Cpt Kirk

p.s. If a comic book has a different insert than what is expected, then one should look closer to see if the jeweler insert was just married into the comic book like the examples shown on the previous page of this thread. For DC comic books, I created a list of the expected insert for each month in the following post. In my opinion, a comic book with a married insert has no extra value (and perhaps less value).

In rare occasions, some DC comics have had two variations of the inserts. Examples: Batman 364 (one insert has the 88 code in lower right hand corner of the centerfold, the other an 888 code). Detective 449 and Superman 289 (both comics from the same month; one insert has code 777 and another insert has 888 code). Superman 312 (one insert has the 1 code, and other has 111 code on it). It appears that sometimes there were leftover inserts from a previous month, and they used them until they ran out.

Just a follow up: All six of the known Special Editions of Superman, Action and Detective are shown in the Gerber Photojournal Guide to Comics. But neither the Superman 27 nor Superman 28 Overseas Editions are shown in the Photojournal Guide. It makes me wonder how many of these Overseas Editions really exist.

Not that we are aware of. The only two that seem to be known are Superman 27 and 28. I would love to have the paperwork that the U.S. Army had associated with the ordering of these comic books from D.C. Rest assured that very few of those types of records survived.

amazing.... no pun intended.

Here's a link to Superman 28 overseas (image not previously posted):

dude.... great find!

I concur. After obtaining just about every variant ever made in the DC titles I collect, just this past month I said "enough is enough" and I decided to stop collecting the new variants (still going after the old variants like MJs though). I started thinking of it like this: even though I'm only collecting four titles (Batman, Superman, Detective and Action) I am adding about 6 inches of "thickness" to my collection evey month.... that's 6 feet of horizontal storage per year.... I will soon run out of space for these variants, plus I'm convinced that most of these variants will drastically lose their value over time (I noticed recently Batman 92 black/white sketch is now selling for less than half what the going price was when it came out, and it's been less than two years since it came out).

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a CGC graded 4.0 copy of Superman 28 Overseas Edition recently. I've been looking for this comic book for more than 30 years, so I bought the book the first chance I got (and then immediately broke it out of the CGC case when it arrived so that I could look at the inside). As far as I know, there are only a very few surviving copies of these Overseas Editions and I have't seen any details written up on the internet about the Overseas Edition of Superman 28. So in the interest of comic book history, I'm posting the attached photos as well as my observations about the differences between the regular 28 and the Overseas Edition. The Overseas Edition has the same page count as the regular edition. Some of the ads are the same (and in the exact same position as the regular edition). Some other ads, including the EverReady battery ad on the back cover, were replaced with one-page cartoon stories (typical example is the Private Pete cartoon strip shown on the back cover of the Overseas edition below). If anyone else has any information about these rarities, I would love to hear about it. p.s. I have seen more copies of the Action, Detective and Superman Special Editions made for the U.S. Navy during WWII than I ever have seen of the Special Editions. I have a feeling that many more of those Special Editions survived the war than these Overseas Editions. Since the Overseas Editions were so outrageously rare, I wonder if others were made and are unknown to this day. p.p.s. I need to crack open my Gerber Photojournal books to see if any of those Overseas or Special Editions were documented in there. Back cover of Superman 28 Regular Edition and Overseas Edition:

Great comment. This reminds me of the first time I noticed these Mark Jeweler inserts. I think I was buying some back issues of Action Comics that were originally sold in the late 1970's. I saw those slick ads in the centerfold and thought something like this to myself: "These inserts are ugly and they distract the flow of the comic book by being stuck in the center... I wonder if I these inserts were sold in all issues of this comic book, or do I instead need to try to find copies without the inserts?" As someone said earlier, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my case, 10 years later I started the crazy pursuit of trying to find every Mark Jeweler variant in the DC titles I collect, and I can tell you that ain't no easy task.

Amen brother!

Good point on the high grade. I saw earlier on this thread where someone said the jewelers tended to be in better condition because the insert helped make the comic more rigid. I believe it is true that the insert helps stiffen the comic book (especially the earlier jeweler inserts which were made of a heavier cardboard stock). But when you think about what happened to jeweler variants, I can see why they are hard to find in high grade. That's because most of them got shipped overseas to military PX's, sat on a rack in a military PX until someone bought them, and then they had to make their way back to the United States. Add the fact that the oldest DC jeweler variants are now more than 35 years old, I can see why high grade (especially 9.0 and above) is hard to find when it comes to jeweler variants. I was lucky enough to find an original owner collection that surfaced in Belgium where the guy plucked them off the rack at the PX and then immediately put them in storage. I would say the majority of them are 9.4 to 9.8 (Batman, Detective, Superman, Action, and JLA.... I must have bought more than 200 of them... and a few of those got the slightest little creases in the corner of the comic books besause some enthusiastic postal employee managed to drop the box on it's corner....thus my statement about shipping them back to the U.S.). Overall I have approximately 680 jeweler variants in those titles and have managed to get all but 10 or so in FN or better by continously upgrading them when a high grade copy came along.

Well Jim, all your articles on the MJ inserts certainly influenced me. They intrigued me and it became a gigantic Easter egg hunt. Now I'm down to having found all those easter eggs except five of them, I think (namely Batman 245, 390, Detective 470, 548, Action 579 with the MJ inserts.... been looking for more than 10 years and have never seen those.... if anyone has, I would love to hear about it)

thanks @Primetime

Nope. I am just amazed at the collection of stuff he has for sale on ebay and was wondering what his back story was. But I just got connected with him tonight and will share that story if anyone is interested (and assuming it is OK with him). I not aware that he posts on the CGC boards.

I've got an Action 156 too. Probably not nearly as nice as yours, but I love that cover. Whatever you paid, I'm sure it was worth it.

Does anyone know who "Masteraddams" is on ebay?

Superman 255 (and all issues up until Superman 252) were only produced in "newsstand" format. Superman 352 was the first Direct Sales issue of the Superman run. I've never seen a jeweler insert in a Direct Sales version (except for the example that I believe was shown earlier in this thred.... if a Direct Sales issue has a jeweler insert, I beleive that it would have to be a printing error). I hope that answers your question @Spawnfreak. If not, please send me a private message.

WF 37 is one of my all time favorite covers. Thanks for posting. I wonder what a NM copy would sell for?

I have to thank @MrBedrock for at least a few of my Action Comic books between 100 and 200. He's a great guy, in my humble opinion.

Yes, I was able to find Superman New 52 #8. That was the last one I needed. I never seen a newsstand issue of "Action Comics Weekly". I did not try to collect Rebirth Catwoman or Supergirl newsstand issues, so I can't say for sure whether or not they did not get published in newsstand format. According to the following article, it appears as if they didn't come out in newsstand format: https://comichron.com/blog/2018/02/09/end-of-era-last-dc-newsstand-issues/ p.s. The mainstream DC issues such as Batman and Superman all had newsstand issues up until the end, including the "zero issues", "1,000,000" issues, "23.1 issues" and "Future's End" issues. To best of my knowledge, the only issues that didn't come out in newsstand were 23.2, 23.3, 23.4 and issues such as the "Batman 1 Rebirth", which were specially released previews prior to launch of the Rebirth series.

Not right now. I must admit I wonder what it would sell for these days. I have no idea. For me, I keep it for pride of ownership and to show to friends.

That was one of the nice things about DC. Total consistency on release of newsstand issues. As started before, I was able to find all "newsstand" issues in the titles of Batman, Detective, Superman and Action from inception of Direct sales until the last newsstand issues were produced.

wow... I'm pretty sure that would have to be a manufacturing error. Great post!