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No note about the missing foil? Odd

Considering that many people get sigs just to get verified slabs to resell, I can understand this. I like that some talent only charges for a CGC-witnessed sig. To be fair, a lot of older talent (I'm not putting Liefeld in this category) don't get the same work that they used to, so I understand that if there is a key issue where they can make an income from adding value to the book, they're going to do it.

You're conflating the term "appearance" which has a specific meaning in the hobby, with an alternate meaning ("depicted"). While Darkhawk is indeed depicted in Marvel Age Magazine (which is not an anthology, it is a news/marketing magazine, even if the size might confuse some people into believing that it is a comic book) but that's not an appearance in the accepted terms of the hobby.

No, it doesn't. The content of the book is the content of the book. I can want a book to contain Batman as much as I want. No amount of wanting that is going to make it happen if it's not already the case. "First appearance" in the hobby has always meant a specific thing; the first time a character is introduced in a story. This is a medium for stories. Previews, advertisements, etc. are marketing tools, not stories.

I don't understand this. Why not?

The market decides what it wants to own. What people want to own doesn't affect whether a preview is a first appearance.

The higher price is due to that news magazine not having been historically considered important and therefore not preserved as much in high grade. It's a simple supply problem. Price is not indicative of a character's first appearance. It's only an indicator of whether something is desirable.

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What does the 3 stand for?

Cleaned that up a little

There was still a stack of Silver Surfer Black on the shelves at Midtown Comics just a few hours ago. They also had Walking Dead 192, but limit 1 and marked up to $6 (which I was surprised with, as they rarely mark up new books in my experience.

Looks like Iron Man Volume 5 #12 has disappeared from the popular online sellers

It's funny, but when Peter David introduced his version of Supergirl in the '90s, she had the same power set that Superman originally had, and people called it lame.

The bigger question is whether it will matter. Some people want the first appearance of whatever the concept it. Otherwise Silver Age Groot would still be no more important that surrounding issues.

DCBS has Walking Dead 192 relisted, but at $10 each and a limit of 2, so I think that's going to be a ceiling, at least temporarily.

Anyone ever order from Midtown Comics and have a problem with a damaged delivery? I just received a shipment and about half of the books seem to have taken a blunt impact from the side. Just wondering what I'm in for when I contact them regarding the issue.

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Sure, but check out the pics.

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I think you don't see them sold because the vast vast majority are either still in the books, or, if removed, were mailed in to redeem the zero issue. I imagine that it would sell if you put it up for auction, but for how much, I couldn't say.

If your LCSs are losing money from having to discount inventory that never moved, then I think the issue is the stores' ability to order correctly, not the product being offered. Know the market in your area and what you can move in a month. Maybe kick the order up a tad so you have books for the shelf for the month, but don't overdo it. I don't think it's the variants that are the issue, but rather a slowly dying industry that is putting that off a bit by offering up additional products.

Artists are all over the place with how they draw her

Yep. This has been my experience. Also, variant orders being cancelled, sometimes after they were due to ship, and being told (numerous times) that they were shorted and those shortages were not replaced. So if there's a variant that you really want that might be impossible to find when it's already been out a few weeks, pre-order it somewhere else.

This latter point is true, and I realized while listing a copy of DC's Agent Liberty Special on eBay recently that that was the case on that book. (The bottom corner is black only, while the black on the figure is a 4?c black.) There may have been a goos reason on specific issues why there wasn't a cost difference is running all 4 plates as a run rather than just the black.

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