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Speculator Corner: Legends Of The Dark Knight 11-15

Published Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:35:56 -0600

Last updated Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:42:59 -0600

No sooner has the rumour that the new Batman movie Dark Knight Rising will be based on Prey, the Doeg Moench/Paul Gulacy five parter story from Legends Of The Dark Knight #11-#15, than eBay sits up and takes notice.

Previously a very cheap comic, with issues rarely selling for more than 99 cents, a collection of all five issues just sold for $28, with the trade paperback, now out of print, fetching $29.99, twice its cover price.

Right now the market is mostly made up of people not realising these issues are in demand, and selling them at Buy In Now prices that are less than cover price. But they are getting rapidly scooped up and flipped by eBay sellers aware of the book's new status.

Many retailers will be in a similar situation – it will be a race today to get to those back issue boxes and pull the issues in question, to be repriced for the back wall, before some customers buys them for a knock down price – and they tries to sell them back to the shop.

Prey was written as a follow up to Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli's Batman Year One and, wierdly, would have made a more suitable sequel to Batman Begins than Dark Knight was.

It stars Dr Hugo Strange, already rumoured to be being played by Tom Hardy, and how this psychiatrist turns a villain-hating policeman into an urban vigilante, the Night Scourge, with the aim of bringing Batman out into the open.

It's also got Catwoman in it, but it's unlikely if that character will make it to the movie.

Currently Amazon is listing copies of the trade in the US for around $60, $100 for the Warner Bros printing, with the UK with one copy at a more generous £10. Lets see how long that one lasts after I post this.

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