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alexanderjk

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  1. Amazing. I have an unsigned 9.8 of the homage. One (well, two) of my all-time favorite covers.
  2. Congrats on the impressive run! I’m two away from a mid- to high-grade raw newsstand 1-258 collection, and have a 1-55 volume 2 run. Adjacent: virgin covers and quirky editions of modern issues (like the hip-hop variant) that catch my eye. Might be helpful in your search: There’s a site, whose name escapes me at the moment, that posts every DD appearance in chrono order. I believe it’s mentioned in the book All the Marvels.
  3. My son gave up collecting in his late teens because of the cost of single issues. And he would have given up sooner had it not been for Spawn’s $2 releases. Just too many other things — especially digitally and movies — competing for kids’ money. (How can comics even compete with movies for kids’ attention and money?) I teach high school and probably have just one kid out of 150+ each year who buys physical comics (or reads them at all). Seems the industry is staying afloat on nostalgia alone — 50-year old fathers like me who are way more interested in collecting comics than our kids, and their kids, are.
  4. Daredevil #8-257, and “just” missing 1 and 7 to complete the run. Next longest run: DD Vol. 2, 1-55.
  5. Update! Cracked the slab, sent the book to another presser, submitted again to CGC, and got a grade bump from 8.5 to 9.2. (Confirming my suspicions that the book was never pressed in the first place.)
  6. 1. Hopefully finally get my DD 131 back from CGC. 2. Read a trade a month (read eight in ‘22). 3. Sell off more of my ever-shrinking collection. 4. 5.0 (or higher) DD 7. 5. Make a pilgrimage with my son to A1 Comics in Sacramento.
  7. When my son was experiencing an especially rough time this year, so I drew this for him. Our favorite character is DD, and it’s an obvious homage to Miller’s Dark Knight cover (and an homage to my sons’ favorite Spawn cover).
  8. Only two holes in my DD 1-300 collection — 1 and 7 — so I’d probably nab a 7 in the 5.5 to 6.5 range. Or a high-grade raw.
  9. Possibly! But also the stories just aren’t that good and the rogues gallery is mostly forgettable — Bullseye doesn’t even appear until 131, and Elektra, 158. It’s also telling that the most valuable early keys feature characters introduced elsewhere, like Electro, Namor, and Spidey. A value, for sure, but I don’t think it’s UNDER-valued.
  10. Compared to the other first issues in ‘63-‘64, for sure a bargain. But the character doesn’t really get interesting until well into the hundreds, versus iconic early-issue runs in Spider-Man, FF, X-Men, Avengers, etc. So it makes sense the first issue would be a fraction of the value of the others. (And I’m saying that as someone who ONLY collects DD.)
  11. Happened to me. Neither cleaned nor pressed, and returned with a bend and corner crunch that weren’t there when I shipped. Never again.
  12. Imagine telling someone else what they should or should not enjoy. Lol.
  13. Weird statement. Some of us collect newsstand editions out of nostalgia. I bought a bar-coded Power Pack #1 off the rack — along with countless issues of X-Men, Daredevil, and the Avengers — so that’s the edition that has the most value to me.