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gradejunky

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  1. Way too much risk with high ratios in my opinion....but in this market once all the books dry up and something makes the book pop, the 1:100 will be a winner maybe. Not so much right now if you paid $75+?
  2. Mighty Avengers 29 getting a little love: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=mighty+avengers+29&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
  3. Where the Wild Things Are homage cover. Gamma Flight #1 had a similar homage cover so I guess that is why?
  4. These are just Captain America variants for his 80th anniversary, right? Just like the venomized/knullified variants these are not permanent costumes so I'm not sure why there would be too much buzz. That said, I was looking at this cover myself last night on TFAW finalizing my orders, and was contemplating getting a handful of these with the regular cover only because I have ordered the whole clone saga set thus far.
  5. Yea, the Spawn 306D that I didn't pre-order either as I never saw that FOC solicit, and wasn't paying $30+, has been hot since release day. Has only been in the last couple weeks maybe that the rest blew up. I looked at those a month back or so and you could still get A-C sets for like $15. I need that crystal ball....like pronto.
  6. This might be known since Spawn has been hot as hell, but I was not aware that any of them past 302 were doing anything, regular covers wise. #306 is getting fire: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=spawn+306&_sacat=0&rt=nc&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
  7. I thought the premise sounded cool but just couldn't do it. It took all this time for the series to really pick up steam even with multiple printings on all the issues. Reader buzz was there and now the market caught up. I did just order all the latest printings of 1-4 just for laughs and giggles.
  8. Sure is...another book I dropped from my preorders....FML
  9. I've read the majority up to the last HC, vol.2 I believe. I will get the vol. 3 HC as well just to see what is up, but yea, I'm not all that impressed with it either. TBH, I don't really like that much superhero content any more, period. The same old cliche stuff always happens IMHO. I have all the singles for the most part, and some in pretty high numbers. It doesn't matter if I like it, only that others like it. Moving forward the next run might make some of the books pop again, or the exact opposite and go in an entirely different direction, who knows.
  10. The biggest problem in my experience is that people don't want to read. I post books saying 2nd print in the title and the body of the listing for example;not to mention the UPC showing 2nd print, and 2nd printing written somewhere on the cover maybe. Then someone comes along and asks me in a message whether or not the book is a 1st print.....WTF!?! If someone doesn't know that the book is a reprint by looking at the huge True Believers written on the top, the modern day UPC in the left corner, the brand new looking paper and materials etc., the cover price itself AND the fact that the CGC label denotes the year printed, and that it reprints X-Men #129 then I have no remorse for the buyer. Somehow the seller is supposed to read the listing for them and then telepathically give them the info...sorry folks that is only in the comics we love and read. These same people must need someone to tell them to wipe their arse after they take a dump, too!
  11. McFarlane has stated in an interview that the only reason they created Venom was because he wanted Peter in his regular red and blue costume because that is how he knew Spider-Man, and wanted to draw him in his classic suit. Venom was the byproduct of taking the symbiote off him and moving it to Brock. To them, Venom was probably kind of a throw away.
  12. Those Zatanna books are ghosts here. I've been looking for years to find copies of any of those books from that run. I do have a couple buried somewhere but I know they are not very nice copies.
  13. I do know that Keanu did an in-house signing at CGC for the 1:1000 only to my knowledge. Other than that I'm not sure about any other signings.
  14. My copy of spidey unlimited just sold for $15 VF+...wish I had more but this is all I found last year/year before when I was actually going to shops here and there.
  15. Ok I usually know the acronyms, but what is DM 7?
  16. In Orlando in general getting good books for cheap is very hard. Coliseum is way overpriced and they only bag most back-issues with no backing board (90% of the books in the bins). When a book gets hot they go grab the copy from the bin that has been getting beat to mess with no backing board, and plop it on the wall for ebay NM prices + 20%. I have seen 7.0 looking books on the wall for those NM ebay prices. It is insanity. Don't even get me started on Acme comics in Longwood with their $1 room where you'll never get good stuff from as they will tell you " that is not supposed to be in there" etc. This is a pretty tough city to be in as a comic buyer.
  17. Yep, the location by the Millennia Mall; that is their main store. Couldn't believe it either as I just looked at it in the bin with my hand on it thinking it was a prank. Whoever priced that from a collection and put it in the bin had no idea what it was, and either did the cashier girl, though she did give a quick pause like she kind of knew it was older and much more obscure looking for a $4 price tag. That is the exception, though. Most of the time you'd be lucky to stealth buy a $15 book for cover before they find out about it, and that was pre-Key Collector etc.
  18. Mine is at least a 9.0 maybe 9.2. Even with some pressing love it will never be a 9.8, but I would be happy with a 9.4 slab. Book has got to be pretty darn rare.