11/28/2024
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
drsettleton
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Greetings Ruk, and happy holidays!
Final tally submission for 2024-
Value: $104,035
Issues: 6356
Thanks as always sir! |
3/26/2025
Topic:
Aliens vs. Avengers 3
drsettleton
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Still not in the database. |
3/26/2025
Topic:
Longest Comic Run in Your Collection
drsettleton
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Been awhile, but I've got an update for ya- Amazing Spider-Man- 386 issues- 15 through issue 400.
Only 6 issues away from completing the run!
The X-Men run remains the same. |
9/22/2025
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
drsettleton
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Ruk, I know you are quite busy up North, but if you could find the time to update my collection I'd be much obliged.
Up to 6,654 Comics, and the value has only trickled up to $106,504.
All of these years and I never knew what the EEIG designation meant until you explained it to Marcer! I assumed it must be something very prestigious and didn't want to look like a newb.
I'm glad that the price guide has stopped giving 9.4 grades to books across the board to be honest. Every time I reorganize my books I try to reevaluate and update the grades. All of my expensive books are catalogued correctly now, it's just updating grades on the lower value books that's time consuming. But hey, it's a chance to reread some old books and look for those hidden signatures and Mark Jewelers Inserts!
Thank you for your dedicated work! |
2/19/2026
Topic:
Missing X-Force Newsstands
drsettleton
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Hey all, I am in the process of putting together a complete run of X-Statix and their appearances in X-force in NEWSSTAND and ran into some issues with missing issues on the site. These comics are REALLY rare on eBay and auction sites as they were on Newstands in the early 2000's on an underperforming book.
X-Statix is a bit more complicated because it SEEMS like issues here and there never made it to the newsstand at all. Once I have those issues in hand and can send you scans I'll make a post about those. So I wanted to start with the X-Force appearances as I have finally collected the entire run and can verify that they do in fact exist.
I am ONLY covering the issues of X-Force with X-Statix appearances. I only mention this because the website is likely missing newsstands from the earlier parts of that run as well. I just don't have those issues so am not the one to talk to about it.
Title: X-Force
Missing Issues: 119, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127 and 129
Country: USA
Publisher: Marvel
Publication Years: 1991-2002
Cover Price: $2.25
Newsstand Editions
These books are even hard to find images of. I provided links to the sites that have good/ok images. I'll try to attach files from my personal collection for the other ones.
119-
122- https://www.comics.org/issue/1121454/cover/4/
123-
124- https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/7825872/x-force-124?variant=6847752
125- https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/4785189/x-force-125?variant=3226840
126-
127- https://leagueofcomicgeeks.com/comic/2117794/x-force-127?variant=8301320
129-
Thanks |
2/23/2026
Topic:
Missing X-Force Newsstands
drsettleton
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Ty ty. I started making a few scans for the missing issues, so I'll start plugging some in |
5/29/2026
Topic:
Ruk's list-Who has the best collection
drsettleton
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Ruk, I hope all is well friend! Things have been quiet here lately...
I am making a big leap today after finishing cataloging another collection I picked up and a few more big purchases along the way-
$114,729.60 with 7,252 issues.
Thanks as always |
22 days ago
Topic:
X-Statix #1 (Newstand)
drsettleton
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Shot in the dark, looking for a ghost book-
I've spent the last year trying to hunt down every issue of X-Statix (2002-2004) in NEWSTAND. These are very easy to come by in direct edition, so before you say you have the book please read the post.
The DIRECT editions of these books all say DIRECT EDITION above the UPC. The NEWSTAND editions simply have a barcode. This is the only way to tell which is which.
This website does not yet even have listings for the newsstand editions from this time period, and neither do most online comic catalogs so I've come to find out.
What I discovered is that only issues 1-16 of the entire run (1-26) were released in newsstand. Starting with 17 (after the Princess Diana controversy in 13 started to affect the book) it seems X-Statix only became available in comic shops. If you are able to disprove this theory with a copy of 17 or up in NEWSTAND that would also be of interest to me, but I don't think they exist.
Almost all of these are hard to come by, trust me, I've spent the last year searching every eBay listing and checking the big online stores like Mile High regularly. Issues 8,9 and 14 were some of the hardest to come by, I ended up finding them in lots of other random books. Most people don't realize these books are scarce.
But the one white whale that I can NOT find, is X-Statix #1 NEWSTAND edition.
The direct edition of this book has the UPC on the BACK cover. According to Mile High Comics catalog, the NEWSTAND has the UPC box on the FRONT cover. They do not have one for sale obviously, or I wouldn't be here begging you to check your collections.
If anybody has a copy of this book that they are willing to part with please message me so I can complete the run!
Mile High image- 98736874216.1.NEWSSTAND.gif |
