Once hot but now are not??10587

Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town
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Originally Posted by Jabberwookie
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Originally Posted by Tedsaid
Wasn't Harley Quinn in the cartoon first? Maybe that's the exception that proves the rule. Or maybe cartoons are different than live-action, being closer to a comic book already?

Yes, she has an odd history. She was created for Batman the Animated Series, then showed up in Comic form later, but that was outside of canon, and eventually made it to the mainstream.

You can take Harlequin back to the sixties as the precursor of the character, Jokers Daughter, and a card carrying member of the original teen titans series...which then evolved into the more modern incarnation as a love interest and so forth

Originally Posted by EbaySeller
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Originally Posted by Donnied
I remember a buddy and I driving all over the city looking for every comic with Keith Giffen art. Really hot at the time. But that was 38 years ago. Still have 20 copies of Omega Men # 1 if anybody is interested. Cheap.

I too remember pursuing work purely based on the hot artist or writer. John Byrne, Frank Miller, Alan Moore, Giffen, etc. Seems that stuff also reaches a price ceiling pretty quickly unless you go back past the 80's (I noticed the other day that MCS is generally sold out of early Steranko covers but has plenty of copies of the surrounding issues).

Originally Posted by Towmater
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Originally Posted by dielinfinite
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Originally Posted by Towmater
I could be wrong but maybe if the guy who created them had a statement on them then the value slide wouldn't have happened. I doubt it though

I mean the series creator did say a little bit about it but his word didn’t exactly settle anything as far as printings or print runs as they were likely throwaway promotional/advertisement items without all the considerations that would go with producing a comic book

If it wasn't clarified then the world will never know the truth around what was first, and what if anything was counterfeit. Too bad that no one had the foresight to show up at one of Justin Roiland/Dan Harmon signings with a cell phone and all the different copies of the book. They could have captured their answers about them.