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Sketch Scammers Return Stock To Stores After Seeing Their Faces On Bleeding Cool

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Rich Johnston

For the last few days, we’ve been running stories on the sketch scammers of Detroit, con men selling and trading faked sketches and signed books, with forged Certifcates Of Authenticity exploiting the names of Robert Kirkman, Rob Guillory, Fiona Staples …

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Kirkman, Staples And Guillory Sketch Scammers Caught On Camera

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Rich Johnston

  These two individuals have been trying to scam fake sketched and signed items with fake COAs all over the place. Faked work by Rob Guillory, Robert Kirkman and Fiona Staples, on eBay, on CraigsList and now in person, store …

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Robert Kirkman, Fiona Staples And Rob Guillory Fake Sketches Now Used In Attempt To Sting Stores

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool has been running a number of stories about fake sketches with fake certificates of authenticity turning up in eBay, before our publicity forces the sellers to take them down. So it seems the forgers have moved offline. Wonderworld …

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Now We Have Fake Robert Kirkman Sketches On eBay With Fake Certificates

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rich Johnston

This is not a Robert Kirkman sketch of a zombie. Neither is this. And neither is this a certificate of authenticity from Meltdown Comics. Another fake, just like the Rob Guillory Chew fake earlier today. That one was ended, will …

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A Fake Rob Guillory Chew Sketch

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Rich Johnston

This is not a sketch from Rob Guillory of Chew. This is not a certification from And Books Too This is an eBay con.

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The First Appearance Of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead For 99 Cents On eBay (UPDATE)

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Okay, this could be an interesting one. Someone trying to sell the copy of the Diamond Previews catalogue withthe listing for Walking Dead #1 as the first appearance of the comic book. Which, technically, I suppose it might be. Though …

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Star Wars #1 Gets A Third Printing

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Star Wars #1 first print has sold for up to $50. The second print for $8. Brian Wood and Carlos D’Anda‘s Star Wars #1 from Dark Horse has sold out of its second print with a third on the the …

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Yes, 2013, We Have A Thousand Dollar Chew #1

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Rich Johnston

At the end of 2012, I asked whether the New Year would bring us a Chew #1 selling for more than a thousand dollars. It looks like it has. A copy of Chew #1 with a CGC of 9.9 is …

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Star Wars #1 Smashes Through $40 Barrier On eBay – Will It Hit $50 By Next Week?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Rich Johnston

I’m going to say this comic book was probably underordered. The new Star Wars comic from Dark Horse was published this week. Despite a generous overprint by the publisher over the retailer orders, those were demolished less than a day …

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How Amazing Spider-Man #700 Ended Up On eBay

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Canal Street was the location of a rather intriguing exchange between two men a couple of nights ago. Not Canal Street in Manchester, but Canal Street Station in New York, nestled in Soho and Chinatown. Waiting for the 6 train, …

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Amazing Spider-Man 700, The eBay Incident – Saturday Trending Topics

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Mark Seifert

There’s been a lot of attention surrounding Amazing Spider-Man 700 this week, and this is just the latest chapter: This is an eBay listing for Amazing Spider-Man #700, in hand, for $50. It was ended early after Marvel Comics intervened. Most-Read …

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So How Did Amazing Spider-Man #700 Leak Anyway?

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is an eBay listing for Amazing Spider-Man #700, in hand, for $50. It was ended early after Marvel Comics intervened. It was listed by the owner of Comic Crusaders, an online comic book store based in Long Island, New …

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Jupiter’s Children eBay Auction Hits $3,500 With Hours To Go

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It both promotes the comic and raises money for charity. Not a bad way to do business. Mark Millar is currently auctioning off the naming rights to his upcoming comic with Frank Quitely, Jupiter’s Children. Previous auctions from Millar have …

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More Stealth Death Of The Family Comics (SPOILERS)

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Are you a collector of the current Death Of The Family storyline in Batman? Think you’ve got every bit so far, even those Batman And Robin and Nightwing and Red Hood And The Outlaws issues that no one actually told …

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Some More Todd McFarlane “Original Art” Not To Buy

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Some poor folks are bidding for a very misleadingly described print of the recently auctioned cover to Batman #423 by Todd McFarlane. It seems to be a colour printout of the scans provided by Heritage. They even swiped the description …

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So, How To Buy, Sell And Trade Those Marvel Digital Codes

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday we ran an article highlighting the practice of people selling their free digital codes with $3.99 Marvel Comics on eBay, but there is apparently a probloem. eBay isn’t too happy about selling digital codes, as it is hard to …

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Suicide Squad #14 Selling Copies For $15 On eBay

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, it’s no Walking Dead #1. But give it time. Raw, unslabbed copies of Suicide Squad #14, which went on sale today, are selling copies on eBay for $14.95. Considering it only went on sale a few hours ago at …

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Walking Dead #1 9.9 CGC Currently Getting Bids Of $10,000 On eBay With An Hour To Go

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Look at that. Walking Dead #1 is selling for a five figure sum with an hour-and-a-bit to go. Is that a record for a non-limited comic book published in the twenty-first century? Daily Finance

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