What do you think?

[The Less Blob]

Picking up some overstock ASM 600 and DD 500s for 75 cents each? I hate to speculate on moderns, but these were kindah nifty issues and that's a pretty fair price. I kindah feel like these sorts of anniversary issues have some staying power long-term, though ASM 500 isn't exactly going for much and I feel less strongly about DD, though the issue had a lot going for it.

 

With that said, if I pick up 20 of them there are probably better comics (from a collectability perspective) to spend $15 on.

 

Were these vastly overordered for dealers to get the variants?

[PEP]

There's probably better things to spend the $15 on.

[mschmidt]

Were these vastly overordered for dealers to get the variants?

 

Yep.

[Hawkman]

Picking up some overstock ASM 600 and DD 500s for 75 cents each? I hate to speculate on moderns, but these were kindah nifty issues and that's a pretty fair price. I kindah feel like these sorts of anniversary issues have some staying power long-term, though ASM 500 isn't exactly going for much and I feel less strongly about DD, though the issue had a lot going for it.

 

With that said, if I pick up 20 of them there are probably better comics (from a collectability perspective) to spend $15 on.

 

Were these vastly overordered for dealers to get the variants?

 

 

i wouldn't buy these. a lot of work to sell books that don't have any real importance other than the issue number. not enough value in the long run. i can't see you making more than $20-30 in profit, if you're lucky.

[gaz973]

There's probably better things to spend the $15 on.

 

+1

[Comicopolis]

There's probably better things to spend the $15 on.

 

+1

 

+15

[slym2none]

I think about death a lot lately, as well as if I will ever meet the "right" girl. I think about what happens to me if I never find a real job again. I think about a lot of things... what would you like to know?

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

[slym2none]

I think about death a lot lately, as well as if I will ever meet the "right" girl. I think about what happens to me if I never find a real job again. I think about a lot of things... what would you like to know?

 

 

 

 

-slym

[PEP]

There's probably better things to spend the $15 on.

 

+1

 

+15

= 16

[PEP]

I think about death a lot lately, as well as if I will ever meet the "right" girl. I think about what happens to me if I never find a real job again. I think about a lot of things... what would you like to know?

 

 

 

 

-slym

You still working at the convenience store?

[kidcolt]

The best investment issues are the ones that stories don't have or can't keep. Overstock is exactly that overstock. Most every store orders a pile of these issues not to mention the pile that corner stores order (newstand issues). Most of these end up in the dollar box or in a 1/2 price sale.

 

 

[Comicopolis]

There's probably better things to spend the $15 on.

 

+1

 

+15

= 16

 

[slym2none]

I think about death a lot lately, as well as if I will ever meet the "right" girl. I think about what happens to me if I never find a real job again. I think about a lot of things... what would you like to know?

You still working at the convenience store?

 

I hate you.

 

 

 

 

-slym

[MR.COMICBOOK]

you will at least double your money in the long run, especially with Spidey, Spidey never goes out of season, when Spidey doesn`t sell then the comics industry is in serious trouble.

[PEP]

I think about death a lot lately, as well as if I will ever meet the "right" girl. I think about what happens to me if I never find a real job again. I think about a lot of things... what would you like to know?

You still working at the convenience store?

 

I hate you.

 

 

 

 

-slym

What I do??? What I do???

[The Less Blob]

The best investment issues are the ones that stories don't have or can't keep. Overstock is exactly that overstock. Most every store orders a pile of these issues not to mention the pile that corner stores order (newstand issues). Most of these end up in the dollar box or in a 1/2 price sale.

 

 

well, that's why i was planning to only pay 75 cents for them

 

I wound up buying a few more...at 65 cents each, but not 15 copies.

 

I'm a spidey fan, I don't mind having a few, Heck knows I have enough multiples of copies in the 100s and 200s, sometimes double digits on some issues. For whatever reason, whatever the print-run, someone out there is buying ASMs. Heck, I've sold some of those Bagleys in the 300s for $3 each (not that I think that's the going rate, I just don't price anything in my store for less)

 

I wasn't really thinking of these massively overordered books being $20 books any time soon, just thinking $3-$5 to flesh out my store inventory. of course, does it really need fleshing? i have about 9,000 bronze age books I should probably stick in there.

 

heck, [some] people pay $3 for X-Men 300 and that was a 25 cent overstock book at every show I went to in 1993/94.