Since Covrprice.com came on the scene, they have become a go to spot for watching eBaytrends on comics. They scour thousands of eBay
sales to cultivate data to spotlight the hottest selling comics. Here is this week’s Top Ten Comics: (Please note, potential spoilers do follow, and, these results are for auction that closed last week. )
Please note, there are spoilers ahead
1.
Batman #77
Units Sold: 274
Raw Average: $14.98
Graded Average: NA
Reason: Bane snaps Alfred’s neck.
2.
Venom First Host #3 Second Print
Units Sold: 51
Raw Average: $72.81
Graded Average: $138 (9.8)
Reason: First cover appearance of Sleeper. Show’s up in Venom #17
3.
Savage She-Hulk #1 (Direct Market)
Units Sold: $147
Raw Average: $125
Graded Average: $336 (9.8)
Reason: Marvel announced that She-Hulk is getting her own show on Disney+
4.
Avengers #47
Units Sold: 59
Raw Average: $137
Graded Average: 322 (9.6)
Reason: First appearance Dane Whitman (Black Knight) in upcoming Marvel Movie
5.
Moon Knight #1
Units Sold: 81
Raw Average: $29.03
Graded Average: $169
Reason: Moon Knight coming to Disney+
6.
Savage She-Hulk #1 (Newsstand)
Units Sold: 67
Raw Average: $64.61
Graded Average: $423 (9.8)
Reason: Marvel announced that She-Hulk is getting her own show on Disney+
7.
Devil Dinosaur #1
Units Sold: Devil Dinosaur #1
Raw Average: $23.71
Graded Average: $78.57 (9.6)
Reason: First appearance of Devil Dinosaur. Moon Girl TV show coming and it is assumed Devil Dinosaur will appear as well.
8.
All New Marvel Now Point One
Units Sold: 53
Raw Average: $44.92
Graded Average: $140 (9.6)
Reason: Kamala Khan coming to TV.
9.
Venom First Host #3
Units Sold: 39
Raw Average: $7.14
Graded Average: $29.99 (9.8)
Reason: First appearnance of Sleeper. Appeared in Venom #17
10.
Sensational She-Hulk #1
Units Sold: 41
Raw Average: $5.68
Graded Average: $39.08
Reason: Marvel announced that She-Hulk is getting her own show on Disney+
Isn’t first host 4 the first cover appearance? I believe that came out before 3 2nd print, no?
That’s what I was thinking. I thought that 3rd printing of #3 came out the month after First Host #4.
Venom first host #4 released Sept 19 2018, Venom first host #3 2nd print release date Oct 31 2018. It’s because another site is pushing the wrong book again. FOMO makes people buy the wrong books, that and uneducated comic speculators that can’t even look up a date from a year ago telling you to buy the wrong book.
If you think being on the cover of your 1st appearance really matters I’d be happy to take everybody’s Fantastic Four #48s since they don’t check the boxes for you.
Sleepers 1st appearance is in Venom 165.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sleeper_(Klyntar)_(Earth-616)
You’re getting it all wrong…it has nothing to do with chronological release. It’s first appearance (by story) plus a cover which also is a smaller print run than either 3 or 4 first prints.
If people cared about first cover chronologically then the store variant for Thanos 17 should get all the love he 4th print of Thanos 15 gets as first cover of the black silver surfer.
Venom #3 3rd print is the same story.
The same thing is happening with Venom #3 3rd print. Other places are saying 1st app and 1st cover for Knull. Sure it’s cool knull is on a cover of his 1st real appearance but Venom #4 2nd print is his real 1st cover.
Yes. You are correct; #4 is the first cover appearance. I guess #3 (2nd print) is so hot because the print run is so low; I saw less than 2,000.
devil dino was always very undervalued. i bought a 9.8 for 100 a year ago. thats an insane price for a bronze age kirby 1st app
Grabbed me a 9.6 white pages for $75 a year ago. I thought that was a great price!
Also grabbed moon girl 9.8 for about the same. And have a number of raw key first appearances in that series just waiting for the cartoon to become a smash hit!
I hope so. Unload my copies I have been holding. I do have lowball bids in on first Devil Dinosaur #1 but don’t think they will hold. Hopefully ? ? equals ?
I grabbed this DD1 back in March for about $30 US ($40 CDN). Its a 9.8 candidate, imo. It will be off to CGC soon enough. Its already been pressed.
Wait… the direct market of Saveage She Hulk is more valuable than the newsstand?
Less Direct Market copies than Newsstand. In 1980 it was more Newsstand comics being sold but by the late 80s this flipped as many people were buying subscriptions the end of the 80s.
According to our friend, DRog, there are more high grade directs than newsstands for SSH1.
‘Heres what I have so far for She Hulk #1
So Per the chart provided we assume direct editions make up approximate 10-20% of the total books. So in theory if direct editions were that small a distribution, They shouldn’t dominate the grading maker…
Here is the data (combined for sale and sold recent listings). Grade, Direct/newsstand, percent direct:
9.8 70/15, 85%
9.6-9.0, 116/169, 69%
8.5-6.5. 9/17, 34%
Clearly for these trends high grade newsstands are much scarcer than directs.’
Newsstands, from any era, are harder to find than their direct counterparts. SheHulk 1 newsstand went for $423, while 9.8 directs went for $336. Higher grade newsstands are rarer than their direct counterparts, therefore the high grade newsstands are worth more than high grade directs, from any era. Imo.
These are AVERAGE raw sales….likely many more newsstands being sold on eBay in low grades, bringing down the price.
Also, likely less directs, and in higher grade, this bringing up the price.
Bottom line…don’t read into the “average raw” sales….especially when it’s newsstand bs direct.
Average raw sales do not distinguish between a 9.8 and a bunch of 5.0’s raw is raw. So D-rog is correct.
Well First host #4 has a much bigger print run and #3 2nd print.
Also #3 2nd print has a bad ass Sleeper cover (I know it’s a splash page from insude the comic but still)
Lower print and cooler cover = higher demand and so market gravitates towards issue #3 2nd print.
I do agree however that pushing issue #3 2nd print ans 1st cover app is misleading.
I’m glad there’s a buzz for Venom first host since it’s one of the five different comic series released that places Venom existing pre Eddie Brock and Spider-Man thus making ASM #252 1st Venom.
Imo, Venom = E.Brock + Symbiote. Doesnt matter, to me, what Cates retcons.
Have ever book on the list minus Batman #77.
Gootcher.
That was an easy book to find too. Unless you already sold all yours. I sold 7 copies and still have one for the PC. ?
7/10 for me this week
2/10. I suck!
Where are those runner ups? Maybe I’ll do better with those…
Someone explain to me the ASM 252 now being the first Venom. Is there a tweet/article?
Because in the stories Venom First host, Deadpool Back In Black, Symbiote Spider-Man, and the current Donny Cates Venom series deal with Venom being Venom pre Eddie Brock. In Venom first host we learn just that the first host of Venom Tel-Kar which shows that there’s Venom pre Eddie Brock and Spider-Man . In Deadpool Back In Black again another story where Deadpool has the Venom symbiote pre Spider-Man and Eddie Brock and the symbiote does Venom things like ask for brains etc… In the current Venom series the whole Knull thing deals with Venom being Venom pre Eddie Brock as Knull wants to revert Venoms knowledge he obtained is his time on Earth showing that Venom was Venom before any hosts. Finally the current series Symbiote Spider-Man series is retconned Spidey actually conversing and using the symbiote. from the time of ASM #252-258. So based on these series Amazing Spider-Man #252 which is first black suit has been retconned as first Venom since all these other comic series tell us that Venom was Venom before Spidey and Eddie wore the symbiote. So Venom first appears in ASM #252 as a full unnamed appearance the first time we see the black suit.
What was the publication date of ASM252? With the new Venom retcons, that has to be a record. 47 issues between the time when Venom had his ‘1st full unnamed appearance’ and the time Venom had his ‘1st full named appearance’. 47 issues. Lol.
May 1984 ASM #252 came out and Secret Wars #8 was December 1984. The whole Black Suit storyline in ASM was done before Secret Wars came out. Secret Wars #8 was 1st black suit in continuity but that’s all changed now due to said books above.
Yeah, Im aware of the black suit chronology, but I still think 47 issues between 1st appearance and 1st named appearance has got to be some sort of record.
I don’t understand….Venom became Venom when Spider-Man rejected
The symbiote and he joined with Brock. He was just a regular old symbiote before then. That’s not new…it’s always been known. In fact, ASM 258 you begin to see it had a life of its own.
Sure he liked brains before. That alone doesn’t make him Venom any more than peter Parker was Spider-Man before getting bit by the radioactive spider.
I honestly don’t care…I have both issues, but I think all this back story doesn’t retcon anything.