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Post by DubipR on Jun 19, 2014 21:08:21 GMT -5
Hey Jez, What's your thoughts on the past month and this month's variants from DC; the Allred Batman '66 covers and the Bombshells? How are those selling over on the other side of the pond?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2014 21:13:38 GMT -5
Hey Jez, What's your thoughts on the past month and this month's variants from DC; the Allred Batman '66 covers and the Bombshells? How are those selling over on the other side of the pond? I like some of them but I'd rather my favourite artists do the 40s and 50s pin up girls This one was ordered the most locally....
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Post by DubipR on Jun 19, 2014 21:20:19 GMT -5
Hey Jez, What's your thoughts on the past month and this month's variants from DC; the Allred Batman '66 covers and the Bombshells? How are those selling over on the other side of the pond? I like some of them but I'd rather my favourite artists do the 40s and 50s pin up girls This one was ordered the most locally.... I bought a couple of bombshell covers as the overall designs were nice but as a whole, I'm like you. I'd rather commission the artists to draw my favorite characters as pin ups.
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jun 19, 2014 22:31:45 GMT -5
Every time I consider getting a new title, I speculate as to whether or not I'll like it...? Just answer the question, mam. Sans dime-store theatrics if possible. I must know. I simply must!
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Post by bashbash99 on Jun 20, 2014 10:39:12 GMT -5
I didn't buy extra copies of anything but as a kid in the mid 80s remember buying some indie B&W comics that I thought might be the next TMNT. Fish Police comes to mind... I remember a few months after buying it the LCS was selling the 1st ish for $50. Being a kid I stupidly assumed it would retain value or keep going up up up!!! Oh well lesson learned. I still have it somewhere in a long box.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 20, 2014 10:44:28 GMT -5
Hey Jez, What's your thoughts on the past month and this month's variants from DC; the Allred Batman '66 covers and the Bombshells? How are those selling over on the other side of the pond? I like some of them but I'd rather my favourite artists do the 40s and 50s pin up girls This one was ordered the most locally.... Jez, your new avatar is a brilliantly disturbing recreation of the Spider-Man/Mary Jane kiss scene from the 1st Spider-Man movie. Was this your creation or was it something you found? Well done.
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Post by hondobrode on Jun 20, 2014 10:51:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I like it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 18:39:12 GMT -5
Jez, your new avatar is a brilliantly disturbing recreation of the Spider-Man/Mary Jane kiss scene from the 1st Spider-Man movie. Was this your creation or was it something you found? Well done. Found and modified to fit in this forum's avatar parameters
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 20, 2014 18:43:28 GMT -5
Jez, your new avatar is a brilliantly disturbing recreation of the Spider-Man/Mary Jane kiss scene from the 1st Spider-Man movie. Was this your creation or was it something you found? Well done. Found and modified to fit in this forum's avatar parameters I hope no animals were harmed In the making of that avatar.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 23:41:53 GMT -5
I didn't buy extra copies of anything but as a kid in the mid 80s remember buying some indie B&W comics that I thought might be the next TMNT. Fish Police comes to mind... I remember a few months after buying it the LCS was selling the 1st ish for $50. Being a kid I stupidly assumed it would retain value or keep going up up up!!! Oh well lesson learned. I still have it somewhere in a long box. I'm just slightly too young to have been around for that, I started buying comics just a couple years later when all that stuff was in the quarter bin, and to me it was a goldmine. I used to love the quarter bin and all the oddities found within. Since a child the black and white comics were my favorite, just because you never knew what you were in for. Because of that I've acquired a taste for some pretty bad stuff though. Silverwolf comics, that one issue of Cosmos, everything Barry Blair.
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Post by Randle-El on Jun 22, 2014 22:35:35 GMT -5
I think it's pretty amazing that modern single issue comics go up in value to justify speculation. It made much more sense with older comics. You had a key issue (number one, first appearance, etc) that was in high demand with a low supply due to few surviving copies and no availability through reprints -- recipe for rising prices. These days, considering all the options one has to obtain the same material -- single issue, trade collection, digital -- I don't get why people enable this sort of behavior. Are there really that many people that have to have the original printed comic?
To use a specific example -- checking mycomicshop.com, they have copies of Hawkeye #1 by Matt Fraction for anywhere from $50 to $120. This is a for a comic printed TWO YEARS AGO that you can find multiple subsequent printings of (I think they did like 5 printings), as well as easily obtain in trade or digital. After hearing a lot of good things about this series, I wanted to check it out and initially started looking for back issues and was shocked to find how expensive they were. No way I was going to pay that much to read the story when I can get it in a much more cost effective format digitally or via trade.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 22:53:32 GMT -5
Mile High Comics is never a cost effective place to shop
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Post by Randle-El on Jun 22, 2014 23:00:43 GMT -5
Mile High Comics is never a cost effective place to shop If you were referring to my post -- I was using mycomicshop.com as a price reference, not Mile High. Mycomicshop.com is Lone Star Comics, and I actually find their back issue prices to be quite reasonable for the most part. At least for any back issue I've ever looked for, they are cheaper than Mile High, Overstreet, and just about every local dealer in my area unless it's from the dollar bin. I tried perusing the Mile High website a couple of time, and was pretty appalled at the design. It looks like HTML I wrote in 1994 on notepad.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 23:20:38 GMT -5
Ah, I skimmed the post, my bad. I find Overstreet to be ridiculously priced as well. I find good prices on eBay and the CGC boards, and occasionally on Craigslist. I check the surrounding areas as well, as far as Los Angeles and San Diego just in case. Lonestar is definitely priced better than Milehigh, but I'd still only use them to fill gaps in runs and try my luck on eBay otherwise. And sometimes there are good deals to be had. If you're looking for something obscure, it's worth checking all online retailers. I found the Fangraphix magazines at Milehigh for $1 each I believe. When they arrived they were in unbelievably good condition, and still had the cellophane wrapping they were shipped in. The wrapping had writing on it and was so brittle it just crumbled off, but the comic inside was excellent. You know you're the first person to have cracked into it when the pages stick where they were trimmed. But when I'm going to buy a big pile of comics (which I haven't done in quite a while) I tend to look everywhere before making a decision, trying to save that last dime. I wasn't trying to be snarky about where you shop by the way, if that's how it came across. I found a Hawkeye #1 variant cover for $8 on eBay. It says first print but the regular cover seems to be going for more, so I don't know. If you're interested though, here's a link www.ebay.com/itm/HAWKEYE-1-MATT-FRACTION-DAVID-AJA-1st-PRINT-SPIDER-MAN-50th-ANNIVESARY-VARIANT-/291174126604?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item43cb54940c
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2014 23:47:06 GMT -5
I think it's pretty amazing that modern single issue comics go up in value to justify speculation. It made much more sense with older comics. You had a key issue (number one, first appearance, etc) that was in high demand with a low supply due to few surviving copies and no availability through reprints -- recipe for rising prices. These days, considering all the options one has to obtain the same material -- single issue, trade collection, digital -- I don't get why people enable this sort of behavior. Are there really that many people that have to have the original printed comic? For collectors, an original printed comic is usually the preference to a reprint. Print runs, or variants can be scarce, to outright rare. Using that Rat Queens #1 Blank Cover as an example, there are only an estimated 300 copies. A casual reader might prefer a (cheaper) version but that doesn't change the fact that the blank cover is rare and will remain fairly pricey for as long as the series remains popular. Some are anticipating it will get even more popular...Mycomicshop has none of the regular comics in stock and Mile High only has a recent reprint of #1. Clearly, someone bought those comics....
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