RockMyAmadeus

That's me.

$657k Peanut Gallery Legitimizers(s) 0 errr... but the legitimizer(s) are proper, learned, and correct, and the peanut gallery are just ignorant insufficiently_thoughtful_persons. Remember...the sale of the Spidey #328 cover was "kabuki theatre", so it shouldn't be taken seriously at that price.... ...I wonder what this one is.

It is far too late. They should have done it in the beginning, but they didn't think it mattered...and, in 1999, it didn't to most. It's not as if no one was aware that the difference existed. But they did miss an absolutely golden opportunity, for only a little more work. If certain copies are worth more depending on their distribution status...and they are, on both ends of the spectrum (DM vs newsstand)...then they've cut off that market difference. And "it's DIFFERENT!" is what drives any market.

This I can believe. DC comics are so f'in stupid for not pushing Gen 13 today. It was one of the hottest Image comics ever. I just don't understand why they keep pushing the same tired stale people from their Universe. This book could totally make a huge comeback. I will hold onto the 2 copies that I have. Gen13 reflected the times back then and I think could still be blended in today. I just have a hard time visualizing Gen13 standing next to some of the silly looking characters in the DC U. Yeah, I don't really understand the lack of love for Gen 13...it's at its 20th year, it's got Campbell art for crying out loud, and it was hotter then bug snot on a windshield in the desert back then. Frankly, I don't understand why Danger Girl isn't uber hot, either. People pay silly money for MJ Campbell covers, but ignore the fact that there are lots of hot girl Campbell covers (DG #5 DF variant, for instance.) Weird.

I didnt know if youre serious about these or not. I literally have a box full of 9.8 raws, probably 30-40. I picked em up for chump change so maybe I'll hold on to em for a bit instead of selling them now. I think a lot of those books Kevin mentioned have a ceiling due to print runs. Batman 497 for example must have a gazillion copies... Hulk 181 has a ceiling. Print runs don't really matter, but Batman getting his back broken? That's a key book. Yes I am serious about this list otherwise I wouldn't have posted it. It's also 90's nostalgia. A lot of you guys have a hard time wrapping your head around high priced copper/early modern age books. Print runs do matter. The fact is, it takes a lot for most people to go digging to find and sell theirs, and I would venture that most do not pay attention as closely as we do here. I have over 200 NM copies of Bats 497 and that is by accident. I could kill any kind of price increase for over a month if I decided to, and Im one person. Smart dealers are now holding onto their hoards tighter as well. Why would they flood the market and kill the value? You may see an increase in even the highest printed books, but that doesnt mean its justified. It means someone who doesnt have the book, doesnt care about saving $5 to find a comic store with a .50 or $1 bin. Any book with a print run over 500k or so will have problems picking up steam. Yes there will be an exception here and there, but those exceptions will almost certainly be closer to the 400-600k print run area than the 700k+ runs. Price is always affected by supply and demand ( a ceiling normally occurs when there is either enough supply to stablilze a price point or, the supply is limited enough the price climbs to a point where only a few can afford it) WD is a good example. Tiny print run, one of the most popular comics related properties ever. It should be worth more, but average people cannot afford it. The demand is lowered because even though MANY people want WD#1 they cannot afford it, so they cannot create the demand by purchasing it, even though they would if they could. The problem with 80's and early 90's books getting hot is, while the massive supply is known, it is not readily availible. Long boxes are sitting in storage units and back of stores all over the country with hundreds of copies of some of these books. I am not saying a book with a 500K print run cannot increase in value, what im saying is a book with that type of print run can inflate in price due to artificially low supply, that WILL correct itself over time, and that timeframe could be a week or a year. Understand that I am not talking about books like NM 98 that had Print runs closer to the 200k area. Also, please do not compare a bronze age mega key, with decades of interest behind it, to copper or moderns increases in value because of movie news. As ive said, we first must see what happens when the full supply is realized, that only happens when people have the incentive to go find them. paging RMA. Nope. This guy is impervious to reasonable discourse. Sorry.

How about a nice pat on the head...?

. Oh well.

I really wish there were back issue stores in Los Angeles. No one carries this stuff. No one! You people, with your well-stocked back issues stores that you can pop in and buy 37 NM/M copies of Omega Men #17...you be thankful, hear?

Same thing with me. My all knowing and always pleasant brother Kevin76 was telling me two years ago to start buying this issue. And like everything he says , I ignored it. This is ALWAYS a good course for Kevin....the pros far outweigh the potential cons....

The fuse has been lit... X-Men Annual 14 ....ready for detonation I really hope so....

It is, of course, a shell game. Where Buckley fails is that he starts with the premise that "no one will see the movie if it's faithful to the source material." Which, SELF-EVIDENTLY, is patently false. Buckley himself said it: "these people have never heard of Rocket Raccoon or Groot before 6 months ago"...so why would it hurt them to stay true to the source? Answer: arrogance. For whatever reason, they don't think the audience will "relate" if the source material is preserved, and they think THEY know better...and, sadly, the box office encourages this. There ARE successful films that closely follow the source material...Harry Potter proved this. The excuse that "no one will come see faithful material" is just an excuse. Studios are filled with stupid people who make stupid decisions because they have no respect for anything but money. And it will only be until these films fail to turn a profit that anything will change.

Mainly because this is a different board, with different methods. What exists now has "worked" for well over a decade, with tweeks here and there. Other than a real ignore function, a better search function, and the split of the Modern section into "Modern" and "New Releases", this board is pretty much where it has settled. And it doesn't seem bad. It just looks like this could be improved as long as the mods participate. This moderation team is best when they don't participate.

Mainly because this is a different board, with different methods. What exists now has "worked" for well over a decade, with tweeks here and there. Other than a real ignore function, a better search function, and the split of the Modern section into "Modern" and "New Releases", this board is pretty much where it has settled.

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We've tried for years. Inevitably someone will start another thread. Everybody can start threads. It's part of the Bill of Rights: "Amendment 1: The moderators of this board shall not make any law which infringes on the right of the members to start threads, provided those threads are not started to bash other members, do not violate the board guidelines for posting in general (as opposed to posting in General), are not spam, and that they are posted by members in good standing." CGC board Bill of Rights

He's an insufficiently_thoughtful_person, but thank god he has a forum like the internet to explain all the previously unexplained mysteries....like movie studios are in it for the money. Wow....what a revelation! Yeah, pretty much an insufficiently_thoughtful_person. And if you can't make your points without desperately trying to be "cool" by dropping "effing" every other word, how valid are they?

Things are so weird. It's a strange new world out there....

I agree this is the best policy. That said, there is no harm in making an offer on an overgraded book that corresponds to what you believe is the real grade/value of the book. The only danger is that the seller will treat it as a lowball and say no, but that is less grief than fighting over grades. And if the seller does call you a lowballer you can just say: "Lowball offer!!? Buddy, if you weren't asking 3 times market value for your highball graded piece of mess my offer would look as generous as it is!" There are nice, big scans, so no one is getting a surprise. Best policy is just move along.....

How is it even POSSIBLE that somebody has multiple copies of this total no-name book nearly 30 years on, still minty fresh...? That just defies all odds. I was going to ask the same question. The source must have a hell of nice backstock of books. , who said it came from ONE place? I ran all over the damn joint... The odds of them being "all over the damn joint" are STILL very slim. There is no one in the northern Los Angeles area that carries back stock...except by accident....more than 5-10 years old. Yeah, dunno what to tell you Rockme...except to say that I'm routinely in and out of multiple states from RI down to PA. I try to hit up the LCS wherever I'm at, and especially when I have time to kill. 2 here, 1 there, another elsewhere....etc. It's either that, or some sort of conspiracy theory with you at the helm. Ride captain ride, upon your mystery ship. I don't think I need to tell you that...usually....when people post a "look what I just found in the dollar bin!" type stories, it's usually from one place, or one con. Thank you for explaining how you managed to do it. (thumbs u

These 3 packs are very common on E-Bay with one or more listed at any given time. They go for $10 - $15 usually, although I've snagged a few in the past few years for under $10. I'm guessing your 3 packs have the word REPRINT printed on the cover vertically below the diamond. What I've been trying to figure out is where do the $0.35 copies without the word REPRINT with the diamond and a blank UPC come from? I've bought several of these bags over the years and have never seen one without the word REPRINT for issues 1-3. On this page http://www.bipcomics.com/showcase/StarWars/Marvel/StarWars/001-006.html I'm referring to the first 3 issues on the last row. Also, I noticed on that page the $0.35 5 and 6 with diamond and blank UPC are not reprints, but I have 3 packs with those 2 copies and the $0.35 4 with diamond and blank UPC that is a reprint. So, they bundled a reprint with 2 non-reprints? They are DIRECT MARKET copies, with the blank UPCs being made for the 3-packs by special order from Whitman. If there is no "reprint" on the cover or at the indicia, it's not a reprint. And yes, in the confusion of the reprints, it was very possible that Whitman would have bundled reprints and non-reprints together. Whitman got pallets of books for months, so that they would have 2-3 issues of any given run to put in their packs. That's one of the reasons why everyone thought they were all reprints: they showed up months after the originals. But this was never the case. They simply sat on them until they could make whatever 3-packs they wanted to make, and then distributed them to K-Mart, Wal-Mart, etc.

How is it even POSSIBLE that somebody has multiple copies of this total no-name book nearly 30 years on, still minty fresh...? That just defies all odds. I was going to ask the same question. The source must have a hell of nice backstock of books. , who said it came from ONE place? I ran all over the damn joint... The odds of them being "all over the damn joint" are STILL very slim. There is no one in the northern Los Angeles area that carries back stock...except by accident....more than 5-10 years old.

I'm STILL getting price resistance to my Swampy #37 NM @ $150 w/BIN. Made several counters at $120, but no takers. Lots of folks want it...they just don't want to pay for it. Let's see if these announcements change that.

That said, I think my favorite drawing by Liefeld is the cover to New Mutants #90. Before things got really silly.

How is it even POSSIBLE that somebody has multiple copies of this total no-name book nearly 30 years on, still minty fresh...? That just defies all odds.

Quiet, you!