GeeksAreMyPeeps

Are you just posting every variant you encounter? This one doesn't even have art yet.

Not when they ran the sale, but I did manage to get one in-store for about $25

That's probably because they had a nice sale on them:

The "nopes," I imagine, were in reaction to your making estimates of Newsstands based on ratios. There's no evidence to support how many Valiant Newsstands were printed in relation to the Direct editions.

I would argue that "comics" and "sequential art" are interchangeable, and need not necessarily be drawn. We've seen comics that are painted, or created digitally; I don't see why photographic images should be disqualified as a method of presenting images sequentially in the comic art form. (Some might argue that that definition means that movies and television are also comics, but unlike comics, those formats are continuous images, which sets them apart.) For the record, I don't own, nor am I chasing, any of these books.

Also: https://sonicdan.com/reviews/pages/newsstandvaliant.htm

Trying to apply ratios to figure out the Newsstand print run of a book printed in low numbers is a flawed methodology. It might work for books with much larger print run, where you have a decent sample size from which to make estimates. As pointed out, it doesn't make financial sense to print 50 copies of a book (unless you're marketing it a limited edition and charging a premium). Valiant experimented with Newsstands foe about a year and a half, but only 2 titles (Bloodshot and X-O) are confirmed to have Newsstand Editions for that full period. For some titles there are only about a year's worth. There are a couple of price variant amongst the Newsstand Editions. There is also a decent time period where the possibility of Newsstand Editions exist for a large number of titles (since they all had barcodes then) but for which no known Newsstand Editions exist. More info: http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23543

This pic is from a different shipment a few weeks ago. The package delivered yesterday was delivered correctly.

If you're referring to my photo, yeah, that was Registered Mail. But they had me sign for the package yesterday, so maybe virtual signing is done, in which case, I prefer USPS. I didn't know FedEx was such a problem for some people; I've always used Registered Mail because it's insured

To be fair, for the package they delivered today, they knocked on the door and had me sign. But most of the Registered Mail I've received during covid when "they sign virtually for you" they just dropped in front of my door, knock, and walk away without confirming that I'm even home. If they're back to actually getting signatures, then Registered Mail is preferred.

This is what "left with individual" looks like on my route:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/07/ben-aaronovitchs-rivers-of-london-novels-are-set-for-tv-adaptation

I was surprised that Rivers of London also showed up on the Trending list. It's probably a good time to own this:

I have a stack of Howling Commandoes of SHIELD #1. It's the first appearance of a character called Glyph, for which Marvel registered a trademark and a series on Hulu was rumored. It's been a few years now and the other series that was rumored at the time (Hellstorm) has now come and gone, and the character has barely any comic appearances, so chances are future demand won't be there.

It would be nice if they kept some consistency with the logic behind legacy numbering. Typically it's adding up the issues of a character's various series, regardless of what it was named. But for Miles to be at 250, I'm assuming they're adding up all of the Ultimate Spider-man issues with Ultimate Peter Parker as well as Miles's issues?

I mean, the other cases have the weld, but they don't look chopped up like that.

But none of my other slabs looks like that

Have they? eBay results look pretty low right now.

Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

The Ashcans and 1st issue of Agent of Worlde are still available on Scout's website: https://www.scoutcomics.com/collections/chaos-agent

The thing is, if you search for "U.S. Agent" (with a space), only this book comes up. If you search for "U.S.Agent" (without a space) only the Marvel minis featuring John Walker show up. CGC's search function needs a bit of an overhaul

I checked the census and that book has a 9.4 and 2 8.5s on it. I'd be willing to bet that at the very least, the 9.4 is a mis-label.

The form I submitted very clearly shows a book that qualifies for the tier.

One of these things is not like the others on my MODERN submission.

They've been fine with tweaking things from the comics to fit the MCU (which works for me as it would take multiple movies or shows to lay out some of the basic framework from the comics). However, I will note that we got a tease of a Grim Reaper visual in WandaVision. They may not have had plans for Wonder Man then, and may have just been having a little fun, but you never know.