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They've released a single image and you've concluded already that they're ripping off two specific things?

If you're familiar with Valiant, then think of what they did for Divinity, Book of Death, Secret Weapons, or Savage. Higher quality cover stock with a soft touch finish.

It'll get to the point that unless you pre-sold at marked up prices on eBay before release day, you missed the boat

They didn't say perfect bound. I'm assuming prestige format will be the same format as Valiant's prestige format, since that's where most of the people involved came from. I don't know how many they'll actually get out there, but I fully expect that there will be more than enough interested buyers (considering the quality of the creators involved) unless they purposely overprint, but that seems unlikely, considering they want to limit purchases to one-per-customer, so there shouldn't be any significant volume left to return. Considering that there are ties to a television/movie production company as well, I imagine that adaptations will be another stream of revenue for the creators involved.

Maybe. But it sounds like they're trying to subvert Diamond's monopoly on distribution. Building another viable option can't be bad if it works.

Thoughts on the business model? https://www.bleedingcool.com/2020/02/06/bad-idea-comics-digital-collections-no-variants-one-per-customer-twenty-stores-only/?fbclid=IwAR1KqILbhewKc_WYySW0P25Mk2HOk7PnfLuKmT_9qBZ29d9IgCXsDwBj0lo

Vision & the Scarlet With #12 is getting really good action too.

The Morbius: Legion of Monsters one-shot from 2007 has had some good results recently

Now I'm wondering what a comic illustrated by Escher would look like

So now people want the one issue of the Platt Moon Knight run that Platt didn't do interiors for? Yay!

Regarding the X-Factor issues, are the back cover ads the same on the Direct and Newsstand? I ask because the Spidey head (or various other art on later issues) is very likely there so that the printer can run the same Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow plates for all covers, and only switch the black plate for the Newsstand vs. Direct run. If they're printing different ads on the back cover, then they need to run all 4 plates either way, so they can safely drop the art box.

Is it bascially all of the Baxter titles? Should New Gods, Heckler, Haywire, and Hawkworld be added to the list?

I started this thread a year ago today to try to compile a list:

Those Nick Fury, Agent of Shield issues only come with a barcode. There is no separate Direct & Newsstand.

Ah, is there something going on the with Mr. Fixit persona currently? I wasn't aware

This seems like a lot of money for these books (first result). https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=wolverine+7+8+1989&_sacat=1&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=12&_sadis=15&_osacat=1&_odkw=wolverine+7+8&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_stpos=10018-8481 Is it because of the McFarlane pinup?

I sold my (Modern) Gaiman Eternals mini too early, considering speculation that the movie will incorporate elements from that mini. My (Modern) run of Shang Chi in Journey Into Mystery remains unsold. A little surprised considering the low numbers for those for that era (but someone did grab the Black Widows)

Well, I guess I'm done buying incentives from them then. If I want to buy one, I want to lock that in by pre-ordering. Probably for the best since I've had orders for them canceled numerous times in the past

There's a perfectly appropriate thread in Bronze to discuss the relative merits of these bronze books

Haha. Just catching up on this thread, and my reaction was, "Maybe I can't find that in the wild, but why would I want to?"

Keep in mind that the second printing came within a few months of the first. I think it was on the shelf with #4.

I didn't check the whole book, but the different font used for "Second Printing" (and the fact that the date in the indicia is the same) suggests to me that they just stripped the "Second Printing" copy onto the original plates

Not sure if volume has increased, but there are a bunch of Blue Beetle sales recently. Seems like the movie has been abandoned in favor of an HBO television show?

Is there something going on with Mario Gully's Ant series (published by Image and others)? Suddenly I have multiple watchers on a couple of issues where previously there probably didn't even get views.