Ultraverse Scarcity Question

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:57 pm

Anyone have any ideas how scarce these are? Thanks.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:04 pm

There are at least three versions of this, and I believe this is the most common version. I don't have an idea of print run, but I wouldn't pay much for them.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:08 pm

Brother J wrote:There are at least three versions of this, and I believe this is the most common version. I don't have an idea of print run, but I wouldn't pay much for them.

Thanks for the info!

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:43 am

Back when Jim Shooter was getting ready to launch DEFIANT, he did an initial announcement/briefing event at Wondercon that year detailing some of the plans for DEFIANT. I flew to that Wondercon to hear Shooter's plans for DEFIANT myself. Malibu was at that same con, and they had a promo they were giving out at their table, which I grabbed a bunch of. I can't remember if this was that promo or not.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:54 pm

StarBrand wrote:Anyone have any ideas how scarce these are? Thanks.

I was emailing back and forth with Tom Mason for a while maybe going on two years ago now. He sent me one of these for free and I asked him what the numbers went up to and I paraphrase 'don't really know that one, I do know that we just decided to put numbers up in the corners so people would think they were 'limited' and therefore the numbering.

This is the most common of the three variants and still one of my favorite books to own.

Now are for the 'scarcity', well that could be a totally different story... I have seen quite a few of these as opposed to my copy of Miracle on Broadway but I was told that when Malibu went under, all employees were told to grab what you want, the rest is going into the dumpster.... and it did. Ultra5000s, gold holos, silver holos, signed books, foil books, you name it..... so it was not until recently (2-3 yrs ago now I suspect), those books that were grabbed by former Malibu employees began to pop up and were quickly swiped up (and then some) by a few old collectors. I would try to win whatever depluto and Brother J had not bid on (I think we had a pact back then, hehe) and I also remember getting outbid by some schmuch who was REALLY shelling out the dough for Ultraverse stuff.

What was that guys ebay name ? Anyone remember ?

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:58 pm

I remember that dude, can't remember his name though. That was pretty fun picking all that stuff up back then knowing we were the only two or three people bidding on it.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:03 pm

depluto wrote:I remember that dude, can't remember his name though. That was pretty fun picking all that stuff up back then knowing we were the only two or three people bidding on it.

Ahh the good old days... finding great deals at 0300hrs in the morning just trying to find them before anyone else but YES, the best thing was knowing there was just a small number of us picking the stuff up. Too bad that it started a frenzy as I remember paying something like $1.75 for one of the silver hologram books.

eh crazy times, crazy times.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:05 pm

I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:12 pm

StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching

$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.

Prelate1 · Post by **Prelate1** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:02 pm

Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching
$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.

That auctions high bidder atm is wmichaelaz. I think a few of us here have run into this guy before, he buys up all Ultraverse stuff.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:22 pm

Prelate1 wrote: That auctions high bidder atm is wmichaelaz. I think a few of us here have run into this guy before, he buys up all Ultraverse stuff.

yeah, I think that might be the guy Knightt was talking about in the above post. I know he's been buying Ultraverse stuff for quite a number of years now.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:25 pm

Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching
$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:30 pm

Prelate1 wrote:
Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching
$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.
That auctions high bidder atm is wmichaelaz. I think a few of us here have run into this guy before, he buys up all Ultraverse stuff.

Kind of makes you wonder who that guy could be. I guess just a huge Ultraverse fan. Looking at his recent bidding activity he's still buying up Ultraverse.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:07 pm

StarBrand wrote:
Prelate1 wrote:
Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching
$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.
That auctions high bidder atm is wmichaelaz. I think a few of us here have run into this guy before, he buys up all Ultraverse stuff.
Kind of makes you wonder who that guy could be. I guess just a huge Ultraverse fan. Looking at his recent bidding activity he's still buying up Ultraverse.

And he must have large knockers.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0467088406

Doorman · Post by **Doorman** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:10 pm

That guy LOVES Ultraverse books. He's bought stuff off of me before and has sent me Ultraverse email newsletters once in a while.

I believe he was working to convince Quesada for an Ultraverse revival.

He's been a good guy by me.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 3:43 pm

depluto wrote:
StarBrand wrote:
Prelate1 wrote:
Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I probably won't be bidding...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 3DWatching
$19 for 8 copies of that? Not a chance....

good for the seller, I guess.
That auctions high bidder atm is wmichaelaz. I think a few of us here have run into this guy before, he buys up all Ultraverse stuff.
Kind of makes you wonder who that guy could be. I guess just a huge Ultraverse fan. Looking at his recent bidding activity he's still buying up Ultraverse.
And he must have large knockers.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0467088406

Maybe he wears that on his head...

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:06 pm

Doorman wrote:That guy LOVES Ultraverse books. He's bought stuff off of me before and has sent me Ultraverse email newsletters once in a while.

I believe he was working to convince Quesada for an Ultraverse revival.

He's been a good guy by me.

I wasn't knocking him, I just liked it better when there was no competition.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:07 pm

Doorman wrote:That guy LOVES Ultraverse books. He's bought stuff off of me before and has sent me Ultraverse email newsletters once in a while.

I believe he was working to convince Quesada for an Ultraverse revival.

He's been a good guy by me.

He writes an Ultraverse newsletter. or am I misunderstanding that?

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:04 pm

StarBrand wrote:
Doorman wrote:That guy LOVES Ultraverse books. He's bought stuff off of me before and has sent me Ultraverse email newsletters once in a while.

I believe he was working to convince Quesada for an Ultraverse revival.

He's been a good guy by me.
He writes an Ultraverse newsletter. or am I misunderstanding that?

Maybe he's the guy behind the Only the Ultraverse podcast?

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:46 pm

I didn't realize there was an Ultraverse podcast. That's pretty cool.

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:53 pm

StarBrand wrote:I didn't realize there was an Ultraverse podcast. That's pretty cool.

There's not really. It's a joke started by the Only the Valiant guys.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:14 pm

Brother J wrote:
StarBrand wrote:I didn't realize there was an Ultraverse podcast. That's pretty cool.
There's not really. It's a joke started by the Only the Valiant guys.

Sounded real to me.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:21 am

wmichaelaz has at various points in my eBay career been my arch-nemesis.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:31 am

Chiclo wrote:wmichaelaz has at various points in my eBay career been my arch-nemesis.

Has he competed with you on VALIANTS as well?

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:38 am

StarBrand wrote:
Chiclo wrote:wmichaelaz has at various points in my eBay career been my arch-nemesis.
Has he competed with you on VALIANTS as well?

No.

I have a full common set of Valiants and don't often bid on Valiant items on eBay.

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