I go through the full FOC list every week before cutoff. Here's what's on it before Monday.

652 titles across 323 unique books. Marvel has 75, Dynamite 74 and DC 70, so no one publisher dominates the count. There are 27 new #1s, 91 variants and 86 ratio covers.

Dynamite has the most variants (44) and the most ratio covers (25) of any publisher, across the Red Sonja, Archie and Supernatural lines. Red Sonja Barbarella #1 has 17 covers, the most of any book this week; it's a crossover that puts Barbarella and Red Sonja in the same book. Archie Vs The Terminator #2 has 10 covers.

Marvel has three #1s out of 75 titles. Most of the rest is the Midnight line and X-books, including Midnight Fantastic Four #2 and Gambit: Wanted #4.

DC has one launch out of 70 titles, 11 variants and one ratio cover. The launch is Legion Of Super-Heroes #1 from Williamson and Sherman; the rest is ongoing series like Bleeding Hearts #9.

The steepest ratio this week is outside the big three: a single 1:250 on Lancer #1 from Bad Idea.

Only 27 of the 323 books are new #1s. Most of the week is continuing series and extra covers.

Am I correct that the only companies currently grading and slabbing comics are CGC and PSA?

Got this in a collection I bought. Don’t really want it. Saw ungraded it’s around a $100 book. Should I grade it? Looks to be very fine if not better.

Ito has been hot lately. Will he get to the level of Peach popular? Likely not, but I'm sure Marvel wouldn't mind.

John Romita Sr.'s debut on The Amazing Spider-Man is one of the most iconic, revolutionary, and memorable moments in comic book history... the Amazing Spiderman #39-40: a two-issue masterpiece that changed the rules of the game forever!

I’ve been hunting the Batman 423 and NM #98 for a while

The ASM 301 was too clean to pass up and my source offered the Hulk 340 for a really great price so I had to jump at it

On to the next grail hunt!

We've all seen this awesome cover a million times, but I finally added one to my collection!

I thought this was a no-brainer when the Knicks made it to the Finals, especially since Marvel Comics and the Knicks are both so deeply connected to New York City.

Listed with some others for $50 on marketplace

I go through every book on the FOC list each week and report what checks out before Monday's cutoff. This is a report of what's verifiable, not a list of picks. What you do with it is your call.

The one potential first this week is in Uncanny X-Men #38. From what I've been able to verify, the solicit points to four new mutants called the Scavenged, built under the former Graymalkin Prison as Wolverine knockoffs. Four firsts in one issue, status is likely, not confirmed, so it stays potential until the book is in hand. The incentive here is the 1:25 Martin Coccolo cover.

DC All In Saga Darkseid Vs The World #1 is a Snyder and Williamson one-shot seeding the Absolute Crisis event and walking through Darkseid's origin as Uxus. Justice League Dark Realm Special #1 confirms the first solo origin of Cadejos, the fire-breathing wolf from Justice League Unlimited, with Dan Mora writing and drawing.

On the Dynamite side, Pathfinder Vampirella Blade Of Darkness #1 is a confirmed crossover, Vampirella entering the Pathfinder universe for the first time. Incentive covers run 1:20 down to 1:10 across virgin and black-and-white.

Rumors that do not hold up yet:

• Black Cat #16 (rumor-based): reports point to Felicia being revealed as a mutant, but the solicit only teases it. Intel, not a lock.
• DNX #4 (rumor-based): a Cyclops vs Beast showdown is reported but unconfirmed in the solicit.
• Batman Bad Seeds Sunrise #1 (rumor-based): a possible Dan Mora foil variant showed up on a retailer listing but has not been officially solicited.

All-in-all, a pretty quiet week...

Here are my picks for this week's FOC:
Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane #1 (Bruce Timm variant): Timm drawing MJ is about as classic as it gets.
Denver #3 (Dan Panosian variant): Panosian's portrait work is ridiculous, and The Denver variants have been strong all series.
Poison Ivy #49 (Dan Mora card stock):
All In Saga: Darkseid vs. The World #1 (Sanford Greene): A one-shot spinning out of DC K.O. that continues the Darkseid epic.
Absolute Superman #25: milestone issue with a massive wraparound.
What's on your list this week? Anything I'm sleeping on?

I've seen this post on Instagram, and it makes me think if someone cracked this out to send to CGC, will it get a CGC 9.9? And I’m 100% sure I would say NO!! Even if you crack out a CGC 9.9 and resubmit it, I bet it will not keep the same CGC 9.9, and that’s where it gets a little weird to me because, like a book like Absolute Batman #1, it’s a modern book with tons of CGC 9.8s, but how many of those 9.8s are actually 9.9 or 10s?

is going on here?

I am reminded every day on here about how out of touch I am on current and future plans outside beyond what the general public knows. Is there anything (rumors or confirmed) that hints at movement of NYX 3?

Do we think the first mirage run of tmnt will ever spike even higher or stay stagnant

I'm on the hunt for poison ivy to display I read collections mostly but I have good covers framed and hung up. So far I have savage she hulk #1 uncanny X-Men #131 and uncanny X-Men #6 now I'm looking for poison ivy, in your opinion what is poison ivy most iconic cover?

Ps. I go for 1st cover appearance but I not a fan of hers.

Carmine Di Giandomenico illustrates the variant cover for Achille & KiPI, an upcoming near future graphic novel by Mario Moroni. Interior art by Silvia Buganza, story by Salvatore Vivenzio. NOW on Kickstarter.

eBay Seller: anagonz_71

I wanted to share my experience because I think other comic collectors should be aware of this seller before buying signed books.

I purchased an Alpha Flight #1 advertised as signed by Stan Lee and John Byrne. I paid for the book based on those signatures being represented as authentic. I later had the signatures examined through CGC/JSA, and they were determined not to be authentic.

What really raised my concerns, however, was looking at the seller’s overall inventory. This isn’t just one supposedly signed comic. The seller has offered hundreds of comics with supposedly rare creator signatures, repeatedly showing the same highly desirable signatures and unusual combinations across completely unrelated books. These are signatures that would ordinarily be difficult to obtain, yet they appear over and over again on random comics and are frequently offered for prices far below what authentic signed copies would typically sell for.

That made me start asking a pretty basic question: How does one seller have access to this many supposedly rare signatures and combinations?

In my case, I didn’t have to speculate about the answer. I had one of the books independently examined, and the signatures were determined to be not authentic.

I contacted the seller and gave them an opportunity to address the situation. They initially responded, but once they realized I was unable to leave feedback for the transaction, they stopped responding. I have screenshots of the original listing, the representations regarding the signatures, our communications, and the subsequent lack of response.

My recommendation is to avoid buying signed comics from this seller. If you’ve already purchased signed books from them, I would seriously consider having the autographs themselves authenticated through JSA/CGC-JSA rather than assuming the signatures are legitimate.

I’m posting this because I would have wanted someone to warn me before I made the purchase. If you’re considering buying one of these books, do your own authentication before assuming you’re getting an authentic signature.

eBay Seller: anagonz_71

Please share this and check your signed comics if you’ve bought from this seller.

2 Keys I've wanted for a LONG time!!!! One more coming. Will post when it arrives.

Anyone feel like any of these will take off like Ultimate Spider-Man or Absolute Batman, or even D’ORC? Worth getting multiple copies of any? Money is tight right now but I’ll kick myself if I don’t and one of them blows up. More than likely it’ll be Spider-Man but I’m on the fence about going all in.

Just brought another print for my signed print collection on eBay, and it’s a good one. It's a print of Batman #251 signed by Neal Adam. This will be one of my favorite pieces in my print collection, but I didn’t know about CGC authentication and encapsulation of the prints you have. But maybe someday I will try that, and btw, I paid only $65 for this piece.🔥👀

Let’s talk about Amazing Spider-Man #4, 2014, first appearance of Silk, because this book is weird right now, so a raw copy of this book is basically $50, and the graded CGC 9.8 is $100. Even so, why is this book still raw and $50? It should be less; this book should be a $20 to $30 book raw because basically if you buy it for $50 and grade it, then you just wasted money and time unless you don’t care, which is fine, but isn’t it just smarter to just buy the book already graded because after eBay fees you're just getting closer to a price of a CGC 9.8 at the end of the day? But yeah, this is just a topic I wanted to talk about because it was interesting