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Glad I purchased the Red Hood #1 Jim Lee virgin variant this week. Sold for $260ā¦
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I got the 1:25 (for $14.99) and a couple of each cover.
I was interested in picking this book up to read yesterday, but was sold out by the time I got to the LCS. Saw many copies on MCS so had it in my cart but forgot to submit.
Itās disappointing for sureā¦but now I do not want anything to do with this book after the authorās comments. There is No place for that.
Iām not interested in finding a copy to own or flip. I would have likely trashed it if I had actually gotten a copy.
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Some shops I chatted with pulled it, some started doing one per customer, some hadnāt heard anything yet and still just had copies out.
I picked up five copies and a 1:25
Total have picked up:
4 Cover A
2 Dell Otto
1 Jim Lee
2 Brian Bolland
1 1:25
So far have sold:
2 Cover A
1 Jim Lee
1 Brian Bolland (updated)
Have broken even and now the rest is profit.
Now well in profit range. These may not last the weekend.
Ended up selling every copy between Friday and Saturday. Ordered more copies from a local honey hole and they arrived yesterday.
While I loved moving over $400 worth of one comic, I do hate the reason this was popular.
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Yeah I joked with my wife I should not have wished on that cursed monkey paw for a comic to get popular this week. She told me it was a dark joke but she laughed a little.
An online honey hole came through for me with an A cover and a Jae Lee cover. Sold the Jae Lee for $20 in minutes. But do I keep or sell the A cover?
sell everything, will be dollar bin book in a few months
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Perhaps keep one copy because itās an interesting curio in the history of comics.
FOMO driven spec = doesnt last long
Ebay is already floodedā¦
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I canāt get past why shops are continuing to sell this book given the controversy surrounding it given they are being reimbursed for it. I know many shop owners are greedy to the point theyāll mark up books in day of release and/or at the counterā¦but is there no line shops wonāt cross to make $5? Shops should be doing anything and everything not even appear to take a side on this matter. Donāt give your regular customers a reason not to buy from you.
My recommendation to everyone is to sit this one out. I donāt feel itās not worth the negative publicity, karma or potential stigma fallout that may come with it.
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I would try to sell the A. I think there will be a market for the variants - people who collect Jim Lee; DellāOtto. Brian Bolland has a recent run of Bat-character covers that his variant fits into and heās been mostly retired for a long time. We know people like Roblesā take on Jason Todd - I think people will seek that one out for a while. Eom cover, if he gets popular, will be sought after too.
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Thereās the irony. People have a right to a viewpoint. But if your viewpoint is someone deserves to be killed for not having the same viewpoint as you, I donāt think I want to by your comic anymoreā¦And others may feel the same.
So you have every right to put it out there on social media how you feelā¦What Iām saying is that it comes with social consequences that may not be in your best interest to do so.
Iām not saying shops and others share that viewā¦but everything you do is out there on the internet and can come up at any moment and bite you in the ass in ways youād never imagined (remember Karen Ballsnatcher?).
I guess Iām more risk averse than others in that respect.
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These shop owners probably just dont care one iota whatsoever about the specifics of the controversy; just that there is some kind of controversy and that it can be profited from.
Were talking humans hereā¦ basic decency AND some general awareness are not standard traits.
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I stopped mainly because I was working a lot more at my job and then started 3d printing miniatures and reselling the items I had hoarded for over 25 years. Once I retire and sell off a bunch of stuff I will probably start again. I was fun, you learn a lot abd make aome friends.
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