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I'll stick with the toy store theme for #22. Transformers #22. First appearance of the Stunticons who merge into Menasor. Or... Alpha Flight #22 first Pink Pearl.

I believe MH's ebay listings tend to account for the codeword phrase for the "sale" prices on the main site.

Yes

It's the #1 from Dreamwave's first mini series in 2002. Was a hot book for a couple months back in the day. Dreamwave had some decent concepts and art but the business side was a mess and Pat Lee essentially ran it into the ground. Hasbro pulled the license and granted it to IDW in 2005 or so to unfudge Dreamwave's bungling of the property.

I've ordered a few times from Midtown and thought it was a bit of a crapshoot, but overall any issues I've had with them have been with their shipping/packing people. Customer service was good to me, though. MCS has been good. As others have stated, they tend to be a bit conservative with the grading. I don't think I've ever been disappointed when buying and sometimes get surprised like getting a 9.8 on a Canadian Price Variant that they sold me an a VF copy. So, I wouldn't be hesitant with MCS. Just do your due diligence with other vendors.

Transformers 1-80, Headmasters 1-4, Universe 1-4, The Movie 1-3, all G1 Dreamwave and G1 IDW series. GI Joe 1-155 + Special X-Men/Uncanny vol 1, X-Men vol 2, X-Factor vol 1, X-Force vol 1, New Mutants vol 1, Excalibur vol 1, Alpha Flight vol 1 Punisher vol 1 to whatever including the MAX series. I skipped the Frankencastle volume. Spider-Woman vol 1, Ms Marvel vol 1, Dazzler, The Thing vol 1, Human Torch, some of the newer Star Wars series + too many Marvel mini series from the 1980s and early 1990s. Some DC stuff too like Crisis on Infinite Earths and Kingdom Come. Currently working on a few other series like The 'Nam and some Canadian price variant runs of Uncanny and Transformers. Gives me something to do I guess.

Super cool @Parabellum. I have #1 and 2 but never finished the rest of it. I don't have any of the B&W covers but they look even better than the colored versions. I'm not big on signatures but Zeck's is great and I look forward to seeing one whenever you get it.

The Arabian Knight is going to take off. That's the rumor I'm starting.

Cubs fans are the worst and Old Style beer is swill. Have any serial numbers of the slabs been released so we can keep an eye out?

My theory is that it's going up due to the speculation that the MCU is heading in a more cosmic direction so anything in that realm will go up. Also, the Mouse buying Fox brings the inevitable introduction of the X-Men and associated characters, factions, etc into the MCU.

It feels so fresh too. I like Galaxies because it's similar to the old Spotlight series, but the main series is just kinda slow. 20+ issues and not much has been accomplished. '84 just feels right. #2 does come out next week and the A-cover looks super sexy.

Great book @Jesse-Lee! Welcome to the forum!

I've been buying from GCC for over 10 years. They're good people who treated me great. That's terrible to see.

Gotta say that I am digging Secrets & Lies so far. Simon Furman and Guido Guidi are doing it right. Some of the various covers.

Took forever to find this one. Now, they're popping up out of the woodwork. Probably fell off the back of a truck.

It's just a lazy- way to try and absolve themselves of the difficulty in grading something.

Too young for the MVS books. Only thing I ever remobed was the inserted posters on Simpsons #1 and Radioactive Man #1

The pictures taken in the car with that yellowed old bag just scream professional to me. I trust that seller. I don't know why but I do.

I wish I had that kind of problem!

I did the same with the Star Wars relaunch in 2015. I can't believe I wasted money on all those variants. Mercifully I purged most from my possession. I only have a few of the #1 variants left (actively trying to unload them). I eventually just started listing them on ebay and took a big loss apart from a few that people actually wanted them. That went into my Lessons Learned journal.

Thanks! I think 190 is Glorian's first appearance because it really is the only book I have in that issue range. 182 jumps to 190 which jumps to 223.