Guess I’m going overboard with my pics haha, I do one front / back, usually all four corners front and back and then one pic of the book flat from all four sides, 14 pics is probably too many but I’ve had enough buyer problems over the years that I’d rather have my bases covered by showing every angle of the book I can 
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Every time someone says that comics are dead, too expensive, kids not reading etc… I always think that’s BS.
Manga has proven that comics are alive and well with younger and older audiences. The problem is that Marvel has no idea what they’re doing. Tom Brevort has to go, he’s killing Marvel.
You pay your writers and hire a good artist, have an actual game plan on what you’re doing and the comics will sell. Stop resorting to the next big gimmick (ie blind bags) and focus on your product.
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Yep with 3rd pic as the label pic.
I forgot that i do that for signature series for clarity on the signature
Here’s a sample. Front, back. Front & Back spine edge, front and back spine corners. That’s where 99% of all damage to modern books is going to be.
I’ll add a picture of a free edge if there’s any defects. It’s rare though.
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Selling to retailers. Not to customers, necessarily.
I’m seeing first prints sitting in shelves now stating with issue 15. And all the retailer exclusives that don’t hit.
I could see 300,000 sales a month if you include the unlimited printings of every issue that come out regularly.
I guess they reached the maximum amount of retailer variants they can do for a book like this, just for the system to be able to handle it at DC.
I didn’t realize there was a maximum amount of retailer variants…so they’re turning retailers away?
The problem nowadays though is yes, AB is getting 300k copies but with the amount of variant covers and collectors/speculators buying up multiple copies, it’s still very far from the hey days of millions being printed and people buying just a single copy on average.
Overall, I still see comics as becoming more niche and a lot of the old school collectors and even readers are either dying off slowly and or some are moving away from it entirely.
So there’s this LCS that’s about 10 mins away from me. There’s a lineup every ncbd on Wednesday with the same 6-8 people in line every week, it never changes. Been going on like this for years.
I usually don’t go there at open because I hate lineups, plus I have a pull there. They limit 1 copy of new release per person on Wednesday.
During the week White Sky came out, I decided to go at open and see if I could score a copy.
I kid you not, the lineup had 60-70 people there. I thought they were there for White Sky but I forgot it was also Absolute Batman week, the issue with Poison Ivy. People in line were saying this is the longest lineup they’ve ever seen.
Went inside and there were at least 300 copies of AB cover As. This is a store that only orders for their pulls and a few copies for the shelf.
We tend to think that only speculators are the ones that’s buying multiple copies of AB but it’s not. It’s bringing in a giant audience of readers.
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I get it but also remember, demographics. What you may witness at your LCS might differ in other locations.
Of course. Every comic on the shelf has these variant cover and ratio gimmicks and they don’t break through like AB.
Comics being a niche thing with older collectors don’t explain why Manga is so popular with readers of all ages.
It’s the crappy stories that comics are putting out with terrible writers and art. You read through an entire 22 page comic story and barely anything happens.
I left comics a long time ago because of the way comics were written in the 90s (aka McFarlane Spiderman) . Decompression storytelling really killed it for me. I can’t see how any kid would want to read comics especially from marvel.
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I am a die hard Marvel Kid from the 80’s. Used to buy every Marvel book that came out. Now I mostly read for spoilers (Marvel) but read Indy comics and Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman.
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Nectar #1 Suspiria Black Bag variants.
I guess I made a mistake by opening up the 5 black bags I purchased. I figured I should inspect them to make sure there was no damage before selling on Ebay. But there actually is damage… on all of them. Significant spine damage.
I went to Ebay listings to see if the damage was on the entire run but it looks like everybody is selling them unopened. Doh!
That leaves me with 2 problems. I need to find out if the damage was throughout the whole print run. Secondly, even if so, I need buyers to accept that fact.
Is everybody else who opened them seeing the same damages? It’s pretty severe.
OMG… Schrödinger’s Comic? Is the comic mint or damaged… it’s both damaged and undamaged until you open it up! 
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Unopened blind bag comics are always nm
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That’s a reason I would never buy one on the secondary market unopened. Any number of people could have mishandled it while in the bag… Nope, nope… NOPE!!!
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If you’d sold them unopened and a buyer discovered the damage, they may have held you liable anyway. At least if you sell now, every party is aware of the condition of what they’re buying.
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Nice! Think I still have the copy I bought back in 2012 around here somewhere
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Pizza and Daredevil is fun, but I want a pizza and TMNT cross-promotion!
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