JLA 166-168...

[the blob]

darn, just as i scored one of these for 50 cents the market has dried up

 

glad I sold one of them for $25, although that one was pretty sharp

[Zonker]

Amazing how as soon as the Greatest JLA Stories tpb was announced the bottom fell out. I got my 166 VF upgrade for $4 or so.

 

Readers? Or Speculators on behalf of readers? Discuss.

[joe_collector]

Speculators basing their purchases on future reader demand.

 

Now that the TPB is announced, the specs no longer assume future reader demand will be there, and values will tank.

[johnenock]

I got all mine before the big boom for guide. I think I sold one of the issues the rest are slabbed. It did seem like a very hot item for a very short time...what 3 months or so?

[Foolkiller]

I sold mine to a dealer at the NY Comicon for a combined $50 for all three. He resold them for $100 total later in the day.

[jbud73]

I sold mine to a dealer at the NY Comicon for a combined $50 for all three. He resold them for $100 total later in the day.

 

A double fleecing WOW.

[Jeffreykli]

I sold mine to a dealer at the NY Comicon for a combined $50 for all three. He resold them for $100 total later in the day.

 

Including the one you got from me for $20 or so? I assume you only needed that one for the set, otherwise it wouldn't be worth the flip.

[Foolkiller]

Actually, I kept yours and sold a different one. I already had a very nice set I was intending on flipping, and I kept the lower grade one (including your book).

[Rocketeer]

...Damn,..I must be getting slow,..I didn't even get to hoard any before they went bust,...

[Jeffreykli]

Actually, I kept yours and sold a different one. I already had a very nice set I was intending on flipping, and I kept the lower grade one (including your book).

 

[jduran1]

TPBacks are going to be the end of all of us. My 10 year old will buy TPB's in the future not the comics..........................Thats sad.

 

Remember modern comics are like penny stocks...............

[the blob]

as one DC executive told me once:

 

"I don't give a damn about the collectors"

 

really, I'm serious

[UnrulyAppendage]

as one DC executive told me once:

 

"I don't give a damn about the collectors"

 

really, I'm serious

 

If they have a hot book, it is better for them to reprint it and make the money. DC as a company has to be concerned about the readers.

[jbud73]

TPBacks are going to be the end of all of us. My 10 year old will buy TPB's in the future not the comics..........................Thats sad.

 

Remember modern comics are like penny stocks...............

 

Is penny stock a synonym for toilet paper

[Lazyboy]

Remember modern comics are like penny stocks...............

 

Is penny stock a synonym for toilet paper

 

Yes?

[the blob]

"If they have a hot book, it is better for them to reprint it and make the money. DC as a company has to be concerned about the readers."

 

you don't think that the way the whole new crisis event has reached back and made some back issues from the last 20 years hot commodities has helped fuel sales of the new books? did anyone buy House of M?

[the blob]

taking another look at it, looks like a decent VF. was probably a $20 book a few months ago. bummer.

[the blob]

Hmmmm, so what lasted longer, this little fad or something like the "cosmic spiderman" books being "hot" pre-ebay? That would be an interesting list --- short, hot, fads. Not talking about Valiant, Liefield, McFarlane or things that lasted a few years, but something that popped in just a few months. Granted, ebay tends to make things happen faster because you quickly see how many get offered for sale. In the olden days it took time for everyone to dig up their Son of Satan appearances of what not.

 

OK, that's a good one, Son of Satan was quasi-hot for like what, 3 months, at some point in the early 90s? [i think of the 70s re-treads like Deathlock, Guardians of the Galaxy, Morbius and Ghost Rider, SOS fizzled the fastest (I don't think either of these other four would qualify for my list, Deathlock I think had about 2 years...Guardians of the Galaxy comes close, 1970's Morbius books weren't trash heap material due to the affiliation with Spidey)

[UnrulyAppendage]

"If they have a hot book, it is better for them to reprint it and make the money. DC as a company has to be concerned about the readers."

 

you don't think that the way the whole new crisis event has reached back and made some back issues from the last 20 years hot commodities has helped fuel sales of the new books? did anyone buy House of M?

 

I don't know what the question is

 

My comment was based on someone saying the release of TPB kills the collectors market. DC or any other publisher has to worry about it's current readers, not the collectors. Reprinting the JLA stories is taking advantage of hot books, but is detrimental to those that speculated on these issues. As far as the Crisis books go, I would think DC knew there would be interest in the back issues, but they didn't do that drive up the back issue prices. They see it as an opportunity to reprint those back issues. I don't think the back issues are fueling the new books. It's the other way around.

[the blob]

I think the hotness of JLA 166-168 and some other books helped to extra hype the new crisis books that were coming out. Obviously the new crisis series set the back issues on fire in the first place. Just an opinion. As someone who mainly buys older material and not much off the rack, the fact that the series relates back 20+ years got me more interested and I bought more crisis and crisis tie-in books as a result (not multiples).

 

Anyway, I understand the financial motivation behind reprinting old comics, but time and time again the publishers take the air out of some book by reprinting it the moment anyone cares about it. Here, it's less the case, but when you know Hush will be a TPB in 3 months, why bother buying the monthly issues?