I don’t know to be honest. I am not a fan of being able to alter a book to make it something else.
Will say I got a book out of a dollar sale that the outer cover was messed up. It was just a run filler Batman book. It is incredibly easy to remove the outer cover and not disturb the staples.
Picked up my first issue of D’Orc that my shop was holding for me. Listed it on eBay for $80 before I went into another nearby store to get some groceries and it sold before I checked out. Wow!
This is my single copy of D’orc that I found…
Yea, expected delivery 2pm, its 430pm and no mail yet! They are killing me!
Buyer beware. Seriously though. Who is so caught up in the fomo? I made about $600 off the book but I will wait and read it when then2nd prints come out. (Unless they are selling for big money)
Not saying anyone here would or should. But you have to wonder if Cover A is getting $80, and the blank is half that price…I’d expect blank covers to get converted over by the same people who are doing this to DC books.
If that’s a possibility here. Something to be aware of, if so.
I don’t have any, nor expect to ever get any blanks…and I don’t have any other blanks for image books.
I don’t know that image has ever done that I know Marvel did one time for the Midtown variant on immortal Hulk
By the time I get my D’orc #1 copies from Third Eye (which are part of a larger order), I might as well just build an entire house first.
I’ll be looking at selling them, by then, for… drum roll… $4.99 
You will able to buy a house with the profits by the time they arrive. This is insane. The price just keeps going up. All because of a FOMO story about it going to second printing…. just like tons of other comics do and don’t heat up. It’s like nobody collecting right now has been around for the past several years to remember this. There really is no other reason the book is heating up other than some people freaked out that it went to second print and then others freaked out because they saw the price go up. Wild times.
Maybe people like the book? Why would a 2nd print matter? Everything goes to second print these days. Transformers is up to what… 11th print!?
Supply and demand, peeps. Why do people buy it? There’s probably 392,489 reasons. All that matters is that there is continued demand, and the easily findable copies (supply) are gone. Price then goes up.
I kind of feel that D’orc heated up cause of maybe the style of art used (gives the Canto vibe and I think that attracts the crowd that isn’t into being a Wednesday Warrior). I think a lot of folks also have nothing else except Absolute books currently as flip potential so… I have not read it nor have I bought a copy but it was definitely something I was interested in reading but was going to wait on the TPB to read.
Buy low, sell high. If you missed the chance to buy and flip, time to wait for the next opportunity. If you did want a copy and missed out, this is a title you can wait on, prices will come down after the hype.
The sellout announcement didn’t come until after it started to heat up. It may have added to it but not cause it. I was at a small show this weekend and none of the retailers ordered it.
felt like last week
I’m not sure many people had even read the book until today. Copies were snatched quick, and it wasn’t posted to any controversial online reading places either, until today. I didn’t even read until yesterday.
I totally think people have FOMO who were late to the game on Absolute books, so they wanted to get in on the ground floor for something, and this was it.
Bingo
I have people message me through my website asking where my order is, and then I will look to find out they never ordered anything…
