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Post by Phil Maurice on Dec 11, 2015 21:38:42 GMT -5
Damn sawed off runt. . .running another comics price up for one of his random appearances. I am not sawed-off!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 11, 2015 22:40:35 GMT -5
Damn sawed off runt. . .running another comics price up for one of his random appearances. I am not sawed-off!
Im sorry Phil, I don't get the reference. Is the person of fictional character he plays named Logan? He kind of looks like the actor that played opposite Robert Vaughm in Man From UNCLE.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2015 12:45:36 GMT -5
Im sorry Phil, I don't get the reference. Is the person of fictional character he plays named Logan? He kind of looks like the actor that played opposite Robert Vaughm in Man From UNCLE. No, that would be David Mccallum who's also in NCIS The other guy is Dick Cavett, the talk-show host. Who was short.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 22:43:00 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2015 22:48:51 GMT -5
VF copies are going for about $18 on Lonestar (more for the consignment copies). It is a 35 year old book now. What was Amazing Spider-Man selling for when it was a 35 year old book (circa 1997)? There were probably more copies of ASM #1 printed and sold than Moon Knight #1. Not saying it's justified, but time is passing and stuff we consider recent vintage really isn't any more and prices are starting o reflect that. -M
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Post by The Captain on Dec 16, 2015 6:43:09 GMT -5
VF copies are going for about $18 on Lonestar (more for the consignment copies). It is a 35 year old book now. What was Amazing Spider-Man selling for when it was a 35 year old book (circa 1997)? There were probably more copies of ASM #1 printed and sold than Moon Knight #1. Not saying it's justified, but time is passing and stuff we consider recent vintage really isn't any more and prices are starting o reflect that. -M Seriously? I see these in the $1 bins all the time. Guess I need to start scooping them up and making a little coin.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 16, 2015 12:45:52 GMT -5
I wonder if some of that early bronze age stuff is expensive online simply because most people buy stuff on the internet these days? There could be quite a few comic fans out there that just have never had a LCS.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2015 12:54:14 GMT -5
I wonder if some of that early bronze age stuff is expensive online simply because most people buy stuff on the internet these days? There could be quite a few comic fans out there that just have never had a LCS. I have one, but they never have great back issues. And even when I travel to bigger stores up north, they have the issues, but they are insanely priced (unless there is a sale).
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 16, 2015 12:56:54 GMT -5
I wonder if some of that early bronze age stuff is expensive online simply because most people buy stuff on the internet these days? There could be quite a few comic fans out there that just have never had a LCS. I think that has a lot to do with it. Instead of only relatively local customers, the internet reaches out to the world. Instead of just having your friends to trade baseball cards as a kid, you've got the 16 surrounding school district waiting in line to trade baseball cards with you. And now that you have thousands of kids eager to trade you are less likely to take a, less than desirable trade, because you have a chance of better options. Which I guess is great. There are just too many people online taking advantage of the situation. And probably why you can find these "deals" locally, because the demand is less, and so the sellers are being reasonable. Where the internet's easy, lazy, quick, no effort approach to buying things you don't even need to survive in life appeals to people so much they pay more than they have to, and thereby set the standard for what the sellers offer.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 16, 2015 12:56:55 GMT -5
I wonder if some of that early bronze age stuff is expensive online simply because most people buy stuff on the internet these days? There could be quite a few comic fans out there that just have never had a LCS. Bronze age comics are in the prime collectible age range right now. The people who had those books when they were kids are now in their 40s and 50s, with disposable income and are willing to pay the money to feed nostalgia.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 17, 2015 10:43:50 GMT -5
I have just officially lost my mind on the speculation bubble. I was doing a check of completed auctions on eBay for Moon Knight #1, just to get a feel for the going market, and that book is selling for anywhere from $10 - $25 depending on condition. This isn't the worst part of it, however.
Another issue that showed up in my search was Marvel Two-in-One #52, which has a Moon Knight appearance and is the first appearance of the villain Crossfire. This book, in NM- condition, sold for $41 (including shipping). A follow-up search on this issue showed that while this was an outlier, other copies of the issue sold for anywhere from $5 to $20, with CGC copies going as high as $54 for a 9.6.
See, Crossfire is William Cross, the cousin of Darren Cross, who was the villain in the Ant-Man movie, and Crossfire has been very loosely rumored (as in, some random guy in his parents' basement in Wichita, Kansas speculated via one tweet months ago) to potentially be the villain in the second Ant-Man movie.
That's it. I've officially lost all hope for humanity, or at least the comic-buying portion of it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2015 11:41:29 GMT -5
I have just officially lost my mind on the speculation bubble. Embrace it, it's your friend. 'Flipping books' for some decent change has subsidized many of my own purchases that I plan to keep, sometimes by a full 100%. I flipped a couple of cool Star Wars variants (I got them for $14 each, sold them for $25 each)...that $22 is going towards my new issues over the next 2 weeks. I estimate I've bought over 1,500 comics this way.....
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 17, 2015 11:42:29 GMT -5
I wonder if some of that early bronze age stuff is expensive online simply because most people buy stuff on the internet these days? There could be quite a few comic fans out there that just have never had a LCS. Bronze age comics are in the prime collectible age range right now. The people who had those books when they were kids are now in their 40s and 50s, with disposable income and are willing to pay the money to feed nostalgia. Time to break out those Yogi Bear VHS cassettes...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 17, 2015 11:44:53 GMT -5
Bronze age comics are in the prime collectible age range right now. The people who had those books when they were kids are now in their 40s and 50s, with disposable income and are willing to pay the money to feed nostalgia. Time to break out those Yogi Bear VHS cassettes... There's a growing market for VHS cassettes. Not all of them by any means, but some, particularly Disney cartoons are rapidly appreciating in price.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 17, 2015 11:52:12 GMT -5
I have just officially lost my mind on the speculation bubble. Embrace it, it's your friend. 'Flipping books' for some decent change has subsidized many of my own purchases that I plan to keep, sometimes by a full 100%. I flipped a couple of cool Star Wars variants (I got them for $14 each, sold them for $25 each)...that $22 is going towards my new issues over the next 2 weeks. I estimate I've bought over 1,500 comics this way..... Oh, I know. I bought the Captain Britain Omnibus for cover price and flipped it three weeks later for almost twice what I paid, and I have done this with a number of "stupid hot" books (1st appearance of Crossbones, last 5 issues of Darkhawk, Doctor Who appearances in Marvel Premier). My next big "flip" is to unload my copy of New Mutants #98. Marvel is putting out a $1 reprint early next year, so I will buy that to have the story, but I figure I can get at least 3 bills for my copy, which is VF to VF+. That will let me buy the 2nd and 3rd Fantastic Four Omnibus books, the Boba Fett issues of the original Star Wars series, a FF #112, and probably some other smaller things, all for a book containing the first appearance of a character I have grown to hate immensely.
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