9/21/2023 0 Comments Key collector app![]() ![]() The wider dissemination of the story details to collectors/speculators puts more outside eyes on the issue, though, which could lead to higher retailer orders/sales than those placed even with the benefit of the preview PDF. Of course, any good retailer could’ve made the determination to up their orders on the issue already after reading the PDF provided by DC/Diamond. How can the information from Key Collector on what’s ‘hot’ each week, or even on what’s ‘hot’ in back issues, actually be trusted if it’s coming from sources with a vested interest in selling those comics?Īs for the leaking of the Flash Forward #6 information, who benefits from that? Again it’s retailers, who may see interest in the issue driven up by app subscribers who got the spoiler notification. If a retailer/retailers are providing Key Collector with information, they could be doing so to try to drive sales for themselves. There’s nothing to say a retailer couldn’t also be using the app to keep track of what people might be after in their inventory. Collectors/speculators use the Key Collector app to determine what to buy. Is everything “pure,” though, as Coglianese says it is? The potential for conflict of interest is strong here. The Beat reached out to Coglianese regarding the source for the Flash Forward information, and his response was that he “was tipped off by an app user.” It’s things that I’ve reached a conclusion on, or that people have told me that I’m passing along.”Ī relationship between a retailer or multiple retailers and Coglianese/Key Collector, then, is not exactly shocking to consider. “So everything on the app, everything I put out, it’s…pure. In an interview with ICv2, Coglianese said, while clarifying that he’s not a comic seller himself, that he populates the app using tips from other people: In terms of new releases, though, it seems likely Coglianese gets story information - say, for the app’s weekly Wednesday morning updates with what that week’s ‘hot’ books are - from people (like retailers) with inside knowledge of what’s coming. A lot of the details found within the app are easy enough to find elsewhere, at least when it comes to back issues. So how did Key Collector get their hands on it? There’s nothing on Key Collector’s website about where Coglianese gets the app’s information. A retailer caught leaking one of those PDFs could get in serious trouble with Diamond. Those advance PDFs are heavily watermarked, with a store’s account information all over them, to deter just this sort of leaking. Aside from that being a really shitty thing to do, it’s also a serious offense for the retailer from the standpoint both of the publisher and of Diamond. The alert, seen in a screenshot here, features details of the ending of Flash Forward #6, and an image from the final page of the issue (the spoiler details have been blurred out):īased on the combination of both the information and the image accompanying it, it seems safe to assume that someone leaked the retailer PDF of the issue to Key Collector. Yesterday, an alert appeared for paid subscribers to Key Collector Comics, an app created by Nick Coglianese and used by collectors (and often speculators) to track ‘hot’ new comics and key back issues. yoV1FjhE92įlash Forward #6 was on Final Order Cutoff on Monday, January 27th, and on Friday DC released via Diamond, as they occasionally do, a PDF of the issue to retailers, so that shop owners and purchasers could read the issue and adjust their FOC orders accordingly based on what they think demand for it will be. We said you're NOT READY for the surprise ending of Flash Forward #6 by and but here are some interior pages to tide you over until the issue is out on February 19. ![]()
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