The Green Ghost

3 hours ago, the blob said:

I feel like even me, a penny pinching miser, has gotten sucked into the madness here. I just paid $160 (shipped) for a CGC 9.8 copy of an early 2000s modern classic cover marvel (won't say which). While I think I got a decent deal, it was on par with recent auction results, but lower than recent BINs. I look at the book, which regularly sells for $50-65 in raw nice shape, and wondered why it is that price in 9.8 when there are"$20 raw" books like MCP 72 that are well into the $300s in 9.8 and $35-50 raw books that are hitting $400-500+ (x-men 282, 244). Admittedly, each of those is a little younger than the book I am looking at, which might impact things. 20 years ago the thought of paying that kind of money for a modern would never cross my mind, but here we are!

Well now you have to tell us! It totally depends on a lot of factors but people have some bias against early 2000s books. The wind will shift again in ten years maybe; 90s books were hated up until now, and Millenials have come back to reclaim their own silver age.

So... is this gonna blow up even more with the rumor they're making a Disney+ series around Logan? It's already gone far beyond what I thought just in the last year alone.

1 minute ago, canickus said:

It appears that GS X-Men 1 is not a $20,000 book anymore...

 

I don't understand what we're looking at with the bottom pic? And where'd you get all those great deals for the comic sets, if I can ask?

What would the cutoff for the last Bronze Age X-Men issue be? Yes, I get in theory it would be the last 1982 cover dated issue, but who knows how these things work. I personally consider 129+ to be Copper.

Is this not rising as much as other BA keys due to the character being seen as a dead end in the MCU? (Or I don't know, maybe it is rising, I didn't read the entire thread)

11 hours ago, BrooksR said:

Has 94 leveled off? I haven’t seen any new price rises lately.

Not at all, it's doubled in some grades in the past month (from what I've seen). I got GSX 1 and Hulk 181, but missed the boat on 94 at a cheaper price because I figured it was the one that could wait.

If 180 was the actual first appearance, my copies of Spider-Man 299 would be 1k plus as opposed to not worth jack. This trend of Kamalala Kahn's foot or Jessica Cruz's fist as first only came about in the modern era, but it used to be a little more of a standard.

I mean you could name hundreds with nothing over 1000, including many X- and Spider- series. Worth absolutely nothing, I don't know, Ren & Stimpy? Although knowing the current state of the market, newsstands of the last issues are probably scarce treasures or something.

Oh god, burn them with fire! Would you want a comic personalized to Craig? I wouldn't even want one personalized to Brent, and I am a Brent

3 hours ago, kav said:

this chick will never ever ever get hot no matter wut-

 

Miss Sterio?

I was shocked they didn't bring up Maus (which nobody read in 1986), which Wizard always used to do as well as including comics that finished in 1985 and had a 1986 cover date.

I don't know about intros, but all my beloved Marvel comics of the early 2000s seem to be not worth spit aside from NYX 3. The J Michael Stranczynski Spider-Mans in particular seem to line the quarter bins of every dealer at every single convention, I guess because every collector bought them new.

11 hours ago, Plantman said:

This is also anecdotal, but Simpsons Comics #245 seems to be in the same (print run) boat. Issues 243 and 244 are ghosts compared to 245. It was difficult to find a potential CGC 9.8 copy of the latter at the local bookstores, perhaps because other collectors had already looked through these newsstand copies. So for anyone holding the last issue of Simpsons Comics for the next 20 years, don't forget the antepenultimate issue!

I never would've thought of this until you mentioned it, but I worked near a Barnes and Noble when the last few Simpsons came out and picked them up. I guess it makes sense that newsstands for these series are rarer as there's no bags and boards to go around and it's open to damage even getting it from there to home, which is the same fate convention variants suffer. But at the same time I don't know about things being desired nowadays just for the sake of being perceived as rare. I got the last Simpsons out of nostalgia since I guess I knew it was ending, but not out of any thought to it ever being worth anything. I didn't give the newsstand much thought either, it was just the kind of thing that was unlikely to be at any comic store after pre-ordering for whatever month had passed.

11 hours ago, the blob said:

I am guessing you really wanted to be an overstreet advisor and write market reports when you were young.

Hey it could be worse, he could be that guy on CBSI who writes articles as an excuse to do his own version of the Wizard movie casting calls and gives no spec.

On 4/9/2021 at 10:46 AM, the blob said:

Seriously upset that I did not sneak back into Midtown comics to buy more Frison virgin covers at cover price when they had them on the rack, limit 1 per customer. Just sold one for $125. At the time they were probably about $10 and I didn't want to be a pig to make $5. I should have been a pig!

I wouldn't kick yourself, I picked up the Frison cover instead of cover A when it originally came out, and they charged $8 for it too as opposed to cover price. Still sore over it. Is Cover A selling for that much more than B and C? (Asking in general, not you specifically)

13 hours ago, maraxusofkeld said:

I am talking about the same book as well, before Kirkman was made a partner at Image he was able to do crossovers and do work for other companies. As an example he did a run on Ultimate X-Men. Once he became a partner, I believe he was not longer able to do work for other companies or do crossovers even though he owned the character. 

I wasn't unclear on that, I wasn't sure if that was the book we were talking about since no one referenced it in several pages. I still feel my answer (that there was no Image logo on it because it wasn't an inter-company crossover, irrelevant if Kirkman was partner yet) was most likely, although iggy didn't seem to like it, so it's all good.

45 minutes ago, maraxusofkeld said:

I think the team up book came out before Kirkman was made a partner at Image, that could be the reason.

I think he meant the Marvel Team Up with Spider-Man and Invincible- I assume the reason was that Marvel didn't need to put the logo since he owned the character and gave his permission, and Image had nothing to do with the final product. Unless I'm mistaken about what we're talking about- we need to start listing the comic when replying to quotes from pages ago.

Also, was there any clarity on why Megalomaniacal Spider-Man #1 is popping? Only thing I could possibly guess was that it was featured on a recent Cartoonist Kayfabe video, but I doubt anyone looks to those two for spec...

3 hours ago, Hekla said:

 

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Yep - Falcon and Winter Soldier final scene

 

The scene in the latest episode or the "last scene" of the season? What are we talking about, the Dora thing or the Ultimates?

I really wish the weekly top 10 comics list would start coming out on a different day. The new Marvel episode/trailers/announcements always seem to happen late Thursday or Friday, so the list is always a week behind just because someone on CBSI randomly picked that day whenever the list was started. I look forward to hearing about King Shark and Truth #1 a week from now...

What's Gargoyles # 1 going for raw? I got it from a dollar bin less than ten years ago, I can't imagine why it's that desired now...

11 hours ago, littledoom said:

Totally Awesome Hulk #15 

What's special about this one? That it's also the 700th issue if they hadn't renumbered?

5 hours ago, fastballspecial said:

Anything Captain America/Falcon/Winter Solider is really hot.
All these books are screaming hot right now. I wish I would have
held more copies of 323. Several of these books will be moving
higher soon.

Cap 312,323,354 
Cap 6 Winter Soldier
Cap 1 Falcon as Cap
Captain America 1 1996
Captain America 25 Death (This hasn't moved yet)

And sleeper Ive been buying awhile.
Iron Man 194 - I cant guarantee he will show up, but its dirt cheap
and Ive been buying it for a long time. 

 

 

What's the first in Cap 312? I never saw it explained anywhere...

3 hours ago, the blob said:

perhaps it is the lack of keys relevant to current stories or MCU outside of miles morales, 1st sam jackson nick fury, USM #1 and a few others? for the most part "1st ultimate ___" doesn't mean anything. simply reintroducing "ultimate" versions of characters doesn't seem that exciting. but yeah, i bought a lot of these after the fact. they seemed attractive and shiney and liked them at $ 1 a pop.

 

I kind of naively thought the Straczynski Spider-Man's (and Morrison X-Men, early '00s titles, whatever) would one day be rare due to the lower print runs and how the paper more easily got damaged, but that doesn't seem to be the case as of yet. I think if they had known what the current craze is they would've had more "first appearances," but back then the companies and fans were worried more about the quality of stories than gimmicks. Who knows what way the pendulum will swing, if they adapt New X-Men as the next MCU movie all of those will be snapped up and suddenly "rare" instead of leftover quarter comics. But so were the 90s titles once, too.

It's funny how the market works. The 90s issues have become in demand, but the runs I always, always see in the $1 bin at every convention and store are Straczynski Spider-Man and '00s Ultimate titles. I thought they were seemingly not printed in high numbers, but absolutely nobody wants them. I have to presume it's because everyone of age already collected them new when they came out, which is why the Slott Spider-Mans for example, which many people tuned out of, are always pricier and rarer. I am convinced some of those will never ever gain value, but who knows? Maybe in ten years they'll get a nostalgia bump, and the wave will come around again. If ever Ultimate Spider-Man issues past the first couple become rare I will be convinced anything can happen.