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I like that cover but not sure. Superman 201 is a cover for ASM 50 but Swan goes a step further with Supes emanating from a Metropolis skyscraper - the tallest in fact - is classic. I can’t think of one other cover as powerfully displaying the connection Superman has to Metropolis. Swan captures that essence. What’s the world without Superman? What’s Metropolis without him? The colors also contribute to this classic imho.

There were some exceptions. Including this one by Adams that was censored when reprinted: There were exceptions.

Don’t forget Neal Adams. Interestingly, this cover by Dominguez could pass for heavier precode horror:

Overstreet has designated one classic Superman cover for the entire Silver Age. That distinction belongs to Superman 146 with Swan’s classic escape from Krypton cover: (Taken from DC Database) Are there any other SA Superman covers that classics in their own right? One that immediately crosses my mind is this one: (Taken from GCD)

One of the top 10 romance covers of all time. Congrats! You will have completed the DC Bronze Age Triple Crown of Romance by adding Super DC Giant 17 and DC 100 Page Spectacular 5 to this classic.

Agree. Forgot to mention that this one is a wash tone feel to it.

Great Burgos cover and one of my favorite precode war covers:

My favorite cover in the run and a great Burgos cover:

❤️ this! I asked a question earlier about the most valuable Bronze Age comic book to be sold at auction because it wasn’t a price variant. Looking at the current Overstreet list without digging into auctions and you’d never know that. Goes to your point about listing the most valuable comic books by what they sold for in the year leading up to the publication of the Guide’s latest edition. You’ve described this better than me and your suggestion works provides greater clarification than mine

I’m suggesting there’d be a separate list for books like price variants. I like what Overstreet has done with the lists for the most valuable books by genre. I don’t see a problem with having more lists.

Excellent suggestion Hopefully Overstreet will consider this.

Sorry you don’t. Correct on MS 5. Thanks!

Platinum is and its scarcer. Please, I have a life and don’t have the time to go back and forth with you. I’m not going to answer your posts anymore. You’ve made your point and I’ve made mine. Let’s leave it at that.

I have also studied the subject and you’re being very loose with the facts to serve your argument.

Thanks! I’m going to use “I just did”next time someone calls me out

Btw, I’m still waiting for you to tell me what the most valuable Bronze Age book to come to auction is.

Would they have more value than the 30 cents copies if they weren’t scarcer?

I’ve studied for years too. Can you please share your sources?

However you try to surmise it, the price variants owe their value exclusively to their scarcity that’s attributed to limited distribution. They aren’t mainstream comic books.

Can you share the source for your numbers?

Still has relevance and I place great emphasis on the word “Guide” when it comes to pricing. I’m from the school that believes the OSPG is one of a number of sources to use when trying to assess a book’s historical significance and value. There’s a lot of great stuff in the Guide and it’s part of the history of comic book collecting. I never cared for Wizard’s price guide but had fun picking up a monthly price guide. CBG. Wizard. Overstreet Fan. Some good stuff back in the day!

Thanks for sharing your insight. Agree with your points and I’m a purist who would love to see the price variants get their own list. Regarding the Aardvark - I really don’t have an issue with him because Cerebus 1 is a unique book that is historic despite it not being available to the masses. It’s not the same book with a different prices that was intentionally distributed to limited markets as you point out. Sim did what he could to get it out there. As for the price variants, Marvel was the dominant publisher of that era and had the resources Sim didn’t have. Moreover, the internet didn’t exist back then to pick one up on eBay if the Star Wars 1 35 center wasn’t distributed in your market. You’d have to wait for someone to advertise it in the CBG and the Star Wars craze immediately impacted prices on the secondary market. Finally, if Overstreet wants to continue to conflate price variants with mainstream books then I strongly recommend that he qualify the list with a footnote on what the single most valuable Bronze Age book to come to auction is…and it’s not a variant if my memory serves me correctly.

Disagree. They would not have been scarcer without the Direct Market.

You think the price variants would have been so scarce had the Direct Market co-existed on a greater scale with newsstand venues?

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