 Hi everyone, this is Gio. Welcome to my channel. We're going to do another comic book haul video and it's sort of only been a week since we did the previous one and I want to give you a little intro to this comic book haul. Okay, because I wasn't expecting to have another comic book haul coming this early to me but basically what happened was I was editing the cryptocurrency that we did a couple of weeks ago. So it was hardcore editing that and spending a lot of time on the software, on the computer and I needed a little break. So basically when I take a break I sort of check my messages first and then stretch and go for a walk or whatever it is. Right? So when I stopped the editing process and went to my messages to check my email, this is the first message I got, right? So this message is basically the reason that we have this comic book haul coming to us. Okay, so this is the email message that I opened up. Okay, let me throw on my glasses and the email message was this. Hey Chicho, I've been following your YouTube channel for years now and I want to thank you for what you do. Your perspective on life is grounding and I'm grateful for it. I'm excited to make a donation to you but only if you promise to use it in a comic book haul. All right, so just imagine me hardcore editing opening this email going yes, right? Awesome. It'll be a drop in the bucket towards the enjoyment education and relaxation I've been able to experience from your content. What's your preferred donation method, right? And then I sent them a reply and I was like, seriously, my eyes were going Google Gaga and my body was like, okay, you need a break, right? So as soon as I read this, I was like, my excitement level just kicked up. So I sent them a reply, that email reply that was over the top excited, right? What a fantastic message. I'm editing videos, so I explained to them and, you know, hell yeah. And then I told them, you know, just through PayPal, you know, great way to do it. Now, as I mentioned in the previous comic book haul video, it was basically buy it now or make an offer for the comic calls we got in the last video, which was all valiant comics, right? A lot of them from the pre-unity era, right? Some of the rise stuff that I wanted, some solar and harbinger and stuff, right? And basically, what I had done is made offers for those lots. And I had kept a little bit of buffer in my comic book budget, just in case those, the buys that we did in the last haul, the guy made a counter offer, I would just, you know, accept a counter offer and get those comics, right? So I had a little bit of money in my comic book budget. And I didn't know how much this person was going to be sending me, right? So as soon as I sent the reply saying, thank you very much for sure, you know, if it'll be fantastic and guaranteed, I'll use it for a comic book haul. He sent me the donation, the contribution, and it was more than what I expected. And I've been eyeing. I usually eye a few different lots or issues or whatever. And when my comic book budget, you know, reaches a place where I can do a buy, I sometimes do a buy or hold off if the comics are already gone and whatnot. So I sort of have a rotating, you know, I do searches on eBay just for and I have automatic searches going. So I had a few things I was tracking. And by the time the, you know, the donation came in, some of the stuff was gone. But there was two lots from this one seller. And this is a new seller, just like the last haul we got, it was someone selling their collection. And this one was, I don't know if the person is a use, I don't think it's a use book place. I think it's a collector, but it might be a comic bookstore that's getting rid of their inventory or not. They're just coming on eBay, right? So they didn't have a lot of feedback. And those two hauls I was eyeing in this, right? So one of the hauls, I sent an offer. And then I sent the person a message that was selling these comics, right? So let me read you the message that I sent to the seller, right? Because I want to read you a message that I got from eBay, right? And this is important. If you're buying from eBay, you got to, if you're using a platform, the best thing to do is use, you know, abide by the rules of the platform that you're using, right? So I sent the following message to the seller, right? I had sent them an offer for one of the lots is a valiant lot and the other one is a vertical lot, right? So I sent an offer for the valiant lot, right? And my message to the person was this, hi, I just sent you an offer for the X-O-Mana War lot. That's valiant comics. You have a, I was thinking about sending you an offer for this set as well, right? And the set, the other set that we got was DMZ, Vertigo's DMZ, right? It's a lot of DMZ comics, okay? I was going to send you an offer for $45, but notice that it stated that it was free shipping. Is this correct? Is this free shipping? If not, how much will shipping be for this lot as well as the X-O lot if you accept the offer, right? So the guy didn't reply for a little bit of time. And then what I ended up doing was basically doing a buy it now on the X-O lot and sent them an offer for $45 Canadian. And he had listed it for $60 Canadian, the DMZ lot, right? So let me put up the hall. That way you see what we ended up getting. Where is my hall? X-O DMZ hall, okay? Now, by the way, we're live streaming this as well, just like the previous comic book hall. So there's a whole bunch of people watching this live. So I'm going to be popping up some tables and charts that we're going to look at while we, you know, when we take a look at this hall, right? Getting to the data of these comic books, okay? Yeah. So basically what I ended up doing is I just did a buy it now on the X-O lot. And the X-O lot he had listed for $130 Canadian. Initially, when I looked at that lot, the lot that he had for sale, he had it as best offer as well. And someone had already made him a best offer, right? And he had declined that offer. And the person that had made that offer was a reseller. Their feedback was into the thousands, right? So I'm assuming the guy was trying to low ball the X-O lot, okay? And my guess would be he had low balled it to like $80 or $90. So the initial offer I sent him was $110 Canadian for the X-O lot. And the X-O lot had 71 comic books, okay? And it has X-O number one to, X-O number one to five or six, which one does it? X-O number one to six plus the later issues as well, right? So it's only missing like 10 comics out of it. So I just went, you know, the money had come in. Thank you for the donation, for the support. This hall is because you made that, you made that contribution, right? So I just went, I don't want to lose this one. So I, you know, did it buy it now on the X-O and sent him an offer for the $40, $45, right? For the DMZ lot. Now this is the message I got back from the seller. Hi, sorry. I just saw the message now. I'll tell you what, for $45, I'll add this lot to the X-O Man of War purchase. The shipping combined will definitely cost more than $25 because he was charging me $25 for shipping from Ottawa to BC. But I'll eat the difference. Let me know if you're fine with that and I'll send you an invoice for $45 and I'll cancel this DMZ lot. Let me know. Thanks. Now I've been on eBay since 2002. I've been buying, I've sold some stuff and there are people that, you know, say that you can buy it off this, buy it off that. And if you're doing that stuff on eBay, you should be careful, right? Now I had no reason not to trust this person. I was, you know, I did trust them, but I didn't want to bypass eBay, right? Because I know everything's being automated and all these platforms that we're using and they're looking for catchphrases and different combinations of emails, messages being sent back and forward. So they're monitoring that stuff, right? And as soon as you get flagged, a real person takes a look at what's going on because none of these messages are private, right? eBay has access to them. And once an individual looks at that, if they see something funny going on, you may get bounced off the platform you're on, right? So this is the message that I sent the person. I just checked PayPal, but there is no invoice there. That said, would you be okay if we went through eBay? Okay. I've been burnt once doing direct invoices for eBay auctions before, and I really don't want to put myself in that situation again. I'd be cool with making the offer $48 or so to cover eBay's cut. Would that be cool? So I basically said I'm okay kicking up my offer to $48 instead of $45. And this is Canadian. And you can see what they are in US funds in the table, right? So basically he was selling it for $45 US and I made him offer for $36 US, right? To cover the eBay costs as well. And he replied, sure, that's fine. I'll adjust the offer. Thanks. Just quick message, right? Now, after we made the transaction, I got the package two days ago. Yesterday I got the following email from eBay. Okay. This is why I'm telling you this. This is an email message from eBay. We're writing to say thanks. Recent activity on your account indicated that a transaction between you and another member originally might not have been completed through eBay or that contact information was shared prior to completing the transaction. Neither of these situations follows eBay's policy. However, the transaction was eventually completed through eBay, ensuring the full range of services and protection that we provide to buyers and sellers. Thanks for that. And they provided some additional information below that, right? I just wanted to let you know about that. Read you that just in case you're using not necessarily just eBay but other platforms because as we've talked about in economics, personal finance, there's a lot of automation kicking in, right? A lot of data is being filtered, stored, right? Stored specifically. And then they're being monitored for key words and sequences of events. And if certain things happen in a certain order, then they get red flag and real human eyes take a look at that stuff. And they make a judgment call based on what's going on, right? So keep that in mind. This sort of links up with personal finance, automation and what we've talked about previously. Now let's get to the comic book haul. So the Exo Manowar cost me $130 Canadian, which comes out to $97.50 US. The DMZ lot cost me $48 Canadian, which is $36 US. So the DMZ lot cost $1.24 per issue. And the Exo lot cost $1.37 per issue. And the shipping for this was $25 Canadian, which came out to $18.75 US. So this total haul, 100 comic books from two different runs cost $152 US backboard delivered, which came out to $1.52 US. Now let me crack this open. Let me take this down. I'm going to take the table down for those watching live stream, the comic book haul. Let me show you. This is the box we got. Now I opened it up a couple of days ago, just to make sure the stuff was sitting straight, because I was going to let it sit there, so I wanted them to be sitting straight, upright. And the person's packaged it really nicely. Let me show you this. Nicely bubble wrapped. And we're just going to grab it. Should we take a look at DMZ first? DMZ? Yeah, let's take a look at DMZ first. Hold on, let me put this space. Let me put this down. And DMZ stands for demilitarized zone. And I've got some data to show you guys for this as well. Okay, let's crack. Okay, I borrowed a short, exact knife for this, because it's a serious bubble wrap. Take a look at this. Nicely packaged. This is exactly the way you want to receive books. Preferably, when someone's packaged up the books, ideally, you don't want the outside. This comic should be flipped so it's backing board to backing board. That way, nothing, if there's any punctures during the shipping, they won't get punctured. Just a heads up. Because I know the person for the last comic book haul, he actually ended up watching the stream he did. So he saw all the data we shared for the last comic book haul. He was a valiant collector and I came across him on a forum after doing the buy. It's just by luck. So let me put this here. Just reading comments. Thomas saying, Chitra, how are you doing? I'm doing well, brother. Thank you very much. Oh, he's got tape on this. So he's bubble wrapped. Take the bubble wrap to the top of the comic as well. So I gotta be careful with this guy. Oh, he's got packing tape on here. Okay, cool. Awesome. Nice stuff. Okay, now before I show you this, these guys, let me show it. Let me tell you who this is. Okay, now DMZ. Okay, let me bring up some data we got from DMZ. And let me tell you who this is. DMZ is by Vertigo. It's DC Comics. It's the Vertigo imprint. And it's more mature readers, basically. Okay. And this is by, it's written by Brian Wood. Some of the artwork is done by Brian Wood. I believe a lot of the covers are done by Brian Wood as well. And we've, we've, I love Brian Wood's writing. I've read, I haven't read everything Brian Wood has done. I've read a fair bit Brian Wood's done. And I've been collecting Brian Wood's runs. Some of the comics, if you watch some of the other comic book calls, we picked up Northlanders and he's done, you know, I read up his bio for this thing. But basically Brian Wood, the guys, here, this is the intro to it, right? On Wikipedia, Brian Wood, born 1972, is an American writer, illustrator and graphic designer. He's known primary as a comic book creator and has also written for television and video games, right? And video games is what really intrigued me. And I, I pretty sure I knew this before, but he was a staff designer for Rockstar, right? He worked on Grand Theft Auto, okay? Nightclub Max Payne. So he's, he's, he's got a lot of gaming experience coming into this, which is why I believe the stories that he tells are absolutely phenomenal. He's one of the best storytellers in, in comic books working right now. Contemporary comic book storytellers that we have. And I'm pretty sure he's, future down the road, people are going to look very, very highly on Brian Wood. And whatever, everything that I've read from Brian Wood, I love DMZ the most. And DMZ, I came across at a time where I wasn't buying any comic books, right? There's been periods where I do moves and stuff like this. I need to downsize or whatever it is. There's periods I haven't done any comic book buys. And when I don't do comic book buys for this period anyway, what I ended up doing for like three or four years, I would go to the comic, I would go to the library and re-trap it back. So I read a lot of comic books through the library, my local library, and DMZ was one of them. That's how I got introduced to it. And I've read DMZ way past halfway. There's 72 issues of DMZ. It was, it ran from November 2005 until February 2015. So there were 72 issues total. And I've read at least 36 of them. And it's a fantastic series. And at some point I'm going to continue on from where I left off because the story is really etched in my mind. I really loved it. And the artwork for it, absolutely phenomenal. The artwork, I didn't notice. But he's an Italian artist. His name is Ricardo Burscilli. And DMZ is his first comic book writing, comic book art for American comics, as far as I know and as far as what I could find on Wiki on him. So this is his first art in comic book format and this format for American comic book publishing company, which is fantastic. And the artwork is amazing, right? As far as what DMZ is, the story for it is, let me just read you the Wiki, the Wiki write-up for it. The Wiki write-up says this. And it's because we're following this up with a little politics live stream we've been doing. As far as political comic books go, transmetropolitan is fantastic, cyberpunk futuristic. This is also in the near-distant future. And it's one of the best politically charged comic books, stories I've ever read. It is absolutely fantastic, specifically related to the United States and very much related to the political landscape right now, what's going on in the United States, to a certain degree. It's a fantastic series if you like politics, really. And great storytelling and character development. And it goes into, it challenges a lot of the things that we should be thinking about, which, you know, the concept of what is a journalist and what should a journalist do and what does it mean when there's a civil war, when there's all this stuff happening, right? Really focused on the United States, which is, wow, the timing on it is insane, right? But here's a little write up on DMZ. DMZ is a comic book series written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Ricardo Borchillili, sorry about the pronunciation. The series set is set in the near future, where a second American civil war has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone, DMZ, okay, caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist free states of America. Fantastic, fantastic, really, okay. And one other thing before we get into the comic books and the data, DMZ has been optioned to become a TV series and they let the news out in 2014 and I think they're trying to get it going now, okay. Now, let me show you. Now this thing, you know, let me read you the description for it. He basically wrote it up as DMZ Comics, Vertigo, Nice Run, 29 comics, right? So 29 out of 72 comics and we have the tail, both ends, right? Number one and number 72, right? And basically he said these comics are very fine to near mint on average, okay. Now let me bring up some tables for you guys. Here is, because we're doing print runs, okay, let me show you the print runs for DMZ comics, right? Because we did, one of the things we're doing with ASMR math, I mentioned in a previous haul that we did, we built up a table, you know, that you can access as well online where we started talking about, you know, print runs are pretty important in comic books. So is, you know, how important the comic is, it was first appearances, deaths, who the artists are, the writers, if they're first issues of a comic book publishing company and whatnot, right? Or the last issues being rare or whatnot, right? So I brought up, because we've been looking at print runs in a lot of the comic book hauls since that comic book run that we did and especially in the previous one that we did, right? With the valiant comics, we really emphasized the print runs and we took a look at prices. Here is the print runs for DMZ comics and this is a handful of them, right? That you see that I've gotten the table. We've got the print run for number one and we have the print run for number 72 and we have a whole bunch of print runs between there, right? And we have the print runs for the first five of these things, right? And here's a chart that I put together for the print run, right? And as you can see, you know, the first issue has the highest print run, which, you know, it's going for the highest price right now, resell price right now, as it should, because it's the first appearance of DMZ, right? So it's got the highest print run and the highest print run number one from the data I could find is 19,000 comics and slowly it comes down from there. So, you know, number one issues usually have the highest print run. So it has, you know, 19,000 and then does a little slump down and then there's, you know, a plateau and there are around 14,000 and then around issue number 18 it starts coming down and then the last issue, you know, we're going down to 10,000, 9,000, 8,000 and the last issue is 6,000 issues printed, right? Wow, wow, wow. Okay. Now, if you, you know, I'll show you the print run for the other comic book as well, XO Man of War. So let me show you the chart for XO Man of War. Let me take this off. Here is the print run. Here, let me leave this chart on. So here's a table that shows the same issues. The print runs for the same issues as DMZ as for XO Man of War, the other lot that we have. Okay. So the print run for DMZ number one was 19,000. The print run for XO Man of War in the 1990s was 80,000 and DMZ is in the mid 2000s and XO Man of War is in the early 90s, right? So huge difference. Now, let me change up the chart here. Oops. No, we want that one. Let me show you the table. I'm doing this live for the people watching live stream and bringing up the table in the chart. So they see it as well. Here is DMZ print run, graphed versus the XO Man of War print run. Okay. And XO Man of War, if you recall, we'll bring up the table. Actually, let me bring it up for the people watching live as well. But the peak right there that you see for XO Man of War, that one is, let me make sure we've got the right one. That one is initially the XO Man of War stuff was, you know, the valiant stuff that was being printed. It wasn't getting relative to the 1990s. It didn't have a huge number of orders and then it decreased into the 35,000 to 40,000 issues printed. And then during the early 1990s to mid 1990s, valiant comics really took up. So the peak you see there with the thing skyrocketing, that's issue number 18 of XO Man of War. And that had 350,000 issues printed. Right. Now, because that's such an extreme, putting two scales, two runs, print runs on the same graph, we're going to take out the 350,000 and I want to show you another graph. Here's the other graph with the 350,000 gone. Right. That way you can do a comparison of how many issues were printed for XO Man of War and how many issues were printed for DMZ. And that sort of should give you a feel of how many comics were being printed in the 1990s relative to how many comics were being printed in the 2000s. Right. And XO Man of War, for the 1990s, it wasn't, you know, it didn't have that big of a print run. If you take out the middle section, the chart we've talked about before, which I will show you. Right. So this is sort of a comparison of what the print runs for the same issue for each of the comics is, you know, as compared to DMZ, comparing it to XO Man of War. And XO Man of War went up to 68 issues and DMZ went up to 72 issues. So they're very much compatible. And XO Man of War number 68, the last issue had 15,000 print run. Right. So compare 350,000 dropping down to 15,000. Right. Only 5%, less than 5% what its maximum print run was relative to DMZ, which is about a third of what the maximum print run was. Right. I thought that was pretty cool, pretty cool info, sort of nice charts to take a look at. Right. And let me take these down. Okay. That way now we can take a look at the comic books. Right. And let me bring up the comic book haul again. And this thing costs basically $48 Canadian or $36 U.S. And with shipping in U.S. dollars, it costs, for these comics, it costs $1.24. And sorry, with shipping, if you average it between the two halls, it costs $1.52 U.S. or $2.03 Canadian. Okay. That's one of the longest intros we've done for a comic book haul. Right. Because we got all the data going on. Now these don't seem to be in order. 63. Okay. You know what? Let me see if I can. Oh, there it is. That's the final issue. Oh, nice. Okay. Let me start here. This is number one. And check this out. He said these are very fine to near mint. And here's issue number one. Okay. Let me take down the table for those watching live. Okay. Here's issue number one. And it's the convention special. Take a look at this. Awesome. And this is actually fetching a higher price than the regular version. Right. And I'm pretty sure the print run for this is going to be less than what the regular was. The regular one is $19,000. I don't know what this one is. Okay. And this alone is basically going for, in very fine condition, is going for the same price that I paid for the whole lot. Okay. I checked two places. I checked what I like to do. I like to crack this open. Because this one is the key issue. And the later issues. I can't believe what the print run, how low the print run is for these things. $6,000. Right. I might try to find another lot that contains everything. I'm going to go through these. I'm going to see what kind of condition there are. But let's do the first check on this. And again, I put the tape on the side. Nice and flat, sharp corners. Nice comic. Let's see. It's got a little bit of, and vertical comics have these. It's got a little bit of things you're going on there. Okay. And one thing you can do, if you want to feel, if there's any nicks dense in the spine, you can just run your finger over it. Right. Pretty good. Take a look. You can fold. Nice copy. Nice copy. I would give this a 99.2. Easy peasy. Oh yeah. This is a great series. Let me show you this. I don't want to do any damage to it. And the back cover. Yeah. I would give this a little bit of, I don't know if that won't call this a scuff mark, but there's a little bit of things. I would give this a 9. 8.59. Okay. Let me show you. Okay. I won't show you the inside pages of mock and not let me show you the inside pages of this one. You need to see the inside pages of this one, especially the person that helped acquire this. Right. So that's DMZ number one. The cover should be bright and what I believe. Take a look at the artwork. The artwork's brilliant. Love the artwork. Take a look at that. Right. Fantastic. I cannot recommend this highly enough if you like politically charged comic books. Okay. Beautiful. And I got to add for why The Last Man, another amazing series. Right. This artwork is beautiful. So the guy's 100% legit. He said very fine to near mint. These are very fine to near mint. If the convention issue one is in this shape, the rest of them should be. If they're in this shape, the rest of them are very happy, but they should be in better shape considering this is just the convention one. And they gave this one away for free. Check this out. Right. So if you went, I'm not sure which convention this was, but they gave this one away for free. Right. So let's put this guy here. Oh yeah, here we go. Let's take a look at these covers. Beautiful copies. Nice. Here's number two. So this is 29 issues of DMZ. This is number, should be number three, number three. And this story tackled a lot of important issues. Okay. A lot of important issues regarding politics. Here's number five. So we don't have number four. Take my finger off his face. Right. This is number seven. There's so much going on in this series. Number eight. And this main guy, this is the main character and he's a journalist. Right. Or well, I won't give any spoilers. Here's number 12. Beautiful covers. Very unique, very unique. Look at this cover. Absolutely brilliant. Right. Number 14. Right. Look at the riot police, trust. Look at the panel, the girl. Or we don't know if it's a girl, someone with a full face mask on their face. Take a look at that. Public works. Number 17. And there are different stories being told. If you see up there is five of five. Right. Story arcs. Beautiful, beautiful, and body. Number 24. So that was number, sorry, this was number 17. This was number 17. Okay. Here's number 24. And DMZ lots can be had on the cheap right now. Okay. Really. I'm amazed how low they're going for right now. Beautiful cover. Number 25. Beautiful copies. Very nice copies. This is number 28. Load the handle where the goatee started going. Number 33. Beautiful. Blood in the game. Part five of six. Number 36. Hearts and minds. Nice. This is number, what number is this? Where's the number on it? Number 47. Take a look at this. A lot of cover. Hearts and minds. This is in large part a struggle between decentralization and central powers and people wanting to control. So much, so much. This is number 48. The story arc is called hearts and minds. MIA part one missing in action. This is number 51. This is number 53. Let me put these in order. So we go 53. Yeah. So this is in order. This is number 57. I'm not sure if you can see that. It's a woman holding a baby crying. Number 58. Number 59. Free states rising. Number 61. Number 63. And this came out in 2011. We've got two copies of number 63. That's cool. Beautiful shape. Very nice shape. 68. I shouldn't even be looking at these covers too intensely because I don't want any spoilers for myself. 69. 70. We don't have 71, but here's 72. This one. Looks like a little thing on the side there. And it's not, the comic isn't completely centered, but we won't crack it open. I'll crack this open later. Nice. Very happy to have these. Very happy to have these. Definitely the person's going to get a very nice, nice feedback on this one, that's for sure. All right, let me put these guys away. Now, I think that's all the DMs that we have. Let's see what we got. Exo-Man of War. Let's start off with the earlier issues. That's the Exo-Man of War. Let me put this guy here. Put this guy here. What about this guy? Okay, let's put it here. Okay. Now, before we get into the Exo, let me give you the data for Exo. Okay. Now, if you take a look at this for those watching live, right, and you can see it right now. I'm just popping up the chart, the table, and a graph that we saw in the previous comic book haul, right? Where we looked at the number of comic books that valiant comics in the first time they came onto the scene, how many comics they published from 1990 all the way to 1996, right? And we see the chart start off less than what all the other, the big two were publishing, but nice chunk. They're printing 60, 70, 80, 50,000, right? And then in the early 1990s, mid-1990s, it just went skyrocketed. And the table that you see here with two rock number one being in mid-1993, that's 1.7 million. The graph, the bar graph, should actually be a lot higher, right? Be a lot exaggerated. But if we did that, we wouldn't be able to see the trend going, right? So it's been truncated. And you can see that initially in Unity and Pre-Unity only had about, you know, 3%, Pre-Unity was around 3%. Of the comic books that valiant published, Unity was around 3%. Just post-Unity was what do you call it, around 4%. And then 50% of the comics, valiant comics published in 1990s were published in 1993. That's crazy. That's huge, right? And then after the bubble burst in the comic book industry, the print runs really came down where in the last year, only one person in the comic books they published were published in the last year as a total of 81 million, right? So this is something we talked a fair bit about in the last comic book haul video. I just wanted you guys to see this again, right? And if you take a look at this, let me take these charts down, okay? Compare that to the chart. Oops, let me bring up this one for those watching live. That's basically the same trend that we saw for the valiant comics, right? Exo sort of follows the same pattern, right? So the print runs for Exo Manivore, which was one of their flagship comic books, sort of has that starting off and then coming down and then coming back down again, right? If you compare that to DMZ, DMZ goes like this, does a plateau, comes down, right? It never had a huge boost up and then coming down, right? It never got hyped up to that level, okay? So that's the valiant in general, and let me show you the print runs. Because we've talked about valiant comics, let me show you the, for those watching live, the valiant chart rare print runs. Here is a list, the table of the rarest 17 pre-unity valians, right? And in the previous haul, we ended up getting eight of those comics pre-unity, the rarest 17 valiant comics. We ended up grabbing eight of those in the last comic book haul we did, right? In this comic book haul, we grabbed two more, okay? From the rarest pre-unity valians from the 1990s, we grabbed Exo Manivore number four and we got Exo Manivore number three, right? And Exo Manivore number four is the first appearance of Jack Boniface, which turns up to be Shadow Man, right? So it is valued higher, a little bit relative to the rest, okay? Other than Exo Manivore number one, of course, okay? The first appearance of Exo Manivore. So we ended up grabbing two more from this top 17. So in these two comic book hauls, we ended up grabbing 10 of the rarest pre-unity valians from the 1990s, okay? And here is, just to give you a feel for it, here's the print runs for the Exo, do we have that? Exo sales, oh no, we're going to do that one later. So here's the print runs for while I crack this open, just to give you a feel for what we ended up getting in the slot. And what we ended up getting in the slot, let me read it to you, read you what he had written, where did I put that sheet? There we go. There's another one, nope. Let's see, let's see. Oh, we put it in the back here, that's right. It's trying to be organized, trying to be organized. So this is what he had written in the description of the haul, right? And let me bring up the haul so you see the prices on this. So we ended up paying $130 Canadian and basically $25 shipping as well, right? So it ended up being $97, $97.50 US and another $19 shipping for this, right? So they ended up costing about $1.60 per unit, right? And this is what he had written. Hi, here's your chance to acquire near complete run-up Exo Man of War, which includes many key issues as well as VHTF last issue, the VHTF, I don't know what VHTF means, but I have also included a nice run of the second series, Volume 2 from Acclaim, right? So we got Exo Man of War Volume 1 from this, not all of them, but a lot of them, there's 10 missing. And we've got about 10 issues of the second Exo Man of War series from Acclaim Comics, which is the print runs for are a lot less, right? So let me bring up the print runs for these guys, the Exo print runs for those watching live, that way they see it. Here's, he did this again, right? He should have definitely flipped this, so it was backing board, backing board. We don't want Exo Man of War being number one being possibly damaged, right? And as far as I'm concerned, Exo Man of War right now is going, is reasonably priced, you can get it pretty much on the cheap on eBay and other places as well, I believe. Dangerous, dangerous. Did he tape it again? Look at this. Right, I could open this fully, he didn't tape. Here is Exo Man of War Number 1, and this looks like to be a fantastic shape. And he mentioned that these were, you know, very fine to near mint again. Look at that. Exo Man of War, let me bring out for those watching live, let me take down the print runs for these, and the print run for Number 1 was 80,000, and we'll look at the chart for this again. So Exo Man of War, print run Number 1 was 80,000, the first five issues, six issues are low, Number 7, Number 8 were unity crossovers, so they topped, they went above 100,000, and then it came down just a little bit for Number 10, and then from Number 11, Number 12, you start hitting 100,000 print run for Exo Man of War, it peaks, and then by around 34, starts coming down to 85,000, 37 is 65,000, 42,000, and then starts going into the 30,000s by Number 50, and then by Number, towards the end of 1950s, you're down to the 20,000s, and towards the last issues, you're into the teens, right? The last issue of Exo Man of War is 15,000 print run, okay? Now that we got the print runs done, let's start looking at the covers, and this is, again, this is the first appearance of Exo Man of War, and this looks like to be a fantastic shape, really, beautiful, beautiful. Should we crack it open, take a look? Let's do a quick peek, let's do a quick peek. Oh, very nice copy, very nice copy, I'm just doing a little, oh, nothing, nice, let's check out the back, oh, this is like 9.4, 9.6, look at that, beautiful, beautiful, yeah, let's throw this back in the bag, okay, happy with this buy, the seller is a good seller, one thing that's happened is because so many American sellers are now using eBay's global shipping program, because it's costing so much to ship to Canada from the US, I've basically almost stopped buying while last few halls we've gotten, we've just gotten from Canadian sellers, so this must be really good for the Canadian sellers, right? Because there's been some stuff that I wanted to buy from American sellers, but they're going, eBay's global shipping program, I'm not, if I can't help it, I'm not going to touch that stuff, right, beautiful, beautiful, so let's put that guy there, let's start looking at the covers here, nice, here's XO number two, take a look at this, Industries, XO number three, XO number four, this is the first appearance of Jack Boniface, Shadowman, and this one is on the rarest valiance, I think it's number seven or eight, is it? We'll pop up the chart, let me put this down, let's take a look at the rarest valiance again, right, let's pick up the rare print runs, so XO matter four is 40,000, it's the ninth rarest, and XO matter of XO number three was anywhere between 40,000 to 40,000, 45,000, and that was the XO number three is the 13th one down the list, 13th rarest valiant pre-unity comic in the 1990s, and this one is 9th one, and this is the first appearance of Jack Boniface, beautiful cover, and that's Harbinger in the background, right, so early Harbinger appearance, oh sorry the renegades, this is like Toreck and Chris and Flamingo and Faith and nice Peter, should we check this one out too, let's check this one out too, these two are the, well number two and number three, they should be key issues, they're going on the cheap, like for me as far as I'm concerned, they're, they're very cheap right now, but number one and number four go for a premium price, right, I gotta take the table down for those watching live, nice calm, let's do the run, doesn't even have spine things on it, that's crazy, this is a fantastic grid, it's got a little bit of thing here, that's just from printing, let's take a look at this, little bit of a stretch mark around the staple in the back, so this would easily be a nine, 9.2, 9.4, I would have to look at this under natural light as well, just to make sure, right, what a beautiful comic, let's throw this back in the bag, very happy about this all, I still haven't completed this run, but this brings it very, very close, the rest will be, the rest issues I need to get are gonna be easy to get, except for number, do we have number 71, the only one we're missing from the end of this, from the last issues is number 66, it went up to number 68, here's number 5, I love this cover, there's a few covers here that I really, really like, I love XO number 10, if we have it here, yeah we do, here's XO number 6, here's XO number 10, I love this cover, it's beautiful, here's XO number 12, number 13, number 14 and number 15, let me show you these guys together, this is Bart's Sears, and Bart's Sears at the time was very popular, and I love Bart's Sears' art style, okay, and this is Turok here, I believe this was the first crossover with Turok, I'm gonna bring it a little closer so you see it, so that's number 14, and then here's number 15, and this was a great, great two issue story, basically Turok is a dinosaur hunter, and after Unity, from the lost land, I think it's called the lost land anyway, the place was destroyed, solar reset everything, but a lot of these dinosaurs that are actually intelligent escaped to different parts of the earth, so Turok's hunting them down, right, so this is number 14 and 15, okay, perfect, here's number 16, number 17, number 18, so this is the one that had the highest print run of XO, right, I believe so anyway, wasn't that one, number 19, there's XO on the bottom there, right, it's number 50, so they're not going, there's number 20, number 50, zero here, we'll look at this one later, here's number 20, this one I didn't know existed, take a look at this, number 21, right, I didn't know about this one, I stopped reading pretty much after in the late teens, right, take a look, here's number five, and here's number 21, right, these would be great, framed, look at this, fantastic, awesome, right, they look great, nice, I'm gonna put these ones on the side, maybe I'll end up framing those guys, I love that one, yeah, XO Man of War, Barbarian, awesome, so he must have lost his suit, right, number 23, number 24, he's back, XO's back, face on him, number 25, featuring Armory's number zero, oh there's DMZ here, nice, so I wonder if there's more DMZ we haven't seen, so that was number, which one was that, 25, here's DMZ, number 54, cool, let's do a little DMZ break, here's DMZ number 54, he put it between the XOs, that's a beautiful cover, really, American coffers, right, yeah, this is something that mainstream media was banned from showing in the United States after the Iraq war, shortly after the Iraq war, right, so it's cool to see it in comics, put this here, here's number 55, five hours under fire, this one is, where's the number 56, awesome, DMZ, let me put these guys here, okay let's take a look at this one, just because it's sitting out before we crack open, we've got two more stacks of XOs to take a look at, this is number 50, XO number 50, let me put these upright, and we crack open another one, crack open, which one is this one, I think it's this one, what, I think the last one has the mator issues, so again, nice packaging, it's just too bad he's got them facing out, I don't know why he would do that, taped as well, and he's got like the packaging tape on here, all right, XO number 32, put these guys here, free valiant sneak peek card inside, vengeance trial, put three of three, number 36, number 33, chaos effect, get rid of the glare, dinosaurs still around there, number 34, 35, 37, most of these covers I haven't seen, the top of some of these has been scuffed, the plastic bags, I'll have to change a few plastic bags, the wolf brigade affair, part two of four, number 38, number 39, number 40, number 41, cool cover, number 42, this shadow man, should be anywhere, put these guys over here, here is 43, 44, this one's a little bit more scuffed up, I'm glad the number one is not like this, I don't know if you can see that little bit of spine dings there, right, 44, this is Bart Sears again, I swear this looks like Bart Sears, who's the artist for this, oh it is Bart Sears, look at this, Ron Mars and Bart Sears up top, this is XO45, Bart Sears comes back to XO, awesome, I might have to give this one a read, at some point I'll be reading all of these, my retirement plan is to read all of these, that's beautiful, 47, I don't know who that lady is there, 46, 48, this one's got some dings on it too on the spine, so 48, busy, XO on fire, is it, yeah, that actually looks pretty cool, sitting on a throne with a lot of skulls behind them burning up, somebody's pissed who's this guy, Bart Sears again, 49, someone's got the XO armor, so this is 52, so I don't know what the other one was, that was 50-0, what was that one, number 50-0, so oh yeah there were two copies, two versions and this is 50X, so there's two different, we saw this one, this is 50 cover O and this is number 50 cover X, it says it up here, there is, I don't know if you can see it, there's the X there and then there's the O there, okay and here's the X one by itself, do they connect, oh they do connect, take a look, I think they connect, yeah they connect, take a look at this, hopefully I can make them connect, something like this, see the guy's face, that's cool, I'll keep these guys together, let's put them here, here's 52, looks like Bart Sears came back for a lot of these 50 issues, 40 issues, here's 53, an XO amount of war was created by Jim Shooter, Layton, Engel Hart I believe and Barry Windsor-Smith, 54, here's the last bag, what's this cover, that's crazy, oh that's the other series, that's right, so that is a trippy cover, Bravo lives again, what, here I'll show you these ones, so this is 55, 56, Bezier, 57, 58 and these look like they're in nice condition, 59, oh Keith Giffen is back, this one's Bailey's though but, so that was 59, here's 62 and this is Giffen, nice, I like Giffen's work, here's 63, I wonder if they paid three dollars, he's got price tags on him, I wonder if they paid three dollars for these, awesome, this is 63, so this is the later issues, their print runs are pretty low for these right, here's 64, 64 and this is still Giffen, this is Keith Giffen again, nice, look at this cover, we've seen some comics that have the same pose right, so this is 65, this is towards the later runs right, so this is like 16, 17,000 print run for this, beautiful cover, he's mourning the exo armor, he's holding up, we've seen some comics, we've had Superman doing this and Flash doing this and what not, other comic book calls right, fantastic, fantastic, when they all grab all the covers I have of someone holding like this crying and someone putting them all together in a row, I wonder who was the first person to ever do it, here's 67, second to last issue, you can run your finger over the plastic as well on that and this is good condition, nice condition, comic, beautiful and here's the last issue, 68, oh he's got a hockey pokey bag, look at this guy, he's got a backing board sitting up like that with a white in the back, oh I gotta change this guy, here's number 68, the final issue, print run of 15,000 or something right, the end, so this is the first exo man of war series right and we have the second exo man of war series here too, so let me put these guys away, we'll take a look at the second one and the second one is they changed the name from valiant to acclaim, I mean look at this, the top of the plastic bag, I've got to change all those right, it's been scuffed up, it's probably during shipment, has to be, so this is exo man of war, the second series, let me bring up the print runs for these, exo man of war print run right, so this is volume two, number one had four different covers and it's got 44,000 print and I think this is the main one that we have here and then you know it went down, number two was 27,000, number three was 26,000 and the last issue that we have here, it went up to 21 issues, the last issue only has 8,500 print run so the print runs for volume two were lower than print runs for volume one, so let's take the graph down and here is number one, that's the main cover, here's number two, this is Wade, this is Mark Wade writing a novel, really, here's number two, nice covers, I haven't heard too many great things about these, the acclaim runs, I've actually heard people didn't like them very much, I haven't read any of the acclaim stuff, but I want to be a completionist with valiant, I like to have everything, at some point you know I'll go through and put it all together and fill holes, but right now if I can grab the lots on the cheap, we do it, number four, number five, here's number ten, this is the cover I was laughing at, this is, check this out, X-O-Matter War, number ten, this is like a spoof of Captain America stuff, number 100 I believe, or Avengers number four I believe, I forget what number, which issue, but basically we have an Avengers Marvel comic that has covers like this, right, nice cover, here's number 11, number 13, number 15, number 17, X-O's armor looks like Iron Man's here or something, number 19, that was a third last issue, here is number 21, the last issue, the final days of X-O, and this is, we've seen covers like this before from other publishers, if a hero or someone dies they do this, Superman funeral for a friend or whatever, not funeral for a friend, death of Superman added, a few other ones have added too, right, so that's the last issue of the claim and we've got four more comics to look at from the first series, here's Turok and X-O again in X-O-Matter War 27, here is X-O number 26 from this first series, here's X-O number 28 and here's X-O number 31, there's one other thing I wanted to share with you guys, now that was, seriously I'm very happy with this buy, the DMZ, I mean just a convention issue, fantastic shape like that alone is worth the whole lot and the X-O's number 1, 4, their early issues are amazing shapes, same with the last issue, but what I want to show you as well since we're in the last comic book haul, we took a look at how much harbinger number 1 and eternal warrior number 4 were selling in the last 15 years or so, right, we saw the charts come up where, you know, they were fairly stable from the mid 2000s, early 2000s all the way to late 2000s and then in 2012, 2014, 15 it started kicking up and both X-O, both harbinger number 1 and eternal warrior number 4 are selling for a premium price right now relative to what they were selling, like they're selling for, you know, anywhere between 5 to 10 fold increase of what they're selling for, right, I also put together a chart for X-O, okay, let me show you this, this is the sales for X-O Man of War number 1 and X-O Man of War number 68, the last issue, okay, now we didn't have, there wasn't, let me bring these guys up so you see them, okay, so this is X-O Man of War number 1, right, oops, let me take these charts down for a second, so we're going to look at the sale prices for X-O Man of War number 1, okay, whatever I could find, right, we could throw in a chart and take a look at a trend and X-O Man of War number 68, right, and the chart we're going to look at is the graded versions of them being graded at 9.8, right, and if you take a look at this chart, X-O Man of War was selling at a fairly stable price, okay, from 2002 all the way to 2000 and, you know, 13 and 14, changing in price basically, you know, from 75 to 50 and stuff like this, and recently it started moving up, right, the last few sales have been above 150, around the $150 range graded at 9.8, right, now you can take a look at this and the trend, you could see it's starting to pick up, right, so that's one thing you want to take a look at if you're buying comics, if something has stabilized in price or buying anything anyway, if the trend is picking up, and I thought this was a pretty good comparison to what we put together for Eterna in the last haul, Eterna Warrior number 4 and Harbinger number 1, because those two have kicked up in price a lot more, so if you're following a trend basis to a certain degree, I would be expecting X-O number 1 to follow the same trend as Harbinger number 1 and Eterna Warrior number 1, right, and if you look at X-O Man of War number 68, this thing, because when it comes to investing, when it comes to buying anything, but your money, you know, parking your money somewhere, sometimes the price doesn't necessarily go up, it comes down, and that's what's been the case for X-O Man of War number 68, now it only has 15,000 print run, while X-O Man of War number 1 has 80,000 print run, right, but X-O Man of War number 1 is the first appearance of X-O Man of War, 68 is the last issue, so if you want to be a completionist, you need this number 68, right, but 68 in the mid-2000s was, you know, great at 9.8, there aren't, the frequency for this data is not very much, especially for number 68, there's only, you know, a handful of issues sold, you know, one, two, three, maybe five, six issues sold per year that we're graphing, right, so we need the frequency to be higher to have a better possibility of doing some analysis and doing some predictions, right, but we go with what we have, so X-O Man of War number 68 in the mid-2000s was selling for $200 plus, great at 9.8, right now the price of that thing is selling stabilizing around the $100 range, right, so the price has decreased 50% since the mid-2000s, now if anybody's guessed if the price is going to kick up again or going to take another tumble, but it is stabilizing, right, so that's one thing you should, you know, take a look at if you're thinking about investing, stuff like this, in association with the print runs and key issues, what the important issues are and whatnot, okay, I just wanted to share that information and sort of tag team this with the previous comic book haul that we did where we took a look of fair bit of data, right, where we're sort of introducing the mathematics into this buying comic books and investing in comic books and, you know, once we build up a fair bit of data we'll start taking a look at some other, some variables and try to do some predictions and come up with our own, you know, sort of indicators, ratios to see maybe if something is a goodbye, maybe something is overvalued, maybe something is going for a cheap, cheap, cheap something's going for a premium price, right, so it's a lot, you know, it's fun to play with this stuff, fun to play with the data and it's definitely fun to collect, to build a collection and sort of try to be putting series together, right, and I'm definitely going to look for more DMZ comics and at some point, you know, put the whole DMZ series together, I'm trying to do that with a few other titles as well, not just the valiance, but there are some vertical titles that I want to get the complete runs for and some image titles I want to get complete runs for and some DC and Marvel as well and other series from other publishers as well, okay, I hope you enjoyed the fun haul to do, fun haul to do and just to let you know, I'm slowly contacted another seller where we've done a fair bit of buys for where the guy allows me to, you know, buy single issues and stuff like this and have some comics stored up with them and once we fill up a short box or maybe before a short box, I'm going to get that stuff sent to us as well, so we might be doing another comic book haul within a month or so and that comic book haul is going to go back to the trend that we were doing before with comic book hauls, we're buying sort of from all ages of comic books from golden age, silver age, bronze age, modern age, right and I've already tagged a few of them and there's some nice golden age comics that will be coming to us in the next month or so, okay, and there's one of the reasons I went back to this guy, he put up some comics that I was really wanting to get and there's two comic books in this next haul coming in a month or so maybe that we're going to do a read for, okay, and just to give you a teaser, they're romance comics and they're from the same series, one of them is pre-code and the other one is when the comic code took effect, they're basically comic book series, then they're sequential and you know, I don't know what the number is, one of them maybe 11 where the comic code didn't take into effect, the other one's number 12 where the comic book did take into effect, it's got the comic code authority stamp on it, so I think we'll do a read for those just to see if there's anything dramatic that changed between those things, right, and they're from the golden age of comics, very much looking forward to that as well, very much looking forward to that as well, I hope you enjoyed it, thank you for sticking around and I guess I'll see you guys in the next video, bye for now.