GeeksAreMyPeeps

There are some seriously underrated Purves covers. Probably because McFarlance before him, and Keown after him, get a lot of attention.

Fun fact: the place where he died is now a piano bar that hosts showtune karaoke

I'm slimming down my collection, so all of my Moon knight books are going to be hitting the bay when the series lauches. I'm interested in seeing what the recent NYCC exclusive negative variant will get when the show hits.

Deadline Hollywood says it's live action.

I'm guessing this is all about the cover?

I'm pretty sure that the regular edition of #0 was a freebie that matched the orders of the lowest-ordered of the 3 one-shots for Captain Glory, Bombast, and Night Glider. Not sure about the other editions. Fun fact for McFarlane collectors: he inked the cover for Satan's Six #1.

My Reality Gem-altered slab:

The reason I don't list as BINs anymore is that you can have a book up for 2 months as an auction without burning a free listing. Also, if the book explodes suddenly, it sells for a better price.

That's a stretch. Many of my sales only have 1 bid, because I make the minimum bid close to what I think it's worth, for books that aren't in high demand. (Otherwise they'll probably sell for pennies.)

I think you can split Copper into "early Copper" ending around 1991/1992 (start of Image & Valiant, death of Superman), and "late Copper" ending around 1997. I chose then because that's when a lot of the Indy superhero universes folded – Valiant, Ultraverse, Milestone, Comics Greatest World – and Image made a shift away from strictly superhero books. That's also when Marvel relaunched many of their long-running series. (I think Uncanny X-Men is the only long-running book that hadn't been relaunched by around that time.)

I consider pretty much any mini-series as Copper, except for the early DC experiments. Also, any licensed toy book (G.I. Joe, Transformers, etc.). So early-mid 1982 is the sweet spot for the start of Copper.

Since, as mentioned, there aren't many keys in the run, the best bet is going to be selling as a lot. Hopefully you find a buyer that is interested in collecting more than investing.

I liked this book. I think this may be Adam Pollina's first published work.

This is true. But they also released one cover per week, with the gatefold edition being last, so depending on how much one wants to quibble, the gatefold arguably isn't any sort of "1st" since all of the posters were published in previous weeks.

It's not the Magneto cover; it's the cover with Cyclops and Wolverine.

I had 2 problems with a recent order. First, they didn't bag & board any of my books. Second, they sent me part of someone else's order. They sent me a Fedex label so I could ship back the books that weren't mine, and I was thinking it was going to be an inconvenience to have to drop it off somewhere else as well, but is looks like you can schedule a pickup from them

I remember UF4 getting a big boost when it was announced he was going to be the Spider-man featured in the video game. Would be interesting to compare the boost for that compared to the movie.

Considering how successful the new movie has been, I'm sure that Marvel is going to want him back. There's money for everyone if he continues, even if he gets a huge paycheck.

I'm going to try selling this as the Reality-Gem altered variant.

Buy both. Cut the autograph from one cover and paste on the second cover. Then sell the copy with no signatures. (don't do this)

Give it time and people will start paying a premium for the first issue, for the McFarlane cover.

This. Marvel's second prints for a few years featured gold ink (with a few exceptions, such as Silver Surfer 50, but that's probably because that already had a special print treatment on the regular edition).

Keep in mind that Byrne's Superman run revitalized the character. A lot of people were *reading* the book; not sure those numbers are about speculation. (At the same time, Superman's 50th anniversary was a big deal.) 300 was too early in McFarlane's run for orders to have been affected by his popularity. Had he started a few issues earlier, maybe 300 would be in the top spot.

I'm assuming you pre-ordered with every store that was willing to ship?

Consider yourself lucky to have found one. Bad Idea limited the numbers to what was initially pre-ordered as part of the package of the last 5 titles. I imagine most stores only ordered the number of bundles that were paid for, figuring they could increase orders when the books were solicited individually.