The Less Blob

i think it is going to depend on how many folks buying these books are long haul collectors or whether they were looking for a quick in and out. if you are financially stable and overpaid for your ASM 122 9.8 15 years ago there is no mad rush to sell it off. You wait. The folks who tended to buy these books probably have a much higher level of financial stability than your average joe. But if folks who recently got into comics thinking they'd make 25% yearly gains decide they're not making them pull out, and if there are actually a lot of these people, maybe we have a problem.

didn't that get hot last year?

ok, the OP has the image up on CAF. I don't even know if he took that scan. But I guess they want a better one for any book. anyway, do any of the experts here know if they actually make money on something like this? in theory i guess they must hope to make a little bit, otherwise, why do it? so IDW does these DC artist editions?? https://www.idwpublishing.com/product-category/art-books/art-books-artist-edition/dc-comics/

It is worth what its worth whether a reprint, a variant, whatever. Outside of Deadpool Rookie cards and X-Men 1 Omega Red sketch art where prices have no connection to supply, the market is still excited about perceived rarity for whatever reason.

seems to be cranking out art, prints, books of art... love his stuff, but if I'm spending $350 I guess I want OA, not a print... his original paintings were $2-3K last time I saw his booth at NYCC a coupe of years ago: https://www.worldofthekuntsler.com/

The heat seems to be in the $10-15 range for now. But that rookie card could be worth millions...

It is different than your own original photo. Your scan of the page is a possibly derivative work. You have no right to license it without the permission of the underlying copyright owner. While your CAF scan might be a derivative work, frankly, I question whether it would receive its own copyright protection. Reading this circular from the copyright office, I actually wouldn't assume you have any IP rights in your CAF scan: https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf If you did something that added to or transformed the image, perhaps. But yeah, if they need something better than the CAF image, you doing work to get them a better image ought to get you some compensation. Time is money.

She Hulk 1 might be a keeper though. If the show is good there could be years of hilarity and hijinx. They have a great actress playing her, although they don't have the physicality and sex appeal going on. Eternals might be marvel's first disaster of this era if it doesn't have a sense of humor and I can't imagine it will. GOTG worked because it was funny, despite being obscure characters. Ditto Ant Man. On the other hand, it has quite a cast, so maybe all those individual part meld and it is magic.

I really liked it. But in the second season, i think (when did they meet the slavic gods?), we found it hard to stay awake deep into episodes. We're old and we couldn't stay awake on them past 11. I had the same problem with Good Omens. i'm not saying that made it bad, it is just that some shows I can stay awake on.

They were pretty popular. And would you ever throw that out? Condition is another thing. these were meant to be read and they were read. I heard the same story from multiple shop owners. the conan guys kept their books and usually respected them. not bagging and boarding, per se. in the 80s and early 90s a couple of these collections would walk in a month, some guy who lifted a lot of weights, had been collecting them for 10-20 years, had just moved on from the genre, the wife wanted to de-clutter, etc., so they always had a steady flow of these books, which kept them cheap

He wants to play wolverine. He's 6' 5". they need to stop. he'd make a fine sabretooth like his brother.

They're half brothers. Pablo is taller. Lief has some other brothers too, they may be half, not sure:

when I list mine tonight they will immediately cease being worth anything I'm just saying Detective 359 has been and is an expensive book. I don't know what a 9.4 copy is worth, but 8.5s are like $3500 already. $10K? I'm just saying I'm not sure there's an explosion left in it. The cards were worthless 5 minutes ago. That's very different than a book that is already worth hundreds and thousands. Teen Titans has a pretty good show on TV. Did it make the first app explode? (If anything DC Presents 26 may have gone up in the last year because (1) everything went up and (2) it is arguably undervalued. Harley Quinn has maybe the best cartoon on TV. It is frigging hilarious. But her firsts were already expensive and it didn't do anything. in 8.5 359 is already 3x the price on an Iron Man 55. Thanos was the villian in 27 marvel movies. and while he is dead at this moment, there's no reason to believe we won't be seeing him again.

he's worth about $350 million, so he can afford a lot of things! yes, it came through, he is barely up to his current model wife's chin! he looks like an elderly child next to her. true, nielson also dwarfed him, but he didn't look like a little old man then. ...

We discussed it in the copper covers thread, but the last few issues of Ronin and some of the later Marvel Fanfare (the painted Sheena covers) certainly have that potential in 9.8. I wouldn't say the sheena books are necessarily dollar books, they sell for a few bucks on ebay, but a lot of books like that can be found in $1-$2 boxes if you hunt hard enough. and ronin 6 is not a book i have found in a dollar box, although i have all the others

A mid-grade copy is $500 and that's after jon probably shaved $100-200+ off the FMV (a CGC 5.5 recently sold for $800, a 5.0 for $722). How much more skyrocketing can it possibly have in it?

I got a few out of $2 boxes at NYCC 3 or 4 years ago. they were not 9.8s for sure. 8.0-9.0

Metallica is one of the biggest selling groups of all time. https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=top_tallies&ttt=TAA#search_sectionPlus, Lars is married to Wonder Woman's mom! He raised property values!

yup. of course, if they are $100 in a CGC slab I would think they wouldn't be $100 in a $7-10 "slab", then again, my comic shop gradings sometimes = CGC prices. not sure about comic connect's grading. does comic connect try to parse out grades above 9.4? it seems that my comic shop is loath to call anything over a 9.0, at least on consignment books, which I understand.

this one sells for $30+ in VF. somebody put up a few BINs while not checking ebay prices that went $1.50-2.00, but a presentable copy is still a decent chunk. no idea why.

With all of that said, my comic shop basically charges $5 to grade a book and comic connect does the same. what they don't give is a label with the grade you can show or a sealed stiff mylar. one of those comic size card holder thickness mylars, slip the book inside entombed in a mylite and a high quality back (because you don't want to destroy 10% of the books sliding them in) and a holgram type sticker with the name of the comic and grade that will be destroyed if you try to remove it would be sufficient for most books.

huh? Isn't it just one of many potential images they'd like to use or do they want to put every perez cover in? it is george perez's IP though. which i assume DC owns (I don't know what their arrangement is). it is not the OPs work. it is actually a violation of copyright law for you to take a photograph of the perez page and sell the image without perez or DC's permission. you have a derivative right to control the image that you generated, but you don't own the image per se and have absolutely no right to license it without the underlying owner's permission. honestly, the only reason you can display the image on CAF is that there is a general fair use exception in copyright law that usually allows you to display the image of a physical object you own even if you don't own the underlying IP

I have carefully avoided reading any comic that has them in them. Are they supposed to be Chicago or Toronto or even more obscure, like Buffalo or Cleveland or Detroit? Or Duluth?

As this was one buyer getting it at the opening price and nobody else bidding it is hard to predict future sales. The one guy who wanted to spend real money on that book might now have it. On the other hand, there might be 10 who want to spend $50 on a raw NM copy...

If this WW #4 page was bought from Heritage or some other seller they may still have a scan and it is their's to do with as they please in terms of anything with DC (they can't publish it themselves..maybe Perez as well...it all depends on their agreement). I am guessing their scans are not high quality enough to publish and it really needs to be re-done?