As promised, the Covrprice.com runners-up list. Think of this as the second half of the top 20.
#11 Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #8 (Marvel, 1984) Classic cover and origin of Venom. This should be even MORE expensive these days. It sold 20 copies, had a 7-day trend of 119% and had a high sale of $200 for a CGC 9.8.
#12 Sideways #1 (DC, 2018) This character SIDEWAYS is featured in the Dark Nights Metal & New Age of Heroes storyline. Rumors around him showing up more in the 5G relaunch are moving copies. This sold 12 copies, had a 7-day trend of 169% and had a high raw sale of $19.50.
#13 Spider-Man Unlimited #1 (Marvel, 1993) First Shriek sold 16 copies, had a 7-day trend of 111% and had a high sale of $86.99 for a CGC 9.8.
#14 The Infinity Gauntlet #1 (Marvel, 1991) We all saw the films, they were awesome. This is now a key issue, just for the representation alone of the massive Marvel opera. It sold 10 copies, had a 7-day trend of 182% and had a high sale of $81.99 for a CGC 9.4.
#15 Avengers Annual #10 (Marvel, 1981) With rumors of Rogue as the villain in CAPTAIN MARVEL 2, her first appearance in this issue sold 20 copies, had a 7-day trend of 87% and had a high sale of $249.99 for a CGC 9.6.
#16 Teen Titans #12 (DC, 2017) We used this first appearance of THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS in comparison with PUNCHLINE this week. This sold 16 copies, had a 7-day trend of 107% and had a high sale of $314.99 for a CGC 9.8.
#17 The Savage She-Hulk #1 (Marvel, 1980) Rumors of Alison Brie as She-Hulk took hold this week. This sold 15 copies, had a 7-day trend of 105% and had a high sale of $415 for a CGC 9.8.
#18 Batman #86 (DC, 2020) sold 14 copies, had a 7-day trend of 117% and had a high raw sale of $9.99.
#19 The Amazing Spider-Man #210 (Marvel, 1980) This first appearance of Madame Web (rumored to appear in the next INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE film, sold 12 copies, had a 7-day trend of 132% and had a high sale of $545.90 for a CGC 9.8.
#20 Ms. Marvel #1 (Marvel, 1977) has also never stopped selling. It sold 14 copies, had a 7-day trend of 97% and had a high sale of $140 for a CGC 9.2.
What would you say is hotter/worth more, Ms Marvel 1 or Avenging Spider-Man 9? I know AVSM 9 has cooled, but I don’t think it’s dead by any stretch.
Ms. Marvel #1 graded 9.8 is worth nearly 5 times as much as avenging Spider-Man 9 in the same grade.
No contest. Probably will never be a contest.
True, but that’s because the older book is a lot harder to find in a high grade. The buy-in seems higher in general for AVSM 9. I guess I meant if that book in particular has completely cooled and fallen off the radar, so to speak.
True, but it’s an older book harder to get in high grade, the buy in for AVSM 9 seems higher. I guess I meant has it cooled considerably and dropped off the radar, since the movie opened or whatever.
So with rumors of DC being shutdown, how could they avoid it? I rarely purchase any DC related titles. To me DC focuses to much on the reader and not enough on spec. I mean it’s good they try to make readable stories, yet that is not enough in this day and age.
One reason is the introduction of sites where you can read for free. Why pay? I think they could salvage this if they were more like Marvel. For one they need to start doing ratio variants. They could start out small, 1:10, and increase overtime. Just the ratio variants themselves will spark more interest and give retailers a push to sell.
Secondly, they need to add more spec. For instance they she increase the amount of new characters they introduce and revamp ones that don’t sell well enough.
Even though I may not agree with some of the tactics, from a sales point of view, it must be done. No matter your opinion on whether DC is better or has better marketing tactics, the truth is Marvel takes their lunch money every single day.
The one thing I hold against Marvel the most is their obvious push to generate artificial sales/spec. Seems like there’s a new character every week and all the incentive variants meant only to increase sales for them knowing speculators will buy anything that might be rare.
DC rarely does incentives and doesn’t really seem to have new characters pop out of nowhere as much as marvel does…it’s not their driving MO, anyway.
DC open orders have had MUCH better spec value in recent months than marvel,,,,even from small titles like Batman Beyond and Lois Lane…
What’s marvel got other than the incentive covers? MS. marvel & Miles Morales?..which they immediately turned into more profits by generating multiple 2nd print variants with new covers…good money making strategies for them….bad for speculation .
Again this is a sales point of view. I’m not saying I like any practices over the other. I think we can all agree that whatever DC is doing is not working, regardless If it’s perceived as best practice.
I will agree that the last few months have been very good for DC. However, overall Marvel seems to attract me much more. I will agree that Marvel does probably create characters knowing they probably may not use them. However, this practice does keep us engaged and gambling.
Marvel does take their lunch money. DC shutting down would be a massive blow for the comic book world. I find that there are DC guys and Marvel guys. I have always liked Marvel’s style and found many DC books hard to jump into. I am not for renumbering but could you imagine trying to start a book at issue 1006? Or higher? Sounds dumb but it’s true. Now DC has done many good things. But as an early reader I had trouble with Earth 1 Earth 2 Pre-crisis post-crisis DC universe. Why was Superman grey in one book and not another? Why are there two Flashes, Green Lanterns, and why Justice Society and Justice league. Plus why was superboy in the future and in the present at one time (Legion I am looking at you)
i totally agree. My pull list is all Marvel other than Batman and a few independent minis. I find most people I know are the other way around and all about DC though.
“I mean it’s good they try to make readable stories, yet that is not enough in this day and age.”
I don’t agree entirely with that statement. Plenty of “stories” make a book spec worthy. Saga is a great example. Immortal Hulk is another good example where the heat (and value) was primarily due to story telling, not just creating new characters.
Story plays a big role long term. Don’t overlook it or underestimate the power of a great story!
Lol. The ONLY reason Marvel is taking anyone’s lunch money is because they release double and triple the amount of titles every month and STILL barely outsell DC.
Most Marvel books aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on because 2 months later the title reboots with another #1.
If you’re going to talk about sales, you might want to actually look at sales numbers…
That was the argument I was trying to make last week about Brian Hibbs/nasty retailers. It’s insulting that they pretend some of the garbage Marvel prints has any ‘value’, and sell it with a straight face.
Other than the Holy Trinity and a few other outliers (Harley, maybe Lobo…), Marvel simply has better, more relatable heroes/villains/characters, and whole lot bigger of a roster. That, imo, is why Marvel is tops in the sales charts every month, with the bigger roster being the key factor. Marvel has, off the top of my head, about 8-10x more A list characters than DC has.
Maybe not 8-10x, but probably more like 4-5x. ?♂️
$200 for a 9.8 secret wars 8 vs $545 for a 9.8 asm 210?
i cant really wrap my head around that.
Who cares about Madame Web? Totally agree.
Some might not care while others do.
I actually enjoyed Coyotes. It was a cool werewolf story.
You would, you look like a Werewolf most days.. you sure you’re a hairy troll? 😛
The true test of what the respective Marvel / DC market share is, would need to factor out any and all Marvel multi-cover issues and simply include one or two versions of the Marvel comic ..
Marvel’s market share is inflated due to “incentive” books and ordering .. take that out of the equation and it’s going to look much more like a level playing field ..
It’s what’s between the covers that counts ..
As well, I would much rather see “readable stories” than just putting out a mediocre book .. “readable stories” are what keep folks coming back for more ..
Count me in as a believer and backer of “good story” that really matters most when it comes to comics.
I’d likely buy more titles if it wasn’t for these “events” and if they could tell a good story in a single issue or two. But that’s not a good money maker either if you can just hop on and off all the Time…
Another great example was Thor: God of Thunder. Jason Aaron made me a Thor fan with that run on the writing alone (Ribic’s art helped as well). Some of the best writing ever. It won me over before all the hoopla that Donny Cates used and made relevant to his own stories.
I would still say that Marvel puts out many more readable stories than DC does. Yes, variant and multi cover issues lead to increased sales but then all DC books have two covers where as Marvels do not all have multiple covers. I think it balances out some.
This is just this weeks and last weeks titles, but there is a lopsided trend there…
DC = 34 cover As, 32 Variant covers
Marvel = 42 cover As, 65 Variant covers
If it’s a Harley #1 DC has 100+ variants for just one book