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http://comicbookinvest.com/2016/05/09/foreign-editions-401/ http://comicbookinvest.com/2016/05/18/foreign-editions-key-sets/ Couple of recent articles from Comicbookinvest.com

This sales data is for your amusement. Take it as you wish. I believe these books are sleepers but that is my own insane opinion. With Google having the ability to translate webpages, it has made it easier for collectors to navigate and find these foreign editions. Our world is getting smaller. How much longer will these go unnoticed?

These books are rare. Actually RARE. Many collectors love to be "know it all's," (we all do it) and make general assumptions about value, but the fact is; there is not much sales data collected on foreign editions. It is almost a completely ignored genre in a hobby where people pride themselves on being experts. It's strange that these have been ignored for so long because there are great international variants out there to still be found. We still don't even know what all exists because they have not been properly documented. I have been following the market for some time now. Here are some sales that may interest you guys.

No one did the Wonder Woman book? I thought that was the best one!

Meaning the true Harley keys.... Batman Adventures 12 Batman Harley Quinn nn Are safe. What about some of the other early Harley stuff like Mad Love, and Batman: Harley and Ivy. Not keys in the same way, by were key in establishing the character outside of her relationship with Joker. I would say a lot of the early Harley appearances are undervalued like that Batman Gallery book that predates the Batman Harley Quinn nn. In a lot of ways she is like Deadpool in that her early appearances are now being gobbled up probably because she didn't suffer from overexposure early on. she didn't suffer from overexposure early on Hilarious. She had roughly 20 appearances from her creation to 2000 as an animated character in comics and around 6 appearances in the DC universe from her intro in the Batman Harley Quinn to 2000. She may have been popular for a multitude of reasons but as I said she did not suffer from overexposure early on. Good to know. Thank you. It means most of those early appearances (before 2000) should maintain solid value, 20 appearances in 6 or 7 years is next to nothing. Title characters are in books every month (and if you are Batman multiple books), and nobody complains. For now she is an A list character. BA 12 was also reprinted via trade in 1994 and I believe the trade also has a 2nd printing. These two books are super rare and with the prices of the comicbox BA 12 reprint being what they are I wonder why these trades aren't more valuable. Maybe collectors just don't know I see them on the bay/amazon all the time around 20-30 bucks.. The never get much "heat".. Theres a cool spanish/mexican edition with the cover of BA12 on it, but the problem with that book is that the content is NOT from BA12, just the cover.. the next issue has BA12 but a diff cover.. Weirdness There are at least 6 more editions not shown here including three of the rarest being Argentina, Croatia and South Africa. As we all know, this book was not popular at it's release, so it's strange to have so many international variants, all published within a year or two of the American edition. As a foreign collector, I can tell you that this is a unusual amount of international variants for ANY book.

Very nice collection. Thanks for sharing. That Brazillian copy of Batman has been a tough one to find, here in the US. After 1232 pages of bronze horror, it's a nice treat to see new books that no one has posted yet.