Category Archives: Speculator Corner

Fatale #1 And Prophet #21 Selling For $14-15 On eBay

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The standard cover for Fatale #1 from Image Comics has just successfully sold for $9.75 plus $3.95 shipping The standard cover Prophet #21 from Image Comics has just successfully sold for $9.99 plus $4.50 shipping. The variants are going for more. The first was published two weeks ago for $3.50. The second yesterday for $2.99….

DC To Support Vertigo Relaunch With Ordering Incentives And Variant Covers

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The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought off the shelf when the media promotions hit. Variant covers, extra discount, returnability, it enabled retailers to take more of a risk, and in some cases reap the…

Will Prophet #21 Be The First Speculator Hit Of 2012 (UPDATE)

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UPDATE: Now with added Rob Liefeld variant and original cover, in their street trade dress. Over the last few years, there has been a rule for speculating in modern comic books. Pick a first issue title, preferably from Image, by someone with a little history and fanbase, who has lucked onto a strong high concept….

Will The New Year Bring Us A $1000 Chew #1?

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A couple of weeks ago a CGC slabbed signed Chew #1 9.8 sold for $909 on eBay. Was it a complete and total fluke? No, no it wasn’t. This week a copy of Chew #1 slabbed at 9.9 by CBC signed by just by John Layman sold for $850. Chew has been probably Image’s biggest…

Exactly How Many Copies Of The Joe Jusko Cover For Valen The Outcast #1 Are Left?

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We ran a couple of pieces on the limited edition Joe Jusko CGC slabbed 9.8 cover to Boom’s Valen The Outcast #1, how they printed 500 but burnt most of them to keep the numbers available down. Bleeding Cool reported that only 25 stores had ordered enough to get a copy. Then last week, the…

Valen The OutSlabbed #1 From Boom

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Valen The Outcast #1 is published by Boom! tomorrow. It comes with a 1-in-200 variant for the first issue featuring a Joe Jusko cover. Basically, if you wanted a copy, the store had to order 200 copies of the comic. Not many stores did. Every issue would come slabbed, guaranteed in a 9.8 condition by…

Speculator Corner: Bottoming Out On The DCU New 52

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue market, with sellouts across the board causing a massive rise in prices across the line. How are those prices holding up…

Hot Comics – One Hundred Dollar Club (Nov 2011)

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Yesterday, we ran a list of modern comics breaking the $200 barrier. Now we set our sights a little lower to the still-impressive $100 successful sale price point. These books do not include signed, variant, CGC or similar ways of raising a book’s value. Just raw, is they come off the comic rack. So… anyone…

Hot Comics – The Two Hundred Dollar Club (November 2011)

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Here are nine comic books published in the last thirty years that are currently breaking the $200 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase variant covers, no signed editions, no hardcovers or out-of-print collections, just the bare bones of your standard floppy comic book. Do you have any of these in your…

Speculator’s Corner: The Return Of The New 52 DC Number Ones

You know those DC New 52 first prints that go for a little too much money on eBay? Well, the price have been falling a little this week. Like Animal Man #1 going for $13, but generally going for $10. Batgirl #1 managed to hit $6 but generally goes for less. Detective Comics managed to…

The Hastings Star Trek/ Legion Variant That’s Burning Up On eBay

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Yesterday a copy of the Hastings cover variant to the Star Trek/Legion Of Superheroes crossover from IDW sold for over $75 on eBay. Yet there are still copies on the shelves of many Hastings for cover price. So if you live near a Hastings… feel free to take advantage of those who don’t.

The Last Of The Greats Does Oprah Winfrey.. And She Loves It.

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It’s a superhero comic written by a rising star in the industry. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov told the NYCC today that he’s spent ten times as long on each issue as on his other work. It’s a comic that could be described as Fantastic Four meets Miracleman, the last of the superhero family team that…