kav Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Rarity? Artist? What? Why does one low print variant fade into oblivion and another explode I'll take my answer on the air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattn792 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Foil. FOIL!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattn792 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 We should really start marketing the regular prints of those 1:1000 variants as the 1000:1 variants. There’s enough newbie collectors out there that would fall for it. kav and Krismusic 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 I just cant see these things holding their value. $2000 for a book that came out recently. Sure thing. Hollywood1892 and mattn792 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 I hope someone has an answer. What makes some random book variant pop? What happens?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I'm of the nature of 'who cares' unless it's an awesome variant. This is still one of my favorite ASM Variants - The book folds at the center of the Spider so each side of the comic only features half of Peter Parker. I love it though as it features Marcos Martin work on all of Spider-mans enemies and backup characters. bababooey, Ken Aldred and kav 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattn792 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 @Buzzetta when did Kurt Wagner become Spider-Man? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Just now, mattn792 said: @Buzzetta when did Kurt Wagner become Spider-Man? Those are shadows dammit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattn792 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 1 minute ago, Buzzetta said: Those are shadows dammit ! Damn pesky blue shadows... Wait, wasn’t Blue Shadows a Johnny Depp movie?!? Spider-Man...Kurt Wagner...Blue Shadows...Johnny Depp...nonsensical cologne commercials...Spider-Man is going to endorse Eau de Cristian D’or’s Toilette!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 32 minutes ago, mattn792 said: @Buzzetta when did Kurt Wagner become Spider-Man? It's Dr Manhattan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dupont2005 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Demand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted July 11, 2019 Author Share Posted July 11, 2019 2 minutes ago, dupont2005 said: Demand I guess my question is how does the demand happen? Does word of mouth or something make everyone suddenly scramble for one book as opposed to another? Is there any logic to it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Almost nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bookery Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 7 hours ago, kav said: I guess my question is how does the demand happen? Does word of mouth or something make everyone suddenly scramble for one book as opposed to another? Is there any logic to it? Discussion of comic book collecting. Insertion of word "logic" into discussion. Kav make funny. ygogolak and kav 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicaaron Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 for the same reasons one cover A book that is printed at 20,000 copies goes to $50 and another cover A book printed at the same amount is found in dollar bins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 What's with those damn ASM Del Otto variants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WoWitHurts Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I think some people like a particular cover artist and seek those out so a popular cover artist of a book that maybe has fewer distributed copies sells for more. Some collectors still try and follow the completist path (sad for them) and companies prey on this. Fear of missing out may play into it. I think the question could apply to any comic really. Collectors could have bought Iron Man #219 anytime from its release to a year ago for $1 and picked up a CGC 9.8 for like $40 but when the ghost appeared in the Ant man movie prices shot up north of $400. Why would someone be interested now? Ghost isn't that interesting of a character and hasn't made that many appearances. Now that the hype is dying down its last sale was $175 and will continue to sink IMO. kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 I do not get involved with new books, however... The same thing held true in the early 90's with books like X-Men 1 and Ghost Rider 15 so my guess would be speculation, why one over the other, I don't know, eye appeal, human nature, word of mouth, keeping up with the Jones??? kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 4 minutes ago, marvelmaniac said: ...keeping up with the Jones??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelmaniac Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 Although I apparently did not spell it correctly and my computer did not offer a correction... Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods. To fail to "keep up with the Joneses" is perceived as demonstrating socio-economic or cultural inferiority. theCapraAegagrus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...