Legion of Goom

As someone whose also a big Bone fan, they don't currently have much goodwill with me in regards to honoring their commitments to shows. Here's hoping Sandman gets better treatment.

I'm curious to see what gets consigned next, too. I reckon whatever A/A+ material that might have otherwise hit the open market over the last year or so is being held back for after the show's released.

Thanks for making me spit milk out of my nose. Especially impressive considering I was drinking iced tea.

Flew completely under the radar for me, otherwise there'd have been at least one more bid to the tally. I may not have been the only interested one who just whiffed on the whole event

OK, now that I've read that, I'm going to let myself go back to being a fanboy. I can't wait to see how they pull this off!

I have to wonder if that was a "warehouse" book of some sort...to see a book that's relatively uncommon but with that number of very high grades on the census makes it look like there were a box or two of pristine-conditioned copies that never actually got distributed.

I've yet to see any Eric Powell work from Chinatown in the wild, but haven't explicitly asked him to verify. Alot of the vintage published Dawn work Joe Linsner did is also no-go. Apparently one Cry for Dawn cover got sold, and he's vowed that it won't happen again.

I just blinked and missed that 9.8 first print #1 on ebay. That didn't last long.

Whoa, we've got the same super power. Price Crashers unite!

I'm cautiously optimistic. Given how important this is to Neil himself and how close it sounds like he's been working on the project, my thinking is that even it doesn't end up being as good as I want it to be, it'll be as good as it's ever going to be.

What a piece! I'd love to see what that'd hit at auction in today's frothy market

Can't believe that result. I'm used to seeing a bigger multiplier between 9.8's and everything else for Crow #1 compared to other books, but I didn't see that coming

No new comic additions, but I did manage to snag this published Dawn piece. Along with being a card in the set, this was the box art for the Definitive Dawn trading cards released back in 2002.

A lot of fans are in the same boat you are. And from a comics perspective, I get it 100%. I'm bullish (picked up a second copy of Avengers 48 myself since the post-Eternals dip) precisely because there's a lot that can be done with the character cinematically, and he's starting from a very low base popularity-wise. I think his role is going to be larger than most think in the next phase of the MCU. While Kit Harington perpetually downplays his future involvement whenever he's asked, I have a hard time believing he signed on for bit parts here or there.

Once, a guy went off on me because he overheard me saying (to someone else) the book would be worth more if the back cover was on the front instead. I didn't even say it was ugly or bad, just that the book would be worth more if the covers were flip-flopped. It wasn't a funny comic book nerd-esque rant, either. He was genuinely ticked. I should've bought a lottery ticket. What are the odds I'd come across the one Tim Vigil fan that was out for blood and willing to go to war on that hill?

Good point regarding liquidity...rarity is a good thing, but if there's too few copies in circulation, there's no active market for people to follow/manipulate/hype. Case in point...the biggest pound-for-pound DC copper book value-wise is the Sandman 8 variant. Good luck finding one. If you do track one down, good luck convincing the owner to sell. GPA shows a whopping 4 sales since January 2020. It's just not built to be hyped the same way the much more liquid keys of the era are. There's 87 copies on the census total. So far this year, 305 copies of Secret Wars 8 have sold in 9 8. Best of DC #10 is an underrated book, but the growth in it is going to have to be driven by organic demand for the same lack of liquidity reason you mentioned- there's just not a big profit motive or supply for dealers or speculators to push it.

What, that BWS Zoolander Conan piece for $66k wasn't enough of a holiday deal? 😆

You could shred the rest to use as your packing materials and still end up ahead lol. Sweet pickup!

Yeah, I don't think timing having prime lots end on a Wednesday is optimal timing . I got blown out on that Sandman promo page; whoever won it at the $96k got it at a good price IMO

I have a feeling NP Gresham is getting the bottle rockets ready as we speak

Hey, who doesn't like a chunk taken out of their 9.4? (apologies if already posted!) Fight Comics #44 The Promise Collection Pedigree (Fiction House, | Lot #96097 | Heritage Auctions (ha.com)

With all the super high grade Suspense Comics from the Promise Collection getting listed, I gotta wonder....how long till #3 gets listed? My guess/hope is he had a copy in there

I think Avengers 1 and BB28 are still undervalued, so if you're crazy, you're in OK to slightly questionable company