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Hot 10 November 20

Analyst X aka @x here again with week 20 of the Hot 10. Issues featured below are the record-breakers from the period beginning Friday, November 13th through November 20th. The next list will be live on November 27th. 🔔 Thank you for your support in allowing the continued development of this resource when clicking the eBay links to make ANY purchase  🎁 Subscribe for $1.99 per month or $19.99 for the year (save $3.98) and unlock 18 categories plus 🚨Key Issue Alert push notifications

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1
Dark Horse ⋅ 2008
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars #1
 
Low
$60
Mid
$180
High
$700

Key Facts

1st appearance Ahsoka Tano, a Togruta Jedi

1st appearance of Captain Rex

Copies ordered by retailers: 24,508

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Mirage ⋅ 1984
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
 
Low
$1.2k
Mid
$3k
High
$15k

Key Facts

1st team appearance and origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo

1st appearance of Splinter, the Turtles' mentor

1st appearance and death of the Shredder

First printing: 3,000 copies

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[February 2022 - Paramount+ to develop three spin-off villain features]

Bone #1
Cartoon Books ⋅ 1991
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Bone #1
 
Low
$200
Mid
$800
High
$2k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, Smiley Bone, Thorn and The Rat Creatures in a standard comic book

Bone previously appeared in the comic strips of the Ohio State University newspaper, The Lantern which were collected in a TPB called 'Thorn: Tales from The Lantern’ and had a print run of 1,000 copies

[October 2019 - Netflix has secured the rights to Jeff Smith's Bone but development has been discontinued as of April 2022]

Star Wars #42
Marvel ⋅ 1980
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Star Wars #42
 
Low
$25
Mid
$60
High
$280

Key Facts

Standard-sized comic book appearances:

1st appearance of Boba Fett, a bounty hunter

1st cameo appearance of Dengar, Bossk, IG-88 and Zuckuss - bounty hunters

1st cameo appearance of Emperor Palpatine aka Darth Sidious

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Reprinted from Marvel Comics Super Special Magazine, adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back

Debut of Slave I, a pursuit craft

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1
Archie ⋅ 1988
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures #1
 
Low
$5
Mid
$15
High
$50

Key Facts

1st appearance of Krang

1st cameo appearance of Bebop and Rocksteady as animals, prior to being mutated

Comic book adaptation of the animated series

Debut of the Turtles' different colored masks in comic books

Darkhawk #1
Marvel ⋅ 1991
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Darkhawk #1
 
Low
$2
Mid
$8
High
$25

Key Facts

1st appearance and origin of Darkhawk

Raphael: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
Mirage ⋅ 1985
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Raphael: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
 
Low
$40
Mid
$120
High
$450

Key Facts

First Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles one-shot spin-off

1st appearance and cover of Casey Jones

Marvel Previews #95
Marvel ⋅ 2011
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Marvel Previews #95
 
Low
$150
Mid
$500
High
$1.5k

Key Facts

First consumer-facing cover image of Miles Morales, predates Ultimate Fallout #4 by three months

Batman #181
DC ⋅ 1966
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Batman #181
 
Price Trend
Low
$600
Mid
$1.8k
High
$6k

Key Facts

1st appearance of Poison Ivy, Pamela Isley

Interior pin-up poster of Batman and Robin included

Hero Trade #1
Bad Idea ⋅ 2020
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Hero Trade #1
 
Low
$60
Mid
$180
High
$625

Key Facts

First comic book published by Bad Idea)

1st appearance of Captain Fab

Bad Idea partnered with 200 comic shops who were each anonymously mailed one copy of Hero Trade with no indication of its origin. Many stores dismissed it entirely while four stores ordered additional copies

There are approximately 250 copies in circulation

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Hero Trade has sold for an all-time high of $3,200 graded 9.8

Bad Idea's executive team is: Dinesh Shamdasani, Josh Johns and Atom Freeman with intern Tim Lenaghan

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