According to the list, Cross Over #3 1:10 is the #10 book. Which means the High Republic numbers across all covers and store incentives would be less than that?
CBCS slabs are almost as hard to sell as PGX…
Which is too bad because CBCS does a good job overall…Even PGX grades well and their slab is good…PGX just got off to a rough start years ago and never fully recovered.
All they need to do is make a vague mention that Phase 2 of the HR multi-media plan involves D+ animated and live action shows, and movies, and watch the book ramp up.
And, you are right - a print run of 200,000 - 250,000 is not a lot for this book based on the number of SW fans there are.
What hurts CBCS is they overgrade books consistently. If they tighten up for a few years then maybe more collectors will view them on the same par as CGC.
I thought those numbers are advanced reorders not total orders for the month. That tells me that stores underestimated demand on this book and are trying to reorder like crazy. I dont think this will have a 200k print run.
I thought it was CGC that overgraded books while CBCS was actually more strict… or did I miss something?
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The $100+ book will be issue #8 or something when everybody tunes out and Soule introduces a villain that he plans on being a throwaway. Word will spread, people will clue in to this cool new villain and then nobody will have the first appearance. Happens every. Single. God. Damn. Time. In Star Wars comics.
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I wholly disagree with that statement. From my more recent experiences (last year or two), CGC has been overgrading while CBCS has been much better at accurate grading and quality control. The amount of horror stories I have recently heard about CGC is concerning, imo.
There was a CHU user who recently posted here about how he had his GSX1 murdered by CGCs poor quality control.
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I called it Battered Slab Syndrome… the more CGC F’s their customers, the more they love them! 
The top selling books routinely hit close to, or over, 100K print run (ASM, Batman, TWD at one point). A larger print run these days sits around 150K+ imo. Spawn #300 recently went over 250K print run.
This Star Wars book will be well over 100K. At a minimum there are already 4 store variants. Those print runs alone already bring the books print to a minimum of 13K.
I honestly don’t see this book having, or holding too much value. Not with this many people talking about it this much before foc and beyond. Imo.
A new villain in issue #8 of a 6-issue miniseries would indeed be game-breaking here. 
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Its been changed to ongoing.
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Would a resurrected Palpatine constitute as a ‘new villian’?
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Whoa, I… did not know that!
Id agree, this will probably end up around 150k. Its a book that will slowly accrue some value but I wouldnt expect to get a quick flip out of it. A lot will depend on the media tie ins and how successful they are over the next few years.
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CBCS has been overgrading since the start IMHO, but I disagreed with CGC’s stance on certain flaws while Steve was running things there as well. He set the standards at both companies. That being said, for the volume of books it does, CGC is fairly consistent. There will be the odd book that slips through with a gift grade, or gets damaged during encapsulation, but those are the outliers.
FWIW there was a time when PGX was much stricter than CGC. I used to keep an eye out for serial numbers from that year, but I think those books are long gone and in new slabs now.
I never heard it was limited.
As much as Superman, post “Death of Superman”, is a new Superman I guess.
Now… is Luuke a new character? XD
Huh! Well, when I ordered from DCBS last month, it was listed as 1 of 6: https://www.dcbservice.com/product/nov200587/star-wars-high-republic-1-(of-6)