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Is there a full list somewhere of books with Whitman variants?

If we're sticking with Marvel, I'm going to go with Marvel's Greatest Comics. It ran for the entire decade, reprint books are generally considered less collectible, so were probably less cared for. (I imagine these became reader copies for anyone collecting FF.) There are plenty of issues not on the census or with a very small number graded. I guess if everyone knew that someone was trying to complete the run and money wasn't an option it would be a little easier.

Reprints that identify themselves as variants are legitimately variants in the same way that comics that identify themselves as collector's items are legit collector's items.

The issue of X-O was the second of a 2-issue team-up or Turok in X-O

Image was a new company, but initially there were the equivalent of an imprint of Malibu Comics, which was not a new company

The only book I can think of that falls into this category was X-O Manowar #15, and I believe that was distributed free as an insert or something like that. In other words, there was only one version available through the normal retail channels.

That is essentially what Valiant did with Book of Death and the companion mini-series Legends of the Geomancer. First issue was distributed as a 25:1 and the subsequent issues as a 10:1, but with new content, not reprints.

I can understand that, but if the new variants were going to worthy of speculating on, I would expect the old books to be even more expensive now than they were in the '80s. I remember a time when they were hot, just around the time I started collecting. I probably have a few issues around somewhere; Should probably ditch them now.

I made it even easier and just gave up on Marvel and DC.

I shipped a big batch (16 Value, 72 Modern) before the end of May. They've been sitting at Verified since about 6/8.

I doubt color keys are used for comics. It's probably all proofed digitally, since color is not super-critical and digital proofing is a lot cheaper.

Your best bet is to look for ebay sales results. You may not find exactly a 6.5 SS signed by those two, but you should get info that should let you estimate.

With stock, you're buying a portion of a company. Having or not having a physical certificate for that is similar to whether you have physical cash or cash in the bank, which is being recorded digitally even if the bank doesn't have the physical bills present that represents that.

If you picked these up to flip, you'll probably find some buyers on the Valiant Fans boards.

Except with penny stocks, you can unload 10000 shares in a single sale with little effort. Not so with selling comics

IN my experience, putting in hours studying something tends to make *me* more interested and excited in a subject, but for Robotech to take off, there have to be plenty of other interested in it. Ican see perhaps a bump in the old Comico books, but then we're also passed that 25-year sweet spot without having seen movement there, which appears to be an indication that there's not a huge market for the property.

The thread topic is "invest" not "waste"

Or here: https://www.valiantdatabase.com/books/valiant/classic/all

http://sonicdan.com/valiant/nintendo.html

I have a friend whose grandmother is/was (dunno if she's still alive) a bit of a hoarder. She told her children and/or grandchildren that she hid large bills in the various old newspapers and stuff that she wouldn't throw out so that they would have to go through them when she passed to find them. My friend wasn't sure if she ever actually did that, but the notion that she might have has just become a little more likely.

I don't know about "mostly" but I am a member and I bid on some. But outside of two of the single-issue lots, my max per book was lower than the results of every auction, and way lower than most of them.

https://comics.gpanalysis.com/default.asp

Well, looking at the surge in demand of Copper Age second prints and newsstands, note that it is the initially unloved books that end up with a good deal of buyers later on.

Isn't speculation what's driving the market?