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An alpha Lotus. That's pretty much your Action 1 of Magic. Maybe a Beta. The first few sets, up until Legends, are BIG money. Don't sell until you really get some good advice from people you trust. Otherwise you'll probably get fleeced. I had an Alpha set I sold in 1999, for several thousand. That was 15 years ago. I'm not sure what prices are now, but last time I looked a few years ago, they were off the charts. +1 A lot of stores are crooks when it comes to magic cards. I have heard plenty of nightmares. To many of them only want to pay you pennies on the dollar. Alpha has to be going for over $30,000 for the set if they are in NM condition. Well, it's already been pointed out that an Alpha Lotus alone went for more than that, so I'd guess if all cards were in the original condition, something in the area of $75-100K seems more likely.

That assumes that the movie news spike continues indefinitely. I suspect it won't, but when it scales back I can't say.

I said the same thing when New Mutants 98 hit $400 for a 9.8 a few months ago. Now they're selling for $700-$800. This hobby never ceases to amaze me that's for sure. I'm going to get my Turok #1 money back some day. I just know it.

At NYCC I saw one dealer with a raw first print for $60 and second print for $40. Didn't check out the condition though.

This is helpful. I have a bunch of cards from the first few editions and expansions myself and want to unload them as well. I know that some cards tend to fluctuate in price depending on whether cards are useful with the latest game play.

Just playing devil's advocate here, because I once bought a lot off of eBay that showed as shipped but never arrived. It could have been delivered to the wrong address. (Not suggesting the shipping address was wrong, just that the post office may have dropped it in the wrong place.)

I know, I was saying there is a lot worse than Land, but now that I see that tracing work, wow. Is this the cosplay? Doesn't look that similar to me. Here is the cosplay I was talking about. http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/10/cosplayer_ivy_pole_adds_fuel_to_the_milo_manara_sp.php Proportionally, Ivy has a pretty long torso (not sure exactly how tall she is, but from the pics on her Facebook page it looks like she's pretty tall), and it's still much shorter in the photo when compared to the Manara art. Add in the face that doesn't project nearly as much up into the air, and that the angle is not as extreme, and that Ivy already said that it hurt to be holding the pose, and I think it proves what the critics were saying; that it's unrealistic.

Did you pay for it yet?

FTFY. Both are true. While I've picked up an extra copy when they've hit the shelves at the store (and a few at NYCC), I make sure to leave some for the next person. I think for the value to hold long-term, enough of them need to get out into the hands of people that don't know about them.

Is she a mutant or something? Her head is as big as her torso. You just continue to amaze me . . . I am an amazing person.

I should say too, that if a flood of NM 98 slabs does depress the market for that ook a bit, that could send ripples through the speculative market. No one likes to see cracks in the system, even if it's not initially directly affecting what they're selling.

Someone requested that I post a comment here that I posted in another thread regarding my experience at NYCC, so here goes: Now, it's quite possible that a lot of people were getting sigs but not slabbing, or they'll be slabbing but not selling, but certainly there's a good amount of people looking to cash in. My plan is to hold onto my best slab and start to sell off the rest (depending on how the market is when I get my delivery). I imagine we're going to see a lot of copies popping up on eBay once those NYCC books start shipping. I don't know if I should have bothered with getting my copies SSed. Not kicking myself for not doing it. What I am kicking myself for not doing is getting my ASM 361s signed by Mark Bagley, who was signing about 10 yards from the CGC booth, and only requesting donations to Hero Initiative (a seriously worthy charity, especially for comic fans) for sigs. I did get Claremont to sign a Wolverine 1.

Is she a mutant or something? Her head is as big as her torso.

They were supposed to be $15? They charged me $20 when I went by to pick up my books. I guess that explains why they're going to ship the book that wasn't delivered for "free"

Good to know. I thought I saw the 8th mentioned previously.

Did anyone's shops not get #4 today? It wasn't there, or on the list of releases.

"read somwhere that that test tube was just coincidence" link or proof please... Really sounds like too much of a coinky-dinky to me . . . It is too much of a coincidence. Whoever created the physical female form of X-23 really knew wolverines backstory and pulled " X-23" directly out of wolverine # 80, I don't see how it could have happened any other way. Just FYI, X-23 was created for the TV show X-Men Evolution. The episode was written by Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Neither of these guys wrote NYX #3, but they both wrote 'X-23' (2005), her first ongoing series which developed her backstory and origin. As you say, It's highly unlikely they pulled the number 23 out of thin air. It's hard to think that anyone could remember a single, throwaway panel, but these guys would have done their homework. It's a cool little retrospective easter egg if you're an X-23 fan. I've never read anything with X-23, but perhaps "23" refers to the number of pairs of chromosomes in human DNA, and is therefore not a random number being selected. (Also note that the 23rd pair is what determines sex; a female has two Xs and a male a Y and an X.)

This book is really all over the place. It was real hot for a little. Still good money for a 2nd print. http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=amazing+spider+man+361+2nd+print&LH_Complete=1&_from=R40|R40&LH_Sold=1&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.A0.H0.Xamazing+spider+man+361+2nd+print+%28-cgc%29&_nkw=amazing+spider+man+361+2nd+print+%28-cgc%29&_sacat=0 The problem with the link I shared is that it's not marked as a reprint (and it has a corner that's a little messed up, so it's not a top-quality reprint). Buyer might be getting an unpleasant surprise.

ASM 361 2nd print: http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Amazing-Spider-Man-361-Apr-1992-Marvel-1st-Appearance-Carnage-/181542729991?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item2a44ca3907&autorefresh=true

It might be the first Encino Man advertisement, but it's not the first Domino, real or otherwise.

I don't see where anyone said speculation wasn't occurring. Did you have a specific comment in mind? I certainly was speculating. From #93 on, I bought 15 copies of each book, all the way up to #100, because I believed Liefeld was the new McFarlane. And he was. Kinda. I was initially just buying one of each, but I found a bunch of extra 86s and was buying multiples as of the early to mid 90s. Time to slab the 7 98s.

Well, it seems to be selling for no more than a book that size would be cover-priced at today. But still, it's selling. I kind of expect that any first appearance of a Marvel character is going to have a buyer if it's not outrageously priced at this point.

By that logic, if you find a panel where the Big Bang was depicted, that's the first appearance of all characters and things that hadn't previously appeared, since that contains all of the raw material for everything. Start buying cosmic now.

This is very cool of you. Thanks so much. PM sent.

Looks good. Will check it out.