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The backbone of the success of the DC Relaunch was the publisher offering retailers incentives to order more of the comics, so they could be easily bought

UPDATE: Now with added Rob Liefeld variant and original cover, in their street trade dress. Over the last few years, there has been a rule for speculating

A couple of weeks ago a CGC slabbed signed Chew #1 9.8 sold for $909 on eBay. Was it a complete and total fluke? No, no it wasn't. This week a copy of

We ran a couple of pieces on the limited edition Joe Jusko CGC slabbed 9.8 cover to Boom's Valen The Outcast #1, how they printed 500 but burnt most of

Valen The Outcast #1 is published by Boom! tomorrow. It comes with a 1-in-200 variant for the first issue featuring a Joe Jusko cover. Basically, if you

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue

Yesterday, we ran a list of modern comics breaking the $200 barrier. Now we set our sights a little lower to the still-impressive $100 successful sale

Here are nine comic books published in the last thirty years that are currently breaking the $200 barrier based on actual reported sales. No CGC, no chase

You know those DC New 52 first prints that go for a little too much money on eBay? Well, the price have been falling a little this week. Like Animal Man

Yesterday a copy of the Hastings cover variant to the Star Trek/Legion Of Superheroes crossover from IDW sold for over $75 on eBay. Yet there are still

It's a superhero comic written by a rising star in the industry. Writer Joshua Hale Fialkov told the NYCC today that he's spent ten times as long on each

Bleeding Cool broke the story of the details of one Strange Talent Of Luther Strode by Justin Jordan and Tradd Moore earlier in the year. And yesterday it

So, everything from Action Comics #1 to Resurrection Man #1 is sold out and going to second print. But the speculator market is reacting to the news very

With reports of sell outs across the country, and despite print runs of up to five times the usual amount for some comics, people are paying premium

Batgirl #1 is currently in an eBay auction for $16 with 6 hours to go. I can't help but think that the imminent arrival of thousand of copies bought by

Bleeding Cool has learned that before Our Love Is Real moves to Image Comics, Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders are creating one final secret fourth

Tomorrow, comic stores will be selling Ultimate Hawkeye #1, in a white polybag. Inside around a hundred of them, you'll find a Stan Lee signed copy. It

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #1, shipping today is polybagged. A small amount of copies have been signed by Stan Lee with a certificate. However, the

All the Ultimate Comics will ship with their first issue in a polybag. Superficially this is to avoid spoilers, the kind that Marvel give to the New York

It was one of the hotter items at this year's San Diego Comic Con. The glow in the dark variant cover for Chew #19. Bleeding Cool covered it at the time.

Marvel have issued a list of hardcover and trade paperbacks they are expecting to go out of print shortly. This gives retailers a chance to stock up for a

There were almost eighty Godzilla #1 retailer-specific covers. There were one hundred and fifty Amazing Spider-Man #669 retailer-specific covers. There

Our Love Is Real has been a real cause celebre for Bleeding Cool, and the authors kindly credited us for their comics instant sell out of all three

Amazon.com are listing the X-Men: Age Of X hardcover for almost 60% off. Less than Amazon paid for copies. Less than comic shops paid for copies. Cover

Amazon UK seem to have made a slight error. That Brits may be able to take advantage of. They are listing the complete hardcover compiling Ultimate Comics

We’ve just looked at modern comic books selling for $100 or more, for $50 or more and for $40 or more but how is everything else shaping up? Well, here is

Our Love Is Real #1 $51 - Okay, so I may be partially responsible for this one. As I was writing it's entry into the forty dollar club at $45, a new copy

We've just looked at modern comic books selling for $100 or more right now, but how is everything else shaping up? Here's a run down of comics that have

Here's a look at comic books published in the last thirty years that, without variants, signatures or slabbing, actually sell copies for over a hundred

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool told you about Our Love Is Real, a 300 copy limited edition comic book published today, from Fraggle Rock's Sam Humphries and