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Might as well put #2 on the list as well. First appearance of Red Robin. I am of the opinion that the first appearance of any costumed/powered character, either hero or villain, connected to either Batman or Spider-man, is worthy of a spec play.

There are a *lot* of books like Hulk 180. It's a first appearance, but as a teaser. (There are a lot of Valiant first appearances like this.) Gwenpool is its own thing. Same for Ms Marvel cover I'd say. But I imagine it will happen more.

Are any other DCBS customers noticing a big uptick in the number of incentive variants they order and then have cancelled on them?

Just go with "these were in a collection I bought." That's a great explanation for any of these books, Liefeld's Image/post-Image work, etc.

When the first Bloodshot trailer hits, Rai #0 and Eternal Warrior #4 should both pop. I imagine we'll even see sales of Bloodshot #1, despite there being close to a million copies of it out there.

I agree. She is Very Fine

Why am I seeing that you have multiple copies? Failed spec? LOL

Cool stuff. I started the thread in Copper since that's when a lot of the interesting stuff I have is from, but all eras are welcome. I imagine there's not going to be a ton of stuff from Bronze since the Direct Market started late in the age, and probably almost nothing from earlier

I decided to post these over on eBay, if anyone is interested.

It's the only one that comes to mind

Okay, my first entry here. I'm going to focus on upsides and downsides, since I imagine there are camps of speculators that have different risk tolerances, and it helps to know if a certain book is right for your investment strategy. Rivers of London: Body Work #1. Titan Comics 2015. First comic based on the book series by Ben Aaronovitch. Upsides: First appearance of Peter Grant, Beverly Brook, and Thomas Nightingale in comics. Announced just yesterday that there is a television show being developed by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. (I've read the books, and they're great, and I think these are the right guys to bring it to life on-screen.) Print run is probably tiny, based on the book not showing up in the Comichron listings for the months they were released. Downside: Comic based on a book series, so while this is the first appearance of these characters in comics, they first appeared elsewhere in novels. Comic will probably only take off if the television series does well. Other info: The writer of the novels is also writing the comics, and they all take place in continuity, so it's not like this is just a licensed comic that's tangential to the series of novels. Titan Comics in my experience usually have issues with corners and spines, so 9.4 and up of this book should do very well if the television series is a hit. There's an A cover (shown here) a 1:10 incentive cover, and I believe one retailer variant. Note that there are multiple mini-series, so there are a bunch of #1 issues. Body Work is the first of them. Forgot to add disclosure: My haul: 1 of the CGC 9.8s of the A cover, another copy or two ungraded, and 5 of the incentives. Only buying more if I find them for cover or less, or high grade up to about $10.

Here's my winner: kingofoldschool75 I sold a $10 book, indicating to see pictures for condition, since I'm not very experienced with grading mid-grade stuff and it's not cost-effective to thoroughly examine cheap books. With all of my listings lately for individual books, I take 4 front shots and 4 back. Straight on, angled from the bottom of the book, and angled from both the spine side and the open side. Between those shots I think you can see most of the defects, and how glossy the book is at an angle. I include detail shots (or indicate in writing) when the larger shots don't show some specific flaw that you can only see from a certain angle. My listing included this shot (note the front cover isn't great; it's clearly not a high grade book, and it's not priced that way): I get this message from the buyer after delivery: "Hi just wanted to start off by thanking you for sending the book so quickly I just have a quick question how come you did not mention the huge crease on the back of the comic? I know you put up pictures but it is not visible from any of the pictures and to be honest with you I probably would not have ordered the comic or paid this price for it based on that" I noted that I provide shots so the flaws are visible, and noticed that while they don't necessarily pop out, I can see that there are creases here, and if he's unhappy with the book, he can return it. He started his response with "Lol. No they aren't small…" and I had to go back to check what I wrote as I didn't think I downplayed anything (I didn't) so he seemed to be having some conversation in his head where I dismissed the flaws as insignificant. He said we could just call it even if I would refund him 60% of the purchase price. Um, no. I tried to meet him halfway and offered to refund 30%, and his reply to that was "Tell you what I will meet you in the middle…" at 45%. I decided not to feed the troll any longer and explained that my offer was halfway, and if that wasn't satisfactory he could return the book. So, he opened a "Not as described" case, left me negative feedback, and sent the book back. I was surprised that there wasn't additional damage added to the book when I got it back, but either way, eBay agreed that you could see the flaws and said they'd be removing the feedback. It probably cost me more with the refunded shipping than it would have just to give him what he was asking for, but I didn't want to encourage that behavior.

I imagine it was related to the launch of her mini. Punk Mambo movie or tv would be digging a little deep for Valiant.

How are you figuring your ratings? Is that sort of a percentage likeliness to increase in value? Or anticipated return? Or some combination thereof? I like evaluating the risk and reward separately. Ultimate Fallout 4 seems like a no-brainer to increase, but, for the sake of argument, if I had $1000 to invest, I think I might be able to do better in the long run by spending that on a number of books which are bigger risks but have the chance of a much bigger return if they hit. Decreasing risk by spreading that around should still have good results.

I do like the pop-ups. Pretty much all of the promo stuff I have was stuff that was available to fans. The store stuff is a cool add to the collection, Just found a bunch of pins yesterday. I'll post some soon.

Considering the Thor 390 insanity, you would think other books that have a tangential relationship to Endgame might see some action, such as…

Glad to see some Valiant love here. With Shadowman #13 blowing up the last few days, apparently over nothing more than a Punk Mambo mini being published (SM #13 is her first appearance), that book, and some other VEI first appearances (Shadowman 5, Harbinger 3, etc.), could explode if the Bloodshot movie does well and brings in new readers, and leads to talk of more movies.

Woo hoo! I have sporadic issues of Thor, but turns out I have this one, and it's a newsstand.

Bitcoin get a new account?

Punk Mambo 0 has some really good results as well, especially the B cover and the incentive.

You're both right, if we take an average

And see it through to the end.

Just do it. You know you want to.

You did address what I saw to be the sticking point in the argument; the definition of "on fire." Not sure what you consider "substantial" but I would say that a book just has to be trading at a higher pricer and a significantly higher volume to be "on fire." I think volume is the more important indicator, because that is more indicative of demand than price, since there are a large number of variables (condition, significance of issue, print run/available copies, etc.) that factor into a price.

I don't have a definition. I'm just being difficult.