Richard Meyer v. Mark Waid (2018)

[damian]

Huh...

How interesting. When did this get sold?

Can anyone get the date of when this page was made?
https://store.blastoffcomics.com/pr...-4-0-mark-waid-collection?variant=26476393480

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Huh...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ii0RmzvFhc
How interesting. When did this get sold?

Can anyone get the date of when this page was made?
https://store.blastoffcomics.com/pr...-4-0-mark-waid-collection?variant=26476393480

I'm gonna say a long time ago. All these videos are 6 years old.

 

[nosemouth]

I'm gonna say a long time ago. All these videos are 6 years old.
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And they're of a six year old

 

[Jub-Jub]

The site advertises the collection for sale 16/03/2012, same day those videos go up. Also found a kotaku article referencing the video from the same time and saying Waid was selling 150 long boxes worth of comics. He might have only offloaded his crappier graded copies, but his collection mightn't be worth the amount everybody thinks. $6390 for 28 comics is $228 per comic, sounds like a lot but that site also advertises a sold out $100k spiderman

Mark Waid Collection - Blastoff Comics

BLASTOFF! Shop Vintage Comic Books online. Sold exclusively through Blastoff Comics!

store.blastoffcomics.com

 

[damian]

The site advertises the collection for sale 16/03/2012, same day those videos go up. Also found a kotaku article referencing the video from the same time and saying Waid was selling 150 long boxes worth of comics. He might have only offloaded his crappier graded copies, but his collection mightn't be worth the amount everybody thinks.

Mark Waid Collection - Blastoff Comics

BLASTOFF! Shop Vintage Comic Books online. Sold exclusively through Blastoff Comics!

store.blastoffcomics.com

Oh well, would have been funny if it was more recent.

 

[AnOminous]

The site advertises the collection for sale 16/03/2012, same day those videos go up. Also found a kotaku article referencing the video from the same time and saying Waid was selling 150 long boxes worth of comics. He might have only offloaded his crappier graded copies, but his collection mightn't be worth the amount everybody thinks. $6390 for 28 comics is $228 per comic, sounds like a lot but that site also advertises a sold out $100k spiderman

Mark Waid Collection - Blastoff Comics

BLASTOFF! Shop Vintage Comic Books online. Sold exclusively through Blastoff Comics!

store.blastoffcomics.com

The problem with collecting comics is most of the really valuable ones are from way before anyone even collected comics. They were just disposable stuff you bought for your kid with spare change.

I doubt most things printed now will ever be worth even as much as they're sold for, and that's even the ones sold half off because nobody bought them in the first place.

 

[CheezzyMach]

The problem with collecting comics is most of the really valuable ones are from way before anyone even collected comics. They were just disposable stuff you bought for your kid with spare change.

I doubt most things printed now will ever be worth even as much as they're sold for, and that's even the ones sold half off because nobody bought them in the first place.

Hey now the SJW stuff might be worth something in 10-20 years if LCS' start using them as firewood.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Fucking amazing find @Yuusha-sama.

Mark Waid: "I'm just poor comic writer, pls donate to help me fight the nazis."

Also Mark Waid:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTV3tnumm_QView attachment 745445

That's only if he bothered to get them graded. He has it bagged and carded. How much do you want to bet it's in one of the older bags that has a habit of leeching acid onto the pages?

The problem with collecting comics is most of the really valuable ones are from way before anyone even collected comics. They were just disposable stuff you bought for your kid with spare change.

I doubt most things printed now will ever be worth even as much as they're sold for, and that's even the ones sold half off because nobody bought them in the first place.

You will find some outliers like The Walking Dead #1 that can go for a decent price.

Huh...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ii0RmzvFhc
How interesting. When did this get sold?
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Can anyone get the date of when this page was made?
https://store.blastoffcomics.com/pr...-4-0-mark-waid-collection?variant=26476393480

2019-05-03T14:44:48 estimated creation date.But that's the creation date for that page, not for the sale itself.

So I'm going through those old videos of his since they're really short. He's using some terrible bags for those comics. Many of them are all wrinkly. If you want to know why they're like that. It's the oils and acids from the bags leeching into the comics so looks like I was right about him ruining his collection. Should have switched to some mylar bags to protect them. BCW has some decent ones.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

Hey now the SJW stuff might be worth something in 10-20 years if LCS' start using them as firewood.

For current year comics to gain value, it would also require people with disposable income to look back on them fondly 20 years from now. I would say there is not enough in the world, but that's not a future I want to live in.

 

[CheezzyMach]

For current year comics to gain value, it would also require people with disposable income to look back on them fondly 20 years from now. I would say there is not enough in the world, but that's not a future I want to live in.

IDK man shit video games tend to be the rarest and most valuable cause so few copies exist* see Stadium Events and Spider-Man Web of Fire *.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

IDK man shit video games tend to be the rarest and most valuable cause so few copies exist* see Stadium Events and Spider-Man Web of Fire *.

Stadium Events is a NES game and people are willing to throw down stupid money to have a complete collection. The other one is Spider-man. Even if they are both shit games, they are super rare items linked to very popular nerd shit.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Huh...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-ii0RmzvFhc
How interesting. When did this get sold?
View attachment 745676

Can anyone get the date of when this page was made?
https://store.blastoffcomics.com/pr...-4-0-mark-waid-collection?variant=26476393480

Waid already (supposedly) sold off his entire comics collection sometime before 2013, to fund his ill-fated online comics site.

MIGHTY Q&A: Mark Waid

We like talking with the comics folk around these parts and we were able to lasso Mark Waid for our latest Mighty Q&A rodeo. (BTW: Earlier this week, we talked to Mark and his collaborator Dean…

nypost.com

So don't expect him to pull a copy of Action Comics #1 out of his hat to fund his lawfare.

 

[Stoneheart]

For current year comics to gain value, it would also require people with disposable income to look back on them fondly 20 years from now. I would say there is not enough in the world, but that's not a future I want to live in.

some of the comicsgate comics will go up in value, established artists, small print run, high quality.

 

[DragoonSierra]

True.

Damn it.

As long as Waid cries when he sells his shit.

 

[break these cuffs]

The problem with collecting comics is most of the really valuable ones are from way before anyone even collected comics. They were just disposable stuff you bought for your kid with spare change.

I doubt most things printed now will ever be worth even as much as they're sold for, and that's even the ones sold half off because nobody bought them in the first place.

I remember hanging on to my baseball card collection long after I stopped caring about it "because they'll be worth something some day". Still holding out on the beanie baby collection.

 

[AnOminous]

That's only if he bothered to get them graded. He has it bagged and carded. How much do you want to bet it's in one of the older bags that has a habit of leeching acid onto the pages?

So I'm going through those old videos of his since they're really short. He's using some terrible bags for those comics.

He is such a fucking manbaby. He is nearly at the level of Chris-Chan in destroying the value of anything he actually does collect. He's almost more of a hoarder than a collector.

I remember hanging on to my baseball card collection long after I stopped caring about it "because they'll be worth something some day". Still holding out on the beanie baby collection.

That's a case of people, in general, just no longer caring about the specific collectable at all. People just don't give a fuck about baseball cards any more.

(My dad still has all the versions of the Billy Ripken "fuck face" card.)

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

He is such a fucking manbaby. He is nearly at the level of Chris-Chan in destroying the value of anything he actually does collect. He's almost more of a hoarder than a collector.

I could see if he's a collector for the historical value of his collection and not the monetary value, but even people like that do their best to keep their collections safe.

some of the comicsgate comics will go up in value, established artists, small print run, high quality.

I'd agree on that, they'll go up due to historical value because of whats happening now. Not because of print runs or artists though. The value on them wont be too high, but still worth adding to a collection. Maybe $100-150 if CGC'd.

 

[Empty Donation Box]

A lot less than he claims it’s worth on his insurance.

I'm going to powerlevel as little as possible but I deal with the insurance industry and seen the shit people like Waid try to pull. They'll find an appraiser to wildly inflate the values, only to get their dick kicked in during the claims process.

Roughly translating corporate speak to English the report and correspondence read:
"No, your collection is worth $X,XXX NOT $XX,XXX. Here's a list of places with prices that are selling/have sold exactly what you have placed on the claim. Here are the historical values. Here is what the market is currently bearing on those items. It's not our fault you got fucked when you acquired the items. Read your policy closer."

Stadium Events is a NES game and people are willing to throw down stupid money to have a complete collection. The other one is Spider-man. Even if they are both shit games, they are super rare items linked to very popular nerd shit.

The general rules for collectibles is:

1. Did it get pulled from the shelves for some non-sales reason?
2. Is it a one-off?
3. Was it stolen/not supposed to ever be in public?
4. 4)Did it have a very small production run compared to the current market?

If none of those are a yes, then shitcan the item. It ain't worth shit. It was made to fleece speculators. They're the only people dumb enough to think that you can actually buy money.

 

[Coccxys]

I'm going to powerlevel as little as possible but I deal with the insurance industry and seen the shit people like Waid try to pull. They'll find an appraiser to wildly inflate the values, only to get their dick kicked in during the claims process.

Roughly translating corporate speak to English the report and correspondence read:
"No, your collection is worth $X,XXX NOT $XX,XXX. Here's a list of places with prices that are selling/have sold exactly what you have placed on the claim. Here are the historical values. Here is what the market is currently bearing on those items. It's not our fault you got fucked when you acquired the items. Read your policy closer."

It depends if he has the value agreed with the insurers before hand. I have an agreed value policy on one of my cars since it is a classic and have been screwed in the past on other cars when the adjuster just goes "it's over 25 years old, no way it's worth that much". It is a lot of effort to sort the agreed value and of course you pay more the higher the value.

I doubt Waid bothered with that sort of thing though and did a combination of "I recon" and "Google says" valuation of things for his policy. That or he doesn't even have them listed separately on his insurance.

 

[MirrorNoir]

I'm going to powerlevel as little as possible but I deal with the insurance industry and seen the shit people like Waid try to pull. They'll find an appraiser to wildly inflate the values, only to get their dick kicked in during the claims process.

Roughly translating corporate speak to English the report and correspondence read:
"No, your collection is worth $X,XXX NOT $XX,XXX. Here's a list of places with prices that are selling/have sold exactly what you have placed on the claim. Here are the historical values. Here is what the market is currently bearing on those items. It's not our fault you got fucked when you acquired the items. Read your policy closer."


The general rules for collectibles is:

1. Did it get pulled from the shelves for some non-sales reason?
2. Is it a one-off?
3. Was it stolen/not supposed to ever be in public?
4. 4)Did it have a very small production run compared to the current market?

If none of those are a yes, then shitcan the item. It ain't worth shit. It was made to fleece speculators. They're the only people dumb enough to think that you can actually buy money.

Stadium is legit rare due to it's backstory. It was a random third party game that used the power pad accessory in Japan. It was released in the US in preparation for the US getting the power pad accessory released there, but a couple of weeks after it hit the shelves (ironically before the release of the power pad itself), Nintendo contacted the makers of the game and licensed it for inclusion in a new bundle for the actual NES system (which would include the power pad).

The game was yanked from the shelves as soon as it hit shelves and rebranded/retitled for inclusion on a 3/1 cartridge with Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt. Only a handful of copies exist as a result.