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Human? I'm wondering how it would lay flat otherwise?

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Personalised if you're keeping it for life, non-personalised if you plan to put it on the wall for a few years and then sell one day.

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Snagging a newsstand group for cheap under the radar used to be a thrill back in the day. Seeing others listed priced to the skies, with zero justification, not so much

So in respect of the original thread title question, "How much of a premium are we talking for newsstand issues v/s direct editions?", the answer for me is it depends. If a title has no collector interest it likely won't matter whether a newsstand version of a particular issue is 10 or 1,000 times scarcer than a direct. No one collects it, so the prices stay the same. You can pimp it all you like, no one will buy it. If an issue has some collector interest / desirability, a premium may creep in if the newsstand version is comparatively scarce as collectors will see it as a limited variation on a desirable book. Collectors and speculators will always buy desirable books. If an issue has rabid collector interest, and is for a character that attracts completists or run collectors, a newsstand may attract a huge premium if it is perceived to be extremely scarce (but not if it's an annual ) Finally, if a newsstand is in the possession of Chuck Rozanski, it will be priced x1,000 direct edition value regardless. Well, that passed the time. Yours sincerely, Captain Obvious

Yes. Hand typed too from the looks of it. Those were the days Jim.

Are you sure it wasn't spaghetti sauce?

Yuck! It wasn't still wet was it? Oh, thank God.

The scans are from my old files of copies long since gone. I had a second copy which I had up on ebay for a while and eventually gave up on. It might have gone in as a freebie to another sale, I'll have to check. Yes, that was the point of my post really, underlining that scarcity is often no guarantee of value or desirability. I have 400 'rarer than hens teeth' Charlton pence copies to further underline it. Nobody wants them either. But it always surprised me that the same applied to the ASM annuals, given that ASM is arguably the most collected title ever and, in my experience, the character / title with the most completists. It's odd that the newsstand annuals should be so shunned when they are likely scarcer than some of the most sought after regular issues. ASM #694 had a $500 bounty on it at one point. That issue in it's direct state has limited value, significance or interest. So it can be the case that lack of availability alone drives a ridiculous asking price. But it needs that rare breed of collector to support it - the mad completist.

CHEEOW!

The boy stood on the burning deck, He found a pair of dentures. He used the teeth to chat up girls, And had some Men's Adventures

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What is the worst thing you've ever found in a comic? How about half of next week's comic. Or last week's comic, as the case may be

Eh?

"Neigh!" (Translation: "You're f about to Horror, you ")

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Anyway, stop all this nonsense. Look at me King Postcards Jim

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I do like BF