Defiant1

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7/25/2019 Topic: question about submitting Defiant1	I liked Assassinette. The art had a surreal Ditko feel to it.
7/25/2019 Topic: MARVEL SPECIAL EDITION #15 Defiant1	I'm just happy owning the comic. If it's good enough for me, I don't care if someone else thinks it's better or worse. This is mine.
7/25/2019 Topic: What if? #10 Defiant1	Some comics I own are not the ones that I'd predict to have sales spike. This is one such comic.
7/26/2019 Topic: What if? #10 Defiant1	I sold most of my Vol. 1 collection, but I was left with duplicates and I acquired some in collections I bought. I believe the #10 I have was a duplicate that I owned. I really didn't care for most of the stories.
7/28/2019 Topic: Diamond shape around Price and Issue Defiant1	kds_comics wrote: The diamond box about the price signified that the comics was sold to a wholesaler to be redistributed to a retailer. (Non-newstand retailers).Often by Western Publishing and with the Whitman imprint. Examples of non-newsstand retailers were Woolworth, McCrory, and other five and dime stores in the 1970's. (What today would be Dollar General or similar). More than you every want to know is online here http://www.bipcomics.com/showcase/Direct/index.php In general - there is no value difference for diamond issue. The Whitman imprint is almost always with less than the original - similar to a second print. . You are living in the past. Newsstand & Whitman variant are seeing a huge increase in demand and quite often they sell for more than the Direct Market (or Diamond) versions.
7/28/2019 Topic: Diamond shape around Price and Issue Defiant1	I disagree that they sell quite often more than direct. Most collectors just want the book, be it direct or newsstand. I will say there are more wanting to collect newsstand than before but not a huge amount care if it’s direct or newsstand. Newsstand & Whitman are more difficult to find in nice shape, so there doesn't have to be a huge amount of people who care. This myth that collectors don't care was started by Overstreet so they wouldn't have to double their number of listings in their price guide. It's perpetuated by lazy price guide admins so they don't have to increase their workload to track it. The lack of effort to track the price differences ultimately results in the suppression of those price differences. Collectors do care. Mile High Comics saw the opportunity to cater to the public demand for Newsstand versions. They price Newsstand versions more accordingly. I strongly disagree with your assertion, so we are in full agreement to disagree.
9/2/2019 Topic: Steven Presents Dumpy #1 missing Defiant1	I have the scan of softcover saved under Kitchen Sink. I believe it collects the strips so it's not the standard comic proportions. That's why I couldn't find it. Kitchen Sink evidently published it.
9/21/2019 Topic: Steven Presents Dumpy #1 missing Defiant1	Cover price is probably right.
10/6/2019 Topic: Organizing by Countries Defiant1	This is a sticky situation. The pence versions of these were published in the US and shipped overseas. The same is true for Canadian price variants on Charlton. Most sites don't know they exist, but there are Canadian (75¢) price variants published in the US by Charlton and sold in Canada. Scary Tales #40 - #44 have such cover variants. Research is still ongoing since the print runs are much smaller and scan of some issues have never surfaced online in the past 5 years. The possible affected issues are as follows: Attack (1971) 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 Battlefield Action (1957) 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 Beyond the Grave (1975) 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Fightin' Army (1957) 166, 167, 168, 169, 170 Fightin' Marines (1955) 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175 Fightin' Navy (1956) 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 Ghost Manor (1971) 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75 Ghostly Tales (1966) 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 Gunfighters (1966) 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85 Haunted (1971) 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74 Scary Tales (1975) 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 War (1975) 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 I believe that on the titles with 6 issues listed, the early Sept. 1983 price variants may not exist. For example, I don't believe Gunfighters #80 really exists. All of the issue numbers listed in the first 4 titles have been confirmed.
10/26/2019 Topic: site stuff that's overdue to be fixed Defiant1	I got tired of reading and catching up. I can only say that everything was better before the "upgrade". Accommodating portable devices for the web has ruined the experience for desktop users.
10/26/2019 Topic: Direct Vs. Newsstand Defiant1	Glad to see this being done.
10/27/2019 Topic: Kaptara #1 C2e2 Exclusive Variant issue Defiant1	Other than the watermark it's a good image.
10/28/2019 Topic: Kaptara #1 C2e2 Exclusive Variant issue Defiant1	I don't know why sites feel the need to watermark cover images. In many cases they swiped them from the GCD, then watermarked them. They don't own the cover art. They can't copyright them. To me, it's just annoying.
11/2/2019 Topic: Comic issues still missing prices Defiant1	Technically, Ebay sales should factor shipping costs. The cost to acquire the comic is not the closing auction price.
11/10/2019 Topic: comicbookdb.com closing down Defiant1	solarno wrote: Hi all, I wouldn't normally post anything regarding a competing site, but for those of you who also use comicbookdb.com please note that they have posted a notice on their site stating that they will be closing down on December 16, 2019. Here is their complete statement (links removed): IMPORTANT! ComicbookDB.com will be closing its doors on December 16th, 2019 as we look towards creating a new and improved tool for collectors to utilize. We want to make sure everyone has a chance to download their data & collections by clicking on this link after logging in. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to contribute to the site and we look forward to seeing you again soon. If you have any questions, click here. I personally am a member there, but not to log my collection. I have used it frequently though to help verify or corroborate data for CPG. They definitely have a robust database so it will be a shame to see them close down. I recently quit researching new info because the free web hosts just mysteriously deleted three of my websites without notice or warning. The web is no longer what it used to be. You are not accessing a magnificent resource for knowledge anymore. You are logging into a massive advertising database with a network of content delivery networks (CDNs) archiving everything you do in the background and collecting info to help them sell you something. As of last week, I no longer jump on the web after work everyday. I come home, do other stuff and then remember 4 hours later that I never checked my email. The web doesn't really interest me anymore.
1/9/2020 Topic: DC Limited Collectors Editions-Oversized comics Defiant1	You have to go by the indicia.. I have a checklist here: http://www.angelfire.com/comics2/treasury/ I own 95% of everything listed. I quit actively collecting and researching comics in Oct. 2019, so I have no plans to update or maintain it going forward.
1/9/2020 Topic: Toy and action figure version of CPG Defiant1	Gilgandra wrote: dav1 wrote: cpg should do one +1 It's been brought up before. Same for trading cards as well. Why doesn't CPG publish a print version of their guide to supplement income and awareness of the site? Obviously the entire guide would be too large to publish but select titles, hot items and big movers would all be of interest to collectors.
1/12/2020 Topic: DC Limited Collectors Editions-Oversized comics Defiant1	Ronbatman wrote: Defiant1, I had no idea that there were that many different ones. Famous Firsts, Marvel Treasury, and Collector's Edition are the only ones that I remember. How do you store them? A friend of mine was asking about it yesterday. Most of mine are in Treasury sized bags. Some I list need a bag around the bottom and another slid over the top. I'm sure you can buy oversized Mylar bags for anything too big for a Treasury Comic bag. I think Bill Cole has oversized Mylar. It might be E. Gerber. I can't remember who has what. I have items that are too big for any bags I own. I have most of my original comic art in oversized Mylar bags. Most of mine are stored with the spine facing up in magazine boxes. You have to thumb through them side to side, not front to back. It's not the greatest way to store them, but it's the best way I've found. I'm not a high grade condition freak. There are some things that are just laying flat on top of boxes because my comic collection is in complete disarray and I have no box big enough to store them. My Kiss Destroyer Edition comic is the size of a poster. It's standing up in the back of my closet behind the clothes on the hanger. In other words... I improvise. I find myself getting more frustrated when I try to bag & store digest sized comics. I hate the wasted space i the boxes.
1/12/2020 Topic: Toy and action figure version of CPG Defiant1	Ronbatman wrote: I know that you are trying to be helpful and I appreciate that. We will never publish a print version because we believe that it's a bad model in today's world. By the time we publish it, some values are incorrect. We make thousands and thousands of price changes each year. This happens daily. To us, printing it would be going back in time. The supplemental income and bringing awareness to Comics Price Guide would be highly valuable. We just need to do it in a different way. In today's digital world, there is no advantage to making a print model the ultimate goal. It can definitely be a time capsule to show how prices have changed. I believe that spurs interest in the hobby and it's a good thing. Overstreet is a horrible source for prices and they have no intention of ever migrating it to a digital format. This site has the advantage that any print publication would be like an advertising flyer that you don't have to invest in and give away. The customer preorders and buys the advertising flyer (i.e. book or monthly magazine). You can sell ads with QR codes next to them to steer customers to a website and a more expansive digitally formated ads, coupons, and information. Most articles I've read say that print and web marketing is most beneficial when they are used in conjunction with one another. The old print model is dying, but the all digital realm is at the mercy of search engines and competing services. It's easy to drown in the sea of data on the web. The advantage of an outdated "print" version of a price guide is that it's a permanent ad promoting people to visit the site for the most current value. Collectors will save them just like they do comics. 10 years from now when someone is thumbing through a comic box, they'll think... "I wonder if the CPG site is still around." They'll enter it into their phone or they'll have one of those devices that reads a person's actual thoughts (brain waves) and searches the web without a mouse or keyboard.
2/2/2020 Topic: Old Iron Man Poster Defiant1	20 years is old? I did not know that.