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RockMyAmadeus

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Some of you folks weren't in the comics market in the late 90's/early 2000's, huh...?

 

;)

 

Imagine: any copper book, all of them, for $5 or less. Every. Single. One.

 

Except Turtles #1. That was a $50-$100 book, off it's 1990 highs of $300-$400.

 

Imagine, Spidey #252, $3 or so on eBay.

 

Primer #2? $20.

 

Spidey #238? $10, tops.

 

And forget the Johnny-come-lately "keys."

 

Dark Knight? #1-4, $20.

 

Watchmen? Drek.1-12, $12 shipped.

 

Oh, sure, there were the oddballs...Miracleman #15 was selling for $50-$60 or so...but that was the great exception.

 

Spidey #298? $10. #300? $25. New Mutants #87? $5. New Mutants #98? Sold in runs of #90-100 for $10.

 

Pick a key, any key...it was virtually worthless. The demand simply wasn't there.

 

That's what it was like in the late 90's/early 2000's.

 

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Some of you folks weren't in the comics market in the late 90's/early 2000's, huh...?

 

;)

 

Imagine: any copper book, all of them, for $5 or less. Every. Single. One.

 

Except Turtles #1. That was a $50-$100 book, off it's 1990 highs of $300-$400.

 

Imagine, Spidey #252, $3 or so on eBay.

 

Primer #2? $20.

 

Spidey #238? $10, tops.

 

And forget the Johnny-come-lately "keys."

 

Dark Knight? #1-4, $20.

 

Watchmen? Drek.1-12, $12 shipped.

 

Oh, sure, there were the oddballs...Miracleman #15 was selling for $50-$60 or so...but that was the great exception.

 

Spidey #298? $10. #300? $25. New Mutants #87? $5. New Mutants #98? Sold in runs of #90-100 for $10.

 

Pick a key, any key...it was virtually worthless. The demand simply wasn't there.

 

That's what it was like in the late 90's/early 2000's.

 

Right, but thats because at the time Magnus, Lady Death and Gen13 were going for 200-300$ lol

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slym2none

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I'll have to disagree on the Magnus, at least if you meant the VALIANT version. Late '90s/early 2000, they were already way down (and being snatched up by the smart people on this newfangled thing called eBay for a song - same with Unity Reds, CEARs, early Harbinger & Rai issues, etc.)

 

;)

 

 

 

-slym

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RockMyAmadeus

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Some of you folks weren't in the comics market in the late 90's/early 2000's, huh...?

 

;)

 

Imagine: any copper book, all of them, for $5 or less. Every. Single. One.

 

Except Turtles #1. That was a $50-$100 book, off it's 1990 highs of $300-$400.

 

Imagine, Spidey #252, $3 or so on eBay.

 

Primer #2? $20.

 

Spidey #238? $10, tops.

 

And forget the Johnny-come-lately "keys."

 

Dark Knight? #1-4, $20.

 

Watchmen? Drek.1-12, $12 shipped.

 

Oh, sure, there were the oddballs...Miracleman #15 was selling for $50-$60 or so...but that was the great exception.

 

Spidey #298? $10. #300? $25. New Mutants #87? $5. New Mutants #98? Sold in runs of #90-100 for $10.

 

Pick a key, any key...it was virtually worthless. The demand simply wasn't there.

 

That's what it was like in the late 90's/early 2000's.

 

Right, but thats because at the time Magnus, Lady Death and Gen13 were going for 200-300$ lol

 

No, you're mistaken. You're off by about 5-8 years.

 

If any issue of Magnus sold for more than $10 after the Fall of 1993 and until about 2005, I'd be very surprised.

 

Gen 13 had crashed, and crashed hard. I don't recall any issue of Gen 13, even at the height of its 1994-1995 popularity, ever selling for "$200-$300", though. #1 and #1/2 were the biggees, and they sold for about $50 each.

 

Lady Death #1 was a $100 book in 1994, for sure, but by 1999...$5.

 

LATE 90's/early 2000's. Think 1998-2002 or thereabouts.

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Right, but thats because at the time Magnus, Lady Death and Gen13 were going for 200-300$ lol

 

No, you're mistaken. You're off by about 5-8 years.

 

If any issue of Magnus sold for more than $10 after the Fall of 1993 and until about 2005, I'd be very surprised.

 

Umm.......Magnus #12 was going for well over $10 in the 2002/2003 peak. You are off by a couple of years on Valiants. I posted my sales results a while back when we first debated the prices I was receiving for Valiants at that time. :baiting:

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Some of you folks weren't in the comics market in the late 90's/early 2000's, huh...?

 

;)

 

Imagine: any copper book, all of them, for $5 or less. Every. Single. One.

 

Except Turtles #1. That was a $50-$100 book, off it's 1990 highs of $300-$400.

 

Imagine, Spidey #252, $3 or so on eBay.

 

Primer #2? $20.

 

Spidey #238? $10, tops.

 

And forget the Johnny-come-lately "keys."

 

Dark Knight? #1-4, $20.

 

Watchmen? Drek.1-12, $12 shipped.

 

Oh, sure, there were the oddballs...Miracleman #15 was selling for $50-$60 or so...but that was the great exception.

 

Spidey #298? $10. #300? $25. New Mutants #87? $5. New Mutants #98? Sold in runs of #90-100 for $10.

 

Pick a key, any key...it was virtually worthless. The demand simply wasn't there.

 

That's what it was like in the late 90's/early 2000's.

 

As someone who lived in a small town in Ontario, Canada back then (where $5 couldn't get you a UXM #204 in VF, sale on back issues excepted), colour me envious!

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RockMyAmadeus

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Right, but thats because at the time Magnus, Lady Death and Gen13 were going for 200-300$ lol

 

No, you're mistaken. You're off by about 5-8 years.

 

If any issue of Magnus sold for more than $10 after the Fall of 1993 and until about 2005, I'd be very surprised.

 

Umm.......Magnus #12 was going for well over $10 in the 2002/2003 peak. You are off by a couple of years on Valiants. I posted my sales results a while back when we first debated the prices I was receiving for Valiants at that time. :baiting:

 

 

Ok.

 

I'll just point out that the only sale of a Magnus #12 in 9.8 in 2002 was for $44.

 

And in early 2003, two 9.6 copies sold for $33 and $36.

 

And those are for slabs; raws, of course, sold for less.

 

I was a near-founding member of Valiantsfans.com (2002), and a founding member of the eBay comics board (1999), in which Valiant prices figured a big part, but hey, what do I know...?

 

:whistle:

 

I know some folks have talked about a "Valiant peak" in 2002/2003, but I was actively buying Valiants on a regular (daily, if I could) basis in that time period (as before and since), and I don't remember anything like that happening.

 

And all of that really isn't the point, is it...? Magnus #12 was a ONE HUNDRED dollar book in early 1993. It was NOT ever again (except in slabs.)

 

That's the point.

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