Lazyboy

In Rand McNally, hamburgers say "Mmmmm, valiantman!"

No, you said they're price variants (and just did it again), which they are not. But you are correct that Canadian Newsstands and such aren't foreign licensed reprints.

Pence copies of AF 15 are from Marvel, working with U.K. distributors to sell them over there. The market across the pond was no more a mystery to Marvel than the domestic market ("We didn't know if they would sell very well in another market, but we printed a few at the same time."), especially for new characters like Spider-Man. I get your general point that nobody cares if AF 15 didn't get printed in Rand McNally until last year, 60 years after the original, because it's still just a reprint ("We knew it was a good seller, so we got it reprinted for other countries a few months (or years) later."), but Marvel doesn't publish for them or have distribution there.

Neither of these are a thing, at least not in general. Publishers knew the markets they were part of (as much as they could, anyway) and worked with distributors who knew the markets. Other publishers licensed content and/or properties for use in their areas. The original publishers just took the licensing money.

Nobody cares how a tiny, self-interested group tries to redefine things they like or things that are kind of similar to things they like.

Foreign licensed reprints, made by some other publisher in some other country.

No, they aren't.

Okay... but it's Page Quality, not Page Color.

Really? Did this book come out last week? Last month at least? Last year? Last decade? Well, at least it didn't come out last century.

They have one. Unfortunately, it's the same guy in charge of all QC at CGC.

The time for that was before some genius updated Amazing Spider-Man #252 with the incorrect "Ties with Marvel Team-Up #141 for" first black costume. Those notes used to be correct and now, for many years, they haven't been. But they really shouldn't be making changes without research and correct information, so why would anyone want to stop them?

Good thing you didn't look a couple of years ago or you probably would have just given up and not even bothered posting.

They are not. https://www.comichron.com/titlespotlights/amazingspiderman.html They are the lowest printed ASMs that matter, because anything after volume one is worthless (along with the rest of Marvel), but that's different.

Well, I couldn't put my finger on what was missing in my life before now, but there it is: seeing Richard Dreyfuss playing a black man in a movie!

The general premise is correct. Wonder Woman (v.2) is, on average, noticeably more expensive and harder to find than Flash (v.2), Green Lantern (v.3), Superman (v.2), etc.

I remember when I really started to use feeBay almost 20 years ago. At the time, I still believed the OPG actually mattered. So I couldn't understand why I not only kept losing auctions for ASM 430 and 431, but having my bids get completely blown away in those auctions. Around 10 years later, the OPG finally broke out those issues from the minimum Guide price run. So if anyone ever wonders why I trash the worthless waste of paper... er, OPG at every opportunity (and to be clear, that's just one example, not the entire reason), there you go. Luckily, some people selling comics were also dumb enough to believe in the OPG, so I eventually got multiple copies of both issues for quite cheap. But I haven't seen them very often period, let alone at a price even approaching cheap, in over a decade. You'll be waiting forever. They aren't newly or briefly hyped. As I just mentioned, they're fairly consistent for two decades (though actual prices fluctuate with the larger market, like most books with any value). There are no Campbell covers in ASM (v.1), so don't worry about it. There are a few variants in the 401-441 run, but they're nothing special.

Nah. Too much expense and work. Just only handle orange covers.

I would guess that the surprise success of the first issue prompted them to do Newsstands starting with the second printing of the first issue. It's almost unbelievable that a DC series with that format and price point at that time had newsstand distribution and I can't think of another explanation. Of course, it's not something you're easily going to see or notice because it's not evident from the front cover alone.

I'm not sure why they wouldn't, but they've graded 10 copies of each, so I'd have to say that they do grade them. The bigger question is why you would want to have them graded.

But seriously, thank you for this brand-new, brilliant insight that nobody here has ever heard or thought of before.

What? I thought you were just a newb, but you've now proven yourself to be an insufficiently_thoughtful_person.

"Nobody else is dumb enough to submit this worthless trash!" Seems like a great selling point to me.

Awesome! I'll finally be able to sell... wait a minute, I don't have Star Trek comics. But Star Wars is still mediocre and way overrated.

People making low guesses without considering how big the world really is and without actually understanding how much they can't see? Why does this remind me of something more current?