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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2019 12:26:06 GMT -5
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Post by MDG on May 28, 2019 14:37:35 GMT -5
^^^^ The "multiple copies available" isn't a surprise.
"Here's my chance to unload these!!"
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 1, 2019 5:20:11 GMT -5
Because of the Boys Tv series on Amazon, the price of Boys # 1 has shot up to around the 49-100 $ range. Alas, that's the only issue of the 72 book run that I don't have.
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Post by foxley on Aug 5, 2019 20:52:44 GMT -5
I have recently started collecting the titles Don Glut wrote for Gold Key in the 70s. These characters also appeared in a handful of issues of Gold Key Spotlight, so I was doing scan of eBay to get an idea of the sort prices these issues are selling. Mostly, they are the prices I would expect for an obscure, not especially collectable book from the 70s (i.e. rarity and desirability are offsetting each other).
And then there was one person who had a copy of Gold Key Spotlight #9 (a Tragg issue), in no better than F/G condition to judge from the photos, listed with a starting bid of US$118. Huh? Unsurprisingly, there were no bids.
I'll grant you that the comic has an awesome Jesse Santos cover, but, in the words of an Australian cultural icon, "Tell him he's dreaming!"
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Post by The Captain on Oct 3, 2019 15:55:32 GMT -5
Baseless speculating gone rampant:
Moon Knight #14, the first appearance of Stained-Glass Scarlet went from selling on eBay for around $8 (with shipping) on September 30 to going for between $30 and $75 less than 24 hours later.
Moon Knight #25, the first appearance of Black Spectre, has been selling for between $25 and $75 for the past month of so.
These were freaking dollar-bin books two months ago, but since the Moon Knight TV show announcement, it looks like people are snapping up every first appearance in the original series hoping to strike it rich. Only thing is, they're buying these books at hugely inflated prices and they're doing so based on ZERO confirmed character appearances. Part of me hopes they swing and miss hard, only so it cools this type of ridiculous behavior down.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2019 15:58:39 GMT -5
Baseless speculating gone rampant: Moon Knight #14, the first appearance of Stained-Glass Scarlet went from selling on eBay for around $8 (with shipping) on September 30 to going for between $30 and $75 less than 24 hours later. Moon Knight #25, the first appearance of Black Spectre, has been selling for between $25 and $75 for the past month of so. These were freaking dollar-bin books two months ago, but since the Moon Knight TV show announcement, it looks like people are snapping up every first appearance in the original series hoping to strike it rich. Only thing is, they're buying these books at hugely inflated prices and they're doing so based on ZERO confirmed character appearances. Part of me hopes they swing and miss hard, only so it cools this type of ridiculous behavior down. There's a special level of Hell reserved for those people (it's the next level up from the level reserved for ticket touts).
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2019 16:12:02 GMT -5
Baseless speculating gone rampant: Moon Knight #14, the first appearance of Stained-Glass Scarlet went from selling on eBay for around $8 (with shipping) on September 30 to going for between $30 and $75 less than 24 hours later. Moon Knight #25, the first appearance of Black Spectre, has been selling for between $25 and $75 for the past month of so. These were freaking dollar-bin books two months ago, but since the Moon Knight TV show announcement, it looks like people are snapping up every first appearance in the original series hoping to strike it rich. Only thing is, they're buying these books at hugely inflated prices and they're doing so based on ZERO confirmed character appearances. Part of me hopes they swing and miss hard, only so it cools this type of ridiculous behavior down. This has been the market norm for over a decade now (longer actually) with potential TV/movie appearances driving prices, and there has been more swing and misses than hits, but all those swing and misses have done nothing to slow this behavior down. I don't like this type of speculation, but it is now entrenched in the industry and driving the back issue market. It has been in place for over a decade now, i.e. longer then Marvel Universe was around when I was born and first appearances there were really driving the back issue market. Is it magnified by the internet marketplace and easy access to entertainment and comic news, sure, but that kind of betting on first appearances has been part of the back issue market since there was a back issue market. People are just digging deeper to find them and using entertainment news as a guideline. These things modified the behavior, it didn't create it. If the back issue market didn't have speculation on first issues/first appearances ingrained in the very core of its being, the mass media speculation bump wouldn't exist as there would be nothing for it to feed into. The entire back issue market is driven by demand, not supply. Winding up in a dollar bin means there is little demand for a book. Something changes the demand factor, and suddenly people want the book, then prices go up. Is movie appearances any more of an artificial demand creator than a new storyline 40 years later featuring a minor character that appeared once but now vaults them into prominence and drives demand for their previous appearance? Back issues have no inherent value. The value is set by demand (the caveat here may be Golden Age books where scarcity is a real issue because of things like wartime paper drives destroying most of the copies printed on a lot of books, factors that have no bearing at all on Silver Age and later books). When demand changes (for whatever reason, both up and down), values/prices change (either up or down). That's the very nature of collectibles. And if comics weren't collectibles, there would be no back issue market to speak of, and no source to get older comics. Speculation like that is one of the things you have to deal with to have a back issue market at all. If there's no money to be made selling back issues, no one would sell them. -M
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Post by foxley on May 13, 2021 4:58:45 GMT -5
Thread necromancy. While scanning ebay for Terra-Man appearances (don't judge me), I discovered someone selling a slabbed copy of World's Finest #258 for US $199.99. For those of you unfamiliar with this book, here is the cover: So my question is: WHY?There is nothing significant about this book. There is no new TV show or movie to tie in to to encourage speculation. So why would someone even bother slabbing it, let alone think anyone is going to pay $200 for it?
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Post by tartanphantom on May 13, 2021 7:04:44 GMT -5
Thread necromancy. While scanning ebay for Terra-Man appearances (don't judge me), I discovered someone selling a slabbed copy of World's Finest #258 for US $199.99. For those of you unfamiliar with this book, here is the cover: So my question is: WHY?There is nothing significant about this book. There is no new TV show or movie to tie in to to encourage speculation. So why would someone even bother slabbing it, let alone think anyone is going to pay $200 for it? Because in the last 9 months it has come to the point that the title of this thread applies to 3/4 of the books sold on Ebay; regardless of condition or significance. It's a sellers' market right now, and many sellers aren't looking to move a book so much as they are looking to hook a "sucker" buyer.
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Post by profh0011 on May 13, 2021 10:33:01 GMT -5
Because of the Boys Tv series on Amazon, the price of Boys # 1 has shot up to around the 49-100 $ range. Alas, that's the only issue of the 72 book run that I don't have. Thanks to my best friend, I just saw the pilot of that TV series.
IT WAS VILE from start to finish. I can't express how much I wish I had never set eyes on it.
Most of the "DC" shows he sent me, I noticed, they have opening credits in little, itty-bitty, teeny-tiny text that you can barely read, even on a large-screen TV.
This show, however, had a "created by" credit at the end, NEARLY as big as one I've seen for MICKEY SPILLANE.
As soon as I saw the name... "GARTH ENNIS"... I said, "OH, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN."
Over 20 years ago, I read ONE-- single-- comic by him. I couldn't tell you what it was. But I swore to myself, right then, that I would NEVER inflict his stuff on myself ever again. If I had known in advance, I never would have watched that thing.
It's clear that what this guy did, was take Keith Giffen's re-conception of the Justice League... and push it to the furthest-possible extreme.
I don't need series like that in my life.
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Post by Icctrombone on May 13, 2021 11:20:06 GMT -5
Yep, that series is jarring to say the least.
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Post by badwolf on May 13, 2021 13:02:12 GMT -5
I love that World's Finest, it was the first of only a few I got when I was a kid. Years later I replaced it with a NM copy. But $200 is a lot of sentimental value...
I sold Moon Knight #1 for $30-40 recently, and also the first one with Morpheus. Maybe I should have held on to them a while longer. I just don't pay attention to TV at all. I didn't have the Stained Glass Scarlet issue.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 13, 2021 13:15:43 GMT -5
Thread necromancy. While scanning ebay for Terra-Man appearances (don't judge me), I discovered someone selling a slabbed copy of World's Finest #258 for US $199.99. For those of you unfamiliar with this book, here is the cover: So my question is: WHY?There is nothing significant about this book. There is no new TV show or movie to tie in to to encourage speculation. So why would someone even bother slabbing it, let alone think anyone is going to pay $200 for it? Oh sweet baby jebus. Terra-Man! I hated him as a kid but he’s now one of those Bronze Age Bonkers characters that I love. I haven’t read a Terra-Man story since the 1970s, but I keep thinking I should get a few beat-up Terra-Man comics. TERRA-MAN! How can you expect not to be judged!?
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Post by codystarbuck on May 13, 2021 19:26:24 GMT -5
I like Ennis' War Stories material; but he can keep his more mainstream stuff. He and Mark Millar spend way too much time on shock value, for my tastes. Hated that Nick Fury thing he did; and, if the stories are true, so did George Clooney, leading him to back out of a proposed Nick Fury film, before the MCU got going. He would have been perfect for the Steranko Fury, too.
I never read Preacher (and shock value of the covers was a pretty big reason); so, I can't comment on that.
I will confess that Pat Mills and Kevin O'Neill's Marshal Law is a guilty pleasure, though it took Crime & Punishment to hook me, after seeing the initial mini-series.
I'm starting to think I could have funded my retirement, or at least a nice vacation, if I had hung onto my collection and gone on eBay, over the last year. Problem is, I probably would have sold what I could, in 2014, when I was out of work for 3 months. Still, I see this madness and still feel glad that I donated the bulk of my comics to a boys home. I may not have made a killing, but at least they were used as intended, by people who could use the diversion.
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Post by The Cheat on May 14, 2021 13:13:00 GMT -5
I never read Preacher (and shock value of the covers was a pretty big reason); so, I can't comment on that. Which covers are you thinking of? I seem to remember them being mostly fairly generic Glenn Fabry paintings.
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