For those considering getting a copy of Absolute Batman: the creative team is signing the book at Midtown today. Usually, that means they’ll be available online in a few days.
I’m going hold and grab a copy or two there.
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Stacks of Absolute Batman around here. Geiger FOC on the racks.
The Hyde Street Thank you was priced at $50. As much as I love the book…no thank you (pun intended).
Been watching Midtown on Whatnot. It’ll be a couple weeks before they have any signed copies up due to NYCC, and they’ll be signed by Snyder only because he’ll have to come back later. No Dragotta signatures.
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Anyone picking up extra copies of Absolute Batman 1A? The bleedingstool hype machine is saying it’s sold at comic shops. Not all comic shops of course because my shop still have hundreds. Could see the demand for this lingering for a while because there are lots of people that don’t live near shops or those that do but their shop is sold out.
Picking 1 up for the read but pondering if I should pick up a few more. Previously i thought this would be a bad spec but now i think it’s possible that demand can outweigh supply even though the supply would be enormous.
It was a good read. I pre-ordered a bunch.
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I liked it.
I’d rather invest the little money I have in a new character.
Unless people and shops are hoarding bundles, i don’t see any reason everyone who wants a copy can’t get a copy for cover. Especially with multiple printings on the way.
It’d be better to hold out for a 3rd (or 4th) printing.
You’ll likely see this book in dollar bins in the not so distant future.
(On that note is there a way to check how many copies are still available at Midtown or MCS?)
Edit: 8 copies of cover A at Midtown?
It’s kind of interesting that Marvel releases Ultimate Spider-man #1 earlier this year which went up in value and is holding fairly well. Absolute Batman #1 is already being pegged as a future dollar bin book. Both are “new” versions of an existing character in an alternate reality. Both were good reads. Arguably both characters are the most popular from their respective publishers. Is it print run? I have to believe Ultimate Spider-man had a large print run as well.
USM FOC was in late November in the Black Friday week before holidays…so a long FOC gap…and a I think a lot of shops didn’t think another Ultimate universe was worth ordering a lot of copies. Recall there were a few Ultimate books setting it up and they were not hyped much…so I think everyone was caught off guard on that one.
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Mycomicshop is limiting 2 per order. Already 96 sold in 24 hours. Can’t seem to check how many they have in stock because you can only go up to 2. Can someone find out? If they’re selling at this rate it’s going to be sold out soon.
My LCS didn’t order deep on Absolute Batman - maybe 25. They were down to half a dozen when I went in, all foils.
I’ll see if Midtown follows through on putting up Snyder signed copies later this month. I picked up the 1:25 from MCS for $8.
Midtown still has all covers in stock with no limits. They did an exclusive with Dan Panosian, so they obviously went hard.
I see one random comment prognosticating that it’s a future dollar bin book. Wouldn’t look to deeply or give much credence to that belief.
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I hate to say it but Batman (the regular series) has been boring for so long so I have wanted to see a different take on him. I would love to pitch my Batman series.
I guess time will tell… USM #1 started rising in value about a week and a half after release.
I wouldn’t worry even if there’s cover price stock weeks out. Some of the best books recently slowly dried up then climbed. Ghost Machine One Shots, New Champions variants, Incredible Hulk 6, etc. I like those FMV journeys way more than the Popeye Knock Out Variant release-week stupidity.
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Ghost Machine One Shots, New Champions and Incredible Hulk 6 didn’t have a 250k print run though. I think that print run is spread over all the variants also so cover A may have less. Decisions, decisions…
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Couldn’t agree more. Some people can’t look that far ahead and expect immediate results
New indie property, random kid hero apps, and a side character Ghost Rider =/= Batman. Of course they’d have lower print run.
Print runs really don’t matter like some of y’all think. Demand is the greater determinant. Over 10% of that 200k print run is exclusive trash. Another chunk is in the form of ratios. And an even bigger chunk is in the open order variants.
Been preaching that for… well, since forever. Demand drives prices, then all the other factors fall into play to settle on the value.
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