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Shadowman Blackout Cover Sellouts

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VEI is reporting on their twitter and Facebook accounts that they have received sellout reports for the Blackout cover. I am guessing an announcement for a sell out of Shadowman #1 will be coming in the near future.

On a related not, I typed "Valiant" into Google yesterday and the first thing to come up in the drop-box was "Valiant Shadowman". Means the book is getting a lot of searches and reflects the interest in the title.
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You mean a book with an eye-catching, unconventional cover sold out? :o
Makes me wonder what woulda happened with the QR covers. Or that ballpoint pen cover....

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Blood of Heroes wrote:You mean a book with an eye-catching, unconventional cover sold out? :o
Makes me wonder what woulda happened with the QR covers. Or that ballpoint pen cover....

:hm:
Agreed. I'd like to see them try the QR cover as a regular or order all. Master Darque maybe? Armstrong? I'd buy that.
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Blood of Heroes wrote:You mean a book with an eye-catching, unconventional cover sold out?
Yep, the one with the barcode on the back. :wink:

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jmatt wrote:
Blood of Heroes wrote:You mean a book with an eye-catching, unconventional cover sold out?
Yep, the one with the barcode on the back. :wink:
That didn't occur to me.
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BugsySig wrote:VEI is reporting on their twitter and Facebook accounts that they have received sellout reports for the Blackout cover. I am guessing an announcement for a sell out of Shadowman #1 will be coming in the near future.

On a related not, I typed "Valiant" into Google yesterday and the first thing to come up in the drop-box was "Valiant Shadowman". Means the book is getting a lot of searches and reflects the interest in the title.
For sure SM #1 will be a sell out.

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I know that my LCS was completely sold out of both covers (apart from ones he'd pulled for customers) by the time I got there Wednesday afternoon.
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My pull-box LCS said that Shadowman has been better received than all of the other Valiant titles so far, and all he has left at the moment is one blackout variant, although he has a few more of at least the regular first issue scheduled for delivery this week from Diamond.

He said that overall the line has been slow at his store, with Harbinger leading the way in sales over all other titles.
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Glow in the dark reprint.

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Phantom.. wrote:Glow in the dark reprint.
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I'm not a fan of these types of covers because they drive up the price tags. I would buy them though if I had unlimited funds.

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I'm still waiting for a release date on nightman. :? What's this shadowman everyone is talking about??!
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rasputin9977 wrote:I'm not a fan of these types of covers because they drive up the price tags. I would buy them though if I had unlimited funds.
This was a $3.99 book.
The 2nd, 3rd, etc. books are also cover price...when you can find them on the shelves. :!:

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Shop I went to today has 10 of the black cover priced $10 each.

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:o
That's exspensive.

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jedimarley wrote:Shop I went to today has 10 of the black cover priced $10 each.
The important thing will be how many they have priced at $10 each when you go back next time.
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Mine had five left - at cover - but all of them were shelf worn (that I left behind)
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I saw no blackouts at Midtown east this afternoon, at cover or otherwise. They had the other one and it looked like one of the 1:20 Johnson cover for $20 or $25.
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mrwoogieman wrote:I saw no blackouts at Midtown east this afternoon, at cover or otherwise. They had the other one and it looked like one of the 1:20 Johnson cover for $20 or $25.
I plan on hitting the Times Square shop tomorrow. (Wanted to get there today, but work kinda cut into my whole day.) Will report then, but they had a bunch when I was there last Friday. It's still availabel online: http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/sear ... =shadowman" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I wonder if it's a cookie thing, or if it's site-wide: what are you guys seeing as far as banner ads?: http://www.midtowncomics.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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mrwoogieman wrote:I saw no blackouts at Midtown east this afternoon, at cover or otherwise. They had the other one and it looked like one of the 1:20 Johnson cover for $20 or $25.
I plan on hitting the Times Square shop tomorrow. (Wanted to get there today, but work kinda cut into my whole day.) Will report then, but they had a bunch when I was there last Friday. It's still availabel online: http://www.midtowncomics.com/store/sear ... =shadowman" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I wonder if it's a cookie thing, or if it's site-wide: what are you guys seeing as far as banner ads?: http://www.midtowncomics.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I see shadowman on the main website, and yeah I see they still have the blackout cover selling (3.39 each).
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Just dropped by the Midtown in Times Square, and didn't see any Shadowman #1s (except the 1:20 variant). I didn't look specifically for it, but I did look at the shelf a bit trying to find A&A #4.
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I've only gone to a few places out here.... but I don't see anymore SM #1s. I went to a few places I was expecting to get some.... nope.

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The shop I just went to had a bunch. There were a few 9.4 - 9.6 copies, nothing that would make 9.8.

These are still widely and cheaply available on ebay.
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Midtown's website is now out of the black cover.
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Finally got my books for this week today - saw 12 copies of the blackout, the front one was reeeaaally beaten up so people are checking it out. Only 5 copies of the regular cover left.
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