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Plantman

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  1. Not that one. I meant this earlier series: The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1994) If not #1 then #2. It was available for purchase at newsstands.
  2. Was it The Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (1994) #1? It fits your description other than the anniversary issue detail.
  3. They owe $6000 to Diamond, $4000 to Lunar, and $200,000 (!) to Penguin Random House, according to the document in the original post. How can the PRH debt be twenty times the amount of Diamond and Lunar combined? Does PRH give stores a four or five month grace period to make payments on their orders?
  4. The first half of this post reads like Oscar Wilde's preface in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Early issues of Wizard magazine seem to be doing well on eBay this month, according to my irregular check-in on sold listings.
  5. It is (3), and (3) alone. Consider, too, that Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw both first appear in 129. All other factors barely affect the pricing of 129 & 130 relative to the rest of the Dark Phoenix Saga. It makes sense, in the sense that first appearance books have dominated the speculative hivemind for the past ten years.
  6. That is an impressive haul. Were there any other collectors at the sale? Around here, at least four guys would be pressuring the seller for early access, either days or hours before opening time.
  7. Does anyone else feel this cover is glaringly out of place in the final four ALF covers? The other three share a common theme of the title's cancellation, to the extent that each cover has no fewer than three references to it. ALF #48 has zero obvious references to the cancellation.
  8. Near mint copies of War of the Realms: New Agents of Atlas #1 were sold for over $50 each this weekend on eBay. My local shops had plenty of supply when the book was released. So far that has not held it back.
  9. I am guilty of buying Generation X #1 when I see it for a loonie. Maybe it and Deathmate: Black will take 35 years to get hot. These days, who knows? The asking prices for the available 9.8 copies on eBay are certainly unrealistic.
  10. Ah, the Reverse Rule of 25 at work again! At long last, nobody remembers the Generation X TV movie, and now this book can finally soar to the moon! Just like Kitty did in Pryde of the X-Men!! Good call on X-Men #129, JesterSB!
  11. This is also anecdotal, but Simpsons Comics #245 seems to be in the same (print run) boat. Issues 243 and 244 are ghosts compared to 245. It was difficult to find a potential CGC 9.8 copy of the latter at the local bookstores, perhaps because other collectors had already looked through these newsstand copies. So for anyone holding the last issue of Simpsons Comics for the next 20 years, don't forget the antepenultimate issue!
  12. Oops, I probably read about that in another thread. My bad! Luckily, these days if you can sell a few Valiant Nintendo comics here and some Thundercats comics there, then you can make a couple grand.
  13. I had a similar experience with my copy of Ultimate Fallout #4. I would have sold it for about $80 in December 2018, but it was buried deep in my boxes and forgotten. Better to be forgetful than enterprising in that situation!
  14. I continue to be astounded by sold prices on eBay. Today, I could sell my two higher grade copies of Amazing Spider-Man #316 for more money than if I had sold my entire comic book collection ten years ago. That may even be the case for my pile of Thundercats, SilverHawks, and Visionaries issues. How is this even possible when the two recent Thundercats shows were unsuccessful?
  15. Baking that Easter Bunny cake made me forget about April Fools.
  16. Good point. I feel like the beginning of April is OP's sweet spot.
  17. My own experience, working somewhat infrequently at an LCS these past six months, has been vastly different than Matthew's, for what it's worth. Most customers simply do not express views on the long-term sustainability of the back issue market. I recall no customer ever giving me unsolicited advice about investing in cryptocurrency, precious metals, or the TSX. There are four or five customers who want me to sell some of my comics...to them. And I've parted with some of my modern books, because the money is too good to keep them. There is one doomsayer, with whom I am friends, who stopped buying new comics. He has given me plenty of advice over the years, the majority of which has turned out to be terrible. He insisted, in 2017, that buying a CGC 6.5 Universal copy of X-Men #1 for approximately $9,000 USD was too risky. For him, the direct market is always six months away from ruin. It has been for the past five years.
  18. Your life choices seem incredible: huge gains in the stock market, beautiful girlfriend who buys you expensive books, and a nice comic collection, among other things. I do find it hard to believe that you could earn north of $100,000 before finishing high school, yet you do not have the funds to attend a state school.
  19. The $300 a day rate is feasible. But if he is working, say, 60 days a year making an average of $200 per day, that's $12000 a year. That's $60000 before he hits age 14. He could have spent $50 a week on comics as a pre-teen, and he would still have about $47000 in savings. Where did that money go?
  20. You earned "$160-$320 a day" for years and years, yet had to have spent less than $5000 on your stock portfolio, considering the price appreciation of your securities over the last seven years. How could you not be able to afford a state school?
  21. What a great cover by Gene Day! It seems strange that the entire Fantastic Four run was listed yet Conan The Barbarian 1-24 run was missing.
  22. I have bought a few copies of this book in my attempt to acquire every pre-'93 Power Pack appearance. The original post is quiten informative and interesting to me. I wish I could provide some research here, but I have nothing to add about additional versions of the giveaway book. It was a disappointment that Skip Westcott evaded punishment in the first story for his crime against Peter Parker.
  23. Jaka! Cerebus! (Dave Sim sold out to Shooter!!!) The cut and colour of the character's hair narrows the field down considerably, does it not? I suppose it could be Gwendy in Marvel Tales, but no other book comes to my mind.
  24. I have been looking for a 6.0 or better Muppet Babies #10 and Heathcliff #12 since 2014. It is hard to believe I have yet to find either one in the wild.