Wednesday Open Forum

Wednesday
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 179th edition of the open forum!
One of the longest running weekly Columns. We hit the Five Year mark the other day and this has been around for 4 of those years.
As always we also want to hear about your weekly pickups.
So, What were your pick ups?
What had disappeared off the shelves?
What was sitting on the shelves?
What back issue deals did you grab?
 

66 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Forum”

  1. Mycomicshop has stabbity bunny for $1 more for 2nd print and $2 more for #3. Really?? Not even one hour on the site and already jacking up prices??

    1. I had it in the new comic spec review video. It looks good. The downside is it is a Zenescope book that people don’t take seriously. They will have a ton of variants for it at conventions.

    2. The first rule about spec’ing comic books is to never spec on Zenescope or any of those Boundless books.. 😉

        1. Oh I know. There have been a few exceptions on some Zenescope books. Sadly for some, sex appeal sells.

      1. I made $1400 off flipping those Zenoscope Bobba Fett cosplay covers even kept one for myself. Now your Zenoscope cover has to have boobies on a super hero variant to get sales.

        1. The only Zenescope books I’ve obtained were all given to me by Anthony and the pages always seem to stick together.. 😛

  2. I pre-ordered Peek-A-Boo a couple of months ago – so will have a few of them.
    Not really much for me this week. So instead I have been buying NM #99 ?

  3. Btw – if you haven’t seen it there is a eBay coupon live right now but have to be quick. Believe it expires 8pm PT.
    PREPSPRING 15% min $25 purchase. Max $50 discount, can only use one. US, Canada, Latin America and Caribbean registered accounts only.

    1. I had a Batman 227 CGC SS (Adams) in my cart ready to go and someone snagged it from me as soon as this coupon was available…damn…It’s the second time that has happened too. Last time it was the 25% off coupon.
      Everything else are regular auctions that end tomorrow…I have terrible timing…

    2. Broke down and got a mister miracle 1 cgc with the code
      My alt choice was the batman 227 someone else mentioned. Damn I want that book

  4. at toronto comic con last week….picked up these…..all 9.2-9.4 raw copies
    dc comics presents 26 -new teen titans
    dc comics presents 47- 1st he man
    black lightning 1
    marvel spotlight 32- spider woman
    incredible hulk annual 5- 2nd groot
    harbinger 1
    man thing 1 20 cent bronze age
    amazing spiderman 75…….black cover (8.5)
    spectacular spiderman 64….cloak and daggers
    tomb of dracula 13…origin
    friday saturday sunday event….went on the sunday to barter and get bargains. paid $980 american. overall very happy. it also helps when you know someone at a booth that you have known for a while so that doesn’t hurt. i always get funds from selling modern age.

  5. Raided the dollar bins pretty good over the weekend and in the last couple of days.
    New Mutants #8 4 copies, all flipped.
    X-force #116 8 copies, flipped 2 so far. Keeping the lone newsstand and 2 potential 9.8’s.
    X-Force #125 & #126 10 copies of each. I see Dead Girl appearing in a future Deadpool or X-Force movie, just a hunch.
    Venom #2 2nd print & Flashpoint one shot, both heading to CGC
    Venom Summer Special #1 or Super Special, whatever the title is. It’s not on front of me but I’ll take a $40 book for a buck
    Factor X #1 4 direct, 2 newsstand, 2 2nd print
    Bloodstone #1, I’m at double digits with this one, still looking for a raw 9.8
    All in all a decent week

  6. Not sure what I’m going to pick up tomorrow. The show I did last Sunday, was pretty good. I paid for the table in the first hour. One guy scoffed at my Infinity Gauntlet #1-6 set I had priced for $100, really I some one dealer had their #1 only #1 price at $70. It seemed like most people were only looking in my dollar boxes. My Rick and Morty #1 didn’t get any bites which surprised me. All my other big books E O S V #2, TT #12, Thanos #13 sold pretty quick, I went through all my copies and took the worst one’s to get rid of. Now I’ve got a few more dollars to spend at Awesome Con this weekend.

  7. Nothing for me this week. And I only have $300 left to pay on my BA #12. I can almost feel it lol. Will give it to the wife for mothers day.

    1. I read your comment but the only thing that registered was the last sentence.. “will give it to the wife for mothers day.” 🙂

  8. This weeks pickups……
    Mister Miracle #1 1975 1st Mister Miracle
    Brave and the Bold #85 1st New Arrow
    Fear #19 1st Howard the Duck.
    Factor x 1-4 1st Bedlem
    X Factor #1 1st Firefist
    Uncanny Xforce #7
    Astrocity #1 x2
    X FORCE #116 1st Doop Ugogirl and Zeitgeist
    Secret Wars toy Daredevil
    Secret Wars toy Dr. Doom
    Secret Wars toy Iron Man
    New Mutants #8 x4 1st Surge need these to hurry up and get here to flip out quick, in case people realize they don’t want em. Crazy I sold my Moongirl # 28s for $40 and $30 now I see a flood of copies listed as low as $10. Just need a Green Lantern book to finish up my Bronze Age collection.

    1. Yeah, it flipped my 3 extra copies of moon girl quick at $25-$35 a piece. My other nice flip the past few weeks has been Web of Spider-Man 97/99…picked up two sets for $10 total, flipped em for $60 total.
      could not find NM 8, bit will keep looking. Found a web of spider man 125, but holding onto it for now…will look for more tomorrow as well as x-force 116. Heading to a few different shops in the next few days, hopefully.

      1. Picked up 3 copies of Thanos #1 (2017) yesterday and another Moon Girl 28. Today found a New Mutants 8 (finally) and another Web of Spider-Man 125 (this time w/o the holo-disc). Also picked up a nice copy of Thanos 17 (ward variant).
        No luck with any more WOSM 97/99, X-Force 116, ASM 430/431, though. Might hit a few more places tomorrow if not later this coming week.

      1. I have #76 I need #87. I’ve been shopping it for so long that I may even have it in low grade and just don’t remember buying it. Have to search everything for it sometimes I forget the last books I buy before I take a break from Comics every year. If anyone has one to trade I got multiple TT #12s Thanos #13’s Moongirl #28s among a bunch of other stuff.

  9. A decent week for stuff…
    Avengers #686–getting some buzz on here.
    Bloodborne #2–issue #1 was HOT on eBay, maybe #2 will be?
    Cyber Force #1–Worth a flip-through.
    Doomsday Clock #4–Enjoyable series, but slow-moving as Hell.
    Galaktikon #6–Hilarious mini-series!
    Graveland #4–A less-discussed SCOUT book that’s still fun.
    Jessica Jones #18–Bendis concludes his run, someone else takes over next?
    Legion #3–Weird, but good.
    Moon Knight #193–Terrible writing, great artwork.
    Shiver Bureau #2–More SCOUT-goodness!
    Stabbity Bunny #3–The really popular SCOUT book!
    Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #109–It can be cheesecakey, but it is fun!
    Terrifics #2–The first issue was enjoyable, I hope this one is too!
    Oh, and I need to try and grab some Power Rangers #25 if I’m siding with Tony, or avoid it if I’m siding with Poyo. I apologize to Poyo, but I’m going with Tony and grabbing some.

    1. I like Tarot. I do not shy away from it. Yes Cheesecake, but some really good stories The Witchcraft can be a little much, but I have been friends with Holly Golightly on facebook for a long while now and can say she and Jim Balent are good people.Half the reason I support the book

      1. I love them too! Interviewed them for the blog and they are extremely nice. Plus, whether he’s drawing cheesecake, quiet talking scenes, or explosive action, Balent got skill too.

  10. Not much as far as monthly books this week, but I did bite the bullet and picked up an FF #48 for the pc. Been on my radar for a while and it has started to move big-time. I figured buy now before I have to pay the same price next year for one two or three grades lower. Outside of that picked some of the new specs, such as NM #8 and Factor=X #1… Picked up some extra New Mutants #100. Already had plenty of Web of Spider-man #97 &98.

    1. My LCS had one on the wall the other day priced at $299. I was hoping to move some books to grab it but it sold before I could raise the cash. Next time perhaps.

  11. Hello again.
    Busy week, but my course ends tonight so next week I can actually get my stuff on Wednesday!
    Baseball is officially back starting tomorrow so that’s great too!
    This week I am getting:
    Dark Nights Metal #6
    Detective Comics #977
    Doomsday Clock #4
    Image + #8
    Jimmy’s Bastards #7
    Manifest Destiny # 34
    Spectacular Spiderman #302
    Redneck #11
    Spiderman/Deadpool #30
    Dr. Aphra #18
    Avengers #686
    Despicable Deadpool #297
    Flash #43
    Hellblazer #20
    The Silencer #3
    Grabbed some variants on sale on Friday when I picked up my books from last week.
    Avengers #675 Party Variant
    Despicable Deadpool #290 Pheonix Variant
    And Wildcats #1 Vol. 4 McFarlane Variant
    😉

  12. Picking up:
    Saga both covers
    Rick & Morty
    I sent off my Love & Rockets 1 B&W to CCG for a press and slab. Just recieved notification that my 11 books at CBCS are in shipping status, but no posted grades yet. Heading to the “armpit of Oregon”, Grants Pass, for my daughter’s spring break. Going to visit some caves near Cave Junction. My daughter just passed her driver’s ed class and now needs 50 hours of driving time before getting her license. Road trip!

    1. Wait a minute? Oregon makes people actually learn to drive by actually driving? I swear here in Texas they just give anyone a license and they’ve been doing the same stupid multiple choice test for decades.. probably why all the drivers here in Texas suck!

      1. The 50 hour prerequisite is a “good faith”, fill out this travel log (wink wink), and sign it. Not everyone is honest about it. I told the kid it is up to her to keep track of her hours.

  13. Pick ups this week:
    Jimmy’s Bastards #7
    Wonder Woman (Frison variant)
    Doctor Aphra #18
    Galaktikon #6
    Avengers #686
    Power Rangers #25 (only found 1 black bag out of 4 different stores)
    Moongirl #29
    Spec pick ups this week:
    Factor X #1 ($3)
    New Mutants #8 ($5)
    Thanos #17 (Ward variant cover)
    Thanos #17 (Cover A cover price)
    I know this sounds like a broken record, but I can’t believe what a juggernaut Thanos is! I just sold a #13 cover A for $55 a week ago and now they are starting to close in the $80-$85 range. I haven’t sold any 2nd prints on this series, but anytime I put a first print up or variant, I have 2-3 offers within an hour or so and then gone! Even the #1 and #2 of this series are starting to move for decent cash. I thought TAH #22 had heat, but this is crazy.

    1. Will need to check out what other books in the series are doing on eBay prior to #13…seen plenty around, but if de,and is creeping up for the new movie they won’t be much longer.
      Slow week. Picked up DNM #6 (foil), Doomsday Clock 4B and Moon Girl 29 (x2). Looked around for more WoSM 97/99/125 and NM 8 and XFactor 116….came up short but did discover a Near mint copy of Iron Man 219! Shop owner sold it for $3 cause he looked it up in overstreet (he admitted he hadn’t gone through the stack yet to price them…stack also had 3 copies of NM 100, ASM 252/362/363 among other hot comics.

  14. Not much in the way of new books for me this week. Saga really has me hooked so I was looking forward to this one.
    I did manage to pick up a mint copy of Rick and Morty vindicators for cover, and another lenticular thanos 13 for cover. The shop I usually snag most hot specs from had a whole stack of thanos 13 cover A’s a week after they went hot. I sold them a while back, and said meh, no one’s gunna care about CGR. I’m kicking myself now after looking at recently closed sales. I saved one cover a and a couple lenticulars. I’m surprised the lenticular cover isn’t amounting to anything. Oh well.

    1. I originally picked up the Lenticular thinking that is the way people would go but quickly scrambled to get the regular.
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      1. It’s just because the lenticular hate. People think the Lenticulars were bad because of the ordering requirements. What everyone failed to mention when hating on the Lenticulars is that most came with 1:10 headshot and 1:25 variants. Just one 1:25 Thanos #13 would pay for all your lenticular ordering requirements.

  15. midtown has 2 signed versions of weapon H #1 for cover price right now. one signed by greg pak, one signed by cory smith.
    and spawn 284’s cover by mattina is really nice and has a virgin variant for cover price, too. not a big spawn fan but the cover art is great. and a virgin variant for cover price? i’m in.
    also next week we’ll get true believers thanos the first #1 which reprints his 1st app from iron man #55. cool reprint for only $1.

      1. Considering that ASM is already usually a 100k book each issue.. and all the hype building up from Marvel Marketing.. yeah, 798 is gonna be rather easy to get. But since there will always be ASM fans and new ones born every day, I’m gonna just stash the copies I picked up for the long haul. Even if it turns out to be a $50 book 10 or 15 years from now if the Red Goblin sticks around as a major villain, I’ll be happy.

      2. I’m pretty sure 798 will be the 1st Red Goblin, officially .. the order numbers I’ve seen are very, very high ..

  16. Missed out on Hungry Ghosts #3, but that’s about it. Some of the covers for Metal #6 were sold out, but most of the main books for this week were still available. Here is this week’s pull:
    DOOMSDAY CLOCK #4 (OF 12)
    DOOMSDAY CLOCK #4 (OF 12) VAR ED
    DARK NIGHTS METAL #6 (OF 6)
    DARK NIGHTS METAL #6 (OF 6) DANIEL VAR ED
    DARK NIGHTS METAL #6 (OF 6) KUBERT VAR ED
    DARK NIGHTS METAL #6 (OF 6) LEE VAR ED
    MOTHER PANIC GOTHAM A D #1
    MOTHER PANIC GOTHAM A D #1 VAR ED
    BATGIRL #21 VAR ED
    BATMAN BEYOND #18 VAR ED
    DEMON HELL IS EARTH #5 (OF 6)
    DETECTIVE COMICS #977 VAR ED
    FLASH #43 VAR ED
    GOTHAM CITY GARAGE #12
    HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #41 VAR ED
    HELLBLAZER #20 VAR ED
    JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #27 VAR ED
    MERA QUEEN OF ATLANTIS #2 (OF 6)
    MYSTIK U #3 (OF 3)
    RAVEN DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS #3 (OF 12)
    SILENCER #3
    SUICIDE SQUAD #38 VAR ED
    TEEN TITANS #18 VAR ED
    TERRIFICS #2
    TRINITY #20 VAR ED
    WONDER WOMAN #43 VAR ED
    SAGA #50
    REDNECK #11
    BEN REILLY SCARLET SPIDER #16 LEG
    DAMNATION JOHNNY BLAZE GHOST RIDER #1 LEG
    AVENGERS #686 LEG
    MOON KNIGHT #193 LEG
    OLD MAN HAWKEYE #3 (OF 12) LEG
    STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #18
    TRUE BELIEVERS VENOM AGENT VENOM #1
    TRUE BELIEVERS VENOM HOMECOMING #1
    TRUE BELIEVERS VENOM TOXIN #1
    X-MEN BLUE #24 LEG

  17. Called my main shop to put a copy of Moon Girl in my pullbox but sold out. I did add a title from Image that sounds interesting called Barrier to my pullbox. That’s it for me today, no new pickups.

  18. LCS
    Manifest Destiny 34
    Saga 50 reg cvr
    Redneck 11
    Image + 8
    Online
    Amazing Spider-Man Vol 4 #798 Cover A Regular Alex Ross Cover NEXT WEEK
    Aquaman Vol 6 #33 Cover B Variant Joshua Middleton Cover
    Astonishing X-Men Vol 4 #8
    Avengers Vol 6 #687 Cover A Regular Mark Brooks Cover (No Surrender Part 13) NEXT WEEK
    Batman And The Signal #2
    Batwoman Vol 2 #12 Cover B Variant Michael Cho Cover
    Birthright #30
    Black Panther Vol 6 Annual #1 Cover A Regular Daniel Acuna Cover
    Comic Shop News #1603
    Comic Shop News #1607
    Daredevil Vol 5 #599
    Deadpool vs Old Man Logan #5 Cover A Regular Declan Shalvey Cover
    Deathbed #1
    Defenders Vol 5 #10 Cover A Regular David Marquez Cover
    Dept H #23
    Descender #27 Cover B Variant Dustin Nguyen Little Robot Cover
    Doctor Strange Damnation #1 Cover E Variant Rod Reis Tarnation Cover
    Eternal Empire #7
    Evolution #4
    Further Adventures Of Nick Wilson #2 Cover A Regular Pete Woods Cover
    Generation X Vol 2 #87
    Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Grimm Tales Of Terror Vol 3 #12 Cover A Eric J
    Heathen #6
    Hit-Girl Vol 2 #1 Cover B Variant Amy Reeder Sketch Cover
    Horizon #18
    Incredible Hulk Vol 4 #713 Cover A Regular Greg Land Cover
    Kid Lobotomy #5 Cover B Variant Brandon Graham Cover
    Luke Cage #170
    Maestros #5
    Mata Hari #1
    Mighty Thor Vol 2 #704 Cover A Regular Russell Dauterman Cover
    Monstress #14
    Moonshine #7 Cover B Variant Gabriel Ba Cover
    Postal Mark One Shot
    Punisher Platoon #6
    Punks Not Dead #1 Cover B Variant Bill Sienkiewicz Cover
    Quantum & Woody Vol 4 #3 Cover C Variant Nick Pitarra Cover
    Red Sonja Vol 7 #13 Cover A Regular Ben Caldwell Cover
    Redlands #6
    Regression #7
    Superman Vol 5 #41 Cover B Variant Jonboy Meyers Cover
    Tales Of Suspense #102
    Vampblade Season 2 #12 Cover A Regular Winston Young Cover
    Vampirella Vol 7 #10 Cover D Variant Jimmy Broxton Subscription Cover
    Weapon H #1 Cover J Regular Leinil Francis Yu Cover Signed By Cory Smith NEXT WEEK

  19. Going to go on a hunt for Thanos #1 (2017). Seems to also be a hot book…broaching $20 on EBAY lately…

    1. Snagged 3 copies of Thanos #1 (2017) off the shelf at my lcs today. They’ve been sitting there for over a year…18 months? Not any longer… Put one up on eBay.

    1. Why is it so hard to find? It doesn’t look to be a variant cover. Did distribution dip that month? Weird for a random spawn book to be that high in value.

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