GeeksAreMyPeeps

I anticipate Ultimate X-Men is going to be way over-ordered.

It was all clearance bin drek. Basically, their annual trivia contest covered comics, Doctor Who, and other stuff whose merch they sold. For each correct answer, you got a free comic. I knew a ton about Doctor Who, and one of the questions was name a companion of the Doctor. Everyone else knew about comics and not a lot about Doctor Who, so I was able to rattle off about 20 correct answers. I think they were mostly B&W indies. This would be around 1986/1987, so probably a lot of TMNT knockoffs, or parody books. There were a *ton* of Dark Knight parodies.

It's not like it's miswrapped and cut funny. It's just cut really short. Anyone can put their copy under a paper cutter and trim their book, if it's going to sell for a premium.

Did you order many Image books around that time? Any chance you have a Walking Dead or Invincible #1?

I love this issue where they face Cocaine Bear.

Could be worse; they could have swapped the grade and the issue number.

Cool! A fellow Gladiator.

I'd argue that none of these are "appearances" in the traditional sense of the word as used in comics collecting, but appreciate all the work. Any chance you're the same Lobstrosity that plays on Conquer Club?

Typically, licensing agreements stipulate that the owner of the IP retains the rights to any and all characters created for the stories generated for the IP, so it's entirely possible that WB/DC would have a case. One notable exception to the typical agreement is the Valiant characters, due to Shooter's reationship with the owners of the original Gold Key characters.

I don't know why you'd make a point of drawing attention to the fact that you still have some valuable books that weren't taken still in a storage facility that's been hit a few times (although I do question some of his value claims).

I saw a set sell for $270 recently, so 200 seems like a good deal, but it all depends on the condition, of course, especially of the most desirable covers.

The whole point of that crossover was villains going after each other's nemeses, so no surprise we're seeing a bunch of Acts of Vengeance covers in this thread.

McFarlane was a tough act to follow. Larsen *is* responsible for one distinctive aspect of Venom's appearance; the big, slobbering tongue.

Since the other 2 Joker-wearing-Superman's-outfit covers have been posted, might as well include this one too:

That's easy; if you know one cert number, you can just plug the other 24 books in the sequence into CGC's search feature to see what the other 24 books and grades are.

I get that. In the part you bolded, I was referring to the fact that often, there will be a large number of retailers that have their own exclusive cover available for a specific issue. It's less special if there are 20 different covers available, but I can only get those covers by patronizing a specific shop. I think the cost of shipping to get all of the store variants is one of the things that keeps demand down.

The difference I see is that store exclusives have very limited availability, unlike the other books that you mention, which weren't really intended to be a limited collectible. It might be different if the number of exclusives was limited to one retailer per issue, but that's not the case. Often, a book will have exclusive covers available for a large number of retailers. I think any exclusive that holds demand down the line will be because the content of the cover is highly desirable, whether it's because of the cover artist, or a first cover appearance of a character that takes off later, etc.

FWIW, I got the three books back, and no need to send any back again. So we capped at 26MEs for the 25 books.

That's insane.

These are almost as tough as Wise Son.

I'll take it!

Toonces, the cat who invested in comics.

If you're short on money, 129 is going to be the toughest. Then 101, which is 2/3 the price, but also is pretty scarce in 9.8-graded copies.

Submitted these at NYCC:

It's crazy that in the top 50 books submitted, there's 1 indy (Spawn), 3 DC (Killing Joke, Omega Men 3 & Batman Adventures 12), and the other 46 are all Marvel.