God I love Wednesdays. New comics, New promise, new chances to make money flipping books. Here are the books I am scoping out for next week. Some big ones show up too,
1. Battling Boy OGN from Paul Pope I have long loved Paul Pope’s art style. Been a fan since I first found THB #1 on the shelf years ago. Battling Boy Vol. 1 is the follow up to the one shot Paul put out a few months ago, “The Death of Haggard West” available on Amazon for as low as .27 cents
2. Coffin Hill #1– Vertigo is back and doing great things again. It used to be companies like Image were putting out Vertigo quality books. Then it became Vertigo was playing catch up to put out Vertigo quality books. But their last three releases have all been fantastic and this looks like another home run. COFFIN HILL stars Eve Coffin, a rebellious, teenage lowlife from a high-society family with a curse that goes back to the Salem Witch trials.
3. Death Sentence #1– The clear winner from Titan’s sampler book put out a while ago. This book will have a small print run and has some buzz behind it on the message boards.
4. FBP Federal Bureau of Physics #4– Formerly Collider, name change has not stopped this book from being a top notch read each month.
5. Ghosted #4 Skybound’s latest hit. I swear this will make a great movie or tv show, and knowing Robert Kirkman, it probably will end up as one.
6. Rocket Girl #1 New Image series that looks great. Have to find out what the print run numbers will be. I know people are pulling away on speculating on Image as every book has been 20,000 plus, but a good book can still go up in value with higher print run numbers (Saga for example.)
My pick of the week:
CRYPTOZOIC MAN #1 (OF 4)
DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Walter Flanagan, Bryan Johnson (A/CA) Walter Flanagan
You watched Stan “The Man” Lee pitch it on Season II of AMC TV’s “Comic Book Men”; Now, from CBM cast members Walt Flanagan & Bryan Johnson comes “Cryptozoic Man”. Alan Ostman, a middle-aged husband/father, sees his life quickly unravel when his daughter goes missing on a camping trip in the Pacific Northwest…Bigfoot country. After Gray aliens abduct him from a roadside bar, he learns that the fate of the world is dependent on trapping the world’s most legendary cryptids…not to mention defeating a psychopath in a pig-shaped leather bondage mask, Alan knows he has his work cut out for him. The storyline revolving around this four issue series will be revisited in Comic Book Men Season III.
Most speculators have their eyes on Image right now. I like to spend my speculator y cash where others aren’t looking.
I betting Cryptozoic man #1 will have a well under 10k print run and that Comic Book Men season III ( that debuts after walking / talking dead ) will draw well over 10 k fans seeking out the book.
There are only a couple hundred left in Diamond’s system. Watch for sell-out & second print announcements shortly.
I did really well with Cryptozoic man #1 Baltimore variant that I picked up by the handful for free at the comic con. Had them signed by the cast and they went very quickly.
I agree that most speculators are focused in Image. There are just so many interesting books coming out from them.
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Free is a great price.
Most of those Baltimore editions are signed ( un-witnessed)
Raw BCC will be the grail.
I had unsigned ones as well. When they were done they just left them there so ….
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Yeah, as an avid reader as well, I’m always checking out Image, they have so many good reads currently. 🙂
I will admit though, it seems Vertigo is rolling out some good reads as of lately as well.
Vertigo has definitely upped their game on both quality and diversity. Their past four releases, The Wake, Trillium, Collider, and Hinterkind have all been really good. Before these I haven’t read a vertigo book since Lucifer.
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I could care less if Cryptonic man #1 is a good read. I don’t give a shit about the character, I don’t give a shit about the writing, I don’t give a shit about the art, ALL i care about is a short term flip on a potentially under ordered book.
( I do agree that quality is the perfect foundation for modern speculation, though 🙂
are you from 1993?
Potentially under ordered doesn’t mean much, IMO (what happend to Outliers? 1,500 print run). Semi-celebrity niche creators don’t mean much either (umbrella academy, killjoys, Orchid- have music mega celebrities writing them). Also Limited series, don’t do very well, unless their is an ongoing associated. I don’t think that will ever happen CM. All in all, not my first choice this week. Rather ‘Three’ from Image looks to be somewhat promising.
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Outliers died because we operate in a what have you done for me lately industry. Modern speculation requires knowing when to sell. Sometime that window is a few days.
If you want great long term investments in comics, buy high grade keys or golden age. I do that too.
Moderns are an entirely game.
Picking an image title as your pick of the week these days( Three & Rocket Girl #1′) is too easy. Bellybutton pick. Everybody’s got one.
Not looking to bunch anyone’s panties with my opinion, & I certainly will not tarnish your blog-spot with my drivel…
I tend to go outside the box with my picks…
Let’s see how Cryptozoic Man #1 fares after a few weeks of the new Comic Book Men series III
I’m probably wrong.
NOBODY gets the right every week.
( but I’ve been doing it for 25 years successfully )
I agree with Larry in this. While I tend to pick a lot of Image Comics for my picks of the week, I have been doing better as of late, with non-image books. Part of which is print run size.
Also, you can’t pick money makers every time. What you have to be able to do is offset your losses with gains you have made. Sure I am sitting on books I can no longer move, but I am so far ahead if the game that I could give the books away and still not lose money as a whole.
Selling at a profit is about timing. I sold a Farlaine the Goblin Friday for $24.99 and turned around and sold one today for $9.99. My strategy is usually in and out at a profit as quickly as possible. When things start dying off, I no longer pursue books. Of course, for my personal collection that may be a different story.
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