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4 hours ago, Jaydogrules said:

What the printer charges for creating the product and what Marvel charges for publishing it are two different things- it is their intellectual property that he is capitalizing on after all- I guarantee you their cut is probably in the 70% range, AT LEAST.

-j.

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.

1 hour ago, Jaydogrules said:

What about Marvel's cut? The colorist?  Web hosting?  Transaction expenses? Etc. 

If he was actually clearing that kind of money per cover he wouldn't have to pump out so many.  I'd be surprised if his take home per cover was significantly greater than $25k after all was said and done.  Still not bad at all.  

-J.

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.

9 hours ago, MDR123 said:

Hmmm, seems odd. The poor photoshop of the old label/case. The signature. Seems like there are some red flags for sure. 

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.

On 8/8/2017 at 8:01 PM, Ranger565 said:

Hey guys, Wampler from the start of the  Page. I finally got the nerve to send off my Uncanny x-men 510 sketch variant at SDCC CGC,  The book is now lost in the mail.  Its a 9.4 and i have the Number.  Guys I am sick to my stomach and I dont know what to do.  I have CGC looking into it and the post office said that they just did not scan the package,  Looks like its gone guys.  If it pops up, Please let me know. I will be checking Ebay and other venues as possible leads.  The Package is Registered Mail and Tracking, it just stops in  Santa Clarita Ca,  And they cant find it.  

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.

22 hours ago, Reno McCoy said:

Any guesses as to what a 9.8 copy of the Death/Thor comic might sell for out the gates? I've been getting into Hughes again more and more, but it's already feeling like this one will start out out of reach for me. 

Depends if it's featuring female Thor or male Thor. He can draw males well, but the demand is way lower for them. Either way, I'd wait two months and the cost will be down to manageable prices.

4 hours ago, punksdropdirtysrh said:

The Dell Otto variant for #1 is 

Agreed, it's very generic for a Del Otto. Mattina's my favorite so far.

Anyone else really excited for this? Seems like this could be a pretty big event for DC with long term reprecussions. It almost seems like its DC's version of Edge of Venom-Verse with the evil Batmen Justice League except that it's going to be cannon.

On 7/31/2017 at 3:23 PM, IndyKMB said:

Now the big question for me...do I break it open hoping for a Grail or do I sell.  Hard to beat a flip at nearly $400, unless, of course, a Negan is in there.

 

Congrats! I guess it depends on how much effort you want to put into flipping the ones you don't want into cash. Are you potentially okay with taking the time and effort to sell 25 books to make an additional $100-200 profit?

Just now, Praxis52 said:

JSC just released his variants for Astonishing X-Men #1..  Kinda "meh" to me.

 

 

I like A. Glad that's the cheapest one. I wonder if this is going to be the mystical 4th Convention exclusive D cover issue?

$1495 to attend the JSC luncheon. WTF? 

What a great way to alienate your fanbase.

Anyone else get an email about the JSC VIP Luncheon during SDCC?

I'll take a raw of the JSC if there's any left.

Over $100 shipped for the signed set after the promo code. 3,450 copies of A, 3,050 copies of B, and 1,700 of C. I dig the covers, but I'll wait for the inevitable price drop on Ebay.

On 5/23/2017 at 11:30 PM, NamesJay said:

My luck hitting 9.8's with jscottcampbell.com books hit a wall with the ASM #25's. I submitted three of each cover and only got two back 9.8 (1 Cover A and 1 Cover C). First time I haven't been able to put together a set, since I always buy three sets. 

Going to try to trade a raw set for a 9.8 Cover B (if anybody is interested...)

You're lucky. My set looked like someone dropped on their corners then stepped on it for all three copies before packaging it up. Needless to say i won't buy from them again. 

On 5/19/2017 at 5:29 AM, Polirer said:

Any insight into JSC announcement about MJ and Avengers JSC store exclusive?

I'd assume it's going to be a full body shot MJ in her Spidey outfit, smiling, and not showing her feet. The "ultra rare" version will have some of the other Avengers sketched in the background.

I think what irks me more than the upping of quantity is the fact that he's pricing them at $90 and dropping his discount code value when the retail price of the book is $5. I could *maybe* buy the increase with ASM 25 since it's a $10 book, but not this one. I'm glad I like his A and B covers more, because those go for way less than retail on Ebay a month after it's released.