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I wouldn't worry, just wait a few months before you scoop it up. There's probably going to be close to 150-200 9.8s out of there by the time all the companies selling it slab their pre-sales. This is before regular people do. Metal 2 also has a 700 print run vs the other's 600. Metal 1's Ultimates Virgins are already below retail cost, 4 is getting close, and 5 no doubt will as well. Just wait a bit and I'm sure this one will be too.

Please, you were rude to them on Facebook, not to mention the bolded comment is not even close to what they said. When I asked them, they were happy to retroactively refund me the $25 if I made a purchase that day. They even extended the sale another 18 hours to as an apology for anyone who couldn't purchase it. Aspen does have a big problem of trying to continue to capitalize on Turner's legacy. I'd agree there. They really need to move on and try to make more original content.

Not a bad haul. Looks like 3 "C" variants? Also, how were the grades? I suspect in the coming days will be a really good time to get some Campbell variants for cheap.

I would agree it's likely just the junk he can't sell on his website going into the boxes. Keep in mind it may also be stuff like Midtown exclusive copies that retail for $5-6.

Seriously, how bad does Marvel's QC have to be to let that slip on thousands of comics?

I'll wait for the inevitable convention exclusive edition with all 8 on one cover.

You can leave negative feedback. I've had stuff like this happen, and it was possible. With only two feedback, it'll basically kill that account's credibility at least.

Wow, I can't imagine how long that took you. Can't wait to check it out!

I have the entire dark horse star wars run, and those stories are easily in my top 5. I'm so stoked.

"Ultra limited", but no print run listed.

Anyone else notice the B&W and Color editions were just $6? Past non-virgin editions must not sell well at all.

He usually posts who does his colors. Nei Ruffino is one of his more common colorists. According to JSC's splash page, Sabine Rich did the Gwen's, and Ula Mos did the Black Cats. Also, the $5,000 was an educated guess. I've heard ballpark numbers of other artists going for around $10,000 for a cover, so $5,000 seemed in the realm of possibility. Could be more, could be less.

If that was correct, if they took 70% of a $50 comic, that'd leave the seller with $15 profit before printing costs, artist costs, inker costs, shipping costs, and marketing. A $20 comic would be just a little over $6. There is no way their cut would be anywhere near that. There's zero profit there. Marvel has tons of incentive for making this a lucrative business for store owners. It's free money, free publicity, and an easy way to artificially inflate their numbers.

Well as I stated, if Marvel charges him cover price per issue, then they still get close to $40,000. Also stated was factoring into my numbers was paying his colorist $5,000 per issue for four issues. You do make a good observation about transaction fees though. That would knock 10-15 grand off the final number. Web hosting divided up between exclusives is probably not more than a few hundred per release tops. As for your last bit, why would JSC stop if he was clearing that much money? He realizes there's a demand and he capitalizes on it. He gets to do what he loves and can make a ton of money off it. From a fan POV it's frustrating, but from a business POV I'd probably do the same thing.

Here's what I figured on the Black Cat listing. There's some generalizing here, but it's probably pretty close. I don't know exactly what it costs him per issue to print, but I remember somewhere someone saying it's Cover Price. So he printed total 9,650 copies of all variants. That's $38,600 in costs to print. For the A-D unsigned set it was $113 after 15% off. That comes out to 5,400 issues. (I realize not all D issues were sold online, but for the sake of the argument that they'll be the same price at Cons, go with me here.) D only has 1,350 issues, so just in A, B, C, D set sales alone, that's $152,550. For the remaining A-C sets, that's 2,430 issues, or 810 sets at $78 each. That comes out to $63,180. A+B sets come out to $27,000 Remaining A set comes out $7,650 That comes out to $250,380 for the sales of all the issues. This doesn't include the additional funds from signing the issues or any sales he sells at full price. If we average he signs half the books at $5 markup a pop, that's an additional $20,000. Shipping is $7, so postage and cardboard are covered there. Obviously there's costs to pay people to package stuff up and he has to pay his colorists. But even at $5,000 a color times 4 issues, and let's say an additional $10,000 in shipping labor, he's still pulling in $201,000 for that one issue.

I guess it's not in your date range, but ASM v2 #36 would be one for a general modern era comic.

It's the artist himself selling it. He states it's a Pre-Sale, so the CGC logo is just photoshopped in for now. Also, that ended at almost $900. That is insane,

Even worse frankly. $550 bucks for a signed copy... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Harley-Quinn-25th-Anniversary-1-CGC-9-8-SS-signed-GREG-HORN-1st-and-only-one-/362092029523?hash=item544e5de653

Best ones he's done in a while. That price point vs quantity is insane though. Think I'll wait for some slightly damaged copies to make their way to EBay for cheap.

That's true. It could be ink from stacking I guess. Is that usually a guaranteed grade ding?

Hi Guys, Got a question regarding a printer smudge on a book. The book is a solid 9.6-9.8 otherwise, but there's a small smudge of ink from the printing process. Was curious how bad this would affect the grade.

Joshua Middleton's Harley Anniversary Cover for Forbidden Planet:

As I understand it, the core books are self contained, and the rest just fill in backstory and side arcs.

Well glad you got it! It's been years since I worked at the PO, but you probably could argue for a refund, at least on the Registered portion since it sounds like it wasn't honored. Is there a postage cost on the package? If it's a flat rate USPS box, it should be around $28 with registered mail with $500 insurance. If it's only around $12, then CGC screwed you. As for the PO, keep the faith. They process over 500,000,000 mail pieces per day.

Registered or Certified? There's a big difference there. If it's Registered and it goes missing, that's a big frickin' deal for the USPS. I used to work at a PO, and Registered mail were literally locked up in a safe and there's a paper trail of every person who handles it. If that gets lost, you should have zero trouble getting insurance money for that. They should also have no trouble finding out who had it last and getting more info. Certified is none of that other than a record of it being sent. When was the last record of it? I also wouldn't worry too much yet. Sometimes just due to the sheer volume of mail, things get lost temporarily or put in limbo on accident. An unscanned packaged is also not that rare. Eventually things get righted. I recently had a lost package that turned out to be sitting at the PO for a month.