The Less Blob

Get married. All the stuff your wife orders will come in huge boxes you can cut up.

Skullkickers 1 homage cover was more. I love and hate the cover because you can't determine condition due to the fake creasing

Why would the less cool cover win?

well, that's what I'm saying , the OP sounded like he was interested in long term prospects and such.

Aren't the covers of 1, 2, etc in color?

The problem with all of these books is are they going to stick with them? I've been plowing through my non-Marvel/DCs boxes to make sure I have all my Invincibles handy (and to see if here's anything else cool in there) and they are just filled with so many books that started out with promise and hype and the creator moved on to the next thing after 10 or 20 or 30 issues or whatever. Yes, this seems bigger than many of those, and a book like Chew 1 is still worth a nice chunk and Saga is fine, but Thief of Thieves? Morning Glories? Some of them lasted a while, but just lost steam (Chew, Skullkickers..) Marvel might cancel a book after 6 issues, but they're still subject to revival.

Oh yes, need to know the market for sure. All raw numbers have to be viewed vs. CGC copies. But the "key" "#1" and only 9.8 mindset for someone with a $100 budget could result in someone deciding that X-Men 1 in 9.8 is their $100 option. I can think of plenty of $100 books with more upside. And telling someone they should only buy 9.8 (or even 9.4-9.6) SA slabs if they are big keys pretty much knocks most folks out of that market entirely, when they could have done tremendously over the last few years even with low grade slabs.

This is the advice being offered on one of the facebook groups to someone who asked what grade slabs they should start with: "Number #1 only buy 9.8. number #2 only buy key issues or #1's. don't buy X-Men #14, buy X-Men number one. #3 pay attention to sales of cgc stuff" uhg

wow, this guy sold too early... https://www.ebay.com/itm/164746837282?hash=item265bad3d22:g:VlcAAOSwh4BgRXlW

How are blades that can cut through almost anything a joke? I forget what was going on here, was spidey invulnerable?

the diner we used to go to pre-covid we finally returned to last friday. I got hit with a $2 charge for using my CC. i wasn't going to make a fuss over it. I think NY is allowing a CC surcharge as part of getting small businesses up and running again. it was not allowed before. i think the prices weren't much different, actually. they used to put out a crazy spread of pickles, cole slaw, beets, chick pea salad, etc. that was like a meal itself, but they cut it down to cole slaw and pickles, and the bread basket was less interesting. they don't have that much flexibility with the finances of the locals, half of whom seem to come in and split the meal between two people.

It is funny how most of us accept the tax man taking 25, 30, 35% or more of our paychecks we slave over 40, 50, 70 hours a week to earn (ok, "accept" that it is just a fact of life), but when he comes for comic book profits earned by sticking a book in a box and waiting a while, we get outraged!

I dunno, when I can convert six or seven books I bought out of a dollar box into a slabbed Detective 359 I can't complain. If you're selling and buying this market is fine. If your collection consists entirely of long term keepers you would never want to sell, i guess that is a problem.

Will it make for a lot of $50 books in the future if anything in them gets hot or will it just kill interest in the franchise? In theory if they are giving more content pages than a $3.99 comic it should not matter, though realistically folks are going to buy half as much. DC is betting that "event" books continue to sell in big numbers. DC tried this before in the 70s.. twice, trying to push higher cover prices via more pages, and it didn't work either time. Folks are willing to pay the $ for a giant size, but not for every issue in a title spread out over several titles. People have a limit to what they will spend on what is generally, 95% of the time, a rapidly depreciating asset (and obviously a chunk of folks don't view them as an asset at all, the read them, toss them in a box, whatever) Have they deluded themselves into thinking they can do this for every book just because people bought a ton of the joker series at $6.99? (and anyone doing so thinking the books might get hot got burned... these event books rarely do...right away at least They are managing to cut their sales at a time when comics are hot.

Anything else? Not that I have money for anything else.

no, regular is a lot more in 9.8. not gonna bother looking at census, maybe frison comes back as 9.8 more easily, dunno. i feel like when i sold my frison "nice" raws of the regular were maybe $50 more, but I might be misremembering

I think the regular is a little more, not sure why if equal ratios. Frison cover was cooler

If it is still a. $15 book in 3 months you will be a genius

signing bonus of 100,000 pre-screen rejects

Except the 1st print was under 50K, so why would folks care about an 8th print with a significantly larger one? 75K is yuuuuuuge for a late print like this. between all the different prints there are a lot of #1s floating around. that this Sure, late prints of TNMT 1 and Bone 1 are now worth something, but it took a loooong time and those titles have some staying power. Why is the 8th print selling for $15-20? Save your money and buy the first print. the frison variant is gorgeous and is still often under $150.

People are cray?

Chicken legs just cost me 69 cents a pound. After a bit of a rise from pandemic levels, gas is back to $2.80 a gallon by me. I do see some stuff a bit more expensive like eating at a cheaper restaurant is less cheap, but locally our minimum wage went to $15, rents didn't go down, and those restaurants were hurting for a while, so I wouldn't blame that on a dollar. The dollar vs. Euro is about what it has normally been, and the dollar is stronger vs. some bad times, not sure about the Chinese currency because China manipulates that. On the other hand, the EU primed the pump a lot too with stimulus, so they may also be diluted.

At $68k we are talking a cheap housr

When a house in any area doesn't sell for the next high folks don't lose their minds. I understand slabs are uniform (sort of) commodities, but folks understand that in any given week... Also, so when I decide not to try and squeeze every cent out of a booker and accept a best offer below the last auction is am crashing the market?

So folks here are getting into histrionics about a crash if one insane auction result is not followed by an equally insane result? Once upon a time we would look at nutso auctions and assume they next one would be lower because the craziest bidder already got their book. Now we are surprised that the #2 bidder doesn't want to pay more than before?