onlyweaknesskryptonite

First off. Wow these have all been amazing books with some equally amazing Signatures and sketches! I have looked and kept an eye out as well as followed this thread and other threads. Anyone out there have or could help facilitate a Rob Van Winkle " Vanilla Ice" TMNT CGC Signature Series? Even if someone just has an image of one to share.

I get that and i am torn. It is not that I disagree with their assessment. It still just surprised me being blue label. It may be remaindered, but with a reproduction cover with original pieces attached to that reprint and that attached to a coverless and having tape I still am just torn , had this been done to almost any lower value book and it would more than likely been either green or conserved. Don't get me wrong I would still love to have any piece of the original much less a page, cover , coverless, or this copy which I agree that it definitely is something that may not ever be seen again.

Besides still not any more batty than looking for Variants that may or may not exist. Which applies to these DC Universe, The Mall Variants, CPV, Foreigns , 2nd Print Newsstands , Mark Jeweler's, etc... All of which I try to keep hunting.

Haha.. Rabbit Hole.. besides I am not after all of them across the board, mainly just Superman ( although I do just keep picking them up when I find them). Which still is a TON of them. Here are some more packs that have some superman DC Universe in them.. and then these which it has been a while since I have done another group shot ( will have to dig these all out at some point and update, sort, and get new pictures ) I know I have added a LOT more.

Foreign newsstand All of these newsstand are also signed by John Byrne Sorry about the directs just didn't want to dig to take just a picture of the newsstand. Spider-man is a Mark Jeweler's And of course my collection of 2nd print newsstands.

I am not even so sure about that anymore.. Did you see this mess CGC Graded Universal? Although they at least note it all on the label even if it is Blue.

@Cpt Kirk

I don't know reality can be worse. There are plenty of tingers and foes out there and then there is this..

Since we wandered off on expensive exotic cars and fraud add a dash of Florida Man and someone who obviously didn't know he could have invested in fractional shares..

I was referring to you mentioning the intended back cover ad being glued, which was common for the printer proofs as they were working out layout and finalizing for print. Looking at the cover it looks good and do not see any real changes from the finished distributed copy so this was probably pretty close to the final print mock up. Definitely an amazing piece of history to own. I too hoped the numbers would help , but without knowing the layout codes we can only speculate. I checked with all of the packs I have and potential ones this could reside, unfortunately no upc or box numbers match any displayed at the bottom of the page. Although since this made me look I did notice that there were two variations of the death doomsday single set pack that had different 75 prints , but the same box upc. The Dual pack has a completely different upc( which was to be expected) as well as the 2 pack.

I agree with Revat Wowsers. Haha.. Really it is amazing. I have had a few of these in the past( NOT DC Universe Logo) but they were all printers proofs. As you said they tend to add things such as ads with tape or glue. Some also have writing about changes for color, logo, price , etc. It truly is a piece of history as most of these end up destroyed. It has the extra amazing history as it has the notation of being meant for Multipack ! Definitely have to say I am jealous of this one. Congratulations!

A good ol' fashioned hostile takeover approach to acquire a book you want. What could go wrong?

True, but if the 90's taught us anything it is that...

Who needs Disney + when you physically own almost everything they ever released ? Invest now ! And when it comes to the comic stock market, well when ever there is a way there is to make a dollar someone will buy in , but when investment crooks and market managers get involved the whole thing starts to sound a bit more like an episode of Now this sounds like something I could get behind. Although need to widen my portfolio so better invest in Mono Drug Manufacturers as well.. If we do see a comic book investment portfolio where you invest in shares you can bet that there will definitely be a " Mile High Market"

I know you have been after that one and now two! Congratulations!

I spent years loving the oddities. Now as I go back through them, I get to share them.

Why not revive a 9+ year old thread? Bring it back. I know that Martin Nodell did a lot of these Green Lantern Sketches, but still have to share as well as one that he did not do as many.

Thank you. I have been going back through some of my random short boxes , so I can separate and sort them. I have been rediscovering some of these that i haven't thought about in a long time and some I do not know where or when I acquired them. Still had to Celebrate the Double Covers!!!