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There are a few other issues they didn't bother to reprint, but I forget the issue numbers.

Just a matter of time before these books start getting some cover love.

There was a lot of grumbling in the '90s about publishers jacking up the price of books when they had a special cover, but the same amount of story pages. The solution was to offer a non-enhanced cover as an alternate to the pricier cover. That's probably what the dead with this book was.

Jay Scott Pike. At first glance I thought it might be Jim Aparo.

I picked one up cheap a couple years ago, but I found out later it was missing the Marvel Value Stamp.

DC brought them back a year or two ago and it flopped.

I *was* an adult (just barely) in the early '90s, and I still cherish my Valiant books (and thank two of my friends, who were employees at my first regular comic shop, for suggesting that I buy them. It took me until not long before the new line launched to finally nab a Harbinger #0 Pink.

I feel like I've seen this post before…

I'm not a huge fan of the new Q&W (A&A and Timewalker, yes), but the original Q&W is really good stuff. I'm surprised, just because of the fan base, that no one has suggested any Deadpool books yet. (This isn't a suggestion, as I don't read Marvel, but isn't the comedy supposed to be one of the more appealing factors?)

Harbinger: Renegade and A&A (odd, both of Rafer Roberts' series, but maybe there are more). Link for Renegade below. I was looking for a link for A&A but they're not readily available. My guess is that they intentionally limited the print run of the "first" print so they could have a "second" print available as another variant on the release date, but that's just speculation. It would be smart marketing in the current market, and Atom and/or Hunter are smart guys. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/08/harbinger-renegade-1-sells-out-46000-print-run-gets-second-print-at-same-time-as-first/

Captain Marvel #17. But that's a special case, because the new cover is the important aspect. It will be interesting to see, assuming Valiant's multi-media efforts spark more interest in the comic line amongst comic fans, whether the issues that sold out from the distributor far enough in advance for a second print to be available for the same ship date as the first print are more sought-after than the first prints, since they'll have a lower print run and technically wouldn't qualify for not being a first appearance of whatever character might appear in the issue, since they both shipped the same day.

If people end up wanting it, yes. If they don't, no. Is it a decent cover?

Harley would be the Queen

Isn't that Dan Slott's first comic work?

Did we ever get a clear answer on whether other retailers do linewide variants? If they hadn't, have any started doing them since the inception of this thread?

Yep. Several people have commented that the wrap is tough on this one, so I'm very happy with these.

I'd say any first appearance of a member of the Batman family is a good bet long-term.

Quantum & Woody #1, and first appearances of new or heavily revamped Valiant characters from the current line.

They should do a follow-up. Spider-man would get his @$$ kicked.

Yeah, but that's besides the point.

Even if you're willing to shell out more than $1600 on a book, you might not bid on an auction like this because you're guaranteed to be paying at least that much. Some books it's worth starting lower, when you know there's going to be enough demand to cross that theshold anyway.

Okay, I'll play.

You don't want to be standing behind him when he works that out

Gwenpool made me rethink my position about first appearances, because I've never been in the ads-are-appearances camp; it's always been an appearance in a story. But my instinct regarding Gwenpool was that even though there was no story tied to her in Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars, the cover was her first appearance. So I've refined my position to separate marketing content from creative content. An "appearance" in comic collecting terminology, to me, implies a depiction (or being a presence, in the case of characters that were in the shadows, only contributed a dialogue bubble, etc.) in creative content (stories, covers, pin-ups, etc.) rather than marketing content (ads, editorials, news pieces, and previews). This distinction I think helps clarify why my gut told me that previews shouldn't be considered appearances when the same thing is printed in those (with few exceptions) compared to the actual comic book. While I certainly think that there's a market for those (and, as an aside, the market never decides what a character's first appearance is, but the market does decide what is generally a desirable thing to own by voting with dollars), I think that those are secondary to the actual creative content, because without the content to be sold, the marketing is irrelevant and pointless.

I'm going to start referring to variants I don't care about as Nacamucses. People, WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!