wheres the foil ?
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the left card is the foil… it’s the stars and splash of color going diagonally.
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How many bags did you need to open to find the foil?
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funny enough it was the 1st bag I opened. I ordered 20 under my dealer account and ripped them all. Wound up with 2 foil cards, so the ratio was true to form.
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I’m finding it hard to believe with only 4 cards as stated by Tynion you can play this game. Now I’m not up on card playing games, but damn 4 cards doesn’t sound like a very robust game. Also I really think they goofed with how the cards are distributed. There should be chances at better stat cards or something like that. Does anyone really care if they play a foil vs. non-foil card?
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LMAO !!!
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #33 TAURIN CLARKE VIRGIN 2ND PRINTING 1:25 VARIANT
DAREDEVIL: COLD DAY IN HELL #1 STEVE MCNIVEN 3RD PRINTING VARIANT
SPIDER-VERSE VS. VENOMVERSE #1 JAVIER GARRON 2ND PRINTING VARIANT
SPIDER-VERSE VS. VENOMVERSE #1 LEIRIX VIRGIN 2ND PRINTING 1:25 VARIANT
SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE #1 DIKE RUAN 2ND PRINTING VARIANT
SPIDER-MAN & WOLVERINE #1 DAVID MARQUEZ VIRGIN 2ND PRINTING 1:25 VARIANT
THE VISION & THE SCARLET WITCH #1 RUSSELL DAUTERMAN 2ND PRINTING VARIANT
THE VISION & THE SCARLET WITCH #1 JOSEMARIA CASANOVAS VIRGIN 2ND PRINTING 1:25 VARIANT
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Jesus Marvel on that Miles, just take the 1:25 and make it a virgin killing the first print trade. What morons.
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marvel doesnt make a dime on secondary market sales, so from a business stand point if a cover heats up its makes them money to reuse it on 2nd print
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Thinking like that is why Marvel does what it does. The ultra short sighted view that Marvel makes nothing on the secondary market is technically true, but not big picture true. They don’t make any money on sales of current books on the secondary market. The are trading low hanging fruit sales for 2nd prints, etc for future sales. Many people that visit this site and many people that buy comics for collections hard pass on everything Marvel because they know they will do anything to leverage current sales and they don’t give one single thought of how that affects them or the books they put out down the road.
I have stopped buying anything Dark Horse since their “continuation print” and I used to pick up a Star Wars book here and there since they often had a single cover and no incentive ratios. Sure Dark Horse got some extra sales form Sister Imperator but lost all my sales in the future, so I hope they find it worth it.
Why touch a Marvel book 1st print? If it explodes you know a virgin and 2nd print is inbound. There is no reason to buy a 1st print on spec from them. They have absolutely destroyed the greatest driving force of future sales for their comic books, they have killed FOMO.
Imagine if a company never, ever, ever put out a 2nd print. Imagine if they had IP or artists like Marvel and never, ever put out a 2nd print and was backed by toys, television animated/live series and an entire universe of movies. Marvel has lost their way and you don’t have to look further than the way they run their comics business to see why.
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It’s pretty amazing how quick that 1:25 2nd print was announced. Book hasn’t been out 3 days and somehow they know it’s a hit, and why, and what cover to make a 1:25 virgin.
But yes, it certainly sends the message they care more about a quick buck in 2nd prints than writing good stories.
I will say the audience is partially to blame because we eat up this shit…and that me why they’re feeding it to us.
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I’ve cut back. Most of marvel is garbage today. Only thing consistent in I buy with DC is Batman. Most of mine are indie and image. I’ve been spending a lot of time buying old copies. Anything I Find that is old. I try to pick up if it’s a good deal.
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Marvel was losing its way Before Disney bought them. Disney just accelerated the descent to the bottom.
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Don’t exactly disagree, but want you to explain to see how much I agree or if I only vaguely agree. You mean the comics or movies more, for example?
They sell products. They sell them for pennies on the dollar, so quantity matters when you’re a publisher. You don’t care about the collector aspect so they’re not morons, we are for buying and chasing these variants. Marvel isn’t the problem, it’s collectors.
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Can’t we all be the problem?
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Maybe I should get into Pokémon instead of the comic game.
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Well, sure but in this more direct sense, we the collectors are the problem.
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If you think about it, if the collectors stopped buying these variants marvel would stop making them.
So I think that makes us the “root”’of the problem.
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Occam’s Razor at play here and can be applied to just about any problem for solution.
Why do we continue to have spam? Cause people are stupid enough to read and click. If everyone stopped opening and clicking spam email, then they’d most definitely stop.
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