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Regarding "the dots"; when you're doing 4/C printing, the inks being used are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, as noted. To get the full range of color you see printed, all colors are some percentage of those four inks. A vibrant red might be 0 cyan, 100 magenta, 100 yellow, and 0 black. A vibrant green might be 100 cyan, 0 magenta, 100 yellow, and 0 black. But when we're talking about lighter colors, they're not the full 100% of those inks. But the ink isn't diluted, so to show the lower percentage of the color, solid dots of varying sizes (depending on the percentage) are used to create all of the colors you see. For example, this is a square with three cyan columns at 25%, 50%, and 75%, and four magenta rows at 0%, 25%, 50%, and 75%. When it's reproduced in the typical 4/C printing process, it's going to be broken down into solid cyan or magenta, but using dots at varying sizes to replicate the percentage, like this: And when you mix in percentages of yellow, you get a much wider possibility of colors:

Since it's unsold, that would suggest it's not worth as much as $1600. And this would suggest someone would buy it for at least $500. Not sure how much demand there is for Warlord stuff, or niche books like minis. If I were selling it and looking to maximize profit, I would run as an auction with a high minimum bid (probably somewhere north of 500, but not as high as 1600), and gradually decrease the minimum bid, if it doesn't sell initially, until it does sell.

I've purchased some lots from that seller than indicated the condition was "AVG 9.8" and without even taking books out of the bags you could see multiple color-breaking spine tics on a bunch of books in a random batch selected. I've only continued to win lots because I adjusted my top bid way down and managed to win some lots for an average of a dollar and change per book. If the buyer here is expecting a lot of 9.8s, they're probably going to be disappointed. (But who knows, they might get lucky and be buying a lot re-sold from a collector that was the OO and took really good care of their books.)

but then all you need to hear is that one of them is going to be in a movie, and the book will explode

I actually had something similar, but a little different, happen recently. A package was shipped with UPS, and I checked the tracking for the estimated delivery date. The date comes and the tracking indicates it's been delivered. I check the lobby of my building, where the mailboxes are, and no package. Looked all over; other side of the building, where the mailboxes for the other side are; the vestibule, in case they couldn't get in/couldn't be bothered to try to get in. No luck. I check the tracking again and it indicates a different address that it's been delivered to, and it turns out that was a US post office. UPS handed off the package to USPS for the final couple miles, and I got it the next day. But I wonder what happens in those cases if something goes wrong; who covers problems with delivery?

Just picked up a few original color guides at auction.

Probably the bets way to go about it is from the barcode. Each variant has a different number, so 1 should be "A," 2 "B," etc.

If there's one in there, there's a chance that the others have been tampered with as well, but just haven't been identified as such.

Morph was a character in the X-Men animated series from the 1990s. I never watched that, but the fandom wiki on the character indicates that Morph was non-binary: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Morph_(Earth-92131) Morph's powers are similar to an earlier character called Changeling who was around a bit in the 1960s. They couldn't use that name for the animated series, since DC held the trademark for that name. Not sure whether it's fair to say the character is the same (certainly, their default, non-impersonating forms are very different). But either way, shape-shifters are great characters to explore themes of identity with, as they can present in any way they want.

"RARE in this (VG) condition! $150 OBO"

This is the case. A common complaint at the time was whenever they did these special covers, the book always cost more because of the enhancement. So Marvel started printing non-enhanced versions as well. On this particular issue, it may have been a mistake to not offer the non-enhanced version at a cheaper price, but for sure the lack of foil is not an error.

For this particular seller, I learned after my first purchase to adjust my top bid way down. I still ended up winning some lots for something like a dollar a book, most of which I'll eventually re-sell. I did consider sending them back or leaving neutral feedback.

Buyer is going to be disappointed with the condition, if they're expecting 9.8s as the listing indicates. I've purchased lots from that seller before that indicated "AVG 9.8" and without even opening the bags I could see multiple color-breaking spine tics on many books. (And it's not like there were a ton of bookshelf format books where there might be a bunch of 9.9s or 10s to bring the average back up).

The Star Wars Universe takes place a long time ago. By now, they're all dead.

At least they were consistent with all of the copies in the submission.

I was walking to the post office the other day, and this was how the FedEx driver decided to park on the street I was walking up. I passed him on the other side, and said "You need to learn how to park." His response was "I park there every day." Yeah; DON'T

Just posted to Twitter/X. Transformers 1 5th printing:

This is what I'm thinking. Since newsstands use the cover date to know when to send the unsold books back for credit, it makes sense that they neglected to print the right month on the Newsstand, and the cheapest fix was to print an overlabel for that edition. Unless copies surface that show the correct month printed on the Newsstand edition, I wouldn't think that there would be any premium for this, since all of the copies would be the same, with the same error. *Maybe* if you found a pristine copy without the overlabel, then that would sell for more, since never having had a label would make it rarer.

With a lot of non-comic fan speculators abandoning comics, we're probably back to levels of ordering based on what comic fans want, so if something is an unexpected hit, you'll might get bigger than normal spikes.

I anticipate Ultimate X-Men is going to be way over-ordered.

It was all clearance bin drek. Basically, their annual trivia contest covered comics, Doctor Who, and other stuff whose merch they sold. For each correct answer, you got a free comic. I knew a ton about Doctor Who, and one of the questions was name a companion of the Doctor. Everyone else knew about comics and not a lot about Doctor Who, so I was able to rattle off about 20 correct answers. I think they were mostly B&W indies. This would be around 1986/1987, so probably a lot of TMNT knockoffs, or parody books. There were a *ton* of Dark Knight parodies.

It's not like it's miswrapped and cut funny. It's just cut really short. Anyone can put their copy under a paper cutter and trim their book, if it's going to sell for a premium.

Did you order many Image books around that time? Any chance you have a Walking Dead or Invincible #1?

I love this issue where they face Cocaine Bear.

Could be worse; they could have swapped the grade and the issue number.