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Trojan Gambit reprints a few issues: http://www.yojoe.com/archive/books/marvelbook3.shtml

I actually would go for a stickered #1. I already have a stickered #3 as a place holder.

Thanks for the heads up, but that particular issue has a sticker on it. Some Barnes & Nobles add their own sticker over the printed barcode. I have a #2 with no sticker and am still looking for 1 and 3. It's awfully cool of you to keep an eye out though!

Very cool! I want to see all your sketches if you ever have time to post them. (thumbs u That Stormy is gorgeous! What a gem. I'll post some of my sketches soon. I've only ever bought them at comic shops or online, and they're not nearly as detailed as these. How do you folks get yours? Do you actually send away and pay the artist for a sketch? Do you request them at cons? I've only ever asked for signatures when I meet an artist. Maybe I'm being too shy. I love what I see here!

Amazing! Thank you so much. Sent you a pm. I'm really enjoying reading back through this forum. You guys are great.

Yes, if you don't count foreign language releases, which I do pick up here and there. I also collect the coloring books, kids books, Joe-related magazine covers, puzzles, and basically anything in print. But as for the comics, I'm only missing these few. What to do and where to look? I thought I might get more of a response here. Thanks for looking anyway!

I'm trying to find a raw blank sketch cover for Hama #200. LCS didn't order me one and now I can't find it anywhere. The retailer incentive B cover, not the Yesteryear cover. I'm also trying to fill a few gaps in my collection. If this is the wrong place for this, I apologize. These just never seem to come up on ebay: Cobra II #1 2nd print GI Joe vs Cobra #3 2010 con edition GI Joe #3 (Civil War) RIB Hearts and Minds Barnes and Noble #1 and #3 Danger Girl/GI Joe #1 RIB J. Scott Campbell unique sketch cover Marvel Special Missions #1 Zeck sketch I'm not a CGC guy, but I am a raw book GI Joe completist. Missing this many comics sometimes keeps me up at night. Thanks for any help!

Yes, the checklist pages are exactly the same. Even more telling is the fact that all of the subtle little differences in the pink rectangles at the tops of the pages match exactly. For instance, both issues have the same notch out of the bottom left corner of the pink rectangle on the Scarlett "hairpin" page.

There was a discussion here a few months ago about the #21 second print- the consensus was that it doesn't exist, at least not a printed issue with "second print" on the indicia. Of all the collectors here, like silent master who has essentially every GI Joe ever printed, no one has apparently even seen one. So it looks like there is none, but the confusion as to why it's printed as a third print is unclear. It is interesting that I have recently seen a rare 3-pack of #21,22,23 showing up on EBay. The #21 cover looks the same, but I wonder if this is somehow the "second print"? I would have to assume that someone would have found a loose copy of those 3-pack 21's by now, whether they knew it was from a 3-pack or not, and we would know by now if it was listed as a 2nd printing or not in the indicia. With that said: If there is a second printing of G.I. Joe 21, It is not listed in the indicia, and there are no differences in the printing, and it has a white spiderman face. Also, if there is a second printing it would have to have been printed BEFORE issue 23 ( within 45 days of the release of the 1st printing of 21 ). Otherwise it would have a black spiderman face in the UPC as well. There are only two options here. 1.) Marvel did indeed print a 2nd print of 21, and did not include it in the indicia, whether on purpose or accidentally, and it would have had to have been a nearly immediate reprint. 2.) There was no 3rd print, and the printer accidentally marked the 2nd print as 3rd. Both options are possible, option 2 is the most probable. You would think with all these avid Joe collectors someone would have noticed something different in the covers of the white spiderman UPC copies if some of them were printed at differrent times. ( color, tone, font, staples, paper, cut...something ) Brand new member here. I'm so glad I've found you guys! My journey to completism began when my grandmother bought me the bagged 21-22-23 set! I still have my well-worn copy of 21 and, sorry, but there's nothing different about it. I've compared it to my better copies, and it looks exactly the same as the first printing -- same exact front and back cover and indicia. And yes, even the staples and the little "roller rips" (don't know the exact term for those) at the bottoms of the interior pages all match. It's so exactly the same that there's no way to prove it even came from a 3-pack. Doing research in the past, I've had people on the yojoe forums and in comic shops tell me I was crazy and had imagined the whole 21-22-23 3-pack idea. I'm thrilled to find out they exist. Anyway, no indication of the mysterious second printing in this set. Something I just thought of: when I sold my 22 and 23 a few years ago, there was no indication that they were 2nd prints (or 3rd). It looks like these 3-packs were all first prints. I'll step back and lurk awhile. Sorry to jump right in, but I knew I had important info! And I finally know I'm not crazy. Maybe.