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But if you do know someone that's willing to pay even $10/book for my mid-80s books that aren't on fire, please let me know and I'll happily rid myself of them

Most books from the mid-80s do not sell for that, if we're taking condition out of the equation.

Inundate those people with low-ball offers until they get the hint

Yes, but then I complain and usually get the book for free, as the shipping to return is more expensive than the cost of the book. Not what I'm looking to do, but I'm not paying for something I didn't order.

I still need one of those. I had actually purchased one from Mile High I believe but was sent the Chromium

SSM was when I first became aware oh his art. The scratchiness of it bothered me. But then any art during the McFarlane era probably wouldn't have impressed me.

One interesting example: Guardians of the Galaxy #25, which had both a foil and a non-foil cover that featured the same artwork (the non-enhanced was often different art), but had the same cover price.

I never liked Sal Buscema's run on Spectacular.

Um, so a book that is not available yet has already been graded?

The Waynes. Uncle Ben. That's the list. Bucky was the only other character generally recognized to be a permanent member, but, well… Original Valiant had a policy of "dead is dead" and they never brought Torque back. New Valiant started with the same policy and they haven't brought Flamingo back. Whether they still have that policy is to be determined. But any time you have an adjacent realm where the dead roam around there's room for anything to happen.

You can find the whole story in Green Lantern #54! On sale now (in a back issue bin somewhere)!

I think if Watchmen hadn't come along so soon after it, the Squadron Supreme maxi-series would widely be seen as a classic. A lot of what Moore did, Gruenwald did first.

There was definitely pre-release hype, as I knew enough to pick up extra copies of the Doomsday cameos and the first 5 parts. Maybe it wasn't far enough in advance for the orders, though? Didn't someone post sales info in one of the Death of Superman threads a while back that indicated a sales spike prior to 75?

There were some really good Peter David Spidey stories in Spectacular. Remember when the issue of Spec where Spidey gets the Captain Universe powers was super hot?

Third print was years later, so if there was an insert in the original, I doubt that it would have been available to include later on.

To be fair, it wasn't entirely speculation that nearly killed the industry, but a particular type of speculation, or speculation paired with other things. • Speculating by ordering multiple copies in advance didn't prevent potential readers from buying a book. But the go-out-and-grab-them-all type of speculator may have • Speculation paired with Extremely late books (pun intended) was a problem. Many retailers tied up their capital in Image books that were solicited and took forever to ship, if they shipped at all, preventing retailers from recouping their costs, because they had no product to move, or from ordering more books that did ship on time • When the speculator market fell apart, many retailers were left with books that customer requested but never bothered to come back for. Less of a problem if a store took deposits, but in my area, I don't think any did that. They just ordered what they were expecting to sell based on customer pull lists and previous sales but then the books sat on the shelves

The reason for this is that getting the color right is much easier with computers now. Before computer coloring, all of the original linework was initially printed black, and the color was printed in cyan, magenta, and yellow. This is why you'll see ghosts of color behind the black on older comics; because they cut out shapes of the color to go behind the black, and it extended beyond the edge of where the black met the color. See this adjusted image, and you can see a hint of the edge of the red inside the line: With computer coloring now, the black is richer because there are percentages of cyan, magenta, and yellow boosting the depth of the black in the dark areas.

True, but there are probably far fewer of the Acclaim and late-VH1 in high grade because very few people cared about Valiant for a decade or more. There's also the collecting shift away from run collectors.

what's the deal with this book?

My lawn; get off of it

Considering it's Bendis, maybe Alias #1 is a good parallel?

Is this the Key Collector ap? I think it was over on the Valiant Fans board that I first heard about that and downloaded it a while back. And then I noticed that the first appearance of a certain character was incorrect, so I pointed it out. And then they changed it. And then I asked what their criteria for identifying things like first appearances was (if they were going to take a stranger's work on it—I was correct, but still). And then never got a satisfactory answer on that, so stopped using it.

I paid about $100 for a She-Hulk 9.6 in late 2014. That's doubled now.

I think of a "Second Print" as a book printed in the same way as the original (which means the same cover art), with the addition of a notation of some sort to distinguish it from a First Print.

I think it won't be so long before we're adding All New Marvel Now Point One to the list.