Cpt Kirk

This is just an educated guess, but I don't think people really started to chase these down until the early 2000's. Thanks for the great images... love it. To answer your question, I don't think that collecting jeweler variants really started to be a thing until the early 2000's. I've been in hot pursuit of them since 2010. In the five titles I collect (Batman, Detective, Superman, Action and JLA), I'm only missing 7 out of approximately 690 possible jeweler variants. If you or anyone else can produce a copy of the ones I'm missing, I would love to hear about it. I'm missing Batman 245, 247, 390, Detective 470, 548, Action 579 and JLA 107.

The following is an interesting website pointed out by my friend Mark Weiss (founder of ComicBooks for Kids!, which sends comic books to hospitals all over the world.... I always have to plug that great cause). This website shown in the link below lists all known bricks. These bricks must have been sold widely, because the bullet, zero hour, and DCU logo variants are fairly easy to find for issues dated from Nov 1993 thru Nov 1994. The only exception in my mind is the 10-pack brick with issues dated June 1995 (many of those DCU's have proven to be hard to find). For completeness, also attached are the images not shown on the website below for the March 1994 pack and the back of the November 1994 pack, courtesy of @Warlord. I sent these 3 images to the owner of this StarTrek website so that he can add them to his website. If you know of any bricks not shown in the website below, please let us know. @Warlord had a great idea, by the way. Someone should attempt to create a listing of every single comic book that is contained in these bricks, even though it can probably be inferred. I've opened about 8 of those bricks and kept a list of all the comic books that were contained, but that's a long way from being able to create a comprehensive list. Maybe that's something I can do when I retire one day. In the meantime, this darn day job is getting in the way... lol. https://www.startrekcomics.info/art/dccomicscollpacks.html

Nice. Those late Detectives are especially hard to find. I wonder if @Lifesuggs found any of the Catwoman (2002 series) newsstand issues ?

roger that. Here's one way to find out.... go to your local Barnes and Noble. Give them the title of that comic book and ask them to look it out. They will have a history of how many issues of that comic book showed up in the store during each month. I am guessing that Catwoman had low distribution for each month. Here's an article that comichron wrote about the last newsstand issues that might lend some clues. https://comichron.com/blog/2018/02/09/end-of-era-last-dc-newsstand-issues/ There is a dude who got a boat load of newsstand issues that were rescued from the trash bin at Barnes and Nobles. I wonder if he might have some. I believe his ID is @Lifesuggs Take a look at this thread:

I giving this thread a bump because a friend of mine, @paqart, is looking for all the newsstand issues of Catwoman (2002) series. Impressive goal. Can anyone produce some images?

wow.... I wonder how many people might now be searching for those model kits. Tempted to do it myself... Never mind. I see a bazillion of them on ebay. However, you discovered a great way to find a high grade version of this mini comic book. Thank you.

No.... but if the other Catwoman's in that run had newsstand issues, I can almost guarantee they exist. Just keep searching ebay and they will pop up. There was a guy who created a database for newsstand issues. If you search around, you should find it. Let me know if you can find it and I can try to run it down for you.

Has anyone seen a graded version of the error variant of the Platinum Superman 75? If yes, I would love to see that image. I believe the error is that there is no serial number printed on the back cover. Here's the comic book I'm talking about, courtesy of @glynn and son cgc graded comics

If you all every think there was a newsstand issue that was not produced in the titles of Batman, Superman, Detective or Action Comics, feel free to reach out to me and I will show you an image of it. I was able to find them all. As far as I know, the only issues in those titles that did not have newsstands were the New 52 #23.2, 23.3, and 23.4 villain issues (there was a newsstand #23.1) and the "Rebirth #1" issues that were released just prior to the #1 issues in the Rebirth line (I hope that makes sense, DC released special preview "#1" issues of the Rebirth line before they actually released the fist issues of the Rebirth line. I can supply images if requested.

Great run down, and thanks. Here's some additional input. 1. Azrael 22: We've been looking for 15+ years and haven not seen it. Jerome Wenker thought it existed even though he didn't have a copy. And there was an image of #22 on the web, but we couldn't tell if it was photoshopped and we could not find the owner to verify. This one reminds me of Batman 457 2nd print newsstand or DCCP 22 Whitman (for years they were only rumored to exist, and then they came out of the woodwork when crazy prices were realized) 2. Here's a few others that "should" exist, but we've never seen. Superman 95 (Dec '94), Justice League 96 (Feb '95), Action Comics 711 (July '95), Superman Man of Steel 49 (Oct '95). If anyone can produce one of those DCU variants, I would love (and also hate) to see it.

I pulled my SM MOT #5 DCU out of a rare 50-pack that contained a mix of DC and Marvel comic books. I've rarely seen those come up for sale. It was probably one of those special packs made for Sears or Toys-R-Us for Christmas.

1. Those "Funeral for a Friend" DCU issues with the black covers are favorites of mine (and tend to be among the most rare). 2. I think some of the more obscure titles such as "Superman Man of Tomorrow" might have more DCU's, but they might not be coming out of the closet because ....... "Who in the heck tries to collect Superman MOT?" Issues #1 thru 7 could possiblly have DCU variants, but only two are known to exist (namely, #1 and #5). 3. Justice League (1987) series also has a large gap of DCU's. A DCU variant of any issue between #83 and #113 could exist, but we've never seen DCU variants of #96, #100 thru 106, #109 thru #111, and #113. All those issues have interesting covers in my opinion.

There are times when I shake my head at Mile High, and other times that I think Chuck is a marketing genius. His insane prices on newsstand issues was one of the reasons why I got hooked on collecting DC Universe variants and newsstand issues (I found a bunch of them in a local shop that was going out of business, and I thought to myself "Wow... I just found a comic book for 2 bucks that is shown on Mile High's website with an asking price of 20 bucks". Only later (after buying a load of DCU variants and newsstand issues from Mile High to fill in holes) did I realize that most of those issues would be easy enough to find on ebay and other shops for much less than Mile High's price even after the usual 50 to 60% discounts. I would be shocked if I could ever sell a comic book back to Mile High comics for more than what I paid, even 30 years after the fact. God only knows how many people read his email newsletters and take everything he says about back issues as gospel.

I would love to see your "questionable/rumored" list as a stand-alone list. That might help you bring out some more of these rare examples.

I got a good laugh out of this featured listing in Chuck's Mile High Comics newsletter today. Even with the usual 60% discount code that runs almost continuously, I thought these prices were pretty crazy. https://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=direct&issue=97072763696 88 DCUNIVERS

No doubt. A friend of mine found my copy in Germany... go figure. It probably cost me $50 have it shipped in some sort insured fashion to make darn sure it wouldn't get lost in the mail. Those are always nail-biting moments when you are waiting on a super rare comic book to arrive.

You just found a unicorn with that SM MOS 50, my friend. We only know of 3 copies now.

That is an amazing feat! Congrats!

wow... that comic book must be a whopper in size. If you count the front and back covers, and the jeweler insert, what's the total page count on that bad boy?

I bought most of those newsies for $2 to $5 over the years, but found others in better condition over the years due to my OCD goal of getting every newsie in VFNM in the titles of Superman, Action, Batman, and Detective. That goal has pretty much been achieved. I'm especially pleased to send those newsies for a price that was the same or less than I paid to @onlyweaknesskryptonite because he's been outrageously helpful by finding some super rare variants for my collection. That's one less sale to Mile High Comics at the ridiculous prices they charge for some newsstand issues. For example, Mile High's price for an Action Comics 842 newsstand issue is $180 in VF and $240 in NM.

I'm always glad to help a fellow collector.

a "vg" would not cut it in my collection.... lol.

Amen brother. Missing that last one is truly an affliction.

I don't know. But if you came to me with a high grade jeweler variant and it was one of the last ones on my want list, I might go that high as well. They are really hard to find. But unless it is really a key issue, that would be about as high as I would go.

That sounds about right to me. I was thinking a person could get $50 to $100 raw. They really are HTF