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I bought a bunch of these. Works well for the thicker slabs. https://www.bcwsupplies.com/resealable-bag-for-graded-comics-9-x-14

I've seen an ungraded copy of 40 go for over $100 by itself, so I think that's a pretty good deal. I still need that 43 in 9.8 (only have a lowly 9.6 right now).

Magenta and yellow tend to be more susceptible to fading than cyan and black.

Nice! What did this cost you?

It doesn't hurt that there are a lot of Newsstand issues there as well. It might help to break out each group (i.e. sell all Essentials together, all of Volume 1 together, etc.). It's a little bit more work, and might result in a higher total overall, because not everyone is willing to spend on each category.

Thor 279 is not a huge key, but sells well because of the bondage cover.

I don't think so; I think that's sun fade. You can see a hint of yellow if you compare Ghost Rider's head to the front wheel (or, in the corner box, compare the flames on the head to the skull).

Take that thought to the next step. Considering that a certain amount of money has been spent on slabbing books that probably do not warrant it (if being slabbed for resale, anyway; I'm slabbing a bunch of books for my PC that wouldn't be worth slabbing if I was selling them), that activity was probably a signal to CGC that the industry is growing at a certain rate, and the usual expectations when you have one company buy out another one (as was the case here) that is growing at a certain rate, is that it will continue to grow at that rate, or at least show consistent growth. Now that the bubble has deflated or burst, I doubt they're seeing any growth, and more likely seeing some contraction. I have to wonder what that is going to mean for the company and for customers. Will they have layoffs? Will we see even more jumps in prices as they try to maintain the same income on lower volumes of submissions (which would only cause a further dropoff in submissions, as the bar for a book being worth slabbing is raised).

Probably a good idea, because the first Turok would be pricey too.

Do you have a list of books you're hunting for? Are you just looking for comics from properties that were video games first? Because that makes Shadowman a little less of a necessity. (And that's not Shadowman's first appearance, anyway.)

I'm also in NYC. I know multiple people that regularly get inquiries about the sale of their home, whether they're selling it or not. I think there are just a lot of people with money looking to buy real estate to rent out.

That makes sense if you're doing that kind of volume, but my sales are significantly less than that.

I generally think it's a good idea on eBay to take returns, with the cost of return shipping being the responsibility of the buyer. Offering returns I think gets you a slight decrease in fees (or some other benefit that I'm not remembering at the moment). Any buyer can claim the item isn't as described and return it anyway, and that's counted as a defect on the seller. It's not is it's an accepted return. I wouldn't offer *free* returns though. I think there are too many consumers (not talking about comics, but merch in general) that will absolutely buy more than what they plan on keeping, and return what they decide not to keep, because it's no hassle to *them*, but seriously cuts into the profit of who they're buying from, if the seller isn't selling expensive items.

I think you need to clarify what you mean regarding "long-term collectability"; I think a lot of people would have different thoughts on what that means, and there are probably many different contributing factors influencing "collectability." Clarifying what you want to track makes it easier to determine whether there is data to track that.

*put up with Jim Croce sang it many years ago (not verbatim, but same sentiment)

They both look like Ben Affleck, so…

Not eBay, but I saw some interesting results on another online auction site. Makes me want to consign to them.

According to Key Collector: Variant 'Netherrealms' Mortal Kombat DLC game edition Intended for distribution at the 2020 Final Kombat live gaming competition in Chicago which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 lockdowns ⚠️ Buyer Beware: in January 2022, we alerted the comic book community about potential market manipulation for this issue based on concerns that the greater portion of its inventory was being held back to give the illusion of scarcity The Editor-In-Chief at Todd McFarlane Productions relayed to Key Collector the following quote, transcribed to this description directly: "So this was a small event to begin with. Only a couple hundred issues were produced. It was canceled to the public but it was still held in private for the players. What we were told was that less than 50 copies were distributed by the event organizers to the players and their +1’s. The rest, along with all the other free swag was trashed due to the cost of shipping it back to the MK offices. We have worked with them before so there is no reason to believe that this was not the case. I think it would be fare to say that less than 50 copies exist out in the wild at this point." As of August 2023, it has been disclosed publicly that at least one seller made a bulk purchase of approximately 70 issues. The seller claims that he purchased 1/6th of the entire print run which would equal 420 copies - far more than what the Editor at McFarlane Productions relayed to us in his email The canceled Mortal Kombat event was held at the Park West in Chicago which has an occupancy capacity of 1,000 persons It is still unclear how many copies of this issue exist but as of August 2023, it is far greater than what has been communicated by those behind the scenes In October 2022, a 9.8 sold for $5,500. In August 2023, 5 copies in 9.8 sold for an approximate average of $900

Probably because Key Collector listing this as a pick. Apparently there is a film adaptation that's getting a very limited release and then going to Netflix. If I had one, I'd be a seller unless I wanted it as part of a permanent collection.

The guy who was in charge of Design and Production for Valiant since the relaunch in 2012 was laid off recently. He posted to the Facebook group, suggesting that the book was not close to going to the printer, and one of the special covers he was working on was likely not going to happen, because he doesn't think anyone else knew how to do it. One slap in the face is that apparently it's going to be available as a TPB from the company taking over Valiant's publishing.

Yeah. Let's see them handle the relatively simpler task of printing and shipping the Kickstarter they launched a couple years ago first, and work up to more complicated things from there.

The discussion is about a Newsstand edition. Do you know it's a fact that Newsstand 9.8s are common?

If the idea is to draw attention to the auction to attract bidders, it's totally understandable.

Some other faves:

I just picked these up recently.