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Michael Browning
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As far as Image newsstands: Today, I found a near-complete run of WildCATS from 1-19, Shadow Hawk 1-3, Deathblow 3-11, several Spawns and several Gen 13 issues (no #1). The shop owner has them all priced at what they sell for on eBay, so I passed on all of them. They range from $6-$4 each, which, for these, I think is too high. The owner has had them since they were published and keeps hiking the prices each year on them as the owner does with all the shop's back issues that don't sell, so I don't buy that many from that particular shop. (The funny thing is, when I start looking at the shop's back issue comics, the owner makes note of what I've looked at and then goes back in and reprices them higher, despite the fact that most haven't sold in years and probably won't anytime soon. Sometimes I pull stuff to look at, take it up to the counter and ask the owner about it, put it back in its longbox, then go back the next week to see if it is priced higher. Many times it is.)
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10 hours ago, fastballspecial said:
I have never found a Turok newsstand for some reason. Found a lot of every other title, but no Turoks I had to go
to look them up because I didn't think there were any.The one I remember best is the Shadowman 0 issue, which I found on the newsstand. There were others, but I was already getting everything VALIANT produced at my LCS, so I didn't pay much attention to those on the newsstands. Plus, they were always very badly bent from the spinner rack.
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9 hours ago, BishopT said:
I love this comic, have a few with one still in the original bag from the package. Even though it's plentiful, I still pick up the regular version of this cover (467) when I find them for a buck or two and have a couple newsstand editions of it. One of Bachalo's better covers, IMO.
Is that the copy that was packaged with the Psylocke action figure?
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I've been trying to collect all the early appearances of Cheryl Blossom for a while now, without having to pay extremely high prices, but there just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of cheap copies out there. I used to find these in flea markets and in dollar boxes, but even the comic shops that used to have them cheap are now picking them out and pricing them at Overstreet and eBay prices. I have picked up several pieces of Cheryl Blossom original art, including this pinup from her third appearance in Archie's Pals N Gals #161:
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3 hours ago, fastballspecial said:
Found these 3 today. I haven't seen a copy of any of the 3, but I knew the Deathblow existed. The other2 I now know exists all pretty nice copies too. I almost passed on the DB 1 because it looks nothing like the black cover and the Union 1 is the same as the Supreme 1 without the gold embossed. Very pleased I had to look thru 5 boxes of Image stuff, but they were there.
I hated the newsstand editions when they were coming out and I never realized that there would ever be anyone who wanted this stuff because they were flat and boring compared to the direct sales editions. And, honestly, buying a lot of my comics from the local newsstand spinner rack, I saw these only occasionally. I looked for Spawn 1 and Youngblood 1 on the newsstand, but didn't see them. I did see the WildCATS 2 and thought they looked terrible and very cheap. I do remember the Supreme, which was probably the worst of the bunch.
No one ever mentions how rare the VALIANT newsstands are. I remember those, too, very briefly, when VALIANT was expanding its line (far too quickly and without the quality of the earlier VALIANT comics, I have to say).
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I found this in a dollar box: Excalibur 71 with the blue hologram (with just a slight bit of green on the lower left corner).
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3 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:
Looks like its headed this way
Those are rare? Gosh, I've got lots of the DCU variants. I hadn't been paying attention.
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On 8/30/2017 at 4:40 PM, revat said:
Several of those Groo trade paperbacks, whether from epic or from Dark Horse, are pretty rare. I'm not sure why Dark Horse doesn't do those big omnibus trade paperbacks of Groo, but some of these TPBs command high prices when they pop up. I always buy them when I find them in stores, but that's not very often. At one point, Borders (when it was still around) had them for sale and clearanced them, so I bought what they had, but that was years ago. Haven't seen many since.
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Anybody who wants those Image newsstands can private message me. I'm not looking to keep any of them and I'm only buying them because it's kind of fun when I go through several long boxes of Images comics and find only one of these per long box.
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And, the last one for the night, which is possibly the hardest comic I've had to find in a long, long time: Betty 8 featuring a very racy cover by Dan DeCarlo. This is the only copy I've ever been able to find.
- F For Fake, divad and Mighty Hal
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A few other Image newsstands:
Angela 3, Spawn 97, Darker Image 1 (2 copies), Brigade 1 (2 copies), Cyberforce 29, WildCATS Trilogy 1 and Spawns 8, 10, 20, 23, 25 and 37.
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Found these Image newsstands in dollar boxes:
Spawn 3, 7, 11, 23 and 26
Deathblow 1 and 2
WildCATS 2 and Brigade 2
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I also found this Image newsstand variant in my long boxes of 1990s junk: Spawn 1.
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I found all of these this weekend for $.25-$1.00 each. CBS Action Hour, Be X-Tra Safe with Blockbuster Video Kidprint and the X-Men, Bravura 0 hologram cover and newsstand editions of Wildstar #1, Union #2, WildCATS Adventures #3 and #4, Team 7 #1 and WildCATS Trilogy #2.
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WildCATS #1 3D from 1997.
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5 minutes ago, PhilipB2k17 said:
This one. Although, looking at it, I can see why. And the Drax Origin page from IM 55 with Thanos in it sold for like 12k last year.
http://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?id=1043256&showprice=1
So, my 30K prediction is probably quite high. But, I'll stick with it. Can't renig now!
Makes me thankful I didn't trade my Strange Tales page away earlier this year.
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10 hours ago, PhilipB2k17 said:
Just for fun, I thought I'd start a thread for people to predict the final hammer price for this Iron Man 55 Drax/Iron Man battle panel page by Jim Starlin.
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1412439&GSub=183268
The Drax splash from this book just sold for $44,777. And a Starlin Warlock page recently sold for $22,750
I'm guessing $30K for this one. Maybe a tad higher.
What Starlin Warlock page sold so high?
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11 hours ago, Wolverinex said:
I really lucked out. It was priced at 9.99. NM
Is that book a rare book? If so, I had no idea.
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On 3/9/2017 at 10:13 PM, Michael Browning said:
Here is my Dave Stevens art that I got this week: Dave Stevens unpublished Wonder Woman cover from 1991.
I wanted to add to this that I offered it to DC Comics as a variant cover for the current Wonder Woman series and they turned it down, saying it wasn't a very good Dave Stevens Wonder Woman. My argument is that it is STILL A DAVE STEVENS WONDER WOMAN COVER.
The reason I offered this to DC as a variant cover is that last year, when it was announced that Marvel was celebrating Captain America's 75th anniversary, I contacted Marvel and offered them my Steranko Cap commission as a variant cover and they jumped at the chance and Steranko actually offered them 11 other commissions as variant covers, eight of which have already been published (including mine). So, I thought this was a great opportunity for DC to do the same with Wonder Woman (although it wasn't much of a 75th anniversary celebration). Unfortunately, they did not agree with me. Oh well, it's DC's loss.
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19 hours ago, Bronty said:
I feel the same way; I put no stock in any opinion except my own . I suppose some new to the hobby might benefit from it but they might also be harmed by it. No substitute for having to think it through yourself IMO
When a big auction house was wanting to auction off some of my covers, they tried to give me estimates of what they thought my art would sell for. Knowing how a couple of my friends have lost big after hearing these great estimates, I said "Thank you, but no thank you." I look at what art has sold for in the past and how much similar pieces are still up for sale for (those that have been up for sale for awhile without selling).
Is this a bad idea?
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Would you do that inside your 9.8 NM comics? And, do you care who owned your prized comics before you as long as YOU own it NOW? This is a terrible idea. Just keep a written record in its bag/mylar/portfolio if it's that important to you.
And, honestly, does provenance mean that much? Maybe I'm not looking at this issue correctly, but I don't care who owned it before me or who owned it before the previous owner.