alexanderjk

Incredible. 🏆

Amazing. I have an unsigned 9.8 of the homage. One (well, two) of my all-time favorite covers.

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.

Or at least all the non-ASM runs.

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.

Daredevil #8-257, and “just” missing 1 and 7 to complete the run. Next longest run: DD Vol. 2, 1-55.

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.)

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.)

Happened to me. Neither cleaned nor pressed, and returned with a bend and corner crunch that weren’t there when I shipped. Never again.

Imagine telling someone else what they should or should not enjoy. Lol.

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.

You do realize that very rich people also collect comics, right? Paying $9K over a books’ value is nothing for someone making millions a year (or a month). And art and collectibles buying is a common method of washing money. (See: Billion Dollar Whale, which chronicles one billionaire’s massive overpaying for art and property to launder his money. Absolutely happens in the comic collecting world, too.)

The show is getting positive buzz and the character is expected to have a role in the next phase of MCU films. Plus, I think a new audience is discovering Byrne’s great cover art, and the novelty of having GGA in an otherwise staid ‘80s Marvel universe. But also: perverts.

This is exactly why I seek newsstands. Not because they’re more rare, but because most of the comics I held onto over the years are newsstand editions from neighborhood markets and, well, actual newsstands. So I enjoy filling holes in my collection with newsstand editions (for consistency and out of nostalgia).

Well, yeah, that’s part of the con. CGC screwed their customers from the get-go by making 9.8 their go-to grade for flawless books.

Finally replaced my low-grade, taped-together 16 with this beauty. Only need mid-grade slabs of 1 and 7 to complete my 1-300 run (a mix of raw and slabs).

The virgin editions look way better slabbed, IMO, and you get the bonus of having the issue’s details — number, artist, writer, etc. — visible at top of slab. Plus, the virgin editions are sometimes rarer, and thus more valuable. (Although for most variant sets, I doubt either edition will ever be worth more than what we’re paying for them.)

Fascinating. I loathe the Marvel diamond price boxes and giant Spider-Man head on the direct editions. The white boxes, bar codes, PLUS the NOSTALGIA of the bar codes are far and away better, and better looking, IMO. (Caveat: I only collect DD. I can see the appeal of a direct SM for #300.)

Curious as to why you cracked this.

Thank you!

Any idea why a date stamp on a cover would predate the publication date? Shenanigans, an error by the shopkeep, or something else? (Apologies if this was covered earlier in the thread.)