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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 5, 2021 0:11:53 GMT -5
I wonder if Spire comics will ever increase in value (I think the Johnny Cash one got a minor uptick in sales after his death). On a different note, I've seen Whitman/Gold Key comics based off of Hanna-Barbera books start increasing in price in recent years as well.
Hansi has been hot for a few years now. I've seen high-grade copies surpass the $300 mark, which is unheard of for a Spire book. I've had a mid-grade copy for years, which usually hovers in the $50-75 range. Most of the rest of them can still be found in 50-cent/dollar bins.
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Post by jason on Nov 5, 2021 16:40:14 GMT -5
Huh, I know the Hansi comic is kind of a meme due to the cover, but I didnt think it would cause people to pay 3 figure prices for it. If notorious covers are the new speculator market, looks like I better be on the lookout for the pregnant Quasar cover.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2021 17:06:53 GMT -5
Huh, I know the Hansi comic is kind of a meme due to the cover, but I didnt think it would cause people to pay 3 figure prices for it. The show I went to in July, I saw three copies on the wall at three different dealers, ranging from mid-grade up, and not one was under $100. Two of them were gone from the wall (likely sold but not sure) before I left the show for the day (and no I wasn't one who bought one, I was interested in the $5-$10 range when I first learned of the book out of curiosity, but never found one until pandemic pricing had taken hold, at which point, I was out) -M
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Post by badwolf on Nov 5, 2021 17:54:05 GMT -5
I guess people are realizing that the toy comics will never be reprinted.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2021 18:02:47 GMT -5
I guess people are realizing that the toy comics will never be reprinted. Depends. G.I. Joe has had several collections of the Marvel stuff from IDW, as have Transformers. A lot of The Masters of the Universe stuff has been collected as well. It's the smaller lines that don't have the current pop culture cachet that likely won't get reprints because there's not a big enough market. Books like ROM and Micronauts, with tangled rights issues, are the exceptions among toy comics, not the rule. The others could be reprinted by the current rights holders licensees if there was enough of a demand for them. But not every collector who wants the originals is going to buy a trade collection of them, some just want the originals to collect, so the market for them is even smaller than the whole of collectors of that property. I think more of it is people realizing these comics are now older than Golden Age comics were when they were kids and started collecting the comics and toys and that increases their collectability in the eyes of a lot of people. -M
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Post by Crimebuster on Nov 5, 2021 23:47:11 GMT -5
GI Joe and Transformers also have huge fan bases outside of comics - fan bases that I think realize how important and formative the comics are to both of those properties.
These weren't just licensed properties. Marvel was hired to create the stories and characters. They were basically given the toy designs and were tasked with coming up with the character names, personalities, back stories, mythos, etc. Almost everything we know about these properties is down to Marvel - Larry Hama with G.I. Joe, and Bob Budiansky with Transformers. The comics are foundational pieces of the entire brand, even moreso with GI Joe, as the cartoon began as short animated commercials for the comic book. For big fans of either of those properties, the comics have a lot more importance than just as comics.
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Post by arfetto on Nov 7, 2021 16:14:14 GMT -5
GI Joe and Transformers also have huge fan bases outside of comics - fan bases that I think realize how important and formative the comics are to both of those properties. These weren't just licensed properties. Marvel was hired to create the stories and characters. They were basically given the toy designs and were tasked with coming up with the character names, personalities, back stories, mythos, etc. Almost everything we know about these properties is down to Marvel - Larry Hama with G.I. Joe, and Bob Budiansky with Transformers. The comics are foundational pieces of the entire brand, even moreso with GI Joe, as the cartoon began as short animated commercials for the comic book. For big fans of either of those properties, the comics have a lot more importance than just as comics. Though I like Transformers more as a franchise (for the toys and animation), the Hama Joe stuff was one reason why my younger self read and eventually collected comics.
The only comic convention I ever went to was mainly so I could get Larry Hama to sign the silent issue haha:
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 17:40:32 GMT -5
The heck with comics, it's time to start flipping and speculating on comic supplies... Comic Book Bags triple in value on ebayI know it's been a pain in the arse to try to find bags, boards and short boxes locally for a while now. Bags sometimes show up. Short boxes and backing boards rarely. And when you ask shop owners, they have no idea when they may get more as most of them have had orders on back order since the spring from distributors. -M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 8, 2021 17:57:00 GMT -5
The last couple times I bought stuff from BCW, I bought it from them on Amazon, which was inexplicably cheaper than their own web site, and was in stock, where the site said stuff was back ordered for months.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 18:00:14 GMT -5
The last couple times I bought stuff from BCW, I bought it from them on Amazon, which was inexplicably cheaper than their own web site, and was in stock, where the site said stuff was back ordered for months. I looked at Amazon last week before I went gallivanting looking for supplies and they were prices at about 150% of what I normally pay for them in shops. When I did find bags at the shop, they had gone up to $9.99 per 100 up from $7.99 per 100 that I had paid a few months prior at the same store. But my regular shop couldn't get BCW and went to the brand Diamond carries last winter, and now they cannot even get those in. -M
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 8, 2021 20:01:02 GMT -5
Well, I'm hearing rumblings about paper shortages. I heard on a podcast that Image will no longer offer second printings because of it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2021 20:19:49 GMT -5
Well, I'm hearing rumblings about paper shortages. I heard on a podcast that Image will no longer offer second printings because of it.
My favourite indy publisher is having the same issue.
Oh well...I have over 1000 unreads to go delve into.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2021 9:45:58 GMT -5
There's a new book called Gun Honey that's causing waves....I just flipped a variant I got for for free for a few hundred. The cover is a bit risque to post here but she was in a bathtub, holding a glass of champagne. I think it's making its way to tv so it's hot.....
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Post by shaxper on Nov 11, 2021 10:48:09 GMT -5
So CGC still has not gotten around to grading the books I sent them in July. Just a reminder that this is creating artificial scarcity in slabbed copies of books that have only recently become hot, and prices are probably going to drop considerably once the bottleneck is cleared.
CGC - a business that manages to look more desirable by being worse at their job.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2021 10:48:38 GMT -5
So CGC still has not gotten around to grading the books I sent them in July. Just a reminder that this is creating artificial scarcity in slabbed copies of books that have only recently become hot, and prices are probably going to drop considerably once the bottleneck is cleared. CGC - a business that manages to look more desirable by being worse at their job. I know someone who sent in books April/May....same thing
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