closest comparison to your situation, in regards to desirability of a normal version of the comic), that I got graded. Came back 9.4. I've been offered $50 on eBay, so I think it's fair to say that you should have no problem recovering grading costs. I'd recommend getting it signed if you can. Then you have a SS slab on which a cover can still be removed if the buyer doesn't like sigs, and still have a complete unsigned book beneath the top cover. Use a pen that doesn't bleed through the paper.

Do you mean Batman Family 6? That's the first appearance.

That wasn't part of the book

No love for Black Lightning?

I'm noticing a ton of ASM 263s selling today. Is that the book?

They should try an envelope-style cover. Have a glue flap that extends off the front cover and gets glued onto the back. Have a big "TOP SECRET" stamp on the front, and make collectors rip their comics open if they want to read it.

Yeah, but a relaunch was a great jumping-off point for old-time collectors like me that was buying books just to keep up with numbering.

You have this saved in a file somewhere, right? You don't actually type this out every time?

Not to defend the counterfeiter, but "the picture shows it sitting on a cutting mat" is indicative of nothing. I sometimes use my cutting mat when I'm photographing books for sale because it's a nice, big, flat surface that's usually handy because I might be using it to cut down cardboard to protect books for shipping, or because I'm too lazy to find my scissors to cut a shipping label so I use my razor blade instead.

New Mutants 100 came out before the X-force issue of Marvel Age.

I don't expect movies in general to lead people who don't read comics to start reading them. But Marvel and DC readers who don't know much about Valiant might be turned on to them.

So much of this is driven by the perceived demand, rather than actual demand. Long-term prices will stabilize (where, who knows?) when the aftermarket reflect what people actually want based on where they put their money.

The difference that I see is that Valiant is an ongoing shared universe. There's just more meat there, especially for Marvel and DC fans that might be looking for something new (but similar to what they are fans of).

I would say that the "if" is smaller now than it was a couple months ago, now that Vin Diesel is signed. You add even a few thousand readers and 500 collectors of variants and that means a lot for the Valiant secondary market. While people are looking at Amazing Spider-man 798, Valiants are the books that aren't on their radar. Yet.

I've sold a few issues of Marvel Age for decent money (the Darkhawk one, the Liefeld Cable sketch in 82). I have a bunch more to sell. Will see how they do. I have a stack of Marvel Vision to get rid of as well. This was basically the successor to Marvel Age, which included a lot of upcoming info, but also an order form, as Marvel made a move to do their own distribution for a time in the '90s. Not sure if there are any issues there that have potential.

If you're talking Marvel, sure. If the Valiant movies bring comic readers to the line, the already pricey variants will only go higher because there are so few of them out there.