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On 5/5/2024 at 5:56 PM, mr_highgrade said:

On 5/5/2024 at 4:58 PM, fastballspecial said:

All I heard at FCBD at the local shops I went to was this. 

X-men 97 is fantastic repeatedly. 

 

Is it translating to any Copper X-men sales?

The Storyline currently is affecting late copper early modern sales quite a bit. 

Next season will probably still in the early modern era for a while, but 1st issue
appearances have spiked a few in Copper. 

All I heard at FCBD at the local shops I went to was this. 

X-men 97 is fantastic repeatedly. 

On 4/21/2024 at 3:04 AM, BuraddoRun said:

Far too many spiders. But Slott writes Spider-Boy as a fun character, so I think it's a mix of true fan enjoyment and spec.

Exactly

On 4/20/2024 at 8:40 PM, Toz said:

Been hoarding DS covers for years.Multiple copies on many.

Regarding art Adams & Adam Hughes.Art Adams is fantastic in his own right.I loved his Longshot and work he did for ABC,BUT,he can't hold a candle to Dave.Dave is a legand.His second creation(after Aurora),made it to the big screen.

AH is the currenmt GGA master and I have been getting a lot of his covers.Older works were much better but he can still knock it out of the park.

Scott Campbell? He did some mighty fine work early on but some of the recent stuff just makes my eyes hurt.

Dave is quickly rising to the top ranks of comic book artists.But.like who you want.

Its harder to compare more current artists because they have become cover artists only.
They rarely do interior art anymore and who can blame them when they can make more from doing covers. 

While Campbell is not my favorite he is one the best at producing and selling his own cover art. 

On 4/20/2024 at 7:10 AM, Ryan. said:

Dealers have boxes of Stevens books that have been sitting in their back issue bins for decades. Now they've just graduated to being wall books. At the local convention I visited last weekend you could throw a dart and find whichever Stevens book you were looking for. 

I still find them in $1 boxes at flea markets and such. Its still not known well on many titles yet.

On 4/21/2024 at 8:16 AM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

When you're dealing with Exclusives, a lot of the early sales are going to be completists or speculators. Consistent sales well after release indicates heat. I imagine a lot of the buyers here hadn't heard of this particular variant, and are grabbing it up "just in case"

Right and my question would be how much they paid originally and is the price pattern going up or down? 

On 4/15/2024 at 12:49 PM, the blob said:

My son is majoring in construction management, but other than being semi handy and putting together furniture for us has no real experience, he worked maintenance at a beach club last summer so he did haul around and wear work gloves though. We're hoping he can find a moderately relevant job in construction as a general laborer this summer when he comes home in 3 weeks or as an intern for some company in the field, but it isn't so easy to do this in advance and without connections I'm not so sure how doable that is. It doesn't help that his math/science grades were not great and the first year they don't really teach you anything relevant about the industry, you're getting prerequisites out of the way. They have a great consruction/carpentry lab but you don't have access until you're taking upper level classes. The people I knew are long dead or retired and the people I know have no use for an 18 year old for a few months. He could stand by the Duncan Donuts with all the undocumented guys for whom the going rate is apparently $150-200 a day and stand out as someone who speaks English for sure, but I'm afraid they might not like him trying to take the work, he'd be the only legal there. 

Have him go down the union hall and ask if they need anyone to help out this summer. In my area they would take an 18 year old for the summer all day and twice on Sunday, but you only be so picky about what job you want. 

On 4/14/2024 at 4:35 PM, MrWeen said:

Invincible fascinates me because prices have steadily reason for most of the series.

Well its well written that helps, but also the print runs were really low at beginning and end of series.
The 12 issue ending is a must have. I've sold 3 sets and I rarely keep them more then a couple of months.

On 4/15/2024 at 3:46 AM, BuraddoRun said:

Found a stash of these Saturday (1st pic), then went back Sunday to spend more time digging and found a bunch more (remaining pics). All at HPB for half of cover, so $2.50  a pop. I never bought any of these combo packs polybagged when they were new, but someone mentioned somewhere how the bags disintegrate, and I gotta say, yeah, they definitely do! The Nite Owl book was bagged and boarded but still had the polybag inside, and when I rebagged it, plastic fell everywhere and made a huge mess. Every time I tried to pick up a piece of plastic, it would fall apart into even tinier pieces. So annoying! I'm thankful literally only that 1 book still had its original polybag. The rest looked like they were debagged shortly after they were originally purchased. So Protip: if you have some of these still polybagged, take them somewhere like your garage, or outside (though that's bad for the environment), or a Dexter-like kill room or something and extract your comics carefully so you can re bag-and-board them. That plastic is nasty stuff!

 

Yeah the bags are absolute junk. Here we got sealed books from the 90s that still hold up well, but these
bags actually fall apart right in your hands. 

Nothing there to back it, but a lower print run. 
Biggest Hoax in the market. Paid $1 then hold it, paid more then that
sell it. 

Couple of JSA newsstands. Not valuable, but I never see them so I scanned them
just to prove they do exist

On 4/10/2024 at 3:49 PM, MAR1979 said:

 

Is $103 then an outlier or Downward Sublimation to its new normal FMV?

Its an auction. All that needs to be said.

On 4/11/2024 at 12:42 PM, MAR1979 said:

and demand is sinking.  ASM Direct Sales 300 in 9.8 will negatively breach 2k before end of year 2024.   2 years ago 9.6 were commanding near 2k.

Spawn 1 what a total frickin' joke. Highest 9.8 and above population ALL-TIME. The 9.8 and 9.9 numbers are staggeringly huge and still growing!!!  There are less grains sand on a beach than copies of Spawn 1 in 9.8+

Books	CGC Label	CGC Total	Avg. Grade	10	9.9	9.8	9.6	9.4	9.2	9.0	8.5	8.0	7.5	7.0	6.5	6.0	5.5	5.0	4.5	4.0	3.5	3.0	2.5	2.0	1.8	1.5	1.0	0.5
1. Spawn 1 (5/92, Image Comics)             1st appearance of Spawn (Al Simmons). 2nd Image "i" logo. Pull-out Spawn poster.	Universal	25,329	9.54	6	69	11,758	6,577	3,217	1,530	974	533	328	129	109	45	26	13	7	2	3					1			2

Wont matter book will still sell for $20 to $25 at shows. I just sold one for $25 last show I think. Now slab buyers can 
punish sellers more due to glut. 

On 4/9/2024 at 8:18 AM, F For Fake said:

I remember waaaaaay back in the days of working at a LCS (we're talking 25 years ago) we would pay 10 cents a piece for Spawn 1's, and sell them for $10 each, and we never ran out of copies coming into, or selling out of, the shop. it was the easiest and fastest flip imaginable, with a seemingly never-ending supply to go with a never-ending demand. Price them above $10 and they'd sit, but at 10 bucks, they'd move all day long.

Going forward, I had a hard time paying more than $1 for a copy, because I'd seen so many of them over the years, I just couldn't justify the cost. Eventually that bumped up to about $3. Nowadays, I might be willing to spend $10 for a really sharp copy, but that would still make me grit my teeth. I walked into a LCS this weekend, and they had a raw, standard copy on the wall asking $60??? Looks like eBay prices are $20-$30, which seems crazy. 9.8 slabs are selling for under $150 these days, why not just go that route? Crazy stuff.

We are now seeing a generation of collectors that have no idea how many copies are out there of certain books. If you are at a show and you dont see ASM 300, Spawn 1 and Avengers Annual 10 its a really bad show. There are just alot of copies in general. 

On 3/29/2024 at 5:18 PM, littledoom said:

On 3/29/2024 at 5:07 PM, the blob said:

I have 30 copies in a box somewhere. I should find them. Not a copper, but is Superman 204 really now a $10+ book? I have 50 copies somewhere....

Used to be a solid $5 seller based on the iconic Jim Lee cover

I look at the time for a newsstand copy never see one.

On 3/29/2024 at 12:52 PM, shadroch said:

I might price one at $10 and the others at $5. I sell at many non-traditional venues, so I'm curious how my pricing will align with that of the twenty or so other vendors. 

My supplier seems to have an endless supply of issues 1-6.

My LCS always told me Spawn 1 was his best repeat seller. Id buy them all if you get them that cheap. I sell them routinely at shows for $20 in NM and higher.

Loved the games there. It was a great place. Met several boardies there. 

It got spammed so many times Hoss finally took it down. I still miss it. 
People from all over I remember some great people on there from Canada as well. 

Our 7th show I think in current location. 20 Dealers from 4 states in attendance. Free Admission and Parking.
Large indoor mall with plenty of space to walk around. You will spend hours here if you like comics. Also a nice
local pizza place in the mall if you want lunch. Everything from Golden Age to Current moderns will be at the show. 
I built this show because I was tired of going to Cons and not have very many comic book dealers and paying to get
in to find out. If you live close by to Evansville, IN you will not be disappointed. 

Facebook link below to join group. 
Southern Indiana Comic Book Show | Facebook

On 3/25/2024 at 7:22 PM, sonicdan said:

Valiant / Acclaim Comics Ninjak newsstand editions: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So in your opinion which ones are the most difficult to find. I tend to find Bloodshot the 
most. I think I might have only found one Ninjak over the years. 

Adding another 50 or so books. I focus on high grade hard to find and or last issue.
I am an OCD/run collector's dream come true.

Nice NM Conans in 200s. 
Some Newsstands from Marvel DC in 2007-2010 NM Copies.
Conan mini series from late 90s in NM
Marvel Tales McFarlane Covers 
Marvel Zombies Variant Covers
Tom and Jerry 1 from Dell Comics in 1958 Nice Copy
Hack Slash
Ghost Rider
Crossed 
Among other issues just listed. 

FBS COMICS
 

This was all over Facebook before X-men 97 come out. Now that its got rave reviews all the haters have disappeared.
I don't understand where the toxic comic book fans have come from all of sudden.