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gradejunky

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  1. 9 hours ago, the blob said:

    Larger city just means more competition scouring for books

    I was going to comment on this myself.  I live in Orlando, FL and the buying opportunities here in greater Orlando are pretty dismal.  The big chain here which is Coliseum of Comics has a pretty horrible model as far as finding good inventory.  New books that don't sell get put in just a bag (no board), and placed in the back issue bins at which time the price is raised $.50 for just the bag I guess :frown:.  If a book gets hot, it is quickly snatched out of the box and re-bagged with a board to be put back in the box or on the wall with eBay NM prices, regardless of whether it is anywhere close to being a 9.4.  I have rarely had much luck getting books that are already hot out of any of their locations.  Then you have Acme Comics, a beautiful and massive store very close to me.  They like to eat and have drinks behind the counter as they are processing books for the back issue boxes. I can't tell you how many times I've bought books out of there listed as 9.2/9.4 on the price tag, to then get home and remove a book to find a huge water spot damage or food residue on the BC etc.  Not once or twice mind you, dozens of times.  And the big $1 room they have in the back?  Literally just overflowing with junk that is mid grade at best.  When and if you do find something of some value...."oh that is not supposed to be in there".  Yep, you ain't leaving the store with that.  My better buying experience was by far when I moved to a small city in NH for about 5 years.  The few shops I had within a 5-30 minute drive from me yielded many more hot books for cover price or less with no sales tax to boot.  Aslo, add in all the competition here and it pretty much sucks around me.  I have better luck just sourcing off ebay and other sites, or pre-ordering books for selling, no lie.

  2. 1 hour ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

    Initial release stuff.  Youngblood, Storm Watch, union, Deathblow, Wildcats, Kindred, Backlash, Pitt....

     

    Got a long box of unbagged Image books that must leave my house....

    WildCats #11-1st Mr. Majestic is a sleeper IMHO that may never do anything, or could be a big one down the road if they ever do anything with him.  Always thought he was a real cool Superman-esque character that has much potential.

  3. On 1/17/2021 at 3:26 PM, Kristy0915 said:

    So I was searching on internet regarding pricing of this comic I came across that we have had in a box and found these posts. We have the first issue in the original bag with trading card never opened. So is that a good thing? I’m so new and naive to comics! Insight would be great! 

    You have a $1-3 comic based on the condition to be honest.  These are as plentiful as they come and nothing major happens in the book.  #2 is the 2nd appearance of Deadpool, and had a spike a few years back, but is now back to a $5ish book.

  4. 16 hours ago, kimik said:

    I think that the new DC will be fine. Based on snippets that came out after the staffing changes late last year, and one of Tynion's blogs over the holiday break, it is clear that there was an old comic market vs new comic market struggle and the old guard lost. The reality is AT&T needs to keep the DC IP churning for its streaming services, and they need to dump other underperforming assets that never made any sense for them to acquire (hello Direct TV, for which they will take a huge loss on). Personally, I think it would be cool if Amazon could buy DC from them, or even Marvel in a sci-fi/comics consolidation play (although that would likely never go through from an anti-trust perspective). 

    I personally think we should be hesitant to want any more mega corporations to own any more of our beloved licenses and comic companies...just saying.

  5. 10 minutes ago, the blob said:

    Is there any way to know this for sure? I have the treasury, not the magazine, but the book came first?

     

    I saw a whole video discussing those.  The book came first but is obviously not really a comic so....However, in that book Yoda is purple and elvish looking as per Joe Johnston's original concept designs I guess?  The latter two had the panels redrawn to sport the green Yoda that we know from the movies.  Wish I had snagged a copy or two of the mag before it blew up!

  6. 6 minutes ago, Catwomancomics said:

    Where did you order them from?

    popculturezone

    Another comic seller who doesn't know that you can order heavy duty cardboard sheets from Papermart.com (the only ones worth buying BTW).  I explained to the that I order 1-200 at a time and land them for about $.23, and that they can get them way cheaper by ordering in mass bulk.  Physics is just lost on almost everyone that sells comics on the internet and ships them.  They think a box, and backing boards, keep comics from getting damaged when the inside of the box the comics were slamming into the whole way from NJ, was what crushed the books.  I friggin give up.

  7. Just got my first order of High Republic #1 I got last minute on ebay before it started to take off.  Was so happy to get what you see below.  Of course,  "they were shipped in the industry standard Gemini Mailer" with 2 pieces of painters tape to hold the packet of 10 comics in place whilst being thrown around by the PO like a frisbee.  A ten pack of comics that the day of them actually shipping them out to me had a  market value of $200 about, but no other protection to keep the books from slamming into the inside of the box, like IDK, a friggin piece of cardboard with them locked down to with some heavy duty fng packing tape!?!!!!

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  8. 44 minutes ago, eddly said:

    I ordered I think 11 copies of ASM 55. Any potential with the content or is it just a cover buy?

    I was going to order some copies of that book, great cover.  I figured I would order a bunch and the book would never be anything.  If interest grows as just a cover book I might pick some up, but I don't think anything really happens in it or there would be musings already.

  9. Just now, WeR138 said:

    I passed on two of the Wal-Mart Venom 25 3 Packs.  By the time I realized the KT 2nd print was in them, someone else had bough both of them. :(

    So those popped up in the Wal-Mart 3 packs?  I wasn't aware of that.  Some sellers are listing them as a Wal-Mart Variant, which is incorrect I believe.

  10. 14 minutes ago, 1Cool said:

    I should stay out of this thread all together.  I bought a long box of really sharp DH Star War books for $1 a piece in a bulk buy and thought they were a no brainer.  I dragged that long box to 3 shows I set up at that year and sold a few at $5, a few more at $4 and maybe a dozen at $3 a piece.  They sat in my basement for almost a year and then I just sold the remainder for $1 a piece to a board member.  It took another year for the issues to start getting hot but it stinks to see a book I know I had in the box explode up to $30 - $50.

    Yep this game is ruthless.  You want to get rid of stuff so you don't have mountains of stuff to crawl over, but then almost every dog has it's day and you don't have that dog anymore when it matures into something.  IMO, the biggest problem in this game is not having too much inventory, regardless of how good the inventory is at the time.  The problem, is not having enough space to store the inventory comfortably, and you liquidate prematurely.