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RockMyAmadeus

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  1. RockMyAmadeus
    Nobody but Marvel and the printers knows how many were printed of either the regular books or the incentive variants. 1:X is an ORDERING number, not a PRINTING or DISTRIBUTION number. Those numbers don't have much to do with the regular covers sales numbers. The publishers print as many as they want, after orders are fulfilled. It is a mistake that many people make that "1:X" means "for every X copies of the regular, they printed 1 of the incentive." That's not the case, as has been demonstrated at much length over the last few years here. If a book has 50,000 reported sales from Diamond, that doesn't mean A. the publisher only printed 50,000 copies, or B. there are therefore 500 copies of the 1:100 printed. Those numbers are unknown by anyone but the publishers and the printer(s), and are almost never released to the public.
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    Ahhhhh....I see your diabolical plan. You're going to say they're fake, buy them all up, then announce in a year that Kirkman and Jimmy Jay actually made a secret stash of them that they've been hiding all these years... I'm on to you....
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    This fits...
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    1. I didn't correct your grammar, I corrected your spelling. They are two different things. 2. You seem to have misplaced an argument.
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    "Misled" "Mislead" is present tense. "Lead" (LED) is an element; "led" (LED) is the past tense of "to lead" (LEED)
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    You make some really good points here, Aman.
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    No. Rai #3 and #4 were the shortest printed pre-Unities in existence, followed by Harbinger #4. And they aren't really the first mini-series...they're just Magnus #7 and #8 flip books.
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    PS. I will order that second print, because it's 1. pretty cool, and 2. probably printed to a lot fewer numbers than the first.
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    1. The only people who know what the print run is are Marvel and the printers. They don't release this information, with very, very few exceptions. 2. 1:100 is an ORDERING number, not a PRINTING number. Other than establishing a necessary floor, it tells us nothing about how many copies are actually printed, because Marvel doesn't release that information. That said, you're almost certainly correct, that there are more 1:100s than the store exclusive editions.
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    Ok. Now, the question is: when was this announced? This is an important question to answer. Was it announced BEFORE the first printing was even on sale? If so, it wasn't made because of demand. It wasn't made because there was a nationwide sellout. "Before the fact" second printings aren't really reprints...they're variants, marketed as variants, and sold as variants...just called "second printings." When there's a third and fourth print because the originals actually sold out....like with ASM #794...then we can transition to "based on actual demand" argument. As Geeks said above, this is the era of instant reprints, whether they are justified or not. Like I said: I'm happy to be wrong, and that THIS book is different from alllllll the other books in similar situations...but I don't think I am. If the book doesn't sell out in a week, in this day and age, then no, I won't be buying multiple copies from a retailer, no matter how much he thinks this book will be "worth." This is NOT a prediction. The character may prove popular beyond all wildest dreams. I hope it is. But history says otherwise.
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    Now I feel bad I was actually in a frenzy at the time, trying to track down the Turner cover. Sorry I didn't hit you up old friend. Oh, no, don't feel bad. Getting them slabbed would have been cool, but I still have them. The Portacio Stones are still my favorites, since they were first. I'd have LOVED to get the Aria Preview museum slabbed, but that's the way it goes. I really need to bust out the prototype that I got from Jimmy. It's cool, because it's printed just like the standard museums, but the type of paper they used is totally different...same concept, but completely different texture. It's so very, very cool. I think you'd love to see it in person!
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    Very! They still look amazing and haven't shifted or showed and pressure damage. Brittany was even kind enough to do one after they brought the inner well back. Had to get my Turner cover slabbed. Just cost me a dozen roses. Thanks for reminding me; I'd forgotten all about it. If I had known it was going to be such a small window, I would have gotten mine slabbed. Argh!
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    Sorry, it's because of the content and label designation. If it was simply because it's a 1:100, why wouldn't you spend less to get one of the 1:1000 ASM variants? A variant with 10 times the requirements to qualify for? Emphasis added.
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    Oh yeah, they did...in the "interim period" in early 2016, right? With that travesty of a mylar "slab" they tried to introduce...? I remember people being excited...you, probably...that they were grading them again.
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    Haha, then why quote and respond? Why are you being so confrontational? That's a rhetorical question: you're being unnecessarily confrontational to people who are only trying to discuss.
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    I quoted your entire post, in context, and responded, in context. The broader context has nothing to do with your specific comment in this instance. Again: just because people correct you, doesn't mean you can say they're "taking your statement out of context." You still haven't said HOW it was taken out of context. "You quoted one sentence out of an entire thread of conversation" doesn't explain how it was taken out of context. You said...and I quote again: ""CGC grades museum editions. Interested to see what they do with this one though." to which I replied "no, CGC does not grade museum editions, and which I expanded by saying they DID grade museum editions at one time, but stopped doing so a very long time ago, which is why there are "CGC graded museum editions." What they will "do with that one" is refuse to grade it, for the reasons laid out above. As far as "repeating information that you already stated", that's not relevant. I posted information that I wished to post; if it contains elements which echo yours, why is that an issue...? This really isn't as difficult as you'd like it to be.
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    That is not the correlation I am making. I was not making any correlation between the value of ASM #667 1:100 RELATIVE to the value of ASM #798 1:100, at the same time in their respective histories. So, no, your "by that logic" isn't the logic I'm using. I am making a correlation between WHY the ASM #798 1:100 is valuable and WHY ASM #667 1:100 is, too. The example need not be ASM #667. You're fixated on ASM #667. ASM #667 isn't relevant. Pick any other 1:100, and do the same thing. Pick the ASM #546 1:100. Or the ASM #1 1:100 (2015) The reason any of those books has whatever value they have is is because of the fact that they are 1:100s....not their content. The reason ASM #798 has value right now is MOSTLY, almost ENTIRELY, because it's a 1:100...with SOME part of that because of its content. This isn't really as difficult as you'd like it to be.
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    This statement doesn't make sense. What does "quoting on sentence" mean? Do you mean "quoting one sentence"? And what are you referring to? I quoted your entire post, two sentences. What do you believe was "taken out of context"? You said, and I quote again: "CGC grades museum editions. Interested to see what they do with this one though.", to which I replied "no, CGC does not grade them." You can't just accuse people of "taking you out of context" whenever your mistakes are corrected. Well, you can, but you shouldn't.
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    That's correct. Whether or not ASM #667 is "the most sought after Modern variant" is irrelevant to the point I was making, which is that the reason ASM #798 1:100 has the value it has is almost entirely due to the fact that it is a 1:100....not because it's "the first red goblin." If that was true, #798 would be selling for substantially more than cover price at this point, nearly a week out from release. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that's NONE of the reason...I'm saying it's just a small PART of the reason. ASM #667 1:100 has value because it's a 1:100, not because of its content at all. ASM #798 1:100 has almost all of its value because it's a 1:100, not (yet, or possibly ever) because of its content. See the correlation there? It's a correlation with a distinction. When ASM #798 regular cover starts selling for a substantial premium over cover price...say, $10 or more...then some of the value of the 1:100 can be ascribed to content. But not until then. Your clues that it won't? No reports of nationwide sellouts. No forthcoming reprints. When and if that changes, we'll see.Too soon to tell for now.
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    This may already have been addressed, but no, they do not. They stopped grading them over a decade ago, when they realized that the massive overhang was creating problems inside the slab. There are a few museum editions still in slabs, but they have not slabbed them for a very long time. The original Museum Editions are legitimate products, created by Bill & Jimmy Jay, in the late 90's, as a marketing gimmick to sell, at the time, Image's unsold inventory. They take those books and either staple the parchment museum cover directly over the regular book, or remove the cover and then add the museum cover. They are legitimate books, with a legitimate market. Some of them are quite valuable. The first one was Stone, and there are a couple of versions of that book. I own the prototype that I bought directly from them. The non-Jay company Museums, made in Europe, are not as collectible, but they are legitimate. This Walking Dead is fake through and through.
  22. RockMyAmadeus
    Nice score. The Rai #1 flip book is actually Magnus Robot Fighter #5 which is the 1st appearance of Rai. Magnus ran as a flip book for a bit with the Rai story as the flip. Later, Valiant started a Rai ongoing series (which all of your other books are from). Back in the bad old days, when Rai #3 and #4 took off in price, the unscrupulous would take Magnus #7 and #8, put them Rai-side up in a bag, and pawn them off as the actual Rai #3 and #4. Fun facts from the 90's!
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    The book isn't a ghost. How silly. How many would they like...?
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    Yowza. I wonder if they really ordered ~15,000 copies of the regular...wouldn't surprise me.
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    Yes, that's what I'm referring to as well, while noting some broader overlaps in the books in general. As far as the Flash #96 goes...it's a 1994 book, so it was produced during the DCU era. And, while #94 was second printed right away, #96 was not. It was just a plain old sellout. I imagine that, when it came time to do a Terminal Velocity collector's pack, they didn't have any #96s on hand, but had all the others, so they "second printed" #96. Then, some time later, they did it again, which is why the different ads. Again, if I'm addressing things that have already been addressed, I'm simply trying to think through the process of how and when each of these was made.