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To be honest, I only dug through a few cheap boxes, so I only found a few bargains. One dealer I ran across did have some pre-Unity and Golds. Totally off the wall pricing. He had a few copies each of X-O#1, Shadowman #1, and Solar #1, plus Harbinger #2 and Magnus #12. He wanted $10 each for any of them. He had mainly the more common gold books, like Turok #1 and HARD Corps #1 and wanted $15 each for them. Needless to say, he didn't sell any of them.

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Brother J wrote:To be honest, I only dug through a few cheap boxes, so I only found a few bargains. One dealer I ran across did have some pre-Unity and Golds. Totally off the wall pricing. He had a few copies each of X-O#1, Shadowman #1, and Solar #1, plus Harbinger #2 and Magnus #12. He wanted $10 each for any of them. He had mainly the more common gold books, like Turok #1 and HARD Corps #1 and wanted $15 each for them. Needless to say, he didn't sell any of them.
Just for the record, I think Magnus #12 for $10 is a great deal. The rest, especially X-O #1 & Harb #2 are pretty close to the money. I know I certainly wouldn't sell mine for any less, (& I doubt you would either, Bro J). The days of quarter bin Bonanza's are about over....---Steve
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I would pay $10 for a Magnus 12 in NM condition. :thumb:
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Vault-Keeper wrote: The days of quarter bin Bonanza's are about over....---Steve
That seems to be the case for the shops in my area anyway.

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I was out of town for the weekend on a rafting trip, but i managed to hit up an old comic shop that i hadn't visited in 10 yrs in my hometown. I asked the manager if they had some valiants and she said she sold a huge lot to a guy who only wanted valiants and took all 400 off her hands - for $350 in cash. She was more than happy to get rid of them, however I'm interested to know if this guy found some premiums in there.

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actually, let me correct myself here. I actually didn't ask him how much he wanted for the Magnus #12, I was so disgusted with his other prices I didn't ask. I assumed he'd say something like $20-30. Considering I probably already have at least five copies of Magnus #12, I wasn't interested even at $10, really. As for the other books, I guess I'm spoiled, but I sure as hell wouldn't pay $10 for any of the Valiant #1 issues except for Harbinger or for a Harbinger #2.

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We hit interesting times as the original posters who are inherently cheap have already picked alot of the pre-unity/premium issues clean from LCS and thus rising interest in the back issue market. Now that supplies are a bit limited, sellers want more for their books. However, the original crews that boost these books up to their current level are no longer interested in buying them for the new said prices. So we need the mainstream comic collecting community to start picking them up or the prices will once again fail down and many LCS will loose interest all together.

Personally, I know that there will now always be a market for these books at a certain price, which is more then I can say for the majority of 90's books. But if the prices don't jump over the chasm they now stare into then valiant we always be a second tier collection much like EC books. How well they do in the next two years will really be a sign.
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whetteon wrote:We hit interesting times as the original posters who are inherently cheap have already picked alot of the pre-unity/premium issues clean from LCS and thus rising interest in the back issue market. Now that supplies are a bit limited, sellers want more for their books. However, the original crews that boost these books up to their current level are no longer interested in buying them for the new said prices. So we need the mainstream comic collecting community to start picking them up or the prices will once again fail down and many LCS will loose interest all together.

Personally, I know that there will now always be a market for these books at a certain price, which is more then I can say for the majority of 90's books. But if the prices don't jump over the chasm they now stare into then valiant we always be a second tier collection much like EC books. How well they do in the next two years will really be a sign.
This is an interesting point...
Since I've been buying Valiant on Ebay since 1997, it's clear that
there are many "support levels" for most of the important Valiant books.
For instance, I would always pay $30 for a near mint Unity #0 Red.
But I'm sure there are guys on this board that would pay $40, or $50.
The "new buying group" might need to pay $60, $80, or $100 for the book,
and we don't know if the book will sustain those prices because you have
to have either new buyers, or continued support from old buyers.
But I would guess that the "established fan support" would kick in before the book
fell all the way back to $30.

I guess I'm saying that it's not just "original posters" and "new buyers",
but a variety of levels within each group. It'll be hard to predict where
each book's support might ultimately fall if there was a downturn in the market.
(The perfect example we have right now is X-O #1/2 Gold.)

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