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On 2/28/2024 at 11:36 AM, grendelbo said:

I've never bought nor sold from these guys but they used to post entertaining unboxing videos.

 

 

years ago I would binge watch these videos for hours

On 2/27/2024 at 5:44 PM, fastballspecial said:

Smoking is a better term wow.

 

Anyone know why?

El Gato Negro 1 is hot

On 2/27/2024 at 12:44 AM, s-man said:

 

the Star Wars is clearly an homage cover

On 2/27/2024 at 9:32 AM, Qalyar said:

So, if the first printing of Cheetahmen is an obscure book that is easier to find that it used to be, here's a book that definitely isn't.

I've talked about Teeny Titans before. You can read my 2022 post about the book, an obscure SDCC 2016 give-away at a panel totally unrelated to comic books. But there I wrote "As far as I'm aware, all physical copies have the blue "Teeny Titans mobile game available now" sticker on the cover at bottom-left..."

Surprise!

What my 2022 post, in retrospect, should have said was that all copies distributed to the public are believed to have the blue foil sticker applied to the cover. This copy is not one of those copies. It was from the personal collection of a then-DC editor, who received it directly from the printer prior to SDCC. Thus, no sticker.

I saw one sold on ebay for $200 on September 6th 2023

On 2/26/2024 at 2:04 PM, Qalyar said:

Here's one that's actually a lot easier to find in the wild than it used to be. In 1991, a company called Active Enterprises released an unlicensed multi-game cartridge for the NES, called Action 52. It was terrible. Several of the games simply don't work. The ones that do largely make you wish they didn't. The flagship game for the cartridge was The Cheetahmen, which was envisioned as the start of an entire multimedia franchise. Before, you know, people played it. In any case, the NES box for Action 52 (but not the later, better-quality version for the Sega Genesis) shipped with a copy of the Cheetahmen mini-comic, written and illustrated by Joe Martinez. It's, um... well, you can read the entire thing at the Internet Archive.

Comic book quality notwithstanding, complete-in-box examples of the NES Action 52 are chase items for NES collectors, and sell with some regularity for hundreds of dollars. Sealed boxes are even crazier and are definitely the sort of thing that tends to wind up with one of the video game grading companies. Other than the cartridge, the other constituent material from the box, such as the mini-comic, rarely if ever comes up for sale individually. I like me some obscure video game tie-ins, and weird modern mini-comics, but there was no way I was going to consider chasing a CIB copy of the video game at those prices just to own this book because... I mean, seriously, look at it!

But remember, Active Enterprises thought Cheetahmen were destined to be the next big thing, bigger even than TMNT. So of course there were more copies of the mini-comic produced than were ever packed into the small number of Action 52 cartridge boxes produced. A few of these trickled into the market over the years, but the National Video Game Museum in Frisco, TX managed to acquire the bulk of the remaining stock, and gave them away as part of a 2022 promotion.

Active Enterprises sort of rose from the dead much later, with a Kickstarter to release a bug-fixed version of Cheetahmen II that somehow actually did happen. As part of that whole thing, Active reprinted the comic. The reprint covers are clearly marked as such, and the cover is rebranded as Cheetahmen: The Creation, although the indicia wasn't changed (I view these as 2nd printings). In any case, the NVGM giveaways were from the original printing.

This copy is almost certainly an NVGM giveaway.

What is the value on this?

On 2/26/2024 at 5:13 AM, bellrules said:

Hitting the local used book store has been paying off lately 

Nice finds! Are the World's Finest comic pack reprints? They're missing the Month dates

On 2/25/2024 at 11:46 AM, LDarkseid1 said:

Ok, yeah he just had a book I couldn't get the deal done on but want to try again if he still has it. Assuming this is the vendor in question haha.

His ig is babalitoans_collectibles

On 2/25/2024 at 11:23 AM, LDarkseid1 said:

Is that a last name? I tried looking him up on instagram but nothing came up.

That's what my friend texted me. I wasn't sure too. I can ask him

See you all soon! Photos are from the latest Comics And Cocktails show we set up at

On 2/25/2024 at 9:52 AM, LDarkseid1 said:

I think so yeah.

Babalatoan

On 2/25/2024 at 10:15 AM, ADAMANTIUM said:

dang! that is a lot of good stuff, right "thar"

I'm glad you put in the effort! Was it "one" yard sale or multiple and or throughout the week? 

Congrats  

It was one sale visit for about 4 hours of digging. The seller purchased a storage unit and had close to 100 boxes. My dealer friend who first found the sale invited two others and I on his 4th and final trip there

On 2/25/2024 at 9:52 AM, LDarkseid1 said:

I think so yeah.

I don't know his name, but I can ask a friend

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