The Less Blob

#1 is definitely more valuable currently. I just got decent copies of the first print of #2 for $15 and $25, shipped, respectively, i see more of the #2 out there, unless elfquest fanatics are just hoarding the #1. i don't see any 1st print #1 anywhwere close as cheap. which is odd, if it came out after elfquest was already gaining popularity you'd think the #1 would have had a big print run

um, a week ago it was a $439 book... i think yogolak needs to investigate price fixing and collusion on these. i know the next godzilla movie just hit HBO, but i haven't heard it is any good

I do not know the book, but are there little things that might make a lot of them 9.6ses and it might actually be expensive to mine a 9.8 out of a stack of 20 really nice ones? $5 pre-screens add a chunk to the cost of things if 10 don't make the cut. They all look perfect to me in the dollar box, but who am I to judge?

Well, a pretty bad looking showcase 22 is still in the $1500-2000 range, but that isn't because of anything recent. Action 252 is about half that, true. The showcase 22 is around the same price as a strange tales 110. I don't know what the census says, but it does seem like GL is a bigger character and should be more than Dr. Strange, although not based on recent movie appearances.

I couldn't even get myself to buy copies for 66 cents each at my shop when he'd put 30 in the boxes. oh well.

I actually did not mind his earlier stuff. At some point in the New Mutants run it got way too hyper stylized. I guess he started off trying to look like McFarlane and then lost it?

he had his toy company, but i don't think he had the mental distractions like kirkman who saw a lot more $ working on his TV shows than writing comics to sell 30-40,000 copies of. in some article circa 2018 he claimed he made more money from the comics than the TV show, but that likely included the TPBs, which may generate more $ than floppies. i am guessing he got a better deal with the invincible show than WD?

My guess is that Image could come out with second printings of these "lost years" issues and probably sell more than the first time around. the 1st prints are so expensive it would make sense. I can't think of any title from the last 30 years where such a long run of books from is double digit $, they start in the 80s and go into like the 270s, virtually nothing under $10.

seriously, the bags and boards cost more than that. i don't even know where to start to find collections like that in the wilderness. in my neck of the woods i'd be worried about coming to an address and getting jumped at gunpoint. i did have a guy sell me comics when I was selling at my yardsale. he came around and sold me a box for $25. some decent stuff in there. I should have given him my # for any future sales.

I have been buying lately. Just not the stuff the speculators are interested in. Hoping to be three steps ahead of them. I honestly think money going into certain books means deals to be had on other stuff. These guys today don't care about artists, for example, particularly ones from 50 years ago, unless they're attached to a key issue. And they don't care about certain properties unless there is a current movie/TV rumor.

that makes sense, they tweaked the letters

then what are the people in the letters section referring to? the cgc label on #1 says 1979, so I guess you're right. are the folks in the letter section referrng to FQ 1, but calling it the first issue of elfquest? the first print of #1 is definitely way too expensive for a reprint that came out after #2

I agree as a fair amount of problems can exist in 9.4

Read the letters section in the first print. Folks are commenting on Elfquest 1, not FQ 1. The inside cover is a little ambiguous. As the insides of 1 are the same as FQ 1, maybe what they say on the cover needs to be read in that context?

Nobody didn't want 129. For a while in around 2000 nice, but inked, copies were running $25 on ebay. It did not fade into the $2 boxes. Yeah, compared to the early 90s it might as well as been dead.

Why do we assume these are even 8.0? Did you see them in person? My point is, when people post a photo like this they're often trying to imply the book is super common hoarded or whatever. I don't know how they came upon these, but it wouldn't have been hard or expensive pitting it together way back when. The main reason I don't have 100 copies of cap 172 is that I only went to 1-2 shows a year.

It is what it is. Just accept it. It doesn't make your 400 copies of YA 1 less valuable

Stop robbing little old ladies. If the rest of the collection consists of 4000 copies of Ravage 2099 #3 I am not impressed.

200,000+ copies were sold i presume. Any one of us collecting in the 90s could have put together a similar pile and not been bankrupted. Maybe not so now.

How many in a case? The first print of Elfquest 1 is pretty hard to find on ebay. I would like one, but 2-7 are pretty affordable.

It is no less a key than Defenders 1 or Submariner 1. Which means, to some, it is not. It is a long since ended title, but how many different versions of MTU have been made? 5? That should mean something. And Misty Knight is cool. As for Torch, yes, he and they FF were popular then. Not quite enough to get his own title, but mix him in a few times a year.

In the 90s you could get nice copies for $10 and under and into the early years of ebay. If you simply chased ever $10 or less copy this is feasible.

I forget where you have them history, but it seems Elfquest 1 (reprint of FQ 1 with a new cover? Anything else new?),was before 2, based on the letters section in the first print of 2. I'd be chasing 1 if it had more than a new cover.

Who the heck has that many copies of that book????

I'd buy a stack too. But I've been waiting for that book to pop since I got my first copy in 1983 or so. Hope springs eternal.