bows1
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Yeah, things like banking pale in comparison
Tale from the comics industry (possibly the shadiest of all industries)
When i worked at the (now defunct) Wizard magazine, the editorial team learned about the death of captain america that was being kept a secret. However, somehow, Wizardworld, the terribly designed, super overpriced online store that was also run by Wizard, knew to pre-order the **** out of the issue + its variant covers,and got a ton of them pre-CGC'd (a comic grading service that increases the collector price of the comic), making bank off of the now-hot commodity that was Captain America #25.
They did the same thing in the New Avengers issue where Elektra was revealed to be a skrull (shapeshifting alien). However, because most people didn't gitve a **** about secret invasion (the storyline that this tied into), that was less of a big deal.
Yeah, things like banking pale in comparison
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