That's a WHOLE LOTTA BATMANS!!!

[captain_slinky]

Selling for a freind of a freind, a nice big box of Batman Trade paperbacks and the likes.

The thing that has suprised me the most about this collection I am selling is that the second-printing edition of Batman: The Killing Joke is selling for MORE than what a brand-new copy would sell for in the stores. Nearly twice as much, actually.

This is the first time I've ever seen a second-printing of ANYTHING have people paying lots and lots of money for it.

But the RARE stuff, like the Batman: Tales of The Demon which is a fairly rare collection detailing the relationship between Ras al Ghul (the big baddie from last summer's Batman Begins movie) sits there at a garagesale-worthy price.

You can never, EVER predict what the Ebay marketplace is gonna bear.

Comments

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

that is strange. Tales of the Demon was really good too. maybe it is just for the story or the character? not as many people have heard of ras al ghul as the joker.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

But... but... but Ras was the big-bad in the most recent Batman film!

Still the price of The Killing Joke continues to climb. Aparently it's now out-of-print and even 7th and 8th printings sell in the $20 range. I'm ashamed that i was unaware of this :(

[supernovame.livejournal.com]

I don't think Ras was as cool in the movie as he was in the comic. I think he is more of a competent villain than Vandall Savage.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's no way to properly convey Ras in to a movie... he would take an entire season of a TV series to get accross properly. But I've never much cared for him as a classic BATMAN villain. Don't get me wrong, he's an excellent villain AND an excellent foil to Batman... but not a CLASSIC Batman villain. The classics should all be two-bit hoods with a gimmick. Ras is... well, he's Bruce Wayne if Bruce hadn't had such a vigil against crime!