|
|
|
2201 Legacy Posts
 
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 2 days ago @ 1:42:01 PM
Posts: 342,
Visits: 371
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mild Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 10/27/2008 6:33:28 AM
Posts: 158,
Visits: 580
|
|
I spoke with my comic shop guy today and he said the Turner sketch is 1:200 . I asked about the non sketch variants and he said they are 1:30 but come packaged together, so if they order 30 standard covers they get one of each.
"X-men comics, You know I collect'em!" - Weird Al, White and Nerdy
|
|
|
|
|
Mild Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Yesterday @ 12:05:31 AM
Posts: 244,
Visits: 260
|
|
|
|
|
|
A True Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 10/28/2008 11:42:41 PM
Posts: 1,923,
Visits: 2,491
|
|
quit. 
|
|
|
|
|
Master Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 2 days ago @ 7:49:51 PM
Posts: 627,
Visits: 1,307
|
|
batfan (7/12/2008)
quit. Is that English, because I do not know what that word means, "quit"...sounds like gibberish..."quit"  I know how you feel Havok...and it feels like hell.
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them...I don't give a fu-- how crazy they are."
|
|
|
|
|
Mild Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: 10/27/2008 6:33:28 AM
Posts: 158,
Visits: 580
|
|
I've checked with all of the comic shops I do business with and none of them will be ordering enough to get the sketch variants.
I personally think that the number may be an overstatement. I got to thinking about this from a mathematical standpoint. The recent monthly sales figures for Uncanny are in the 90,000 to 100,000 range. If we take the high end of 100,000 and add an EXTREMELY generous 25% boost for the anniversary issue sales, thats 125,000.
125,000 divided by 200 = 625. So if every copy of the issue was ordered by the same dealer there would only be 625 copies on the market. Then subtract out the orders to all the comic shops that don't order 200 copies and that would place this issue at around 500 total copies. I seriously doubt they would spend time printing such a book.
I really hope the 1:200 ratio wasn't what my LCS owner meant, and rather a mistake. If the book is indeed 1:200 and my math isn't in crazy town (it rarely is) then this book is going to be shipped to CGC the minute it arrives by most dealers that get them and getting one could become a pointless effort unless you want to spend crazy sums.
"X-men comics, You know I collect'em!" - Weird Al, White and Nerdy
|
|
|
|
|
Master Collector
Group: Forum Members
Last Login: Yesterday @ 10:09:03 PM
Posts: 890,
Visits: 755
|
|
I have come to find, that the stated variant ratio is accurate, but not in the way you think. As with Civil War and other "event" books, the ratio was actually worked out after the fact, not during the fact. Do you remember the rush of sketch variants that hit the market after Civil War was over? The ratio is still 1 in 75 but because there were so many stores that either didn't or couldn't order 75 copies of a book, the ratio was skewed. After the print runs were done, Marvel re-issued the remaining Variants per the ratio to any store that would order them, not revealing the reasoning, and thereby forcing dilution of the price for the book, which has never recovered because people "perceive" that there were too many copies just offered up later on and no one knows which is which.
This is the problem with variants. If 500 is 1 in 200, then somewhere someone is making a deal with some store to get leftover copies of the variants.
Where does he get those wonderful toys!
I have yet begun to surrender.
|
|
|
|
|
Newbie
| | | |