Kyle said on twitter they’re each runs of 500 but signed ones will have a COA or something.
75 each for a 500 print run book is insane, the people who got suckered in for the signed copies must be pissed. they were told 50/100 limited
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They did the same thing with the Strikeforce spider woman jtc the signed ones say 1/500 they sold those first of course then the unsigned ones say 1/2000 on the cover but they are the same book. Normally their variants are $25 I wouldn’t pay $75 for anything from ReedPop
I’m glad I passed up the foil covers. If I were selling Radiant Black foil covers,I would have sold it when fomo was at its peak before release date.Again hindsight is always 20/20.
Also this cover wasn’t announced or for sale before issue 1 came out so this wouldn’t be a first print
My last order with them 6 books three were seriously damaged and not in shipping they sent damaged books purposely. They put them in really tight bags and boards and they get trashed being manhandled by them.
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The Aaron Bartling Virgin variant is the rarest of all the Radiant Black store exclusives at only 350.That one is also the coolest looking one to me. It could go bonkers if the series takes off.
Hmm. I didn’t know that one existed.
yea most dont, sold out in like a minute during their vault sale last week
I’d break my copy out, make it a 9.2 or 9.4 and then get it graded again so it’s no longer a 9.8 to make it more unique and possibly more valuable then… 
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I got two of them! Mwah haha!
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As someone who bought one of the “50” it’s pretty messed up these are being sold now. Kyle’s email clearly said the foils were limited to 50 for the helmet and 100 for the other. Now we know that’s not true…
Welcome to the wonderful world of exclusives. It’s never as “exclusive” as they claim they are…
It is interesting that comic book sellers can get away with this stuff. If you create a price based on rarity, get people to buy in and then change the factor that made it expensive, it’s getting pretty close to illegal, and definitely over the line in terms of unethical!
Manufactured ‘rarity’ does not equate to genuine rarity.
Rare, manufactured or genuine, doesn’t equal value.
This is one of many problems if you ask me and it goes beyond just comics. If I produce 50 items (with the idea that this makes the items more exclusive) then set my own price of what I think it’s worth, this does not necessarily set the actual value based on actual demand or what people are willing to pay, unless, like what some companies will do in a lot of open markets, companies actually do survey’s to get an idea of what to price new products. This never happens in the comics from what I’ve seen, unless of course they’re leaving it hush hush. I don’t get the sense they reach out to customers or potential customers to set their pricing accordingly based on what people are willing to spend.
In a real market based on demand to set the value, auctions that start at or roughly above the production cost would give an idea of real market value based on actual demand.
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Absolutely agree with you. However, in this instance people were ‘tempted’ by rarity (as I suspect many people are) albeit created by an ‘engineered’ limited supply. Once you’ve advertised it as such, it should stay that way IMHO.
Whether they get ‘value’ or not is the choice they have to make. Changing the criteria people use to make that decision is bad form methinks.
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You know, this makes me wanna buy it along with a black light just because…
Radiant Black #10 Blacklight Ed
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