Gwen-pool is a thing now. Gwen-Pool Back up story in Howard the Duck #1

With news coming out that Gwen-Pool would be appearing in the All New Howard the Duck #1 interest in the character has increased. She will make her first full appearance in a back up story in the issue. Leave one wondering if Gwen-Pool will fill in the void that Spider-Gwen has left (until her second series starts.)

There has been a trickle effect on the back issue market of Gwen-Pool’s first appearance. She first appears on the variant cover of Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #2. Issues have been flying off the virtual shelf, just take a look at the recent sold listings.

Prices are going up, with most selling for about $15, but the asking prices are creeping up to as much as $50 as the cheaper copies disappear.

You can still find them at Mycomicshop for $5.

Thanks to Mel V. (who wrote the original Mel’s Variant Pick of the Week) and has also been getting at me all day about getting the post up, and to Darren M. who emailed me about this and about the Mary Jane Spec posts. Thanks guys!

41 thoughts on “Gwen-pool is a thing now. Gwen-Pool Back up story in Howard the Duck #1”

  1. I actually picked one up.. I’m not that attached to mine and I will dump when they start peaking (if I can tell when that is… that is).

      1. It says, “plus a new Gwen Pool story”… I wonder if it’s gonna be another story if they do put one in #1… Hmm..

    1. Haha.. I was skeptical about picking it up myself. I think when I did, I almost put it back but then was like.. what the heck, I’m already broke with the amount I’m buying today, might as well keep this one.

  3. Thanks for the tip… I am a sucker for the hype. Didn’t feel like driving to my local comic shop so I bought one and some other back issues at Mycomicshop. Looks like they have multiples of this one because as of writing this it is still for sale at $5. Get one before they run out.

    1. Out of stock now. Be sure to spend extra on shipping or they’ll make sure it’s sent all damaged and bent to hell and will not care when you contact them.

      From their website:

      “How We Package & Ship

      When you order from us, we guarantee your order will arrive swiftly and without damage. We don’t ship in envelopes ā€” every comic we ship is protected with custom-sized cardboard pads, wrapped tightly in thick plastic, and mailed in a sturdy, damage-resistant carton.”

      If you select the Lone Star economy option, they’ll send the comic shrinked wrapped to death on a piece of cardboard the same size of the comic so any dings that occur will also occur to the comic. The part they claim they “guarantee your order will arrive swiftly and without damage” is not true.

      They have a double standard (I hate double standards).. they guarantee no damage but then when it comes damaged goods using their Lone Star Economy.. they’re customer service people are basically scripted to tell you to eff off like they did to me.

      Sorry, I’m still bitter about mycomicshop experience, will never do business with them ever again.

      1. I hear ya buddy! I don’t order from them very much, but so far so good. I will keep my fingers crossed. I have had issues with Mile High though. Seems over the years they will be on top of things sometimes but then they will get sloppy for a period of time and if you call them on it “literally” they will threaten to ban you. I try not to order from them unless everyone else is sold out. Newkadia, well they are usually out of stock on anything I have ever looked for (except twice in about five years) so I don’t know how to gauge them. Glad I have some good local shops so I don’t have to go online for new or semi-new books too often.

        1. I’ve heard so many bad things about Mile High I’ve never even bothered with them, probably won’t ever either.

      2. I ordered Bloodshot first appearances from Mile High and they came in without a hitch. I object to some of Mile High’s mile high prices, but my single interaction has been positive. Then again, the books only had to make it from CO to UT.

        Might…..again, might….get some more Gwenpool stock for $7.50 through Mile High.

      3. Mile High Comics is asking for Mile High Problems. I stopped buying from them over a decade ago, because I had mailed comics in to them to sell to them at their posted “buying” prices listed on-site (this was back when the internet was “new”… 1998? 1999?) and didn’t get tracking on the package. They said they never received it, and it never came back to me. Two years later, I got tempted to unload some stuff again and get something out of it. Used tracking this time. Again, they said they never received it. The package never came back to me, and the tracking showed it was delivered. I don’t think they take any responsibility for their actions. A year ago, during the summer, I placed an order from them for the first time in forever because they had a few key issues I couldn’t find anyplace else, and people told me to “give them another chance, they’ve changed”… They ended up cancelling half of the items on my order as “out of stock” (conveniently, anything that had risen in value since their last wave of price changes… and they even have an automated system that detects fluctuations in Demand for a book, so if you are adding a book to your cart at a certain price, it may automatically rise in price by the time you are ready to check out, if the system detects several other people have added it to their cart or have purchased it while you were shopping. It’s screwed up, IMO; and I saw that happening too when I was shopping!)… and it took them THREE MONTHS to ship my order to me. And it was missing a book. It took them another Month to ship that book. And their communication was horrendous. It was blatantly obvious they don’t care at all about their customers. Meanwhile, I placed my order prior to SDCC, and didn’t receive it until after SDCC, so while I am waiting and wondering WTH is taking so long, I am watching them moan and complain about their SDCC experience. Oy. Mile High Comics is the one & only comic book company I have reported to the Better Business Bureau.

        Midtown is hit or miss. I haven’t ordered from them in a while because I keep getting damaged books. They will exchange them, but I got sick of every order requiring the back & forth every time to get books replaced.

        Lonestar / MyComicShop has been pretty okay to me. I rarely get damaged books from them, and when I do, they’ve replaced them. The only negative experience I’ve had with them is on eBay. If they have already combined shipping on your invoice, and you are still in the middle of buying books, they WILL NOT continue to combine. So if you are buying from them on eBay, don’t slow down, don’t take a break, buy them all back to back for sure, lol.

        Right now the jury is still out on ComicXposure. I want to like them, I really do; I’ve placed a lot of orders from them and that is 100% the result of their presence on THIS site. But I am amid a debacle with them right now. And it seems to be a systemic problem that is not improving. In addition to my own experiences, I have seen others commenting about them, and while I don’t comment in agreement or saying anything when I see it… I’m feeling it! The only thing that sets them apart from the others is their continued presence here, and they actually communicate & respond to emails and don’t treat me like crap like Mile High or Midtown do.

        1. I’ve actually had the best luck with Midtown. They stopped using the thick cardboard (which I liked myself but I added extra protection when I use them) mailers when it was like 3 or less comics and go with the cardboard mailers that most seem to use. Or they wrap in bubble wrap in a bigger box if it’s a bigger stack of comics.

          TFAW and GrahamCrackers as well, never had major issues with them.

          I’ve only ordered from ComicXposure a few times but have never had issues, comics all arrived safely. Never had to deal with customer service yet.

          As for Mile High, I think the other turn off for me that’s kept me from using them is their website (it burns my eyes looking and using it). I can’t take a website seriously if they look like they made their website using Frontpage back in 1996. I’ve always gone by others reviews of them, they seem to have too many dings against them so just avoid them altogether.

          As for mycomicshop, I only used their website to order a few times, but after that horrendous customer service nightmare (when the customer is basically told to just move along, you lose business real fast), that’s when I noticed the amount of negatives on their eBay account as well.. just horrible and there’s no excuse. I’ve seen sellers with just as many sales. I’m sure the larger sellers like them will point to the amount of sales they do and you can’t please everyone.. well, I think you can and there’s no excuse in not taking care of the customers that keep you in business.

  4. I think I ordered their last few issues of Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars 2, cuz they aren’t showing it in the search results now.

      1. I’m gonna go off topic here and say one thing.. I avoid Stan Lee signed stuff.. I think it’s hyper inflated, especially on the modern stuff (and especially the characters or books he had nothing to do with).

        1. My one and only piece of Stan Lee signed comics is a funny story. There was a Another Universe store that I used to go to. They would do a ton of variants and stuff. Signed stuff. Limited edition stuff. I would go there and buy out there 10 packs of variants (yes they would blow out their exclusives that way) for $5 a pack and take them to the comic shops near my college and sell them for cash and trade. I was a comic hustler back them too. Needless to say they put out a box of $1 exclusives and I was raiding it for trade bait. I come across a Stan Lee signed Incredible Hulk #0 variant. For a buck. I long ago sold it but for way more for it than I paid.

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      2. I know haha, still you think that is s fair price? Just wondering. I know Stan created Gwen Stacy and all.

      3. @agentpoyo. Yeah Stan Lee has been signing books for generations now. I dare say he has probably signed well over 100k + comics in his life. They aren’t rare. I have bought one certified signature of his but only because the price wasn’t too inflated and it was a also a book he actually wrote. The other books I have signed from him are from past conventions. I grew up near LA and he would be at most of the local cons in the 80’s and 90’s. He had zero security or assistants helping him and was very easy to approach.

  6. Anyone for see anything coming about for the other “Gwen” themed covers? “Gwen”verine or “Gwen”om?

      1. ive assumed the same, especially because…. i assume somewhere down the line, she’ll come into contact with some sort of symbiote , if the alien is any type of way like venom, that book will sky rocket, gwen pool cover is already approaching 30 bucks…and thats just with the announcement of her having 8 pages at the back of a howard the duck issue

  7. I think with the success of Spider-Gwen, theyll end up giving Gwen-Pool her own series, at least for a year to test the waters, shes their pot of gold at the moment and anything that people eat up that has her in it…. itll be shoved down peoples throats until we cant take anymore

    1. I can’t take it now… I’m so tired of her already (I’ll pick up to sell though, because there’s a bunch of damn suckers out there). šŸ˜‰

      1. lmaooo the saddest part…. i can see about 3-4 of these becoming real series, or at least, them putting mini series behind other issues, fantastic gwen, iron gwen, gwen strange….and gwen america…. haha, hilarious !

  9. I’m debating on dumping them now because I’ve waited in the past for things to peak and market gets flooded. Anyone think i should pull the trigger or ride it out a lil longer? I feel like its just a cover and not inside the book so down the road the howard the duck will be worth more.

    1. I think Howard The Duck will have over 100,000 print run, and too many covers. I will be picking up a few of Howard the duck, and I imagine a lot of others will order heavy.

    2. This one is tough. You can list now and make easy money or potentially wait until Howard the Duck #1 comes out with the Gwen-Pool story in it and potentially make more money when more collectors are aware. If they actually did do her own series, then that’s where the real money is I think. I got one at cover, I’ll gamble, I’m gonna wait this time around. Now if I had bought more than one, I’d be selling a few to make my money back now + some extra.

    3. It’s always a tough call. It if you can sell, make Money, and not have to look back you will be fine. I hate leaving money on the table but hate missing the peak too. Better to leave a few bucks on the table than to miss out on a sale.

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    1. Well, one must realize that’s why one goes into business right? If it’s an easy buck (because now that they’ve stumbled upon a cash cow with Gwen-Anything because there’s a bunch of suckers out in the world), then all power to them I say. šŸ˜‰

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