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Awesome Thread! SO MUCH WORK INVOLVED setting up! Whew! Must be fun in the long run though.

Both books are Valiant grails for sure!!!

Tought call, Probably the Rai 0 CGC 10.0 but "just to have" I prefer the Bloodshot #0 Platinum Error I'll have to take a look at the census to see how many Rai 0 10.0 there are.

Look for Magnus 21 Gold instead. (There is no Magnus 1/2.) (thumbs u Uhh I mean X-O Manowar 1/2 Gold but ... I need the Magnus 21 Gold as well. I let one get away on ebay about a week ago..

Love the 1st series of Valiants. Have nearly all of them just some of the pre-unity ones graded. X-O Manowar is the best Valliant title for me. Managed to pick up Armorines 0 Gold 9.8 white X-O Manowar 0 Gold 9.8 white Rai and the Future Force 9 Gold 9.8 white Bloodshot 0 Gold 9.8 white Need to find the Magnus 1/2 Gold in 9.8 white, H.A.R.D. Corps 1 Gold in 9.8 white I'm sending off to be graded my Eternal Warrior #1 Both Gold flat (Variant), Gold Embossed, Second life of Doctor Mirage 1 Gold and Archer and Armstrong 0 Gold. Wish me luck on getting a 9.8 for these but more likely they all come back 9.6 or lower. Sending off my Rai 0 before the market gets flooded with a bunch of 9.8 white copies..Print run is large. GO VALIANT GO...Hope those movies/TV shows or whatever comes out are decent to watch!

+1

That SS#4 is one of my all time favorite covers. Would love to get a 9.4 copy one of these days.

SUPER KUDOS to "job" (John) for buying some Hulk Annuals from me. (thumbs u Great communication and Lighting fast payment! Now, here's hoping I can live up to my end of the deal by getting the books to him safely and in the condition stated.

Same here. Not much on Champions.

Not anytime soon. If anything it's getting more popular.

I haven't sold on ebay when the rule about not being able to leave negative feedback for buyers came about. I'll be blocking all these buyers if I decide to sell on ebay again.

Interesting. They must have begun offering updated drivers fairly recently. They weren't available when I bought my 8250 earlier this year. Yes, Mountain is fine but upgrade to Mavericks and no more scanning on my HP8250

I use an iMac

I'll rent it from Redbox and see if it's any good.

I respectfully disagree. By now WD 1 is a well entrenched modern blue chip key, to the point where people buy on the dips, thus raising the price back up whenever it falls below a certain level. Its initial print run is actually closer to 7300, not near the 10k you mentioned, and while 700 9.8/9.9's on the census certainly sounds like a lot, it is not as though they are all on the market simultaneously, and clearly their scarce availability at any given time is enough to maintain a very strong price point. -J. "modern | blue chip | key" Oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, or are expressions composed of words that are not inherently mutually exclusive but express an opinion that the two cannot occur together. I would have to agree. I don't think any true 'blue chips' from the modern era have yet to be established. I would have to disagree. WD #1 even though over valued by 25%-35% till the show ends is still a blue chip book. AF 15 of the modern age. eh, might be a little early to call it the "AF 15" of the modern age. AF 15 only is what it is because generation after generation of children have fallen in love with Spiderman and grown old enough spend a butt-load (sorry for the technical term) on his first appearance. Its been what, just under 11 years since WD 1 was released? Popular or not, I might give it a bit more time before I equivalize it to one of the most highly collected and revered books in the hobby... You know, just to be sure and all. I am sure. Besides Batman 608 RRP and WD #1 what is there really to call a pull chip book from the modern age. WD #1 introduced main stream characters to the world. If TMNT #1 is best book of the copper age you have to put WD #1 the best of the Modern age so far. Just my view but yes time will tell.... I 100% agree... Walking Dead is the King of Moderns. TV show is not good anyways - at least after season 1. When the show ends, people will still keep reading the comics. Re: TMNT, kids are always going to be big fans and when they get older they end up speculating the comics. Show is still great to me! Increased ratings every season I believe and showing no signs of slowing down as of now.

*ahem* I have Mavericks (10.9.5) and the HP8250 and I can verify that it doesn't work natively. However it works fine with VueScan which isn't that expensive and will continue to be updated. Yes, my HP8250 no longer works after upgrading to Mavericks. My 8250 was locking up for some reason and creating this horrible sound when using VueScan. Yes, I know that sounds strange. I'm using my Windows 7 laptop and just using MS Paint until I can find something better.

Bought a Doctor Mirage Gold #1 book a while back and the transaction went smooth as glass. Book was as described and packaged very tightly!! SUPER KUDOS all the way and here's hoping we can do another transaction soon.

for $45.00

I'm killing my wallet but at least I'll have nice books!

Yup! I wasn't fast enough..Hat's off to asteroid-comix.