RockMyAmadeus

Good to see you over here, Baba. Sad to see your experience mirroring so many others, but that's how it's been going. If that company has a prayer of surviving, they need to get rid of everyone, top to bottom, and start over. Those people had no business trying to run a company. - The poster formerly known as "Doc Brown."

(Secretly, I do too... )

"Spider-Ghost, Spider-Ghost, does whatever a Spider...er...hosts..."

These kinds of things just hurt to see. This seller took a real bath on a resale...or someone did. Ouch. Any other tales of woe from the GPA files?

Great display, but the 4 newsstands and 1 direct would annoy me. ...and maybe now annoy you.

By the way....thought I'd share this here: I watched Tim Bildhauser of CBCS stand 5 feet away from me at the Baltimore Comicon, and totally ignore the con volunteer who said "10 items per person until the line is gone" for Louise Simonson...to which Bildhauser initially assented, and then he plops 30 or so down in front of Louise. The volunteer was pissed, and got in the middle of it, and Bildhauser, arrogantly, said "I have clients that have to get their books signed!", and Louise was like "oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know, I'll make sure we do that!" Tacky, classless, and perfectly in sync with their mindset. If I was Louise, I would have stopped signing immediately, and refused to sign any more of his books.

Regardless of how good or bad everything was, I'm so very glad Carrie was still alive to film these movies. Sure, fan servicing, but hey..."slave Leia" made a very big impact on me. So yeah, I had a big fat 11 year old crush on her, that developed into a lifelong appreciation for her creative work, as wacky as it got. I'm sad she's gone, but I'm so very, very glad I got to see General Leia one last time.

hehehe....

Someone DESPERATELY needs to animate this...

There are really two options to pursuing runs like this: 1. Offer a "this makes it worth my time to look, find, possibly press, and submit" price for books that are already graded. That price is around $80-$100 a slab, though you may certainly find someone willing to do it for less. The cost to slab is roughly $25-$30/book, with all shipping included (to and from CGC.) Shipping to get the slab to you would be in addition to that. or... 2. Slab them yourself. Depending on what your time is worth, and the resources you have for locating copies that would meet your requirements, #1 is potentially far less expensive than #2. But, lots of people do #2, and find it very rewarding. If you ask for someone's assistance and expertise in helping you with this, be fully prepared to compensate them for their time and effort, even if they don't ask.

I think you're just specuating....

Print runs are unknown, for every publisher, unless they release that information. In the case of this one, they did not. The newsstand would likely have been printed in greater numbers than either the gold embossed or platinum (B&W), but not nearly the numbers of the regular. DI #1 would have been printed to the tune of 500,000-1,000,000 copies, since it is a 1993 Image book, but the newsstand print run is anyone's guess. They're not particularly rare, they're just very, very well distributed and hidden in collections. They may be, like all Imagine newsstands, tough to find in high grade. What is the website everyone directed you to? As far as "worth getting graded"...if it's a 9.8, the answer is "yes", for all Image newsstands, from Spawn #1 to whatever was the last newsstand Image produced. For other grades...the cost per sig that Kieth, Liefeld, and Lee INDIVIDUALLY charge ($20, $60, $40) is more than the slab would be worth, so unless it's a 9.8, and you can get it signed at a free signing...I wouldn't bother.

The thing that set NM #98 apart was the 2008 series by Daniel Way...Deadpool hasn't really been out of print since 1997, with a couple of months here and there, but during the early 2000s, he couldnt carry his own title. But the 2008 series, combined with the release of Iron Man and the surge of interest in all things Marvel, combined with the new tactic of finding the next hot first appearance, no matter how obscure, and that's when NM #98 began its climb to the top. Before then, you could buy runs of Liefeld NM on eBay for $10-15 complete, or entire sets of NM #1-100 for $40-$50.

Anyone know who"t.kotche" is on the board...?

When? Nobody cared about NM #98 from 1994-2008ish.

That and the pinkie. I wonder if the Bloodshot movie will inspire people to look for more Bloodshot, unearthing some more of these?

Yes, but I'm specifically looking for the variants of chromiums...not the "chromium variants" (of which there are hundreds) themselves. So while Shadowman #0 chromium isn't applicable to THIS list, the gold version is...as listed in the first post.

This is a nifty little book, the only one of its kind, that was sort of a precursor to later giveaways. It was printed and distributed probably around November or December of 1989, and given for free by DC to give to various retailers, with the hopeful aim, I imagine, of selling more of the relatively new trade paperback format. Notice, the titles aren't "Batman #404-407" or "Tales of the Teen Titans #42-44, Annual #3", or "Justice League #1-6, Annual #1"...but "Batman: Year One", "The Judas Contract", and "A New Beginning." It contained excerpts from each of those four stories. I remember the day I discovered it...it was the very first day I ever walked my 17 year old self into the Land of Nevawuz, in Danville, CA, on a cool January evening. Funny, how you remember stuff. I can see the store layout, the bright lights (it was lit like an art gallery, which I thought was cool), everything. I found that book, and thought "Free?? This will be worth a FORTUNE!" and grabbed 2 copies. Dopey teenagers. Still have those copies somewhere.

Dayum! You are on fire today.

It would be interesting to get a giant slab and slab all the individual components of such a bag in their own separate compartment... Like this, only a LOT bigger:

A lot of dealers don't realize that there are a ton of books that you can net $10-$30 for, that you couldn't sell raw for $1. I ask convention dealers what their threshold for slabbing is, what a book would have to be worth for them to consider slabbing, and I'm shocked at the answers: "$200, $250, $300, $500." To which I look at them in amazement, and start digging through their stuff to pick up the things they pass on. If a dealer can get slabbed price, minus costs, hey, more power to them...but that's not what's happening. If I can buy a Booster Gold #1 (1986) for $20 or $30 or even $50 and know I can turn it into a 9.8 slab, I'm a fool not to. 90 day avg for blues is $230-ish. If you can sell a slab for $80, for a book that you bought for nothing, and which you can't sell for $10 raw...that's somewhere in the neighborhood of $30-$50 for that same book, with just a little more effort.

Correct, because they're not the type of variants that I'm looking for, as spelled out in the first post. Incorrect. I'm not suggesting that ASM #300 and the other Marvel Collectible Classics (as they are properly known) aren't, themselves, variants. Of course they are. But I'm not talking about those books. There are books...like the Valiant chromiums...which ONLY have chromiums as the regular issue, with a variant that is also chromium, and there is no non-chromium version of the book...so, no, not just "chromium variant variants", though those are certainly included. I've never seen such a beast, but sure, if there was a variation of the ASM #300 chromium, I would include it. Of course, as it relates specifically to that book.

Yeah, there are a few who run to moderation, and then complain when moderation finds them at fault.

PnD stands for Pump-and-Dump I know... Ok, ComicCollectorMatt thinks that. Ya got me. BUT.... I suspect that what you're referring to, and what CCM was referring to, are two different things. Just a hunch. Did you ask him what he was referring to, or did you just assume...?