why is valiant designated to the bargain bin?

[Psychomac]

you know what I mean.


and it hurts.

[greg]

Over 250,000 copies of any Valiant book means there are easily more copies than buyers.
Supply outweighs demand and the prices drop... all the way down.

Pick a book with less than 250,000 copies in print, and it will be much less likely to find the bargain bin... such as pre-Unity, premiums, or final issues.

This 250,000 "bargain line" is true of Valiant, Image, Marvel, DC and any other mass-produced books of the mid-1990s...
Although, when a title is still running, it's less likely to be bargain priced,
like the equally overproduced copies of X-Men or Spider-man.

Supply and demand.

[Todd Luck]

Large supplies (over ordering) and no demand. Simple economics. It's good for people who want to get to some to read though.

[childres]

The nice thing ( for collectors) is that quite a few store owners lumped all Valiants together. After the comic bust of the 90's & getting burned, many considered all Valiant books to be bargin bin fodder. Some very rare books got thrown in with the rest. ( course the bad news is some nice books got ruined in the process)

Unfortunately this seems to be quickly changing. In fact some dealers are starting to believe if its a Valiant its valuable again. Their starting to ask higher prices for the real bargin bin stuff.

Of course when the over produced books don't sell, a lot of dealers will probably start bad mouthing the whole line again.

-Joe

[Daniel Jackson]

After the comic bust of the 90's & getting burned, many considered all Valiant books to be bargin bin fodder. Some very rare books got thrown in with the rest.

And don't forget how most of the shop owners would look at you like you were nuts when you bought them. Of course I would be smiling all the way home.

[childres]

[dac55]

After the comic bust of the 90's & getting burned, many considered all Valiant books to be bargin bin fodder. Some very rare books got thrown in with the rest.

And don't forget how most of the shop owners would look at you like you were nuts when you bought them. Of course I would be smiling all the way home.

I here you even thow mine are mosely common.

David

[inmyblood]

Yes it is sad. I do agree.

But being that Valiants aint worth jack makes collecting them cheaper and easier to collect!!!!!


But you will have a hard time looking for pre-Unity issues and Valiant's later issues in their title runs.

[Solar_OSX]

Isn't it just as likely that after the speculator bubble burst in the mid to late '90s that comic values just aligned themselves to more reasonable prices? By "more reasonable" I mean prices that more reflected actual market demand and interest in the books.

I don't see any of the hardest to find VALIANTs - books like Harbinger #1, Magnus #0, Rai #3 & #4, Magnus #12, etc. - in bargain bins or selling for cheap on eBay and most of the comic book websites (like Mile High for instance) still charge a high price for those issues, if they even have them in stock.

Getting a Turok #1 or Magnus #25 for .50 in a bargain bin was possible in the 90s, too.

Sure, prices on the early, pre-Unity books have fallen somewhat, but isn't that true of most of the inflated prices from the 90s?

[depluto]

I think a lot of those quarter bin books have been beat to hell by all the people thumbing through the boxes over the years.

I might start rescuing some of the better looking copies, even if they are overprinted. My next house is going to need a big ol' storage room.

[Daniel Jackson]

I think a lot of those quarter bin books have been beat to hell by all the people thumbing through the boxes over the years.

I've found this to be the case too. Especially the Acclaim books with spine creasing from people sifting through the boxes and bending them. A lot of it is caused by shop owners being stupid and stuffing the boxes way too full.