Definitely buy both 106/108. Especially at cover or below. Let the market sort it out.
106 has more the feel of Bat 89/HA 3 where it snuck up a bit on people. Where Bat 108 is more like 92 with all the punchline covers and everyone ordered heavy.
(Shouldn’t have snuck up though as Tynion mentioned she does appear in 106 too in that same blog). It caused me to order a handful at the time as you can’t go by creators cameo/full opinions.
107 could be interesting. Tynion only mentioned 106/108. She may not be in 107.
The funny thing is, Tynion hinted at the firsts for Punchline and people/retailers weren’t paying attention. Now a year later he’s sort of playing the same games. He’s laughing all the way to the bank though because he’s now getting people to chase multiple copies. Speculators might win with one of the issues but DC is ultimately winning by playing with speculators emotions…
Someone should make a new character, but never show their face in any panels. Let them be named forever, but never have their face shown. Like Dr Claw from Inspector Gadget
Just know that with Hotshot comics you will wait for the books. I am still waiting on a high republic #1 9.8 from them. What’s it been 3-4 months. Now a big part of the problem is cgc turn around times, not on hot shot, but just a heads up. If you don’t mind waiting it is a cheap way to go.
I’m all to familiar with nasty buyers on the Bay. I’ve had a couple of awful experiences, recently. Wife just cancelled all her listings. She was an Ebay power seller, and just decided, since she makes decent bank anyway, to just take a break
She should try Mercari. Will be honest, eBay is just not performing for me lately. I list books on Mercari and eBay and end up selling quicker and for more money on Mercari. eBay as of late seems to be who can drop their prices on comics to rock bottom first. I have forgotten to take down hot comics after I have sold them on Mercari with no movement on eBay. Case in point. A friend asked me to sell his Daredevil 9 and 10. Listed both on eBay and Mercari at the same time at the same price. Mercari, both books sold in minutes. Literally minutes, and I paid him out while I was there. (Basically bought the books from him for what they sold minus fees). eBay I forgot to take down until later and there were almost no views on the books.
I love that game. Been to Vegas twice. Take a $20 to the casino, and leave the credit card at the hotel. If it’s gone, then it’s gone. Had to walk back to the hotel once. Three am on the Vegas streets is let’s say invigorating.
My friend that had owned a comic shop at one time, moved to Marcari. He got burned bad on a mint book he sold on Ebay. Buyer filed a dispute that the book was not mint condition, and sent back his mangled one. Sure he isn’t the only one that this has happened to.
I’m going to have to test out Mercari again. I had some toys on there once and kept getting low ball offers. So I stopped listening there. I never tried comics though.
I will say Mercari brings with it a lot more lowball offers than eBay. There are people who make reasonable offers, but I just see a higher occurrence of people going, “Would you lower the price by 50%-70% for me if I wanted to buy it?” compared to eBay. It isn’t just comics, the Mercari subreddit I’m in talks about lowballers being awful for clothes. I’m glad I basically never sell clothes beyond the occasional themed t-shirt as clothes seem like a unique headache for sellers.
Oh for sure. I got tired of the 50-70% off people were asking on eBay… and don’t try to sadden me with your sad sob limited income story. If you ain’t got no money, perhaps you shouldn’t be buying comics at premium prices.
Hey that was me… Let me tell you somethin… like Tony Montana. Help my friend run his flea market booth on the weekends. Customers always low ball, or telling us that they can’t make any money on Ebay , because our prices are too high.
