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[Michael Browning]

Found these in dollar boxes:

Maxx 35 - last issue

Hardware 50 - last issue

Hardware 49 - Moebius cover, next to last issue

Justice League America (International) 113 - last issue

Spectre 62 - last issue

Justice League Unlimited 46 - last issue

Batman: Gotham Adventures 10 - Harley Quinn appearance

[WolverineX]

Found these all in the 25 cent to 1 dollar bin today

 

[Michael Browning]

48 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Found these all in the 25 cent to 1 dollar bin today

 

I just found 20 copies of Bloodshot 6 in a longbox of quarter books. All were gradable copies. I don't think any of those that you found are rare (some of those had VERY high print runs ... well, ALL of them had VERY high print runs), but, I will be honest, the Legionaires is one I have only found once - last Friday in a dollar box. All of the Valiants from that time had extremely high print runs. The problem was, very few people were actually reading them. When they did start to read the Valiants from that time period, they realized just how bad they were and they realized that the print runs were so high that they weren't rare anymore and that it was no longer a safe bet to speculate on them and the dumping began. I like to call that period "The Fool's Gold Age".

[followtheleader]

2 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

Found these in dollar boxes:

Maxx 35 - last issue

Hardware 50 - last issue

Hardware 49 - Moebius cover, next to last issue

Justice League America (International) 113 - last issue

Spectre 62 - last issue

Justice League Unlimited 46 - last issue

Batman: Gotham Adventures 10 - Harley Quinn appearance

Awesome on the Maxx 35. 

I've been looking for that Gotham 10 for quite some time but haven't run into it yet. 

Patrick

[Michael Browning]

1 minute ago, followtheleader said:

Awesome on the Maxx 35. 

I've been looking for that Gotham 10 for quite some time but haven't run into it yet. 

Patrick

All these caught my eye. I know high-number issues of The Maxx sell well, so I grabbed the 35. I know ANYTHING with Harley Quinn on it from that period is worth buying for a dollar. I knew the two Hardware issues were probably scarce just like the Static last issue, so I grabbed them. I hardly ever see Justice League 113, Justice League Unlimited 46 and Spectre 62, which is why I picked all those up. I don't collect any of these, but they were cool and rare so I figured I'd buy them.

[fastballspecial]

The Hardware 49 I look for a lot and never find. That JLU is a tough book to find as well.

 

[WolverineX]

9 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

I just found 20 copies of Bloodshot 6 in a longbox of quarter books. All were gradable copies. I don't think any of those that you found are rare (some of those had VERY high print runs ... well, ALL of them had VERY high print runs), but, I will be honest, the Legionaires is one I have only found once - last Friday in a dollar box. All of the Valiants from that time had extremely high print runs. The problem was, very few people were actually reading them. When they did start to read the Valiants from that time period, they realized just how bad they were and they realized that the print runs were so high that they weren't rare anymore and that it was no longer a safe bet to speculate on them and the dumping began. I like to call that period "The Fool's Gold Age".

Good to know.  The Hard Corps is a comic Defense fund variant.  Not sure what the print run is on that. 

[Michael Browning]

11 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

Good to know.  The Hard Corps is a comic Defense fund variant.  Not sure what the print run is on that. 

Actually, Comic Defense System was a brand of comic protectors that were hard sleeves with flaps that tucked into a band on the back. If you bought a box of them, you got a copy of the Hard Corps comic. You can get 144 copies in one lot of eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Valiant-HARD-CORPS-5-144pc-Count-Comic-Defense-System-No-Cover-Price-Variant/361506208192?hash=item542b72f9c0:g:oSUAAOSwWTRW0JgI

[WolverineX]

I also found these DCU variants this weekend too.  I think these are a bit harder to find. 

 

[Okeydoke]

6 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

Actually, Comic Defense System was a brand of comic protectors that were hard sleeves with flaps that tucked into a band on the back. If you bought a box of them, you got a copy of the Hard Corps comic. You can get 144 copies in one lot of eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Valiant-HARD-CORPS-5-144pc-Count-Comic-Defense-System-No-Cover-Price-Variant/361506208192?hash=item542b72f9c0:g:oSUAAOSwWTRW0JgI

144 copies? That's pretty gross...I mean that's a gross! Lol! 

[BishopT]

Not a bad little haul for 50 cent books... the New Avengers and ASM are newsstand editions, and that non foil Thor #25 is surprisingly hard to find. I'm really excited about that DC vs Marvel #4 DCU, as that seems pretty elusive.

Edited July 3, 2018 by BishopT

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

On 7/1/2018 at 10:55 PM, Michael Browning said:

I just found 20 copies of Bloodshot 6 in a longbox of quarter books. All were gradable copies. I don't think any of those that you found are rare (some of those had VERY high print runs ... well, ALL of them had VERY high print runs), but, I will be honest, the Legionaires is one I have only found once - last Friday in a dollar box. All of the Valiants from that time had extremely high print runs. The problem was, very few people were actually reading them. When they did start to read the Valiants from that time period, they realized just how bad they were and they realized that the print runs were so high that they weren't rare anymore and that it was no longer a safe bet to speculate on them and the dumping began. I like to call that period "The Fool's Gold Age".

Not entirely accurate about what happened. The early Valiants were well done and had fairly low print runs for the time. The high quality combined with low availability (especially pre-Internet) led to high prices. Once it became generally perceived that buying Valiant books was going to be like printing money, the sales skyrocketed. While the quality maybe fell off a bit for some books (certainly they weren't as bad as the much later Valiant books that had low print runs), the cause of the crash was that there were just far too many books out there and too many people buying multiples of them, for there to be anyone to sell the books to at a profit. When people realized *that,* that's when things crashed. The quality wasn't all that relevant.

[fastballspecial]

Sorta like the variant market today

Also valiant didnt have newsstands for many years and never utilized that market much. 

[fastballspecial]

3 hours ago, BishopT said:

Not a bad little haul for 50 cent books... the New Avengers and ASM are newsstand editions, and that non foil Thor #25 is surprisingly hard to find. I'm really excited about that DC vs Marvel #4 DCU, as that seems pretty elusive.

The thor non enhanced newsstand I have only found once. That dc versus marvel is a great find. I am not sure I have ever seen an asm 544 newstand

 U would think though it would be a higher print run due to relaunch.

Edited July 3, 2018 by fastballspecial

[Michael Browning]

Found today in the wild for a buck apiece:

[Michael Browning]

And, I actually found two each of the Pitt 19s and 20s and a copy of 18. It was a good day and I’ll try to put up more pics of the comics I found in the wild tomorrow. There are plenty more where these came from.

[fastballspecial]

You just better be glad you live a LONG ways away from me. If you were in 300 mile radius of me you wouldn't be finding all that.
Someone move down there he needs some competition.

Yes I am jealous. 

BTW that's not a good day. That's a lifetime day.

 

Edited July 4, 2018 by fastballspecial

[Mapleleafvann]

3 minutes ago, fastballspecial said:

You just better be glad you live a LONG ways away from me. If you were in 300 mile radius of me you wouldn't be finding all that.
Someone move down there he needs some competition.

Yes I am jealous. 

BTW that's not a good day. That's a lifetime day.

 

I agree....unbelievable grabs.  I've never seen a haul like that for $1 a piece.  I have never come across such finds myself.....what a fantastic hunting ground he has---I am frustratingly jealous!

[WolverineX]

7 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

Found today in the wild for a buck apiece:

Incredible! Love the Hughes cover.    What's special about the Pitts and showcase?  Low print run? 

[Michael Browning]

Very hard-to-find last two issues of Pitt and the Showcase is about as HTF and it’s kind of the first Birds of Prey.