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This might be my favor for under 10$

My theory of this is:

Image/McFarlane and NetherRealm Studios/Warner Bros made a decision to put Spawn in a Mortal Kombat videogame. NetherReal Studios
hosted a gaming event and had a comic book variant made by Image as a gift for the attendees. NetherReal Studios thought that would be a nice thing for the attendees.

Event is almost cancelled so there is plenty of copies left. If they were expecting 1000 attendees so maybe 1000-2000 copies? Some copies maybe went to trash along with empty soda cans and some other swag.
Then probably NetherReal Studios marketing team took bunch of those comics and other swag to their storage so if they would have a another event/stand where they do marketing for Mortal Kombat 11 they can give those away. Fast forward couple years and NetherReal Studios marketing team wants to clean some stuff from their storage and they find those comics. So they are going to release Mortal Kombat 1 (why not 12?!?) so they don't have any use for those so they bring couple boxes in NetherReal Studios office along with some other swag so personnel can take some if they want. After day or two office cleaners throw that swag in the trash. 

So some NetherReal Studios personnel or people cleaning the office sold bunch of those comics to some comic book stores who then tried to sold those comics few at a time until one seller flood the market with bunch of those because he was scared that some other seller will do the same and he will loose money.

I don't see this as a publishers wrong doing.  They made a limited comic book for a gaming event and they thought that they destroyed the copies that were not given out/or did not care. The problem with this was these youtubers and Keycollector who hyped the book and gave the wrong information. Also the collectors who bought this can blame themselves because even if there would have been 50 copies why pay thousands for this?!? Like did they think that damn if I don't buy this now it will be 2X in five years?!?  

Here is some videogame comics I have. Also have blip, earth worm jim.. 

On 8/31/2023 at 3:20 PM, FloridianDemon said:

Funnily enough I don't care about those, they are not 1st apps, 1st mario is blip 1 and nintendo comic systems preview nn is 1st zelda(and punch out!). And those books cost near the same prices

Well nintendo comics systems preview is valiant and in your opening post you wrote "video game keys are INSANELY underpriced/valued" so if you want something to invest then invest on Nintendo.

Super mario, Zelda and Pokemon are like Spider-man, Batman and Superman and all of those other games are like Animal Man and Wonder Man.

But yeah cool collection you have going on. I also have many video game based comics.

Valiant Super Mario and Zelda are must if you want to collect video game comics. So get those in 9.8. After that go after other comics. 

On 8/28/2023 at 4:04 AM, KCOComics said:

To tell a quick story - I had a coworker who discovered her father's old comics after he passed. She responded to a Craigslist Ad of someone who wanted to buy comics. He came over and offered her $50 for some old beat up GA comics. But something felt off, so she declined. Then he offered her $200... After a few weeks of silence he followed up and offered her $1,000.  

I hope that guy felt at least little bit of ashamed by himself. First offer 50$ then later 1000$  

I did like this. It is not a bad film and it is nice to see a superhero film that has different story than the normal new big bad guy arrives and hero has to defeat him and save the world. I think Ezra is a good Flash but too bad he did all that crazy stuff which hurt the success of the film. So many people already has a reason to hate film without seeing it.

Yeah kinda strange sale way more than some copies sold earlier this month and only a stock photo. Well I kinda bought my copy like that but it was like 5$.

On 8/24/2023 at 9:00 PM, littledoom said:

Fright 3 is selling for all time highs!

It seems actually be selling lower than previous maybe more copies has hit to ebay. Earlier this year it went like 200-300$ for VF copy.

Saw this like week ago. Really good like all the Gotg films. I kinda understand why some people did not like it. Much of the film don't feel at all like a Marvel film. Only kinda the ending. I did not hate Adam Warlock character because it was just not the Adam Warlock I knew from the Infinity Gauntlet story. I hope they will make another Gotg film with the new Gotg team and maybe Star-Lord will join them.

Awesome show. Best Star Wars ever.

On 8/24/2023 at 12:24 PM, Microchip said:

Can anyone explain why this issue is so hot?

That has to be really though in 9.8. Otherwise bin price seems to be like 10-20$. That cover is used in NES videogame.

I think Ellie Camacho is in 31 but I bought 30 last week because the cover with Deadpool and Dazzler. I also have couple copies of UXM 130 that I bought years ago (and Dazzler 1  )

Does anybody actually fall for the old -XX% off inventory thing. Like you are a vendor in a convention not Walmart so how should we know what are you're "old" prices?  

I would have first find out what it is that I am selling before listing it to Ebay.

"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk."

The market is way different than the 90's. In the 90's bubble like Death of Superman or some Image book like Wildcats 1 loads of average Joes went to buy those because they were hyped by the mainstream media as a future investment. With this Bry's comic or that last years Blag Flag Comics Ultimate Fallout 4 fiasco those are coveted and know by very few people. Also because Internet/Ebay the market corrects itself very fast.

Bry's comics in one of his videos month ago really hyped the book. How it has this amazing Dell'Otto cover and how expensive ASM 667 variant is etc. Well he is a salesman and that what they do but yeah.. then in the market manipulation video was saying like well prices are high in the secondary market because of this great cover etc. and talked lot about negative comments and people being toxic about manufactured scarcity and then this happen... 

Strange thread. Did this thread come here from the past 2018 when Weapon H had his own series? Better thread would be "Does anyone still remember Weapon H?"

On 7/28/2023 at 3:28 AM, smarkjobber said:

New wrinkle on this, after profusely attributing the success of his variant to Dell'Otto's artwork, Bry came out today and announced that he just discovered the art was a reused image from a German-published Spider-man book from 10 years ago.

Yeah, I stumbled on that couple days ago when I saw the sold listings. Was there a similar incident 2019 with Symbiote Spider-man 1 1:100 variant with Todd Mcfarlane cover. I kinda remember that the variant went hot and then it was discovered that it had been used in some postcards or poster in 90s.. and that variant in CGC 9.8 can be bought for 200$ so even that is better option than this Brys variant in my opinion. I don't understand why this is news for Bry's comics. Did he talk to Dell'otto who was like yes I am drawing a new cover for you.

On 7/27/2023 at 5:11 AM, fastballspecial said:

Again scarcity driving the market. Even being a store variant buyers dont care. Whats interesting is the bidding history on those 3. Looks like one bidder wanted all 3 books at one point.

 

Bry's comics youtube video. I dunno seems weird. Who knows maybe it is not the scarcity but it his fan base?!? or the sold prices are totally fake. Still I bet his next mystery boxes will sell out really fast. 

Xenozoic Tales. Mark Schultz.

On 7/24/2023 at 2:57 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Surprised it’s that popular. 
Learned something.

 

Well maybe I was oversaturating a bit but still there was and still are some Moebius collectors out there.

On 7/23/2023 at 10:37 PM, Lazyboy said:

None of them are really that low, but if you're going to claim the last issue is relatively low, you have to acknowledge that many other issues are as well.

The print run is probably the same with last issue or issue before that but because the last issue has a cover by Moebius it has been sought after from the get go.