Cpt Kirk

Thanks, Onlyweaknesskryptonite. It looks like the going rate for these is in the $100 to $200 range in FN condition. p.s. If someone is thinking about selling one, I recommend you contact me via private message before you do that. I would gladly pay $200 for any ones that I don't already have in my collection if in the ballpark of Fine condition.

I love your old school paper want list. And great job tracking those down in 9.8.... it's incredible. The "funeral" DC Universe issues in 9.8 will be tough to find, so I look forward to hearing how it goes.

Columbus GA. How about you? p.s. If anyone on these boards ever finds themselves in Columbus, I'd love to show you my collection. At least half the joy of collecting is sharing with others.

The main thing is to find the rest of the Mark Jeweler variants in the titles of Batman (4 missing), Detective (2 missing), Superman (1 missing), Action (1 missing) and JLA (1 missing). I think it would be nice to say I found all of them for at least one title. I'm pretty sure that will happen in the next year or two. I think it is also nice to have been able to say, for the record, that DC's printer never missed putting out a newsstand variant in those five titles.

whenever I check my threads and see that someone has posted something new to this thread I think to myself "Oh god, I hope someone hasn't found a new DC Universe variant in the titles I collect." Congrats to Revat for creating one of the longest, most long-lasting, and most useful threads I've ever seen on this site.

Most Impressive Indeed Sir! Kudos to you! After approx 7 years of intense searching, I found all newsstand issues in the titles of Batman, Superman, Detective, and Action Comics, including New 52 and Rebirth. Not a single month was ever skipped from the time they started in Oct 1980 until they were last produced in Oct 2017. I managed to get all of them (approx 1600) in high grade except two (with are more like FN condition). About one year ago, I was able to upgrade one of those issues that was in FN condition. Just this morning, a high-grade newsstand variant of Detective 813 came up on ebay, which I immediately snapped up. With that purchase, all of my newsstand issues are now in VF or better. The quest has been completed! Well, not exactly I guess. I've never seen the newsstand variant of the Millennium editions of Action Comics 252 and Justice League (1987 series) #1. Those should exist. I'm also still looking for a handful of DC Universe and Mark Jeweler variants in those titles. I suspect the quest for variants will never really end... lol.

For the first time after having found more than 1,000 Mark Jeweler variants in DC comics (and at least 100 duplicates): I just found another Mark Jeweler variant of Action 452, but this one has a different insert than the one I already had. One copy has the brown insert with the code 999 in the lower corner of the centerfold, and the other copy has the blue insert with the 88 code in the lower corner of the centerfold. I can see why this happened. The month this comic book came out (plus the two following months) they used both the brown 999 insert and the blue 88 inserts. Some issues had one insert, and some had the other. But I've never seen a situation where the same issue could have two different inserts. They must have used a different insert during a separate print run.

Thanks David!

Awesome. Thanks for letting us know. P.s. I sent you a private message with my want list.

Awesome @Brock.... that seems like a pretty rare artifact. Did you end up selling it on ebay? If yes, would you mind telling us what was the sales price?

thanks to @waaaghboss, I have found another one of the missing Mark Jeweler variants on my want list (namely Superman 413). He found an obscure shop that had a 3 long boxes of jeweler variants. Up until now, I had never seen a Superman 413 with jeweler insert after looking for more than 8 years. This means: 1. I've found every single issues in the run of Superman that could contain a jeweler insert from issues 255 through 420, with one exception (still have not seen Superman 359). 2. In the five titles I'm collecting (Batman, TEC, Superman, Action and JLA), there should exist 690 jeweler variants and I've seen all but 9 of them. The 9 not yet found are Batman 245, 324, 326, 390, Detective 470, 548, Superman 359, Action 579, and JLA 161. Note that on three of those titles, only one jeweler variant has not been spotted. This makes me pretty confident that no issues were skipped except super sized or square bound issues. The search continues. I've been graphing the number that I find each year, and it gets harder to find them as there are fewer left to be found. I estimate I will have found them all in the next 6 to 8 years.

Whoops. In my original answer to you, I said you could go to the beginning of this thread for a listing of the colors and codes of DC jeweler variants. I should have said "Go to the beginning of the following thread"

I believe Superboy 12 is among the harder to find. I would definitely grab it if I were you.

Amazing.

If you go back to the beginning of the following thread, you will see that I've attempted to list all the different variations (color and numerical code) of all the inserts that ever appeared in DC comics. I think I have them all. When I get more time one day, I could post photos of each (but then again, I have to wonder if anyone would ever really care). As far as why they printed different colors with different numerical codes on the ordering coupons, I can only guess. But here's one guess.... they changed colors and codes so they could figure out which months of advertising produced the greatest number of sales. Or heck.... maybe as they printed these ads, they just wanted to change them up. For the first few years they printed the ad on a heavier paper stock (which almost feels like thin cardboard). After that, they printed the ads on a thin slick paper stock. Given that thousands of these ads were produced each month for DC and Marvel comic books, I'm sure cost was a factor. Someone should reach out to the Mark Jewelers company right now to see if there's anyone who remembers this ad campaign. I will add that to my "to do" list.

Going off on a tangent here... but I have a Batman 392 and a Detective 590 where another copy of the front cover was placed into the centerfold, just like a Mark Jewelers insert. So technically those issues have a "double cover" but the extra cover is in the centerfold. I probably found these when I was hunting for Mark Jeweler inserts.

Oh.. now I understand your question. I've never seen a CGC slab make note of a double insert. Of course, those double insert issues will be few and far between.

Hey @ADAMANTIUM, I don't understand your question. Can you please clarify?

Someone mentioned that they have rarely seen a double MJ insert. Here's one that I have in Superman 310. I'm not big on collecting error variants like double covers, but this type of error must be extremely rare. First of all, in DC comics I think you will only find a Mark Jewelers insert in about every 100 or 200 comic books. Now add the additional unlikelihood of the double MJ insert, and it is hard to imagine how few of these are out there.

True, you don't normally see the star with the circle around it. But I have approximately 1,000 DC jeweler variants, and I would say I've seen this type of star stamp on at least 10 of them.

Nice. It is very rare to see someone actually pull them out like that. Thanks for mentioning it.

Thanks. And yes, the general consensus is that the DCs are harder to find than Marvels. It would be great to find a jeweler variant of Action Comics 579. Then we could say that run received the insert for every single issue that could possibly contain the insert. For whatever it is worth, I would gladly pay finder's fees and premiums for the ones I'm missing. I also have lots of jeweler variants for trade, and I'm always willing to help fellow collectors. My collecting friends have been a key to finding these jeweler variants. There's a great guy in Germany who keeps an eye out for them too.

Thanks. Here's the other hard part. Getting them all in FN or better condition. In that run of Action Comics, I would say they are all in FN or better with exception of one or two that are in the vg to FN range.

Here's a shout-out to Gary at Frank-N-Freds for connecting me with the buyer of those Action 522 and 533 Mark Jeweler variants. The buyer was willing to trade them for a bunch of spare Batman Mark Jeweler variants that I had on hand. I have now found 680 of the 690 possible jeweler variants in the titles of Batman, Detective, Superman, Action and JLA. Based on that, and the report below, I am starting to get confident that there was a jeweler variant in each non-oversized or non-squarebound issue of those mainstream titles with cover dates of August 1972 thru July 1986. Hard to believe that the those oldest jeweler variants are now approaching 50 years old. Here's my current status: 1. I have all of the jeweler variants from Action 415 thru 580. with the only exception being Action 579. I believe Action 579 jeweler variant should exist. 2. I have found all jeweler variants from JLA 100 thru 252 with the only exception being JLA 161. I have proof that JLA 100, 107 and 207 exist but don't yet have those in my collection. 3. I have found all jeweler variants from Superman 255 thru 420 with the only exceptions being Superman 359 and 413. I have proof that Superman 255, 258, 262 and 292 exist but I don't yet have them. 4. I have found all jeweler variants from Batman 243 thru 396 with the only exceptions being Batman 245, 324, 326, and 390. I have proof that Batman 247 exists but I don't yet have it. 5. I have found all jeweler variants from Detective 426 thru 563 with the only exceptions being TEC 470 and 548. I have proof that TEC 454 exists but I don't yet have it.

Yup... I remember it well. I saw the offer for the free Action 1 and "Superman Meets the Quick Bunny" comic books on our cannister of Quick (we must have drank gallons of that stuff). Anyway, I mailed away for the free comic books and I still have them in my collection.