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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 26, 2018 21:10:45 GMT -5
I always thought the same thing about tpb or HC's of reprints as well. Some of the prices are wacky.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 27, 2018 20:00:11 GMT -5
I always thought the same thing about tpb or HC's of reprints as well. Some of the prices are wacky.
When I saw the price of the Battle Chasers HC I wanted to crawl under a rock.
The numbered slipcase edition on Amazon was $3000.00
One could get the original 9 issue series for about $40
That's crazy.And it's a temporary thing. If Battle chasers #1 becomes a sought out book, it will be slabbed and be the book that is valuable. Not the HC.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2018 23:34:45 GMT -5
A certain dealer is always boasting his store has up to ten million back issues in stock, but he never seems to have what I go looking for. Not that I'd buy there since his NM prices are insane. But I do like to point and laugh. There, I said it.
Yes but one million are bagged X-Force #1, another million are X-Men#1 gatefold covers, and another million are sealed white polybag Adventures of Superman #500, so ten million back issues in stock doesn't mean what a lot of people think it means... -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2018 5:54:05 GMT -5
Of the three books that you mentioned , I only really see X-force #1 in the back issue bins in comic shows that I attend.
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Post by tarkintino on Oct 29, 2018 6:57:11 GMT -5
A certain dealer is always boasting his store has up to ten million back issues in stock, but he never seems to have what I go looking for. Not that I'd buy there since his NM prices are insane. But I do like to point and laugh. There, I said it.
Yes but one million are bagged X-Force #1, another million are X-Men#1 gatefold covers, and another million are sealed white polybag Adventures of Superman #500, so ten million back issues in stock doesn't mean what a lot of people think it means... -M I know the type--they're still stuck with all of those horrible Image/gimmick covers/"0" issues/X-Anything from the early-mid 1990s that no one wanted then, or now, so that's how they can claim to have "millions" of comics in stock. Hmph.
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Post by Crimebuster on Oct 29, 2018 8:44:46 GMT -5
Of the three books that you mentioned , I only really see X-force #1 in the back issue bins in comic shows that I attend. And X-Force #1 is the only one of the three worth anything! Assuming it has the Deadpool card in it. The others are worthless.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2018 8:45:58 GMT -5
I think that those high volume comic printings are shredded after a while.
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Post by MDG on Oct 29, 2018 8:47:52 GMT -5
Yes but one million are bagged X-Force #1, another million are X-Men#1 gatefold covers, and another million are sealed white polybag Adventures of Superman #500, so ten million back issues in stock doesn't mean what a lot of people think it means... -M I know the type--they're still stuck with all of those horrible Image/gimmick covers/"0" issues/X-Anything from the early-mid 1990s that no one wanted then, or now, so that's how they can claim to have "millions" of comics in stock. Hmph. Yet wouldn't anyone suggesting that they be pulped and recycled be immediately attacked by comic fans?
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2018 8:54:31 GMT -5
I remember how hard it was to get Image 0. It had Original stories and had a key chapter for the Savage Dragon comic. I keep seeing it in dollar boxes, these days.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2018 20:09:24 GMT -5
Some of those foil covers were very nice. I still have a few copies of this foil wrap around. this pic doesn't do it justice.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 21:46:10 GMT -5
I am still fond of some of the glow in the dark covers from the 90s, especially the Spectre covers, but I am a sucker fo things glow in the dark anyways (I fondly remember having a model kit for a glow in the dark space ship of some sort that was a hand me down from a cousin).
-M
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 30, 2018 7:18:55 GMT -5
Yep, and that ruined them somewhat...I didn't understand why they needed to be reprinted in weekly B&W editions when the actual colour versions were also available...I have loads with cover prices of 9d straight up to 20p. Dave Stevens looks good either way. Well, in the 40s, 50s and early 60s, the proper U.S. comics weren't officially available in the UK. It's my understanding that they used to be brought over as ballast sometimes on container ships and sold cheaply to a few independent British newsagent shops who would stock them. You wouldn't find them in most newsagents though and supply was very spotty. Marvel and DC therefore began publishing their own comics in Britain (as in, printed in Britain and created in Britain, even if they were using American stories). These were, like almost all UK comics in the 60s, 70s and 80s, black and white and of a much larger, magazine-type size. I don't know much about why Marvel in particular printed copies of U.S. comics with UK pricing on them. They were clearly intended for the UK marketplace, but that marketplace already had its own ongoing and very successful reprint series going on. I'm sure tingramretro would be able to shed a lot more light on this subject than I can. All I will say is that, original, colour American comics -- even with UK prices printed on them -- were much, much rarer than the regular UK black & white reprints well into the 80s. None of the major newsagent chains or magazine stockists of the era, like WHSmiths, Woolworths, or Martins, carried them; they only stocked the official British reprints. In my experience, it was only the dingey, out of the way newsagents, up some back street somewhere, that stocked real, colour American comics (and even then, it was always alongside the much more common British reprints). I think this varied tremendously depending on where you lived. I grew up in South London, and by the late 70s there were at least five newsagents within about a mile and a half of my house that carried American comics regularly, including the largest one in Penge. Marvel were making a concerted effort to improve distribution in the UK as early as about 1976. Though they did, for a time, deliberately restrict distribution of titles featuring characters like Spider-Man and Hulk, who had their own Marvel UK books, in order to not sabotage their sales. It was far easier to find a copy of Defenders or Werewolf by Night than ASM.
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Post by tingramretro on Oct 30, 2018 7:20:44 GMT -5
My uncles were the big buyers in the 70s and 80s before my brother joined in. Their main stomping ground was an area that spanned several blocks in Edmonton in the London Borough of Enfield. There were several newsagents that stocked US comics so between them, it was possible to get a generous helping. I think Chuck at Mile High estimated England got about 3%-4% of an average print run...and he's one of the few dealers who sells UK variants at higher prices. I've seen current UK dealers do quite the opposite...so I quite enjoy picking up 40 year old books with 12p on them, as recent as last month.
Yeah, somewhere like Enfield or central London probably had much better availability of U.S. comics than we did out in the sticks in Buckinghamshire. But I'm pretty sure it would've only been independent newsagent shops that stocked them, and not the big majors like WHSmiths or Martins. WH Smiths in Croydon very definitely did sell American comics in the eighties.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 30, 2018 8:42:49 GMT -5
The 90's Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) had some pretty cool "gimmick" covers. Like this glow in the dark one.
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Post by The Captain on Oct 30, 2018 9:43:35 GMT -5
The 90's Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch) had some pretty cool "gimmick" covers. Like this glow in the dark one. This book brings back a great memory for me. For the spring semester of my freshman year of college, an Iraq War vet moved onto the floor I lived on in the dorm, and he was a huge GR fan. He'd missed some issues while he was deployed and was trying to track them down, so he, I, and our two roommates made a roadtrip from Indiana, PA to Eide's Comics down in Pittsburgh to pick up this book. While we were down there, we hit a famous local sandwich shop for dinner and just had a great all-around time talking and getting to really know each other a lot better. One of the things we discovered was a shared love of Dungeons & Dragons, so we started a campaign that following weekend that lasted the rest of the semester.
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