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They're using that artwork for a variant on the 30th anniversary special:

The buyer, probably: "Sorry, I should have clarified that the profit on the book is my grail. Or rather just profit in general.… Money; money is my grail."

When you're dealing with lots though, a person might be looking for only specific items in that lot, but they're willing to spend for the whole lot to get the books they want, figuring they can resell the rest. That's not necessarily a seller to avoid. When I'm looking to build a run, I'll often go about it this way.

I'll often buy a book I see at a good price, knowing that it's worth more, even if I don't want it for my permanent collection. I don't see an issue with reselling in situations like that. What I do have a problem with is people trying to clear a store out of a newly released book in order to sell on the secondary market. Those people drive people out of the hobby. I recently purchased a CGC slab from someone on eBay, and noticed that they had just recently purchased it from someone else at a bargain price (less than the price of grading). My only reaction is I wished I had seen it first.

Much like pre-Unity Valiant and early Magic cards, product made early, before any hype, started commanding decent money on the secondary market. And then they over-produced once people started buying because "they're worth money." I wonder what would happen if someone bought the media rights to develop a Beanie Babies movie.

No, this is the *thread* for Moderns heating up on eBay. This is the *section* for Moderns

And also, this is the section for Moderns.

This is so annoying. I went to a hobby show with my father yesterday, and since I was in an area that I'm not typically in, decided to hit a few comic stores to see if I could hunt down any Milestone books. No luck at 2 shops. The third store had 1 book in the back issue bins, but when I asked whether they had any somewhere I wasn't looking, the owner (I'm assuming he was the owner, anyway) mentioned he might have some in storage that he could pull out. He's expanding the store so he can eventually have all of his stock readily available. He found a full longbox of books, which he said he didn't price yet, but I could pick out what I was interested in and he'd price them. Starting flipping through the box, most of which weren't bagged, and of those that were, many didn't have boards. His Icon books were first, so I pulled out some of those to test what the pricing was going to be. He had a good number of Newsstands, but none of them candidates for 9.0 or above, but I figured good enough for placeholders until I could find CGC-worthy copies if they were cheap enough. (In the condition they were in, they were pretty much dollar-box fodder, but I was willing to pay a few dollars as placeholders.) The Icon books I handed him included 41 (bagged and boarded; looked to be in really good condition) and an unbagged 42, which had a number of problems including a decent color-breaking crease at the bottom. The rest were mostly fairly early Newsstands. Of course, he used eBay to price the books, so I was expecting the late issues to end up being in line with prices for those. But he tried telling me that even the early books are selling for $10 each now, and priced the group of fewer than 10 books at $175. It was pretty clear that he wasn't going to budge on his sense of what the more common and less-than-perfect books were worth, and I ended up walking out with only 2 books. He had some really tough books though. Static 1 Platinum (unbagged), Icon 41-42 and some other late books (I think only the 41 was bagged), Hardware 49-50 (both unbagged) and some other late issues, late Statics including 44 and 2 copies of 45 (all unbagged), Wise Son 2-4 (the bagged copy of #2 was one of the 2 that I bought), and 3 of the 4 issues of Rebirth of the Cool, including #1 a second copy of one of the issues. Only one copy of issue 4 was bagged, and looked to be in decent shape (the others weren't), so I asked for a price, and he wouldn't even give me a price on that, since there were no recent eBay prices. He noted that the only copy availabe on eBay had an asking price of $140, and I realized after leaving that I knew exactly the listing he was referring to, which appears to be some seller who's a dropshipper or engaged in some other questionable selling practices based on the feedback (almost certainly doesn't have a top-condition copy of the book on-hand): https://www.ebay.com/itm/185769180602?hash=item2b40b4bdba:g:5oQAAOSwq~Bj4-0j&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA0M3BtGcF%2FhMd%2FWHPcdYw5IzA4OLVEMScuIVlBHHEeatb80ZREPtPi84UV%2FEiluArGsz8Vpped2bJAA97OAAh1nQKWCoCnWS5h3Z4UL7cS%2FTQB1ANwfFD%2F%2FeGQQqDI2aBI55xdGdrhfkV69legf9J4Q0kxqsPPOawmhc8Da65UJryWvf0R9DwzRNIH6RIVHHxYLLOWQQ0mixivAUufvldjcjb0OValMC8owkjbrJwME9EpiDE51QKiLlWnbADGRnJ6CkzeDDWOWDysP0smVH80as%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8DZ9e_aYQ One thing I realized looking through the box: Newsstands of the Shadow War crossover and the Worlds Collide crossover seem to be somewhat abundant. This store had multiple copies of the Newsstands of the Hardware and Icon issues of Shadow War, and I've seen a handful of copies of those elsewhere as well.

It's not; I'm thinking of the wrong book.

Actually looks like there is one (sorta): https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/True_Believers:_King_in_Black_-_Black_Cat_Vol_1_1

Give it soem time and I'm sure they'll print a facsimilie

And an Essential volume. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_210/Reprints

Correct. I saw copies of this facsimilie still on the shelves today. It was just released a few weeks ago, not 30 years ago. The seller called out the correct publication year in the listing, but not that it was a facsimilie. The label is for the original version, which sells for between 150-200 in 9.8 right now.

I really hope the buyer of this book is a fan of CGC error labels. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155437391350?mkpid=0&emsid=e11010.m1951.l7533&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=256ff01cfb3e45c78672c8376cbcb17f&bu=43524605054&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20230308141908&segname=11010&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=jo7yz8r7%2BIKXoBhxF4e4QqtXsp4%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

I really hope the buyer of this book is a fan of CGC error labels. https://www.ebay.com/itm/155437391350?mkpid=0&emsid=e11010.m1951.l7533&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=256ff01cfb3e45c78672c8376cbcb17f&bu=43524605054&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20230308141908&segname=11010&autorefresh=true&nma=true&si=jo7yz8r7%2BIKXoBhxF4e4QqtXsp4%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

As a reaction to a post? Fine. But I don't need your little flame to tell me something is hot. And I most certainly will NOT "L@@K"

People need to stop with the little fire (and other) icons/emojis in their eBay titles and email topics. It's annoying. /old man rant

Assuming Funko Pops aren't recyclable, they're all going to end up in a landfill eventually, whether they're sold now or not. The bigger question is why they're overproducing so many. If they want them to be collectable, they should only produce a small percentage over initial orders.

Sometime around 1999-2000, I went into a stationery/gift store in my neighborhood looking for a copy of Baseball Weekly for my fantasy baseball league. There was a woman in front of me inquiring about when the new Beanie Babies were going to be released. All I could do is shake my head. I had seen what happened with the comic market a few years before, and baseball cards a few years before that. I knew the crash was coming, but also knew those collecting them weren't going to listen.

I ordered 3 from DCBS as well, and they're on the list of items in my next shipment. I hate they don't have a system where they can carry your order over to the re-solicit.

The key there being "usually"; I can see why someone dropping 5 figures on a book wants it in the original condition, not autographed. I will note as well that an SS Dell'Otto variant, which sold at the height of the comic market in 9.6, also sold for less than a Universal 9.6 prior to the height of the market. Using data from all label types is fine, but if you're comparing different comics with different labels, that's not a fair comparison. That's comparing apples to oranges. That's manipulating the data to support a pre-determined conclusion.

Fixed that for you

The other UF4 was a SS, and there was not a comparable SS of 667, so it's not a wash, unless you're looking to make it wash to prop up 667.

I'm in the same boat. I don't own either book and am not looking to buy either book. But if I was, I would be looking for a UF4, because it's got a much bigger upside. Generally, I can understand being a little wary of just looking at the last sale to determine a value, because sometimes there are outlier sales, and maybe there just aren't a lot of eyes on some sales. But these are both very visible books, and we have two instances of pretty much the perfect comparison of the books; sales in the same grade closing very near to each other on the same selling platform. And in both cases, UF4 is on top. And the comparable recent average shows UF4 is on top. If you want to go with something like a 5-year moving average, then I guess 667 wins out, but honestly who is going to care about that, except someone with an agenda to make a particular book the winner?