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They could have left the box blank, but they could not have left it off. Generally the cyan, magenta, and yellow plates would have been identical for all covers, direct and newsstand. The black plate was changed for the two editions, which is why you still have the box there in later direct editions, just with some artwork instead of a crossed out barcode. The plates probably weren't a huge cost on a print run like this, but being able to run all of the three colors for every book at the same time likely saved a good amount of press time, and that likely would have been the important cost here.

I think Marvel kept people interested between films by having this thing on the horizon that people were looking forward to. While I think the best DCU film was a standalone (Wonder Woman) there were hints of more to come. Unfortunately (as I remember it) Cosmic Odyssey doesn't have something as obvious and well known as Infinity Stones that they can dangle out there, but WB could take a lesson from Marvel on how to do it right.

Sounds like some Mezcal would go nicely.

But that coin would have to be made from a magnetic metal, which most coins aren't

If Warner Brother knows what's good for them, they would build towards a Cosmic Odyssey movie. (Also written by Starlin, with art by Mignola)

CGC grades the Acclaim (Valiant) Retailer Review editions, but those are closer to a comic format. Are these basically photocopies? Is there anything about them that would make it difficult to counterfeit them?

Well, that's basically it anyway. Some of these books may have newsstand distribution, but no direct edition without a barcode. It seems unlikely to me that they would have distributed Wolverine Saga 1-2 to the newsstand and then not distributed 3-4 to the newsstand but included a barcode anyway.

Yep. That's it. I think it's mostly complete right now. But I need to go through the list of Epic Comics, which were mostly direct-only but which did have a few titles distributed to the newsstand, to see which titles as a whole would fall into this category, and which of the titles may have books that were distributed both places but might only have a code.

The threshold for grand theft is way lower than the alleged value of the books stolen

Generally I would prefer to not have to open a case, but will if they don't take care of it.

Bump. Will get back to this at some point

Yes, he has, so no, you don't.

While we're talking about Mile High, I figured I'd mention that I bought two copies of the same book from them on eBay recently. They delivered one copy (I'm assuming it was a duplicate listing but both were active), and they included a letter that gave me a credit in their store, rather than the money back. So I sent them a message, politely saying thanks but no thanks, I'd like the money not a credit. That was at least a week ago and they haven't bothered responding yet. EVERY TIME I have to contact them it takes multiple attempts before they actually respond

Is that $42K in Mile High asking prices or in actual realized sale prices? Because we may talking about a few hundred dollars

Not if you want the first appearance.

Just because people aren't complying doesn't mean there wasn't a warning issued.

Without the cease and desist, there's no headline. So it's silly to suggest that it's a headline that pushing thing.

It was reported in multiple places that DC issued a cease and desist. Your suggestion that it was only a headline suggests that you know that to not be true.

What makes you think that?

Fine. Legal action. It's a distinction without a difference

Time to stock up on The Human Fly

This is silly. AOC already has huge recognition and a comic book, even one that's involved in a legal battle, is not going to make many people aware of her that currently aren't. For the lawsuit to be a gimmick, one comic company would have to be complicit in drawing attention to a different company's book for the sake of attention and therefore sales, and businesses don't work that way.

If you go back to the comment that I indicated was snarky, you'll see that it wasn't in response to you. It was in response to someone else. So nothing was directed at your business.

Mainstream as far as comics goes, is what I meant, in case that wasn't clear. (i.e. not this book)