‘WALKING DEAD’ #1 goes for $10,000 on eBay. Oh, you choads.
My initial reaction is that any asshole who pays $10,000 for a comic book, let alone Walking Dead #1 is a dink of the highest order. But then my brain is all like, “Dude, what if they have the money to spare and they rightly assume they can flip it for a higher price down the road?” My bipolar brain wrangles with itself for a bit, I take a swig of Dew, and forget the entire quandary.
Robot 6:
Even as The Walking Dead #104 arrived in stores Wednesday, a mint copy of the first issue of the acclaimed horror series sold for $10,000 on eBay.
Characterized by the seller as “the holy grail of comic books,” the slabbed copy is graded 9.9 out of 10 by the Certified Guarantee Company, “the highest grade of this book in an extremely low print run.”
While many would argue whether the October 2003 first issue of The Walking Dead trumps, say, Action Comics #1 or Detective Comics#27 as “the holy grail of comic books,” it did have a pretty low print run: Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson revealed this year at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo that initial orders for the comic by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore “totaled a mere 7,300 copies.”
“The Walking Dead came in dead last out of the half dozen new titles we launched that month,” he told the crowd at the Diamond Retailers Summit. It was beaten by Cursed #1, Battle of the Planets: Manga #1, Sword of Dracula #1, Something Wicked #1, and Realm of the Claw #1. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I was actually working at Image back then and aside from the Dracula book and the Battle of the Planets book, I don’t even the vaguest recollection of what those other books were about. And I don’t say that because they were necessarily bad, but because they’re not around anymore.”
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[That] $10,000 first issue, which the seller called “an investment as The Walking Dead is now a permanent part of our pop culture and continues to grow in popularity.” While post-1990s, most of us scoff at the idea of comics as investments, The Hollywood Reporter notes in this instance it may hold true: A 9.9-rated copy of The Walking Dead #1 sold for $7,000 in March, while a year earlier an identically graded copy was purchased for just — “just”! — $2,500.