 Hi everyone, this is Chichu Chou. Welcome to my channel. Now what we're going to do in this video is do another comic book haul. Okay, and I'm sort of excited for this comic book haul because it's all the books are from a publisher that I love, right? Valiant Comics, right? So this is purely a Valiant Comic Book haul. And this box arrived about five days ago, six days ago. And usually when I get a comic book haul, I usually crack it open right away. Even, you know, if we're making videos or if we're not making videos, I usually crack it open right away and check the comics, comics. That way I can leave feedback for the seller, right? But what I was going to do for this and what I am going to do and what we are going to do for this is link up this comic book haul with the work that we've been doing in ASMR math regarding investing in comic books, right? Where we're going to link up some of the data that we're going to collect through through this genre, through collecting comic books and do a little mathematics on it and basically learn what it means to invest in something with the rate of return might be and whatnot, right? So when I want to collect all the data because a package arrived a little earlier than expected, right? It arrived like really fast because I bought this comic book haul from a BC resident, right? I think it was Alberta coming to me, right? So it came to me super fast, it's within Canada. And when I want to put the data together, one of the websites, one of the pages that I was using to find the print runs for some of the comics in this lot was dead. So what I had to do was go to archive.org and for that site and basically go back a couple of years and start clicking on pages to see if I could find it. And after a couple of days' search, I actually found the data. So what I want to do is do a little intro before we crack this thing open, okay? Because the data for this haul is important, okay? And if you're a Valiant Comic Book fan, if you know the history of Valiant Comics, you might appreciate what we're about to do and what we're about to look at and you're going to love these comic books, okay? So what I want to do right now is bring up a couple of images. One of them is a table and another one is a graph, is a chart. And just so you know, we're actually live streaming this comic book haul as well, right? So while I'm recording this and I'm going to edit this video with the sound and overlay it with the video with the HD camera and stuff, there's a bunch of people watching this live as well. So what I'm going to do is do a little bit of looking over here and make sure I'm popping up the right images for the people that are going to be watching this live, okay? So before we crack this open, let me show you the data that we have for Valiant Comics from the 1990s. And Valiant Comics is a company that came to be in, they started off basically doing comic books in the 1990s. And what you see here right now is we have a chart here for Valiant Comics. And I have the charts here as well, so I'm going to show you. This is what I'm looking at and that should be what you're looking at as well, right? So Valiant Comics came to be basically in the 1990s and 1991 basically they kicked off their superhero, their universe building. Before that they were doing some comic book publishing with Nintendo, you know, Mario Brothers, Zelda and stuff like this, gaming comic books, right? But in 1991 basically they kicked off their universe, right? So what you see here basically with this chart up top here is the print run for Valiant Comics from 1991 to 1996, right? And Valiant Comics when they came on to the scene, the two main people that put Valiant Comics together were Jim Shooter and Bob Layton. Jim Shooter and Bob Layton came in through Marvel Comics. Jim Shooter was actually Marvel's editor-in-chief for the third longest period. He was Marvel's editor-in-chief for like 12 years, so he came in and he was doing comics before that. So both Bob Layton and Jim Shooter came in with a tremendous amount of experience. Jim Shooter specifically, right? And he started Valiant Comics because they had, he got some investors together, they had a failed bid to buy Marvel Comics, right? So his vision was grand, right? And this is sort of the print run of the comic books, the chart here that they produced from 1991 all the way to 1996, right? So now when they came on to the scene, basically the first couple of titles that they released were Madness, Robot Fighter and Solar, Man of the Atom, right? And they were golden age characters that they bought the rights for, not bought, bought the characters all up, but they bought the rights for to create comics with those characters, right? So what you see basically is the print run from 1991 to 1992, right? Those are the low period where you see here, right? And if you take a look at the table below this, what you're going to see is the percent of basically for each year, what the total percent of the comics that Valiant Comics and the first go at entering the comic book industry, how many comic books they printed for each year and what you can do, you basically sort of the era sort of broke it down into pre-unity, post-unity, post-unity bubble because it wasn't just Valiant Comics that had a bubble in the mid-1990s, it was the whole industry. And then what we have in the mid-1990s bubble and the bubble bursting and the ending of the first go of Valiant Comics, right? For this comic book haul, what we're about to do, the majority of these comic books, a huge percentage of them are from the pre-unity Valiant Comics and there's a bunch of comics in the tail end from 1996, right? 1995, 1996, I believe it's mainly 1996, right? So there's a handful of these comic books in this comic book haul, majority of them anyway, or from the early period pre-unity Valiant Comics and from the later years from 1996 Valiant Comics where the print runs really went down, right? And that's really important because once there is, you know, the print runs for certain books are less, they become harder to find, rarer and their prices usually kick up, the harder the book is to find, the more expensive the book ends up being, right? And the table I really like there where it shows you basically 1993, right? The total number of comic books, right? Issues that Valiant Comics printed from 1991 to 1996, you can see it in that table there, right? Was around 81 million comic books, right? Issues and 50% of those were published in 1993, right? That's what you call huge growth. Now, the comic book industry went through a serious bubble phase and burst and it wasn't, you know, due to Valiant Comics specifically, it was the industry doing it. There was a lot of business decisions being made by the big two Marvel and DC and the distributors, like pre-unity before the mid 1990s, right? Before basically in 1994, by 1994 there was basically 12 distributors, there were two main distributors of comic books and there was like 10 other secondary distributors and there was like tertiary distributors of comic books, right? After the bubble burst, after the mid 1990s, basically all the distributors, most of them went bankrupt and it basically came down to one comic book distributor and that's Diamond Comic Distributors that sends their comic books to comic book stores. So any comic book store that wants to buy comic books has to buy it through Diamond Distributors, right? That's what happened with the industry. Right now, things are changing up a little bit with digital comics and recently, I believe DC Comics cut a deal with Walmart where they're making exclusively Walmart comic books and whatnot, right? So you really have to take what was going on in the 1990s into context when we're taking a look at this comic book haul, okay? And just to show you a little bit of data, and by the way, all this information that I'm going to be presenting to you, right? That's going to pop up with tables and charts and stuff before we look at these comic books, right? I'm going to provide links in the description of this video. So if you want to follow some of this data, take a look at some additional data, you have the links there and we're definitely going to do a little bit of work on this stuff and take a look at what it means to invest in something, specifically what we're talking about investing in comic books, right? Or investing in art, human artifacts, collectibles. And basically, if you follow some of the stuff we've done with personal finance and economics, this is basically money, right? Not currency, but money. That's the way I look at it, right? So keep this chart in mind. I might pop this up again during our comic book haul, right? And one other thing I want to show you that I will provide a link in the description of this video is what you see here in this table is 17 of the rarest comic books, pre-unity comic books. If you remember that chart here, let me bring up this chart again one more time. One thing I want to point out to you, let me take this table away. We'll bring the table again, but let me show you this chart. If you take a look at this chart in mid-1992, right? There was a crossover event that Valiant Comics did and that was, according to this chart, was July. Let me bring up the table too so you actually can see what it is. That was in July, 1992, and the event crossover event that won across all their titles was called Unity. It was a magnificent crossover. It's one of the greatest crossovers in comic book history. Okay. Once that crossover happened, Valiant Comics, the sales just kicked up huge, huge, because it was one of the most, it was extremely tight story told. It was fantastic, right? But what you're going to see in the next table, that let me take these charts down, and this table that you see here, this is Valiant's rarest regular issues, pre-unity. So this is the 17 rarest issues pre-July 1992, right? And in this comic book haul, we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight of these issues in this comic book haul, and we actually have copies of all five, of the top five. Okay. Just letting you know this. And basically the print runs with the rarest one being Rai number three and Rai number four, there were 35,000 copies printed. And the 17th one would be Magnus number 12, which was the first appearance of Turok dinosaur hunter, which is another gold key character that Valiant bought the rights for, which is 50,000 issues. And then after that, there's a whole bunch of other titles which have similar to 50, 60, 70, 80,000. There was very, very few that went over 80,000 until we go past the unity era, right? Past mid-1992, right? And right now, at present, comic books that are being published, they have, you know, if they have 35,000 print run, they're doing good, right? There's a lot of comic books being published right now that have 10,000 or less print run. But during the time in the 1990s, 35,000 issues wasn't that much, right? There was a lot of comic books that were having, you know, 80,000, 100,000 print runs. Some of them were into the hundreds of thousands of print runs, right? Hundreds and thousands of copies being printed. So keep this chart in mind. This is 17 of the rarest pre-unity Valiant comic books from the 1990s, and we have eight of those comics in this hall, okay? And they're fantastic, and they're fantastic. Now, since I've given you a little background on this, while we crack open this box, let me bring up the table. Let me show you what we bought, okay? Let me take the table down for those watching live, and let me bring up the hall. And we're going to bring out, while you take a look at the hall, we'll go over it for sure. I'm not sure if the seller has packaged these things up according to each hall. There's a couple of buys that I did, which are basically more recent comic books, but one, two, three, four of those halls, which are Solar Harbinger and two Rye Halls. They're pre-unity halls, most of them anyway. There's some that are for the graph, hopefully the chart, if you see the chart here. Oops, no, that's the percentages, we don't want that one. If you see that, and there's some at the tail end in 1996 that the print runs are very, very few, okay? And I'll show you a table with the print runs of the books that we have. So let me crack this open. I hope the books aren't damaged. I usually don't let a box sit like this for this long, right? But we bring out our bloodshot box cutter. I've used this a lot, right? It's a little dull, but it should do the job for us, right? Like, look, this is it, this is all we got, right? Which isn't bad, it's 52 comics, right? And just so you know, one other bit of info I'll give you is when I was looking for the data to put all the information that I showed you and a little bit more that's coming up, I went to a valiant forum and I posted a question saying, because I was trying to find a page that had all this information to print one specifically, right? And I couldn't find it, so I was in like, oh man, I can't believe I lost that data, right? I checked out a lot of things and went to a forum and asked the question if anybody had that information, right? And I posted some of the information of what I ended up buying and that's the print runs I was looking for. And someone came up there and said, hey, wait a second, I just sold those comics on eBay. You must have been the buyer. So I was like, oh dude, thank you very much for putting these up. And I mentioned to him that who I was and what I was about to do. And he was really psyched that we're about to do a comic book haul and go through this information because he's a valiant fan as well. Nicely packaged, take a look at this. All right, nicely packaged. Oops, here we go, right? So let me take this down and we'll bring it up the hall, where is my hall? Oh, let me bring this down. Oh, everything's together, look at this. I don't think he organized them according to the halls. He might not have. 51 comics. Oh, valiance. Oh, this stuff has got like seriously wrapped up. Look at this packing tape on it. It's insane. Unfortunately, wow, his harbinger number, take a look at this. He's got one comic book facing out with the bubble wrap. You should have flipped that, but that's okay. But that's harbinger number 14, I believe. He did a good job packaging this. Very tight, very tight. I don't know. I got a great one. It's basically 51 loose comic books, right? Package them together. Oh, he might have to take a look at this. Sweet. So he packaged them together, right? This is Ninja. Okay, let me put these guys here. Make sure we're not going to drop anything. Awesome. Awesome. Okay, I'm going to show them to you. Let's start off with this guy. Set myself up properly. So we're not going to be damaging anything. Nothing lay on top of each other. Okay, take a look at this. This guy is Valiant Master's Ninja Heart Cover. Okay, and this baby is the reprints Valiant Comics, right? So let me bring up the table. The chart, you'll see it here. Right there. This guy reprints. Hopefully you'll see it. It's not too small. But if you take a look at the chart in January 1994, right? So let me bring up the table as well. Percentages. So January 1994, you'll see a little peak. It's on the calm down of the graph, right? There's Ninja number one. Okay, and this is a collection of the first six issues. So let me take the chart down, the percentages down, right? This is reprint of the first six issues of Ninjak. Okay, the first Ninjak series that came out. It also includes Ninjak 0 and Ninjak 00. Right? And I actually, for Valiant Comics, I mentioned this before, but when Jim Shooter, Jim Shooter was ousted from Valiant Comics, I didn't last much longer. I bought Tourok number one, I believe was the last comic that I bought. And if you take a look at the chart, Tourok number one is the peak there. The peak of sort of, this is almost like a normal distribution, right? So the peak of the graph that you see, that's Tourok number one. I basically, that was, I believe the last issue that I bought off the shelf, right? And this thing is beautiful shape. The guy who's selling this, he didn't really list, this was sort of shot in the dark. He didn't give a grade for these books. He said they were nice books, right? The only one he said was the solar lot that we bought. And he mentioned that the solar lot, the first few issues, had been read a few times and rightfully so. There's some of the best comic books ever printed, period. The first 10 issues of Solar Man of the Atom from Valiant Comics from 1990s, that's 10 of the greatest comic books ever printed, like really fantastic storytelling, right? But let me bring up the haul again. Let's bring up the haul. I looked at the chart at X. How are you doing? So this is, where is my haul? This is the first package there that you see up top. It's Valiant Masters, Ninjac Heart Cover, okay? And it came out in 2013. He had listed everything. All of these lots were listed as buy it now, and I sent them offers. So he had listed it for 15 Canadian, by the way. These are Canadian prices. The only US prices you'll see is in the totals, right? So $15 Canadian, he had listed it. And I paid 10, I offered them $10 Canadian, right? And he accept it. So that was 33% less. And I put the percentages there as well. 33% less than what he was asking, right? Beautiful copy, right? And let me take, let me show you something else here. I made a chart, right? Or not a chart, a table of the print runs of some of the key issues in this haul, or most of the issues in this haul. I missed a couple of them, right? So here's a table with the print runs. This guy that you see here, Ninjac Heart Cover, is the top one listed right up here, right? And according to the website that has all the print run information, and I know a lot of the pre-unity stuff is valid because I was buying Valiant comic back then, and I seeked out as much information as I could. So I know the early Valiant, their print runs are legit. I don't know about this one, but according to the table that they put together, this guy only has 1500 print run. There's only 1500 of these printed, and I bought this baby for 10 bucks, and it's in beautiful condition. Take a look at this, right? Let me take this table down again. Take a look at this. It's just beautiful, right? Fantastic. Thank you very much for putting this out, and I haven't read this, so this I'm going to read. I haven't read the first issues of Ninjac. You believe it? Very happy to have this. Okay, I'm going to put this guy here. Nice. So let's take a look at another one. Okay, since we mentioned solar, let's bring out the solar books. Take a look at this. He's got it listed here, what's contained in this, right? Let me bring up the table. Okay, this guy, so in this package, right? This one is the third one down the chart. Okay, it's solar man of the atom set, right? It has solar number one, number four, number five, number six, number seven, number eight. It's got number, it actually should have number 11 here as well, but he hasn't listed it on this, so he should have number 11. It's got number 56, number 57, two copies of number 57, two copies of number 58, and one copy of 59, and those are the later issues. And I'll bring up, as soon as we take a look at this. Okay, and by the way, he was asking $46 for this slot, and I offered him 30, and that was 35% less, and there's 16 books here, and he accepted the offer, right? So let me take this down. Let me take down the hall. And let's open this. I don't want to do any damage to these, because I'm going to show you. He's got on my two-to-a-bag. Sorry about that. My god, masking tape is not the best for it. It seals everything really tight, but serious business. And he mentioned, the only thing he mentioned, this is solar number one, take a look. Beautiful, beautiful, Barry Windsor Smith, right? And in the description, solar is the only one where he said the early issues have been read a lot, and these look to be in really good shape. And this is solar number four, right? So this slot we got for $30, everything we're going to take a look at right now, right? Solar number one. Solar number four. Should we crack this open? I want to see what his idea of being read a lot means. Get rid of the tape, because I don't want to smack on anything. Let's throw that baby there. I was expecting these to be much worse. Really, when he said he's been read a lot, not bad, not bad at all. So I would give this, let me put out my glasses. So I would give this guy a grade of, oh, at least an 8.5. At least that is awesome. Okay, let me show you a few pages of this, because it's just beautiful. Just beautiful, right? This should be on our reading list. We should really be reading solar as well. Take a look. That's the cover, right? Here's the first page. Beautiful. And what it says is, let's see why I am here. Wonder what happened to my clothes. I'm usually careful about my clothes. So what you see here is there's the earth and there's solar up top. They're falling, going to the earth, not falling, I guess, flying towards the earth. Second death, part one, no place like home. And the color for Valiant comics from the 1990s was beautiful. The coloring on it, right? Beautiful, beautiful. Oh, well. Somebody move. Okay, we won't read anymore, because it's fantastic. Okay. And the writer for this, and Valiant comics at the time, they put their, who was writing and editing on the last page at the bottom here of each issue. So this is written by Jim Shooter. Pencils by David, David, Dee David Perlin, Ink and Editor Bob Layton, Colorist Catherine, Bulgar, Letter Jade. Oh, I guess the cover is not Barry Windsor Smith. I'm surprised. I always thought it was Barry Windsor Smith. Is it? It must be. Is there a signature of Barry Windsor Smith? Barry Windsor Smith usually signs it that BWS. Oh, it is Barry Windsor Smith. Take a look. Right there. BWS, Barry Windsor Smith, right? So the covers of these, I believe, they're all Barry Windsor Smith. Okay. So I'm going to throw this back in the bag, and we're going to take a look at the rest of the covers. And then I'm going to re-bag all this. Actually, I'm just going to put this up top here. I don't want to do any damage to it. And if that is considered to be read a lot, this guy took care of his comic books. Thank you very much, brother. Thank you very much. Okay. This is going to be loud again as well. So my apologies. I'm going to do it gently. Okay. We don't need to take the whole thing off the back. Do this lock it up so it doesn't damage anything. This is solar number five. Again, Barry Windsor Smith. There's Barry Windsor Smith. Solar number five. This is about the same shape as solar number one. So 8.5. I was happy with sixes on these, really. And you can get these on the cheap. Number six. So we took a look at solar number one, number four. Before I do this, let me show you. Actually, I'll show you seven and eight as well. And then I'll show you what the print runs of these is. So this is solar number five. Beautiful, beautiful cover. Beautiful cover. Solar number six. This is a version of the Exo Armor. Less powerful. Solar number seven. Just beautiful. These belong on the wall. These belong on the wall. All Barry Windsor Smith covers. Solar number eight. Barry Windsor Smith. No, it looks like it's Don Pearl and Stan Drake did the cover for number eight. Here's solar number 11. And this is the second appearance of the Eternal Warrior. And he's the guy there. And it's his first appearance. First cover appearance. Solar number 10 is the first appearance. It's a black cover of the Eternal Warrior. And this is solar number 11. Second appearance. And the first appearance on the cover. Okay. Here's solar number 14. And from the solar number 14, this thing is common. There's a lot of this printed. Okay. And we'll take a look at the table with the print runs. There should be a couple of more. 42. Oh, he had solar 42 in here. Oh, there it is. 23. Here's solar 23. Okay. And I kept on reading solar. I have this issue as well. And this is when solar splits into Dr. Eclipse. I can't remember what the name of that guy is. He has a, I think it's this issue. He has a sort of a nervous breakdown. He falls apart. And this is what happens when a super being falls apart. They shed off their secondary persona. Right. This is solar number 42. Okay. I didn't know 42 was in this one. He has some of these ones that are common on top of each other. So I couldn't read the number on it. These guys, the later issues of solar. Let me, well, I, because these guys are all together, so I'm going to crack these open show you the covers. I don't know which ones those are. Those are, I'm assuming is for 56, 57 and 58. But let me show you this all print runs. This is the print run of the solar's we've gotten. And I put these things on top of here. So let me grab this paper. Okay. So just so you know, solar number one had a print run of 60,000 solar number four 60,000 number five and number six, 55,000. Number seven that we saw was 45 to 50,000. Number eight was 40,000. Number 11 was 85,000. Okay. Because it started kicking off then. And then these later comics that we're about to, we're about to see this is solar number 56. Right. And in the table you'll see that solar number 56 had 25,000 print run. Very rare for pre, if it was a pre-unity, but later on it wasn't. He actually set these later issues were beautiful copies and they look like to be very, very beautiful copies. I need a heart. This is number 56. Right. Oops, let me put the table down so you see. So number 56, let me give you the print runs for this. Number 56 is 25,000. 57 is, sorry, number 56 is 25,000. 57, 58, or 21,000. And 59 is 17,000 printed. Right. Wow. Wow. Wow. Not very many. Not very many. 56. I haven't read these ones. 57. These are beautiful copies. Look at that. 57 again. Two copies. I wish I brought bags and boards here so I could bag and board them right now because they're sitting loose. 58. Here's another copy of 58. And here's 59. And this is the second to last issue. There is a 50, a 60. Right. And I don't have the number 60. And these later issues go for a premium price. Number 60 goes for a premium price. Okay. Nice cover. Solar man of the atom. I'm sort of slowly what I'm trying to do is for the valiant comics anyway is be a completionist and basically put all the runs together. It's going to be hard to do for some of them because some of them were the print runs were very, very, very little. Right. Especially when it came to, I believe, bloodshot. We have the print runs for those. Let me put this guy here. So as far as the table, the rarest valiant, let me show you this as well. Well, rarest valiant. Where is that rarest 17. So for the solar is that we just took a look at. Right. Solar number eight is the 12th rarest pre unity valiant, which we just grabbed in the slot. And solar number seven is the 15th rarest valiant pre unity valiant. Right. And we grabbed one in this lot as well. And they're pretty good copies. They're not bad. I would rate them around 8.5. A couple of them look like to be nine. I would have to take a closer look to look at them. Right. So that's fantastic. I'm very happy about that. Very, very happy about that. Okay. Let's grab here. Let me put the solar away. So they're not going to get damaged. Okay. Let's put these guys here. What should we grab? Let's take a look at harbinger. Let's take a look at harbinger. Right. So let me take down rarest. By the way, since we have the rarest up here in this lot. Okay. We have a harbinger number four and harbinger number four. And it has the coupon in it. I asked them before I bid on this. Right. Harbinger number four is the fifth rarest pre unity valiant. Right. With 35 to 40,000 copies. As far as what this lot cost. Oh my. Oh my. This lot. This lot. Check this out. This is the fourth one in the list. He listed it for 1695. Canadian. I offered him 12. Right. I was I was limited on my funds. Right. I was slowly been putting money on the side to do comic book halls. Right. I was limited on my funds and I wanted to grab all these. So I gave him offers of something I could afford. Right. If we counter offered, I left a little bit of buffer for myself to counter, you know, take his counter offer, but he didn't counter offer. He just took all the offers. I offered him $12 Canadian. So that's 25, 29% less. Right. So $12 Canadian. Multiply that by 0.76. You get it in US funds. Right. So I got this for $12 Canadian. Okay. Let's crack these open. And he's got the tape on there too. So I got to be a little gentle with this. He's unfortunate that he put the tape on top of harbinger number four. Oh, he's got a tape down here as well. Let's take a look. So let me take this down because we're going to start taking a look at taking a look at these guys. That should do it. And actually this lot also has harbinger number five in it as well. So we also got the seventh rarest valiant comic. So let me show you these ones. Those are two to a bag. That's fine. Here's, that's fine. And okay, I got up to freedom. And he sent you pictures of harbinger number four with a coupon in it. Right. Because what what harbinger did valiant did for harbinger, they basically for the first eight issues, eight, eight, I believe eight, eight issues of harbinger, they included, it could have been six, I think it's eight though, for the first eight issues of harbinger, they included a coupon in the box where you could collect all eight issues. I'm not going to tear this guy off. Okay, but basically this is harbinger two times nine, number four, number five, number 11, number 12, number 14, two of them, number 15, one, and number 12, one, right. And number 15 is the first appearance of live wire, which is a major character, right. So this is harbinger number four. Should we crack it open to see if the coupon is in there and let's crack it open. I'm curious to see what the condition is on it as well. Let's see. Because he didn't say what the conditions on these were again, like an 8.5. Oh, there's a little thing here. Still a good buy. You can get these on the cheap where the love light gleams. Awesome, Gullarin. Let's go to the center, make sure we got the coupon. Yep. And here's the coupon, take a look. I think for Magnus the coupon was in the center. Nice. Take a look at the letters page. Take a look at this. Very nice. Valiant had some amazing fans back in the 90s. They did a lot of promo work and people would dress up as Valiant characters and they would give away a lot of freebies to their fans. They did a fantastic job marketing Valiant. Really, they did an amazing job marketing Valiant. They had to, you know, serious respect must be given to them for that. They treated their readers with respect when the industry was seeing some hard times. Okay. And here's Harbinger number five. And I hope this has the coupon in there as well. I'm assuming it probably does. Should we crack it open? Take a look. Let's crack it open and take a look. Must be done. Must be done. What kind of shape is this guy in? This is a nice copy. Very nice copy. A little bit of ding in the corner or a little bit of fold mark. Let's check it out. Oh, it doesn't look like number five. Oh, it does have the coupon. Take a look. Nice. Awesome. Really good. Story of Harada. And this is good when you have this. You can read the story of Harada, his origin on the cards themselves. Right? Here, let me show it to you. Take a look. This is a nice copy. This is a nine at least. 8.5. That guy right there. Right? You put the coupons together and you can read the story of Harada. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. With the coupon, $12 Canadian and the solar's later issues. Fantastic. Not solar. Sorry. Yeah, those are solar's later issues. The harbinger doesn't have it. I'm getting too excited. Right? And this is the first appearance of Livewire. This guy right here, number 15. And Livewire is one of the main characters in the Valiant universe. Okay. Let's put these guys away. Let's put these guys away where they won't get damaged. Very happy with that buy. Very happy with that buy. So let's take a look. What else are we going to crack open? Let me show you. Let's hit up post unity or post the relaunch of Valiant from 2012. Right? Because the masterworks, the trade paperback, is a relaunch of Valiant. The new company, not the new companies, Valiant still, but the takeover, revamping with new people in there. And this title that we're going to see here, this is Ninjack. This is Ninjack. The first issue of Ninjack. Right? From the relaunch. And this came out in 2013. I believe it was 2012. I can't remember when it came out. What year? I don't think it was 2012. 2012 was Harbinger and Exo. They kicked off the relaunch of Valiant. But I think it was 2013. It might have been 2014. Okay. And the master's edition was the first six issues of Valiant of Ninjack from the 1990s. Right? Let me put up the table so you know what we ended up getting here. Where's our hall? There it is. Hall. So this one is the second one in the table. And it's Ninjack number one, number five to eight, number 12, number 13, and number 24. And there's three copies of number five. And number five is the, I guess it would be third appearance of, third or fourth appearance of Roku. Roku's in there. And Ninjack number one is the first appearance of Roku. That's another female character from the Valiant universe that is very popular. Right? And it's a great character, really. I wish this had Ninjack number four in there as well with the Roku cover, the pink Roku cover. That one's fetching a premium price. I do have copies, but that one, these tapes are hard to get off whenever, if you're, anybody's listening, if you're packing comics to send to people, never use this tape. Right? This tape is, it just grabs on to the plastic. It's very difficult to pull off like this tape here. It's no good. Let's throw that. It's not so difficult. Nice. This is number 24 beautiful cover. Let me show you these covers. And basically for this lot, he was asking $24. And from the pictures, they looked like they were like beautiful shape, right? He was asking $25. I offered him $15. And he, he accepted, which was fantastic. There's two in a bag here. Let me take this off too. This lot has number 18. Does it? Here, let me show you this. Let me pull this out. This is Ninjack number one, sorry, Ninjack number five, all five copies in one bag. That's a little too tight. Big like, that's a little too tight to put in there. Shouldn't put five, three copies in one bag. Two copies, doable, three copies, not so much. It's okay though. So here's Ninjack number five, right? That's Roku right there. Okay. And number four had the origin of Roku, which was a fantastic issue. Really, it was a great read. Basically, so there's three copies of number five, like Ninjack number four was a great, great issue. Okay. And the pink cover. Oh, I got to take the table down. My bad for the haul, for the live stream, sorry gang. Here's Ninjack number five, right? That way you can see it and three copies of it, right? But Ninjack number four with the Roku cover, where she's just standing there, pink guns drawn, beautiful cover. And that one seriously fetches a premium price. It was sold out basically as soon as it hit the shelves. When it first came out. And here's Roku again. This is Ninjack number one. So this is variant cover. Here's two copies of Ninjack number one. That's the most common copy. Okay. I think it's cover A. And here's Ninjack number one cover B and Roku is right there. And Ninjack number one is the first appearance of Roku. Okay. Here's this cover I love, really. I love this cover. Here's, well, I'll show you the, I'll show you the cover of the love first. Ninjack number seven. This is one of the bad guys that they get together or they do a team. I have, well, we'll leave it there. Okay. I love this cover. I think it's a beautiful cover. Here's Ninjack number six. Here's Ninjack number 12. Here's Ninjack number 13. This should be, this is number 13. And here's Ninjack number 24. And this cover's beautiful. And these look to be near mint condition, near mint minus, near mint condition. Nice copy. So that's the Ninjack. That's from the relaunch. That's the only thing we got from the relaunch other than the reprint of the master's set. Now, as far as I'm concerned, the main reason, aside from grabbing Harbinger number four and five, okay, the main reason I loved, I put the offer for these is the Rai comics. So let me show you this. Let me pull up the haul again. I gotta take these tapes off again. These are some of the sought after books from the 1990s. They would fetch the most insane prices. People were chasing these hard, hard, hard, hard. Very happy to get these. So this slot is, this slot is the last one that you see in the table. Okay. And it's Rai number two, Rai number four, and Archer and Armstrong number zero. Right? Now, what you don't see in there, it's actually three copies of Archer and Armstrong number zero, two copies of Rai number two, and one copy of Rai number four. Right? And just to give you an appreciation for this. Let me, where's the other guy? Did he double? Yeah, he doubled it. Okay, cool. So let me show you this. Let me pull down this haul. Okay. Let me give you, show you the rarest valiance. Right? If you see the rarest valiance up there, there's Rai number three, Rai number four, Rai number five, Rai number two. Okay. And two of them are in here. We're going to take a look at. Okay. So here is Rai number two. I'm not going to take them out of the bags. They look like to be in great, great shape. Really. They look fantastic. Like these are nines. Nine point two. Anyway. Rai number two. They're cheap on eBay right now. Okay. Important books. And if you like sci-fi, this is fantastic sci-fi. This is Rai number two again. Okay. So two copies of Rai number two. Here's Rai number four. He didn't put a backing board on this one, but this one is great shape as well. Here's Rai number four. Beautiful cover. Fantastic sci-fi. Fantastic sci-fi. Okay. I loved Rai. Harbinger was fantastic. Here's a back of it. I'm doing this whole video with my glasses on because I'm looking at the comic books trying to figure out what great they're. They're an amazing shape. Really. Oh, the back cover. What is this? Wizards and Warriors 3. Rai number four. This was very hard to find back in the 90s. This was fetching anywhere between, when Valium took off, was fetching anywhere between 40, 50, 60, 80 dollars for this. Right? In the early 1990s. TACON inflation for this. You'll see what we're talking about. Right? And here is Archer and Armstrong number zero. First appearance of Archer and Armstrong. This series is absolutely amazing. So good. So good. Here's two and here's three copies of Archer and Armstrong number zero. And again, this is cover by Barry Windsor Smith and the internal work for this is Barry Windsor Smith as well, the pencils. And I believe the inks as well. Okay. First appearance of Archer and Armstrong. And these look like to be fantastic condition. Fantastic condition. Awesome seller. Very nice. Very nice. What? How much did we pay for this? We paid. He listed these. You're delivering up the table again. He listed these, the haul. Big look. He listed this lot for 29.55 Canadian. I offered them 20, 32% less than what he was asking for. Yeah. I'm very happy with this. Okay. $20 Canadian is $15, $16 US. Is it 75 cents? 0.7. Yeah. So $15, $16 US. Okay. And Archer and Armstrong is fantastic, really. And if you've been following my YouTube videos, the videos, the comic book videos, you'll know that the 2012 Archer and Armstrong series with both, with Archer and Armstrong. Archer is this guy, the little guy. Armstrong is the big guy. He's the eternal warrior's brother and Ivar's brother. The 2012 Archer and Armstrong series is one of the greatest comic book series ever printed, right? From the relaunch. And there's 25 issues in that. So if you want to have a nice human read, the 2012 Archer and Armstrong series is fantastic. Fantastic. Okay. And those look to be great shape. And while we have the table up, I'll show you this one as well. We'll talk about this one. The last lot I bought off this guy is the second one down the table, right? Let's do it here. The second one down the table. And again, it's Rye Comics. Okay. And it's Rye number two, three, four, five and the kicker, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33. And if you remember this chart, let me bring out the chart. Doop. Percentages in chart. Let me take down the hall. So number 29, for number 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 is towards the tail end of the graph, right? It's the last issue. Number 30 is the last issue of Rye. So they had low print runs, lower anyway, they're one of the higher print runs of the last comic books that Valiant was printing, but still low relative to a lot of other comic books, right? So we got the front end of Rye when it first got released. And Rye, I believe, was the second is the, and just so you know, Rye is the first original Valiant hero that Valiant Comics created. So I have a, we've read Rye, a Magnus robot fighter number five. And it's the first appearance of Rye, right? So we've read it and I have a huge fond fondness for Rye. So it's the first Valiant original comic book character, like hero. I'm pretty sure they've created some random ones, but the first comics that they released were, and that's the other reason I got my glasses on because I used a knife to cut through this. So I don't want to do any damage to these. And how much did we pay for this? Let me bring up a lot again. Let me take down the chart. Oh, let me take down the chart and this. And just so you know, crazy tape. And he was asking 35 for this lot and I offered him 25 and he accepted freedom for the comics. Should we crack open one of the Rye? And by the way, while you'll see how many Ryes are here, there was two copies of Rye number two in the other lot. There's two copies of Rye number two. There's a lot as well, right? So with this haul, we ended up grabbing four copies of Rye number two and this lot has Rye number three and it has Rye number four and five in there as well, right? So if you take a look at the rarest pre-unity, let me take down the haul again. Put up the rarest pre-unity Valiants. Well, we got the top four rarest pre-unity Valiants in this haul. Rye number two, take down the chart for those that are watching it, right? So we got the top four and we had Harbinger number four in there with the number five, right? The fifth rarest, but the top four rarest Valiant comics, pre-unity Valiant comics, we got right here. So here's Rye number two again. Okay, I'll show you the inside pages of Rye number two. Rye number two. Here's Rye number two again. Okay. Here's Rye number three. I love this cover. This is one of my favorite Valiant covers ever. It is absolutely beautiful, right? And what you'll notice with all the Valiant covers, pre-unity Valiant covers, there's no text on them. It was just artwork. They didn't have any words on the covers. Right? Where a lot of the other publishers were putting big words by me and big surprise and big reveal and just look crazy messy. Valiant was just this. Look at that cover. Beautiful. And Rye, the name R-A-Y-R-A-I is short for samurai, right? And it's Japan in 4001 AD in the future on a floating island around the earth. It's beautiful. Beautiful side five. Nothing else like it. Here's number four. Beautiful cover. We've seen this one already. And here's number five. I really, really like the cover of Rye number five as well. I think it's beautiful. Absolutely fantastic. And here are the later issues of Rye. Oh, he's got them back to back. I wish he'd back and boarded each one individually, but he's definitely going to get a phenomenal feedback. This one's even got a price tag on it. Take a look at this. This is Rye number 30. Okay. And I believe he's doubled it. So let me see what the inside of here is. Let's put the tape here. So this is Rye number 30. Nice cover. Here is Rye number 29. What condition is this in? I would give this one about a 7.5. It's got some scuff marks up top. Okay, but I don't have these. I'm happy to have them. Let's put these guys here. Take a look at the other two. He's got three. He's got two in here. Here's number 33. This is the last issue, I believe. This looks like to be in really good shape. Here's number 33. What kind of condition is this? And this was beautiful condition. Let's put that guy there. Here's number 32. Bad penny part two of two. Here is number 31. Look at that. That's number 31. Okay. So that is our comic book haul. All valiance. And if we pop this up again for those watching live, we'll show it up again at this table. We ended up getting 51 books. He had them listed for 166.50. Ended up picking up up for 112. Canadian, which was basically on average 33% less than what he was asking for. That was 112 dollars. Canadian is 84 dollars US. So that's what we ended up picking up for. He charged $30 shipping, packaging and stuff, which is legit. That's what it costs now. It's expensive. So it came out total of $142 Canadian, which is $107 US. All of these lots together, most of them back then boarded, including shipping, $107, 51 books. And basically ended up costing $2.10 per unit. And he was asking $2.90 per unit, right? If you think about it per unit. But per unit doesn't play out as well in this type of haul, because there are some valuable comics in here, rare comics. And there's some more common comics in this, right? And that's one thing I wanted to do with this comic book haul, was basically present you guys with the data, with the print runs, with, you know, this is the comic book haul. And here, let me show you the print runs for the comics we ended up getting, right? The comics we ended up getting. Let me pull these guys out. So the comics we ended up getting, you know, Archon Armstrong, if you look down at the table there, Archon Armstrong number zero that we got three copies for, those had a hundred thousand print run, right? Which was a lot for that time, for valiant comics. That's when they were really slowly starting to pick up. That was still pre-unity, by the way. Archon Armstrong number zero was still pre-unity. It's the first appearance of Archon Armstrong. And then Archon Armstrong number one and two were the unity crossover. They overlap with them, right? So from this, you can see what we ended up picking up. The key issues anyway, except for harbinger number 14 and 15, they have a higher print run. And harbinger number 11 has a higher print run. But most of these things are, you know, less than 40, less than 60,000, I guess, with solar number one and four, right? But there's a lot here that are 40,000 print run, 30,000 print run, some that are only 17,000 print run, right? So theoretically, if all 17,000 of solar number 59 exist and solar 60 has less of a print run, I think there's maybe 12,000 print run for solar number 60, then only 12,000 completed runs of solar from the 1990s can ever be put together, right? And just to, you know, expand on this a little bit more, because we're talking about comic books, and we're going to link this up with ASMR math and investing in general personal finance, right? A while ago, what I ended up doing, we did another comic book haul, which was basically, it was an ASMR math video that we linked up with a comic book haul that we did, right? There are a lot of golden age and silver age comic books that we had, it was a great haul, that haul, right? But what we ended up doing for that, I basically put out a video saying introduction to investing in comic books, a primer and two spreadsheets. And we did a, you know, a fairly long video where we talked about what it means to invest in something and how we could take a look at some of the data of what we are investing in, right? So we put together a couple of tables and the links for those tables are in the video, in the video that we put out, and they're sort of common space tables that you can edit and whatnot or copy and use, whatever, right? And in that table, we had some print runs and we talked about some of the metrics we could look at when it comes to investing in any type of art form or anything that you want to invest in, right? So what I did was take a look at some more data and not just related to print runs, but selling price of certain comics, okay? And I put together a table, okay, and a chart that I want to show you right now. And this table, the comics that we're going to talk about, these are two comics that we've already done the reading for. One of them is Harbinger number one, right? And we did a reading for Harbinger number one, as well as that was, you know, Harbinger that came out in the 1990s, the first original Valiant comic book series ever put out, right? And we did a reading for a book of Death Fall of Harbinger, which was in the relaunch of Valiant comics, right? So we've done a couple of readings of Harbinger. Harbinger number one, I want to show you the data for. And we also did a reading of the first appearance of Bloodshot with Rai number zero, as well as the first cameo appearance of Bloodshot, which was an eternal warrior number four. So what I'm about to do is show you the data, what price, Harbinger number one, graded, CGC graded, but this is basically graded, slab graded at 9.4 has been selling for since from 2002 to 2018. And what eternal warrior number four that we did the reading for, graded at 9.8 has been selling for from 2005 to 2018 from the website that I collected the data from, right? And I'll have the links in the description of this video. So here's the table, okay. That's the table. And here's the graph, if you're going to take a look at this, right? And let me take this guy down. If you want to know what it means, what you should look at when it comes to investing in some of the metrics that we can look at, and we will look at this further, right? If you graph what Harbinger number one, CGC graded, or there's two other companies that are great in comic books as well, one of them is very highly ranked. I would put it in the same category as CGC, right? Another one doesn't fetch as much as premium price, right? So basically think about it as Harbinger number one, graded by a third party at 9.4 in 2002 was selling for $45, right? 2003 to 2009, 10, 11 was selling for around 40, 50, 30. There's, you know, some sales at 70. And they have the frequency of these sales as well, right? The frequency is basically how many of something has occurred, right? So there was some amount of data available from 2002 to 2011. Harbinger number one, graded 9.4 was selling anywhere between $30 to $50, $60, right? And then in 2012, it started kicking up a little bit. It had a bounce up, right? And the blue graph, the blue line there, I believe is the blue line. I should look at my own chart right here. The blue line there is Harbinger number one, right? So it had a little bump up in 2012 because Valiant Comics was coming on again and they did a relaunch with Harbinger number one, right? And then it started coming down in 2004, 2014 again, it was selling for around 40, 50 bucks, right? And then it started kicking up. And right now, 9.4 is selling for around 200 bucks, right? Sometimes it goes for 150, sometimes it goes for 250 and it's kicking up, edging up, right? And I used 9.4 graded data because that was the one that was longest amount of data, most amount of frequency, most amount of data that I could use, right? 9.8, Harbinger number one, graded is selling for over $1,000. If you look back at the data and it's available on that site, 9.8 Harbinger number one was selling for less than $100 in 2002, 2003 from what I remember, okay? And if we take a look at Eternal Warrior number four, in 2005, from 2005 to 2011, it was selling anywhere between $20 to $40, right? This is graded at 9.8 by the way, higher grade. I used the 9.8 because there was more of this data available, okay? It had a higher frequency. And I liked more data, better than less data, okay? So I didn't pick Eternal Warrior 9.4, I picked the 9.8, okay? And then again, it had a bump up in 2013. It was sold for 102 bucks. And then 2014 it came down to 49. Now, Eternal Warrior number four, because Valiant Comics has come out and said that, you know, they're doing more bloodshot comics and they've said they've partnered up with so many pictures that they're going to release Harbinger and bloodshot movies, right? And they just announced faith and stuff like this. So there's media movies and other things coming on with Valiant Comics. Right now, 2014 was selling for $50. In 2018, it's selling for over $200. Eternal Warrior number four, graded at 9.8, right? And this is this type of data we can take a look at and we can use some metrics and do some analysis. And this type of analysis will also apply to anything else that you want to invest in that you want to take a look at, right? So we're definitely going to link up all of this stuff with ASMR math and personal finance and all that jazz. And this is some of the data I wanted to present in this comic book haul. That's why it took me a few days to put it all together and seek out the data and, you know, take a look at the, look at the information and find the info online. It was hard to find, right? But we will definitely expand also a lot more. And again, in that video, we talked about, you know, that we did for ASMR math, the primer to invest in comic books. We talked a little bit about, you know, what we could do with the data and we took a look at some print runs of some other comic books that we had in that haul, right? Or some other comic books that I grabbed some data from online, right? We looked at what the lowest print run for Batman comics is and Detective Comics is that occurred in 1980s. But they're very cheap, right? They had like 35, 40,000 print runs for Batman and Detective Comics. Now, if I was collecting, investing, I would put a little bit of money in that as well because they're the rarest Batman Detective Comics. And at some point, when people decide to collect complete runs, you know, they might need those issues, right? And those things are going for the cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap, cheap dollar bin stuff you could find most likely, right? So that's about it. That's our comic haul. And just so you know, since we're comic hauls, I have another comic haul coming. Hopefully it'll be here next week. So we're going to do another comic book haul video as soon as I get that lot, okay? And we won't, you know, look into the data and, you know, too much into the print runs and stuff, but we'll definitely do comic book haul video, just straight up comic book haul video, okay? With that haul when it comes and that next comic book haul, you know, I put the offers in for this lot and it was, I left a little buffer for myself just in case the person rejected them. I would just buy out most of the lots straight out or with a counter offer, I would, you know, I would take the counter offer and buy them. So I had a little bit of funds in my comic book budget. But what basically happened was when I was editing the, editing the cryptocurrency video that is the previous video, I think after the announcement, previous to the announcement video for this on YouTube that we put on, when I was editing that video, I need a little break. So, you know, I stopped editing and went online and checked my messages and the first message there was someone mentioning that, you know, they loved what I did, you know, what I'm producing and they wanted to contribute, they wanted to support my work, right? And he had a little bit of funds put away to support my work and he said he would make the donation on one stipulation that if I use the money to buy comic books and I was eyeing some other lots that I wanted to buy, there's a couple of them by the time I got there, by the time he sent the donation and he sent more than what I was expecting. But thank you very much for the donation, by the way, for the support. You're going to love the whole coming in. It has valiance in it as well. It has something else in it as well. Okay, it was something that I was looking at very happy to get, really very happy to get. So, thank you for that. So, the donation came in and when it came in there was a couple of some lots I was looking at and there was one that was buy it now. I made an offer but then I didn't wait for the person to reply for my offer. I just went back to it and just went buy it now, right? Because I wanted that lot. And another comic, it was from a different buyer. He had two lots up so I bought one just straight out. He would have taken my offer but I wasn't going to take the risk. And the other one I made him an offer and he took that offer. So, that we'll probably take a look at in the next week hopefully when it gets here. As soon as it gets here we'll take a look at it. Okay, we're not going to sit on that one. So, that's about it. I hope you enjoyed this haul. I loved it. Very happy. I have all the pre-unity stuff in my collection already but happy to have them. I will definitely and they're buried but I'm definitely going to read through some of these again and I'm very happy to have the later issues of the valiance that came in in the 1990s, right? Thank you very much for sticking around. I hope you enjoyed and I hope everyone on the live stream had a good time watching this this comic haul. Okay, that's it for now. I'll see you guys in the next video.