Speaking of books selling out quickly and rising in price the following article was published last night and does a good job covering the reason for the recent Image releases heating up in price.
According to Bleedingcool The reason for the recent sell outs at Image and prices rising is because of the following:
The instant sellout, instant aftermarket of Image Comics titles are back, as the publisher pauses on making launches returnable if retailers order lots (returning later this year with Outkast).
As a result, retailers are returning to their conservative ordering policies.
This is great for speculators.
The Woods released this past week is going for $11.
The Woods #1 C2E2 Variant is going for $24.
Southern Bastards #1 is now going for $12
Southern Bastards #1 Third Eye Variantis doing well, as is, Southern Bastards #1 Forbidden Planet Variant
and Southern Bastards #1 CBLDF Variant
and the Southern Bastards #1 DCBS Variant
too.
Nailbiter first appearance in Ghosted #9, which we warned you about, is going for $15.
Nailbiter #1 and Dead Letters #1
are also going at a premium.
I sold a set of Third Eye and FP Southern Bastards. Haunted 1 has been hot for me, as well as Ms Marvel 1 first print. Also still selling Black Science 2 well. I had to lower Dead Letters to cover and shipping because it stagnated for me. I was waiting on The Woods though. This one looks very interesting and like it may pick up steam. Thoughts?
yeah i do think the woods is going to be a good series. i also hope this sparks up dead letters. i bought 4 of them to flip and can’t sell them now. also ms marvel is stagnated now too. i trying to sell that one as well.
I just banged out Ms Marvels at 12.99 shipping included. Sold 11 in three days. Dead Letters is pretty dead now if you ask me. Just sold a Laughing Ogre variant for 8.99 shipped.
my southern bastards at 9 hasn’t sold
Just sold 1 copy of southern bastards for $9 with free shipping. I have another copy I’m holding onto until 2 and 3 come out.
Also have dead letters I’ve been trying to sell for $9 since it came out
Dead letters seems to be hit or miss for people. I just picked up additional copies of The Haunted today.
Yeah, I had 2 copies and sold one pretty quickly for around $11 I think. I just haven’t been able to sell the 2nd one.
None of my Dead Letters were selling, even lowered the BIN to actual retail price. Sold listings show some of these going for as low as $1.29 as well..
Southern Bastards first appearance in Ghosted #9, which we warned you about, is going for $15.
Should read Nailbiter not SB
Thanks I will have to fix that. I am tired a lot when I write some of this.
And fixed. I need you to be my editor.
I have a Southern Bastards Regular and DCBS currently around $5 with a day left in the auction.
I can understand comic stores starting to become more conservative in their orders. My usual has always stayed conservative as they’re smaller but the other two bigger ones for a while seemed to be over ordering, probably getting tired of comics sitting on their shelves not selling and if they can’t send them back, then yeah, orders should shrink.. which benefits us who speculate 😉
DCBS and Regular Southern Bastards of mine sold for $12.50. Not bad, seems to be cooling some as I saw both of these in some go for around $20 range.
This is off topic but I feel like I have to tell somebody. I was browsing completed listings for amazing spiderman #300 and saw a pgx graded 9.8 that sold for $860.19 on may 10th. 860 bucks!! Is there some sort of scamming going on here cause that just seems unreal to me.
its up to $300 raw. I have a copy up currently on ebay.
in 2012 these were going for 100-150$ graded.
whats more amazing to me is the price of #252 hasn’t really moved but for some reason #300 just continues up up and away.
I’m thinking about getting mine graded now after seeing that, even though it’s not a 9.8. I didn’t realize they were selling for that much.
Southern bastards had a 38k print run
wow, so that is probably why my sb’s are not selling well is because of the high print run. didnt know it was that high.
Give it time, Saga had a 37k print run and it still sells for a nice premium. You can still find SB on the local comic book shelves but over time with more issues being released likely only means more readers who then become interested seeking out #1 to buy.