Seems Dynamic Forces pre-sales with their signature book, another one but says “plus 1” which I actually have no idea what the plus 1 is with the book and then CGC (which honestly, at 30% off is a pretty good deal at $62.99 for a slabbed book, that’s about how much it would cost to ship off to get slabbed yourself if doing it all on it’s own).
I can’t recall the last time an issue like a #7 got so much love with special pre-orders and usually in the past Dynamic Forces seem to target the more worthy books.
Perhaps something seriously major happens at the end of Thor #6 with Black Winter and it’s going to make Thor #7 special. Maybe Thor becomes Black Winter? Anything could happen…
No… there will always be store variants and it seems they’re on the crazy side again, I have the feeling they’re just riding the train while everyone is gobbling up all these issues.
For a while store variants were kind of on the low end, not as many were being hyped up, I think people got tired of them but now it seems they’re on the rise again… just a roller coaster ride.
Just a perfect storm of Fan Favorite Books hitting fan favorite storylines by fan favorite artists/writers along with ongoing heavily touted “1st appearances”.
I am glad that is really injected sales into the comic scene…not just from a store variant standpoint, but all of these books and the varied follow up printings. An awful lot of sales were generated from the Venom/Codex/Black Winter/Galactus/Knull appeal.
That’s why I just stick to regular issued covers and the additional printings. I don’t even bother with the store exclusives… trying to keep track of those would be a full time job.
Yup… new story arc… we’ll circle back around to the future image Black Winter shows him in Thor #6… Black Winter will come back at some point. Hold onto your Thor Black Winters… in another year, we’ll see everyone scrambling to get copies again like we saw with Venom #3 and Knull…
I’ve got my 1:25 #5 and all the reprints worth having, gone are all the 1st prints for #2 and #5 and the #2 1:25. Made decent money more than I paid a few weeks ago that’s all that matters.
