valiantman

Yep, I've got a couple. Any in particular you'd like to see?

Maybe someday, when people have learned to tell the difference between zeroes and ones, you can teach them how a quantum computer works. Until then, let's stick to "returnable" and "non-returnable" as our definitions of newsstand and direct. Just two things... people can't handle these two things yet. People are definitely not ready for "well-it-is-non-returnable-but-it-is-not-a-direct-but-it-is-definitely-not-a-newsstand-but-what-about-June-1979-but-not-DC-or-anyone-else-just-Marvel-but-not-Amazing-Spider-Man-those-are-different-but-June-1979-man-come-on-that-is-all-I-want-to-talk-about". They are not ready.

June 1979 is important, but it isn't helpful for Amazing Spider-Man (the biggest Marvel title). There are direct (non-returnable) editions of Amazing Spider-Man as early as #165 (February 1977). Teaching people that Marvel starts direct editions June 1979 would be helpful, but the most important Marvel title goes direct as early as February 1977... so that's like saying the rule is "I before E except for words people use most often".

I'm sure we'd all prefer comics without damage (such as holes in the cover), but it's always a nice consolation when the damaged areas actually match the action pretty well.

The problem is the seller might not know but many savy buyers do. You just hope there aren’t many of those looking… True, but that adds to the thrill. All without traveling anywhere, getting a hotel, paying admission, or standing in line outside the doors.

I like to hunt through ebay listings to find something where the seller doesn't know what they have. It's the thrill of the hunt that ends with a click.

Is there a DC comic about Zapp Brannigan? How about Inspector Gadget?

Watching live, they never mention buyer's premium. Bidders on the phone probably aren't reminded every time they're told what the next bid is. Yes, we see it online (small font), but the "classic auction" structure that Heritage attempts to replicate ignores buyer's premium. It only becomes "prominent" after the auction (when it's time to pay and write press releases).

The confusion was because you said "it hammered at 66k". The "hammer price" does not have the buyer's premium included. When Heritage does an auction, they have a little hammer (or some hammer-noise-maker), and they "hammered" at $55K (for your book). Heritage acts like the buyer's premium isn't important while they're doing the auction, because why remind people that they'll be paying 20% extra? So, it "hammered at $55k", the total paid was $66k, and you received 55k... meaning you paid 0% seller fees, and received 16.7% of what they received for the book. We already figured it out in this topic after some conversation.

@Get Marwood & I already posted a video about it, but what age of comics are we talking about? Before 1976, I believe only a Whitman logo could identify a direct edition (non-returnable) comic book. All other comics would have been newsstand, with or without a barcode. The is no need to identify "newsstand" on books that only had one method of distribution (only one edition/version).

Alice Pilch AKA Angela The guy whose real name is Al Simmons likes to say he's the real world basis for Spawn. My guess is that Alice Pilch does the same thing (apologies if not). Maybe she was just a cosplayer (photo below is Dawn cosplay 2002). Value is very, very low, unless I'm mistaken. (Remember how Kramer on Seinfeld claimed to be the "real J. Peterman"?)

What's the source of this meme?

You forgot to mention that Kevin left the store and hopped in a car with Flying Lotus.

Sure, but I'd bet money its the way I laid it out. I've had that same fee structure on consignments myself. Since there is a final sale price of $66K from September 2021 recorded in GPA, I think you're right. It's the second scenario, that the "hammer price" (before Heritage buyer's premium) was $55K, the buyer paid $66K (with buyer's premium), and the seller received $55K, meaning he paid 0% to Heritage, they took all their profits from the buyer's premium (16.7% of the payment for the book).

I think he's confused on the usage of the 'hammer price' term. You can get SP waived with big enough aggregate consignments. So if something hammers at 55k, its 66 with the juice, and HA sends you a check for 55. Fees are 1/6 of the all-in price, or 16.66% which he's rounding to 17%. Right. So if the "hammer price" (Heritage price before the buyer has to pay another 20%) was $66K, then the buyer paid $79.2K. If the "hammer price" was $55K (Heritage price before the buyer has to pay another 20%), and then he received a check for $55K, then it sounds like the buyer paid $66K (which is $55K + 20%), so his seller fee to Heritage was waived completed (0%). Either way, it's good information, but they are two different scenarios.

Seems like they could drop the middle column, then, if they're just reporting the most recent sale by grade. Having the middle column as "Fair Market Value" is pretty ridiculous when there's no way it makes any sense (and their algorithm doesn't fix it).

Just checking... if it hammered at $66K, then the buyer paid $79.2K to Heritage (with Buyer's Premium) and Heritage sent you $55K, correct? If so, you got 70% of the buyer's payment and Heritage got 30%.

The four issues of Venom clearly say "DIRECT EDITION", so your statement "I know what newstands are" is questionable.

Is this a real example? "Hey boss, how much is this comic? $206. OK, what about the better copy of the same issue? $119." Boss is off his meds.

I believe these would be a "bigger deal" if it was possible to identify them simply by looking at the front cover. It would be a fun thing to search for on Ebay, etc. The math is also fun... if the majority of people never care at all about Mark Jeweler or high grade Newsstand or Pence Editions or Canadian Prices, that doesn't mean that those books won't become special because it only takes 10.1% demand for something with 10% supply to beat supply with demand. If Mark Jewelers turn out to be in 2% of the market, it only takes 2.1% demand for demand to beat supply. When 100 people want something that only 95 can own... it doesn't matter if 4,900 don't care. If a few more people start to notice and join in, then it doesn't hurt the majority to go from 4,900 not caring to 4,800 not caring, but look at demand going from 100 to 200 for something only 95 can own. Insane possibility, while always being "unimportant" to the vast majority of collectors. People who "don't care" don't matter if the supply is low. Overall demand doesn't have to be high, it just has to be higher than supply.

I don't know if this is accurate, but it is logical: - 25 books pre-screened for CGC 9.6 - Grader looks at all 25 books and quickly rules out 10 which won't be CGC 9.6 because it's easy to see (10 are charged pre-screen fee only) - 15 books are graded in more detail, and 13 of those do receive CGC 9.6 or higher (13 are charged grading fee, 2 are charged pre-screen fee only) - Result: 13 books charged a grading fee, 12 books charged a pre-screen fee If the pre-screener is also the grader, then there might be a possibility that "borderline" books get awarded the pre-screen grade since they are human and the book was on the border between 9.6/9.4. If the pre-screener is not the grader, then the grader should only grade the already-screened books "as is" and the encapsulation should reject any that don't meet the minimum, putting them with the other rejects. I doubt if there's any reason that books that aren't on the border between grades would be bumped up to the pre-screen grade more often than something is overlooked on books that aren't pre-screened. .Errors occur, but I don't know why they would be specific to pre-screening.

I wonder if the Rai #9 Gold was earned as a reward for doing something to promote Valiant in 1993 or if it was just a purchase made later.

If you learn to balance a tack hammer on your head, you will head off your foes with a balanced attack. ... also, something about watermelon on your feet. Maybe.

Nostalgia for me is "re-feeling" something that I felt so many years ago, not pain... but possibility. I collected baseball cards before I got into comics, so I get that nostalgic feeling when I see a card that I wanted but never owned. It doesn't need to be an important card because I was a kid. I wasn't going to own a Mickey Mantle rookie card, but there was a chance I might own a 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly or a 1986 Donruss Jose Canseco when I started collecting in 1988. They were out of my price range, but it always felt possible that I could trade for one or find one somehow. The "feeling" of excitement seeing those cards at card shows, in card shops, or even in price guides was real even if I didn't have one of my own. I still "re-feel" that excitement for those cards, even though I have a small stack of both cards. The same is true for comic books. I never saw a copy of Harbinger #1 (1992) in person until I bought one from eBay sometime around 1997. I collected comics for several years, including focusing on Valiant books, but I never saw a copy of Harbinger #1 at a shop or at a comic show. There was always a "feeling" that I would own one some day, and now I own several, but I "re-feel" the excitement when I look through my collection or see a copy for sale "in the wild". There was a combination of desire and possibility for those collectibles which were reasonably obtainable in the future (but just out of reach at the time) that is very different from just wishing I could own an Action #1 but not "feeling" that I ever will.