Welcome again to Flashback Friday. We take a peek of what we were spec’ing on and talking about a year ago.
March 28th of 2018 was a really light week apparently. I really don’t think anything is worthy of talking about but let’s just list a few of the books from last year.
Saga #50 was one of the books. Great series, great read. If you aren’t reading it, well, start reading it.
You can likely find these at the local shop still or buy off eBay, seems some are under cover price.
Stabbity Bunny started out hot as a series.
Stabbity Bunny #3 saw some initial heat originally and recent sales put it above cover price, with one going for $7.50.
Issue #1 still goes for a decent amount but this series has cooled off, prices ranging anywhere from $5 to $15 on a good day.
Here’s to hoping Richard Rivera is recovering from his health issues that was announced last year to hopefully keep doing some great story telling.
This time last year the Avengers No Surrender weekly title was still hitting store shelves each week. We saw the story continue in Avengers #686 but this one didn’t see much heat initially and you can still find at cover or a couple bucks over cover price at most.
My Drek pick last year was Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #25 which saw some initial heat and the variants still sell rather well but complete sets of 12 are seeing sold listings around the $50 range. I guess this is the classic example of, buy the cover you want and leave the rest be.
That’s it, last year around this time just kind of sucked for spec and long term books.
Not to nitpick but MMPR #25 was a secret bagged variant, so now it may be buy the cover you want but then it was luck of the draw. People who got those sets made out big if they sold ’em.
That’s true. I think that was also one reason I told people to avoid then.. I hate the bagged books where you can’t see the actual cover. It’s just a gimmick to make people buy more books to boost numbers.
True, but it was also underordered because no one knew how successful shattered grid would be. I mean in terms for a MMPR book.
The big stir was due to the 1:25 mix in variant in the black bags that was reselling for stupid high prices at the time so people were paying $25 a copy for black bags hoping to get the big $ one to immediately resell. I had couples at the counter treating them like scratch tickets at the lotto counter. Completely sold out of Black bags by Saturday.
And this chase insert type marketing is what killed the sports card industry. It’s something I don’t want in the comic industry, it does more harm than good long term.
I wouldn’t say this was under ordered per se. Issue #25 had 27,789 print run. The month prior for issue #24 was at 10,949. Issue #23 was at 11,383. Issue #26 had a print run of 15,041. Issue #27 was at 18,047.
With those numbers, I’d say issue #25 was over ordered due to the extra hyped up polybag and chase insert variants.
Sure MMPR has it’s fan base but it’s not a huge fan base.
Lol also clearly trying to get rid of my copy ??
I think the windows closed for this one.
Forget about Flashback Friday one year Later, its time to make money off of Major X’s début in Major X #1 coming out this week. Marvel is hyping up the character a ton.
Oh I got a spoiler for Major X coming this Tuesday for my Spec and Drek article..
Is it going to effect the value potential?
Not sure but I can say it’s probably not what you’re expecting. 😉
Nothing I say or do can affect value though in this industry (I hope, I can only make predictions and talk about books).
The only thing I hope that affects value is true demand in this industry.
Because they are already printing the 2nd print b4 the 1st print comes out so the laws of supply and demand are in early buyer’s favor
Well, that tells us two things potentially:
1. Customers are putting in pull or order requests to comic shops for this book
2. Retailers are just ordering more copies anticipating more copies to be sold.
This tells us nothing on how the masses will react. The book can still be a complete bust.