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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 26, 2024 11:53:35 GMT -5
I'm maybe one of the few who was never interested in Valiant, Malibu etc....I saw them in the longboxes but had no interest. So I don't own a single copy. Amazed that this was once the 3rd biggest publisher in the early 90s and I was totally indifferent to them.
Some of the stuff Malibu did early on was waaay better than the average other publishers were putting out at the time. I liked "Strangers". Well, to my knowledge Malibu never commanded high prices. Not even when they came out. They were one of many upstart companies trying to get a piece of the speculator dollars. I did like the line but , they were cover price at most. |
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Post by zaku on Jan 26, 2024 12:11:46 GMT -5
Some of the stuff Malibu did early on was waaay better than the average other publishers were putting out at the time. I liked "Strangers". Well, to my knowledge Malibu never commanded high prices. Not even when they came out. They were one of many upstart companies trying to get a piece of the speculator dollars. I did like the line but , they were cover price at most. I remember titles like Prime, Rune or Firearms having good reviews at the time. They were appreciated above all because they tried to distance themselves from the, I don't know what to call it?, "Imaginafication" that was infesting other publishers. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 26, 2024 12:45:33 GMT -5
Well, to my knowledge Malibu never commanded high prices. Not even when they came out. They were one of many upstart companies trying to get a piece of the speculator dollars. I did like the line but , they were cover price at most. I remember titles like Prime, Rune or Firearms having good reviews at the time. They were appreciated above all because they tried to distance themselves from the, I don't know what to call it?, "Imaginafication" that was infesting other publishers. Man, there were plenty of titles from Dark Horse, Malibu, Topps, Broadway that were solid reads. Topps was cool because they used Kirbys' concepts and Silver Age Pros to do the work. |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 27, 2024 11:47:29 GMT -5
Bunch of oddball Marvel C-List books have some value, usually related to late-series low-print run issues. This includes:
Darkhawk - last five issues go for $15 or more, while the last two can hit $30 or more on eBay.
Silver Sable #23 has a Deadpool appearance and can fetch $15, while #35 (last issue) can go for $20 or higher.
Last two issues of Sleepwalker (#32-33) can sell for $10-$15.
The first Blade solo series (after Nightstalkers ended) has #1 routinely selling for $30 or more, while #10 (last issue) can go for $15-$20.
Nothing that will put your kids through college, but these are things that can be found in $1 bins or at stores that don't go through their inventory regularly to find stuff like this.
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Post by Rags on Jan 27, 2024 12:19:11 GMT -5
Here's one I actually own, the rare 102.5 edition. My copy is exactly like this and is also signed by cover artist Boris Vallejo (this one I took from ebay as a quick reference, mine is stashed away). Retails for over US$750.00 and is missing from most Wolverine collections as it was an exclusive mail-order edition back in 1996. One of the mail-order incentives that has remained valuable even if the contents are meh.....
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 12:46:38 GMT -5
This book , which sold 8 million copies, still gets anything from 3- 15 dollars raw.  |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 27, 2024 18:00:15 GMT -5
The last 5-6 issues of the 90s Ghost Rider series had low print runs and regularly are listed (and sell) between $60-$90 especially #91-93. I lucked into one at a 2nd and Charles last year (#92) for $2, but I haven't sniffed any of the others for under $50 each in any grade in the last 9 years I have been trying to finish off the series.
The first issue of that series goes regularly for $25-30 in high grade. The minus 1 issue came out during those last handful of issues as well and get a decent price.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 18:07:24 GMT -5
I’m curious why that is. The Ghost Rider doesn’t really have a following or movie coming out.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 27, 2024 18:19:33 GMT -5
I’m curious why that is. The Ghost Rider doesn’t really have a following or movie coming out. They were part of those low print run series that The Captain mentioned, which is really the only thing I can see fueling the pricing. The Stephen Platt Moon Knight issues still seem to command decent prices as well. Infinity Gauntlet #1 in high grade seems to have settled in the $30-$50 range (Silver Surfer #44 with the 1st app of the Gauntlet seems to be in the same range now, though it was higher at the peak of the Thanos appearances in the MCU. Darkhawk #1 seems to be settling in to the $25 range, and for some reason there is a lot of nostalgia for the character among the same group of 90s kids that glommed on to Spawn and other books of that ilk. I actually see a lot of 90s books commanding decent prices for some of my circle of con friends who set up at shows and sell online. Like I said elsewhere, there is growing demand for some of this stuff among the 90s kids who have grown up and have the disposable income to start gathering favored childhood memories. A lot of it is focused on the vintage video game cartridge market, but it does have a carry over into the comics market. They feel about 90s books the way us 70s kids feel about a lot of Bronze Age books, it's the childhood memories not necessarily the quality of the book that is driving demand for them. -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 27, 2024 18:28:54 GMT -5
I heard the theory that the kids buying comics in the 90’s , are now at the age where they are buying for nostalgic reasons.
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Post by Rags on Jan 30, 2024 10:24:23 GMT -5
I’m curious why that is. The Ghost Rider doesn’t really have a following or movie coming out.
It's one of the few Marvel books on my new issue list....
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