Valiant high grade CGC 9.8 later issues...still a demand?

rasmus2 · Post by **rasmus2** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:09 am

I've been going through my collection and finding a lot of complete runs on the Valiant books. And I remember about a year ago, there was a demand for high grade CGC 9.8 on those later issues.

I was wondering, is there STILL a demand for high grade 9.8 NM+ CGC graded copies on some of these books?

Since I lost my job this year, I've had to resort to selling my books, and I've got some Valiant I thought about having graded. Just didn't know if it was a good investment anymore, if the demand had quieted some.

Amongst the later and final issues of all the titles, I also found the obscure books, such as BLOODSHOT LAST STAND which I thought of actually doing a signature series on with Mike Zeck.

Thoughts anyone? Still a demand for these books in high grade or no?

VEI Reborn · Post by **VEI Reborn** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:04 am

There is a demand but not like last year.

With VEI failing to put out anything and not talking about anything either, things are starting to dwindle from what I can see.

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:33 am

I am certainly still interested. The last batch of late issues to hit ebay were all overpriced (no, not the ones I had

) but I would be a buyer in the $40 range for issues from 1996 that I did not already have. Saves me the trouble of finding candidates myself.

I believe I have a full set of 9.8 last issues already for the long running titles. I have hard time believeing these wouldn't fetch north of $100 even today. The X-O 68 and Bloodshot 51 are just really tough. Turok is pretty hard too but not at the same level as the other two.

edit: specifically on LAST STAND - the raw price for this book has not suffered recently. I think a 9.8 would do well.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 1:18 pm

I just sent in a set of Punx 1-3 and the Punx Manga Special and they all graded out at 9.8. Two of them are now 1 of 2s and the special is a 1 of 1, the highest previous grade being 9.6 on that one. I'm curious as to the interest I'll have on those when I list them.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:51 pm

StarBrand wrote:I just sent in a set of Punx 1-3 and the Punx Manga Special and they all graded out at 9.8. Two of them are now 1 of 2s and the special is a 1 of 1, the highest previous grade being 9.6 on that one. I'm curious as to the interest I'll have on those when I list them.

Seeing that it's PunX (ugh), I can't imagine a it will bring in a whole lot of $$$.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:54 pm

Daniel Jackson wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I just sent in a set of Punx 1-3 and the Punx Manga Special and they all graded out at 9.8. Two of them are now 1 of 2s and the special is a 1 of 1, the highest previous grade being 9.6 on that one. I'm curious as to the interest I'll have on those when I list them.
Seeing that it's PunX (ugh), I can't imagine a it will bring in a whole lot of $$$.

Probably not.

I could see them doing okay, though.

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 7:11 pm

I am always looking out for these issues

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 10:21 pm

If at all possible, hold them until some news breaks from VEI. If not, still price them aggressively because they ARE tough to come by and NOT easy to replace.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:29 am

400yrs wrote:If at all possible, hold them until some news breaks from VEI. If not, still price them aggressively because they ARE tough to come by and NOT easy to replace.

That's kind of what I was thinking. Go for the slow dime instead of the fast nickel.
I hope news breaks on VEI at some point!

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 2:34 am

ya that would help a lot

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 5:38 am

I would buy later Shadowman Issues.

Orangeribbon · Post by **Orangeribbon** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:06 am

I know Pretty soon (Like next month) I am going to need some of the later issues to fill in gaps.