Wednesday Open Forum

Wednesday
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic day. Like your birthday in the middle of each week. We always open up the thread to hear about your scores during the week.
Also like to hear about what has disappeared off the shelf, what was sitting there in droves, and what you scored out of the back issue bins.
So let’s hear it Wednesday warriors.

56 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Forum”

  1. My definite pickups this week:
    Batman #40
    TMNT #45
    Alex + Ada #14
    Bitch Planet #4
    Outcast #8
    Pisces #1
    Red One #2
    Rumble #5
    Spread #7
    They’re Not Like Us #5
    Captain America #6
    Avengers #44
    Moon Knight #14
    New Avengers #33
    Silk #3
    Big Trouble China #10

    1. Snagged Spread #7 Action Figure variant.. one shop had zilch, another only had 2, I got both.
      TMNT #45 one shop had none on shelves, they all went to peoples weekly pulls, other had around 4 left.
      If Outcast doesn’t do anything good, it might be getting dropped after this issue, maybe I’ll go until issue 10 to just even it out but it has not lived up to the hype at all.

  3. Who went to c2e2!? I had a blast! Got my Edge of Spiderverse #2 signed and sketched bboth latour and robbi

      1. Just sign and sketch. Latour drew spidergwen wearing a mask and Robbi drew her as she appeared on the cover. Off getting graded now, cannot wait for it to come back

  6. This is going to be a $$$$ week between the Batman, Silk, FF and Spread variants. Going to be picking up multiple copies of those books where I can.

      1. A lot of us are going to feel the pain this week hahaha. BUT the at least sometime soon hopefully the pain pays off once you see the “PAID” stamp on our eBay listings. 🙂

      2. My list was small but with the amount of Batman books I picked up and then snagged the Silk variant at $10, along with the Enormous TPB.. yeah, I spent way more but hopefully these Batman’s pay off.
        Surprisingly it seemed some were not aware of the Batman issue. One local shop the owner was keeping quiet about it, I hinted and he was telling me he’s trying not to spoil it for others. So without major media outlets yet reporting (which is surprising as well), some are still in the dark.

  8. Avengers Millennium #4
    Batman 66 #22
    Batman #40 (several copies)
    Carpe Noctern #1
    Guardians of the Galaxy #26
    Hoax Hunters #2
    Inhumans Special #1
    New Avengers Ultron Forever #1
    Outcast #8
    Princess Leia #3
    Red One #2
    Scarlett Couture #1
    Silk #3
    Star Wars #4
    Superman #40
    War Stories #8

  9. My picks this week
    Batman #40 reg cover, movie variant and will try to find a 1:25 variant. Hopefully cheap I’ll be happy if under $20.
    TMNT animated adv. #22-(for my boy)
    Spread #7& variant
    Marvel Uni. Spiderman web warrior #6-(for my boy)
    Silk #3- for my wife (hopefully I can find the 1:25 variant for under $20.)
    Mother Russia #1

  10. if you guys think its a expensive week wait till you see age of ultron
    I’ve been on ebay heaps because of that damn movie
    so much to buy
    i did buy avenging spiderman 9 2nd print today for $15 aus today but
    can’t wait to hear what you guys think of the movie soon

  11. finally, an exciting week.
    1. avengers 44 (wrap it up)
    2. new avengers 33 (Wrap it up some more)
    3. inhuman 14 (is this series wrapping up?)
    4. superior iron man 8 (what happened to the extremis phone app story line?)
    5.wolverines 16 (this series is all over the place. but ive been committed since the 3 months to live storyline)
    6. batman 40 (im very skeptical about the new batman. but Snyder has earned the benefit of the doubt)
    7. teenage mutant ninja turtles 45 (gotta see what happened to Donatello)
    8. invincible 119 (they sucked me in with the 25 cent issue last month. good marketing strategy)
    9. outcast 8 (good, but still hasn’t lived up to all the hype)
    10. red one 2 (im ashamed, but whatever)
    11. spread 7 (action figure variant)
    12. theyre not like us 5 (surprisingly addicting series)

  12. And I thought I would be able to have an easy week. Jokes on me lol. Thankfully I got the notification my Star Wars #4 Boba Fett Action Figure Variants were shipped. So looking forward to getting those soon. I’ve already seen CGC SS copies on eBay for $500+. Only did the 1st half of my pickups for the day so I will list my full list after the 2nd half. What I did notice from my 1st stop was by 8:30am all Spread #7 Variants, Batman #40 Variants and TMNT #45 Variants were completely gone. Midtown is usually good about splitting online stock and store stock so they definitely had some when they opened at 8am. All i saw when I got there were empty wall slots. 🙁

  13. What I really wanted this week was the Spread variant, and just can’t get it for a reasonable price at the moment. I think I’ll only be getting a few comics. There’s too much hype this week for me to come to terms with:
    1. Spread #7 (Both A+B, will get C later…)
    2. They’re not like Us #5
    3. Rumble #5
    Batman is driving people crazy…and the prices that are going around for this issue is insane, mostly being set by the actual comic stores. It’ll be interesting to see if the prices hold. Where I usually get my DC comics, it’ll be a few weeks before they get them in (newsstands), the prices won’t be inflated (I actually get 10% off), and they usually just sit there all month til they’re sent back. I’ll grab multiple copies then if their still hot.

    1. I listed one of my Spread #7 Action variants. I listed at $15.99 (Seems most have theirs listed at $19.99 currently) but contact me (agentpoyo), I’ll give you a better deal if you want. I have a “Make Offer” available on it. If you do, just tell me your eBay handle.

  14. Well it’s been such a quite few weeks I guess my wallet was due a bit of a beating….
    Batman #40 x3
    Batman #40 movie variant x2
    Batman #40 1:25 x2 – one at £12.99 (good), one at £25 (bad, as its a smaller place that i’ve never seen hike up the price on a 1:25 like that before). Are people here holding or flipping these?
    TMNT #44 2nd print
    TMNT #45 A and B covers
    Alex + Ada #14
    Hellbreak #2
    Pisces #1
    Spread #7 action figure x3
    Silk #1
    Leia #3
    Outcast #8 (possibly the last month for me on this….)
    Burning Fields #4
    FF #645 A and B covers
    Mother Russia #1
    Mayday #1
    Enormous TPB
    ….. and breathe.
    In the last week or so I have also bought;
    Enormous #3a
    FF #65 (60’s)
    Inhumans #1, 2, 3 (70’s series)
    Deadpool #14 (for £5!),15,16, 17 ,18, 19 & minus 1(Kelly series)
    Cap Am #25 (Brubaker)
    Avengers Annual #10
    Harley Quinn #1 (1st series)
    Preacher #42
    Ms Marvel #2 (1st series)
    X-force 11 (for 50p!)
    ASM #30 (buttocks cover, funny how this never caused the controversy of the spider-woman one)
    Hmmm and I think thats about it. Eating baked beans on toast for the next week.

  15. I stopped by Midtown Comics again for the 2nd time today. (Since it’s around the corner from work) There is a new limit on Batman #40. The new limit is ONE per customer of ANY cover. Meaning you get one choice. Regular cover, Movie cover or Variant. That’s a new one because they usually at least let you get one of each cover if an issue has multiple covers.

    1. Yeah, no shop here had limits except my LCS who was limiting the movie variant to 1 per customer. He only got one of the 1:25 variant and he said it was gone before the doors were opened.
      I was able to order 2 x Regular covers and 4 x Movie Variants from Midtown before they started limiting them. Just wish I had them in hand already.. I think I’ve pretty much sold the 3 Movie copies along with 3 regular copies I snagged today at the local shops. I’m willing to bet by now they’re all limited or out already.

      1. Yes, if you are limited to Regular or the Movie, take the Movie Variant.. it’s going to move better than the regular.

  16. Mayday #1 also sold out within the first few hours of my LCS being open. Not sure if it was because they didn’t have many or people were just that hungry for it. They usually have about 10-12 copies of Black Mask comics when they come out.

    1. Both shops I visited had a handful, I know Midtown sold out online a few days ago. Seems they’re sold out of Mother Russia which looked interesting as well.

      1. They did still have copies of Mother Russia in the physical store. I can go back and grab you a crispy copy if you would like. Let me know!

        1. Oh, I was able to grab a copy myself locally. Both shops I visited had about 4-5 copies each.

      2. Perfect. Glad you found some copies. I’m always willing to lend some help to fellow spec’ers.

  17. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get the batman 1:25 variant at a good price. Only 2 stores had them and they wanted $50-60 for them and at my comic shop, one of the workers kept it so that sucked. And no luck on Silk variant I guess no one ordered enough copies to qualify for the variant. So that sucked as well. But I was able to secure 2 copies of Batman #40 reg cover and movie variant. Will keep those. How did you guys do on the Batman covers?

  18. Batman 40 – several copies
    Batman 40 1 :25 4 copies
    Mayday -8 copies
    TMNT 4 1:25 and 4 sets of a and b
    Silk #3 4 1:25
    Justice League 40 2 1:25 – Darksides Daughter
    Pockets are shot …time to flip

  19. Had a little extra time today, so went to a shop that’s normally too out of the way for me to get to. Effort paid off. They had the Batman 40 Kubert variant for $10 and the Spread figure variant for $6. Another store had a huge stack of the Batman movie variant, but it looked like they all fell off the back of a truck.
    Alex + Ada #14
    Batman #40
    Batman #40 movie variant
    Batman #40 Kubert variant
    Brides of Helheim #5
    Daredevil #14
    FF #645
    Mayday #1
    Order of the Forge #1
    Outcast #8
    Pisces #1
    Princess Leia #3
    Red One #2
    Rumble #5
    Silk #3
    Spread #7
    Spread #7 figure variant

  20. Brutal, brutal day on the wallet…
    All-New Captain America #6
    Avengers #44 (regular variant)
    Batman #38 (I didn’t pick up the regular cover the first time around)
    Batman #40 (x3 Regular, x3 Movie variant, x1 1:25 variant (for $9.00!))
    Batman Annual #2 (found it for cover)
    Convergence #4
    Convergence Detective Comics #1 (I’m a sucker for Sienkiewicz)
    Daredevil #15
    Darth Vader #3 (2nd print)
    Fantastic Four #645 (x1 Regular, x2 Connecting variant, x1 Character variant, x1 Avengers variant)
    Fuse #12
    Justice League #40 (so focused on Batman I forgot to look for variants and combos on this one!)
    Moon Knight #14
    New Avengers #33 (regular variant)
    Outcast #8
    Red One #2
    Rumble #5
    Secret Avengers #15
    Silk #3 (x1 Regular, x2 1:25 variant)
    Spread #7 (x1 Cover A, x1 “Flea Market Variant and I missed Cover B somehow!)
    Superman #40
    TMNT #45 (x1 Cover A, x1 Cover B)
    They’re Not Like Us #5
    Wayward #7
    Wolverines #16
    X-Men #26

  21. On the none Batman topic, what do you guys think of the TMNT #45? I don’t wanna do no spoiler but its interesting what they are doing with Donatello. Ok ok can I do a little spoiler? Lol

  22. Picked up:
    Alex + Ada 14 (Ex Machina kind of ruined this book for me)
    Wayward 7 (for my daughter & Jim Zub)
    Spread 7 figure variant at cover price (had to ask for it as it was behind the counter)
    Batman 40 reg (no variants available at my LCBS even though I was the first customer in the door)
    Pisces 1 (love Rat Queens)
    Plastic Man Convergence (my hero!)
    Big Trouble 10 (fun stuff with Lo Pan; met James Hong & Eric Powell & Brian Churilla recently)
    Bitch Planet 4 (Kelly Sue and Matt live in my area)
    Munchkin (Jim Zub)
    Skullkickers (series is almost over & is written by Jim Zub – it’s a Jim Zub week for me!)
    My LCBS had only one copy of TMNT 45 out on the rack.

  23. All-New Captain America #6
    Avengers #44 (regular variant)
    Batman #40 Cover A
    Darth Vader #3 (2nd print)
    Fantastic Four #645
    New Avengers #33 (regular variant)
    Outcast #8
    Red One #2
    Rumble #5
    Silk #3
    Spread #7 Cover A, & Action Figure Variant
    TMNT #45
    They’re Not Like Us #5

  24. I just got back from Newbury Comics (South Shore Plaza store).
    Batman (Regular Cover)
    Batman (1:25 variant for $10.99)
    Silk (Regular Variant)
    I also picked up 2 copies of All New X-Men #40
    and a few of their $5 Marvel and/or DC grab bags (which contain 10 comics each) because they had Justice League combo packs in them.

  27. Why is batman 404 always advertised as Frank Millers Batman or first modern appearance of catwoman, no one ever advertises it as Don Falcone s first appearance. Which it is http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Carmine_Falcone. Don Falcone is a central character to the hit TV show Gotham however I think this book has fell through the cracks when it comes to speculating because this book already has so much going for it. With Gothams season finale next week this would be a nice cheap pickup for any fan of Gotham

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