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Books hit the shelves Wednesday mornings, but sales go on before that. Here is what our picks are doing on eBay going into Wednesday morning.

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 279th edition of the open forum!
Every week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 3/18/20: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 3/18/20”

Diamond Comics allows for retailers to sell comics early this week in face of closures for Coronavirus outbreak. See below for full press-release.
Continue reading “Diamond Authorizes Sale of Comics Early This Week”
Image Comics is looking to help retailers by making upcoming books on FOC returnable at a later date. Continue reading “Image Comics Announces Returnability of New Comics Due to Coronavirus”

Publisher Devil’s Due is offering up their entire Digital Store for free for one week to help keep those at home entertained. Continue reading “Devil’s Due Offering All Free Digital Comics on their Webstore.”

If you are a horror fan, need more horror in your life, and are stuck at home because of the shut downs from the Coronavirus, Shudder has something for you. The horror streaming service is offering a free 30 day trial period. Continue reading “Shudder Streaming Service Free for 30 Days”
Eniac #1 is BAD IDEA’S first release. Here is a word from BAD IDEA and a 7 page art preview from the first issue. Please note, it is not 100% safe for work.
At BAD IDEA, we don’t do anything unless it’s special. First and foremost, that means producing a limited number of comic book series – no more than one or two single issues a month – at the highest possible level of quality and ruthlessly culling any components that might distract or detract from that mission. With that in mind, our comics feature no variants, won’t be released digitally, and will not be collected into trade paperbacks, hardcovers, or other bookshelf formats. Monthly comic books, sold exclusively by comic book stores, is what we do.
Continue reading “Bad Idea’s Eniac 7 Page Art Preview”
After an avalanche of phone calls, emails, texts, DMs, Facebook messages, and even a stray MySpace message or two, BAD IDEA – the unruly new comic book publisher debuting in select comic shops this May – is pretty darn pleased with itself. Now, we’re excited to reveal not only our complete list of participating retailers, but also announce that the first wave of BAD IDEA Destination Stores™™ has grown to a satisfyingly round roster of 100 truly excellent comic book stores. (A whopping 0.5% of all comic book stores around the world!) Continue reading “Bad Idea Comics Rolls Out List of Retailers”
Welcome to my own weekly spec which includes my weekly drek picks. I pick what I think will be winners, not only if you make money by flipping but winners as in either a great read or just awesome art.
Then there’s the pesky drek, the comic you should avoid altogether or not fall into the buying every variant trap.
Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for March 18th, 2020”
Previews gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s the independent spotlight new books coming out of March Previews.
Continue reading “March Previews 2020 – Indie Spotlight Books”
If you are not familiar with Bad Idea Comics, they are a new publisher that will be doing things differently. they are not selling through Diamond. They are only selling at between 20-50 shops. There will be no variants, second prints, digital copies. Continue reading “TFAW Pre-Selling Bad Idea Comics”
Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 3/16/20’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-Off Highlights for 3/16/2020”
We mentioned the other Retailer Summit variants that were up for pre-order before, the Venom #25 wasn’t available at that time. Well, now it is open for order. Diamond Canceled the Retailer Summit for 2020, which was supposed to take place at Orlando Mega-Con April 14-16. So these will all be allocated through pre-orders.
Continue reading “Venom #25 Retailer Summit Available for Pre-Order”
Previews gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s the spotlight new books coming out of March Previews for Marvel Comics.
Continue reading “March Previews 2020 – Marvel Spotlight Books”
Since ECCC was canceled, a lot of shops and publishers are stuck with the product the created for the convention. So for you Outer Darkness and Chew fans, here’s your chance to nab their exclusive that was for ECCC.
Continue reading “Outer Darkness / Chew #1 – ECCC Convention Exclusive Foil Variant”
Another FOC Monday is upon us comic book collectors and speculators. FOC is the last chance to put in your orders with your comic shops and likely get at a discount for pre-ordering.
Previews gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Here’s the spotlight new books coming out of March Previews for DC Comics who pretty much dominated the last month of speculation and heat.

Greeting to my Comics Heating Up Family. You are a blessing in my life. Thanks for four great years of Hidden Gems. Justice League Dark #20, The Flash #50, 51, and 52, Batman #90, and Daredevil #18 are my reads of the week. I loved the Flash #750. Crazy times right now, please be safe when traveling, wash your hands, and wear gloves. Hidden Gems wants to make gloves great again #testify. Now let’s make money with comics cause you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 112”

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. )
Continue reading “Covrprice Top 10 List for 3/13/20”
Looking for back issues, some good reads, or something to keep you occupied while the kids are home from school for the next to weeks while the kids are home from school? TFAW is having a weekend where back issues are 50% off. Continue reading “TFAW has 50% off Back Issue Sale This Weekend”
Got the time machine fixed but we decided to stay back in the past, in fact, we’re going back to 1965.
The highly anticipated Decorum #1 by bestselling, comics titan Jonathan Hickman (House of X, Powers of X, East of West) and artist Mike Huddleston (Middlewest, House of X) has sold out at the distributor level, same day as release. It is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with overwhelming demand. Continue reading “ANOTHER RELEASE DAY SELLOUT FROM IMAGE—DECORUM #1 BY HICKMAN & HUDDLESTON”

Welcome once again to another installment of the One Week Later Report. Usually these are books that heated up or were good pick up for flipping, even going as far to report if books fell flat and you can now find at cheaper prices.
This week we’ll cover the books released on 03/04/2020.
Continue reading “One Week Later Report for March 11th, 2020”