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Now do the Newsstands

The Wolverine/Venom covers are cool too.

I am surprised that a lot of those issues haven't taken off. The Kieth covers are really undervalued I think. Love the Byrne homage:

With store variants becoming more and more prevalent, I imagine that regardless of the print run, most will not retain value unless the art itself is a clear winner. With so many Valiant books (my main collecting interest) having store variants, I've basically given up on collecting those unless I love the cover art. I have no desire to sink so much money into shipping in order to have a "complete" collection. If I can get everything that's available at my local shop, that's complete enough for me. I imagine a lot of people will be in the same boat. So if you remove the must-have-everything crowd, the collecting base for limited store variants may be less than the collecting base than universally-available collecting base, making a book with a larger print run indeed tougher to obtain.

They gave the sketch cover away for free at NYCC one year. I think I have a few of those somewhere.

A lot of people have strange ideas about how things work. I'm only going on what you presented.

People are spending money now on the possibilities. Once the announced shows are available, the possibilities are whittled down to whatever they actually decide to do. I imagine then that prices might drop a bit, except for a select few that appear to be clear winners.

That wasn't time. That was the result of a competent writer developing the character.

Understood

This is true, but ideally, I figured we already have enough threads for arguing about what is a first appearance and what is not. I was hoping, perhaps overly optimistically, to keep the focus on claims that would pretty much universally agreed are ridiculous.

Maybe? I don't know; it was just a guess

I guessing because that date is in the future, so the system has an issue with it

That's because, as far as I can tell, the minimum bid is always higher than typical sales for the book. So you only need one bidder to eventually bite at that price. It's not a bad sales tactic if you have a minimum value set for the book, but you also don't want to miss out if the book suddenly becomes hot and multiple people are interested. I started avoiding BINs for that reason (and because now, essentially, with eBay allowing free re-lists for up to 8 times, you can have a book listed longer without a listing fee if you list as an auction)

I agree, but this is what was public-facing

When I thought about starting the topic, it reminded me of this listing discussed in the Moderns Heating Up thread:

I found this eBay listing, and thought the headline was a stretch. I figured enough of us have come across eBay listings that have claimed something about a book to the point of it being ridiculous and amusing, that we might want to share with others. Let's exclude listings in which sellers are asking outrageous prices or claiming a condition that the book clearly isn't. (Probably not much of amusement value in those)

Because the board member that posted them has acknowledged that they are all his accounts.

This said, how long is it going to be before people start looking for the Magic Mike variant of Justice League 40?

Not "most of these guys"; just one guy

It was mostly a joke. While it's true that the second print will set you back more than the first, that's because there was only one copy created and sold for charity. I think it sold for 4 figures.

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If people wait on buying the first print in favor of a lower-printed reprint, then the first print never sells out, thus no reprint. The bottom line is that reprint become valuable when they become hard to find, because of the low print run. Now that lots of people are going to be looking for the reprints, the numbers aren't going to be particularly low. The key is that books tend to become valuable when they have some feature that people weren't previously looking for when they were released, but now are. That's what happened with Newsstand editions, previews/news magazines, reprints, etc.

That's not entirely true. X-Force 2 has never been a monster, but there was a short period where it was pulling a premium (9.8s, at least)