I will say this in defense of those that believed it would be dollar bin fodder. A 200K or more print run for a book that has reached $100 is pretty impressive. It wasn’t like it was unordered or anything, the series is just that popular. Long term, with so many copies out there, can it really get to $1000? Can it even maintain a 100? Especially when, eventually, the hype will run its course. I’m certainly not buying the market value copies out there, just too much risk.
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How is that a relevant argument? I don’t think anyone was claiming it would even get to $100. Now you’re throwing out $1000 as if that’s what a new release’s ceiling has to be to differentiate it from dollar bin trash.
People on here were saying this book is going to break cover and trend up. The rebuttal was “200k print, blah blah, garbage.”
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No, I wasn’t implying that if the book doesn’t reach $1000 its dollar bin fodder, I personally never believed it would be . I bought my multiple copies at cover and made my money. I am impressed, with that print run, it got to $100. I can’t imagine what the price would be if it had a 10K print run.
I was more referring to the fact that if you take books that considered modern grails in raw, your Ultimate Fallout #4 or Supergirl and the Legion of Super-Heroes #23 or, daresay, Spears’ Monsters #1, etc they all start to stretch up to $1000 mark at the height of their popularity. Is AB in that category? Time will tell. Will UF#4 get to $1000 long term, possibly? its been there before, will Monsters get there? Seems on a trajectory to get there. None of these have 200K print runs, the Monsters book might be less than 3000. Will AB ever get those real crazy modern book prices, in my opinion ‘no’, because the print run is too high.
Where is the peak for this book? No idea, might be around a $100. As I said in the post, with a print run that size there is too much risk to buy in at a $100. Buying in a $100 and it gets to $1000 is just good speculation if you believe it will get there, and again all I was saying in my post, is that person is not me.
If your a believer, and the 200K print run is irrelevant, buy away at this market price, at the very least they probably won’t ever be dollar bin fodder.
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The Batman #1 reboot with Snyder about 10 or so years ago shot up in value but has since dropped significantly. Probably mimic the same type of scenario and I believe it had a 200k+ print run itself.
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MCS has them up . It will only let me buy 1 and that’s it.
https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=63461430
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Quite honestly, I’m surprised that books that were printed as heavily as Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (2024 iteration) and Absolute Batman #1 are so popular and worth more than cover price. I guess it helps that they are so good as series.
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Thank you, dear sir.
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Print runs don’t matter, they just contribute when it comes to demand. It’s sad to think that publishers try to push cover art and multiple cover art variants to increase sales when all they really should focus on is great writing and overall a nice balance of decent art to accompany it and you’ll have a winner (likely in demand) along with it.
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Give it another year…
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I’ll have to go back through the timeline, but I don’t recall anyone saying that. Not pre-release.
I recall people taking about it after it started trending up.
More dollar bin fodder, lol.
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Wow, dude they are all gone now. A hour ago, all of them were in stock.
It could just be MCS playing games. I won’t rule out shenanigans.
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I forgot all about these
I have sold 3 so far and have more on the way. I love a good flip.
Little disappointed in battle world 2. Someone had like 10 copies and was holding the price low…which stagnated the price…I see they’re sitting at $10 now.
I’ll hold for now. It’s a cool cover and should rebound once stock is depleted…I assume more muppets are coming which will keep demand going for a bit.
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No. They are on to Toy Story now.
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