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More importantly, it affects the desirability of that appearance. X-Factor 23/24 is a similar situation to this one regarding quality of the appearance (except, of course, that it wasn't necessary to adjust anything considering the fact that X-Factor 23 was going to published first); Archangel appears on multiple pages, and is more integral to the story, yet X-Factor 24 has pretty much always been the book to have.

Tell that to David Prowse.

Not sure if that's the editor or marketing. The mutant annuals had a specific time slot to be published, as Marvel was releasing one annual per week in the middle of the year in this period. I'm sure if that was not the case and there was wiggle room on the schedule, they would have published the annual after 266

That's part of it, but the more important part is that you could completely remove Gambit from this story without changing much. Except that you'd have to explain why he disappeared between the story in Uncanny X-Men, and the story that follows this one. Not the same for Uncanny X-Men 266

Well, I guess *for now* it's the same timeline. Until they decide they want to go somewhere different. Unless they already have the timeline planned out, and they're going to fill in the story to explain the changes (if it's not too far into the future, that is, kind of like when they did One Year Later and 52).

I don't read any DC books currently, but isn't Next Batman a Future State title? Isn't that a future or alternate timeline? That would explain the difference in Montoya.

In time I bet we'll see sneakers being made (and advertised as being made) with more permanent materials, and things will shift a bit to a scenario where "never worn" fetch ridiculous prices.

My initial thoughts was either Ron Lim or Kieron Dwyer, since they were the regular artists on the book in that time period. But Lim didn't draw the star or the A like that.

That was pretty much the situation right before the crash in the '90s. Not as far as bidding, because there was no eBay back then. But people were trying to sell books at a premium right out of the gate, all because of hype, rather than actual demand. Of course, that's also been the case with a number of moderns for a while, so maybe not a sign necessarily, but the volume of books being hyped seems to be higher now.

And, they missed the perfect chance to reprint the cover of the preview as an actual cover:

Issue 59 starts the reprints. It reprints DC Comics Presents 26, and then issue 60 starts reprinting the Baxter series. https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_of_the_Teen_Titans_Vol_1_59

I think, similar to Outsiders and Legio, they switched the title when the Baxter runs started, and started reprinting the Baxter book a year later. So the reprints should start 12 issues after the book became Tales of the Teen Titans.

Don't forget Tales of the Teen Titans and Tales of the New Teen Titans. Tales of the New Teen Titans was a mini that featured solo stories, similar to the Teen Titans Spotlight that followed it, while Tales of the Teen Titans reprinted New Teen Titans. They should have had a series titles New Tales of the Teen Titans, to confuse everyone further.

At least as convoluted is the Spider-man titles at the time. When I started collecting in the mid-late '80s it took me a while to realize that Amazing Spider-man, Spectacular Spider-man, and Web of Spider-man were different titles. And that Marvel Tales starring Spider-man was also a different title and not even new stories. And that Spectacular Spider-man is the same title as Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-man, only with an updated name. I imagine if I had started collecting a few years later when there was also adjectiveless Spider-man and Spider-man Unlimited, it wouldn't have been any easier. And then of course they relaunched with a Sensational Spider-man as well. Don't get me started on Bloodshot, which has a half a dozen series just since 2012, one with a title change twice in the run and multiple zero issues. And almost every issue has variant covers as well.

Holy S*** I thought you put this together as a joke.

One thing I wanted to note, since I'm working on listing a bunch of issues of Detective on eBay, is don't think that you can identify the difference by the color on the front cover for 637. Grays that are made up of a mix of all four process separations are notoriously hard to keep consistent (the reason why the Hulk was changed from gray to green after his first issue). I noticed a color difference between my copy for sale and images I saw on the internet, with mine being the duller blue color, but mine is a first print: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234185256999

The shoes thing I don't get either. Are there companies that will grade them? If not, I'm sure that's coming soon.

Yeah, I get your point. But comic collecting was a thing before encapsulation, because they could be read (and, especially decades ago, was the only way that certain stories *could be* read).

I'm baffled that people spend thousands on video games that were never opened, so who can say what another person is willing to shell out money for.

I just got back mine, that I submitted with a pre-screen submission (no pressing) shortly after it was released. So yeah, we'll probably see an uptick in available copies soon. Mine is staying in my collection. I imagine that now would be a really bad time to sell. Initial hype has passed, and we still don't know what "Bad Idea is over as we know it" is all about.

Consider how recent UF4 is, the buyer may not even realize that it's a facsimile for some time, while it would be much clearer with a facsimile of an older book, since the paper would be different.

Yeah, I've had quite a few "NearMint" books that were nowhere near that. You order enough and sometimes you get lucky.