steve566

Canadian, Australian, Canadian price variants are not foreign editions.. that’s what I’m saying in my post, not sure you agree or disagree with that statement

Very few in the foreign comic community that I know consider pence variants foreign editions... They along with Canadian and Australian PV's are great to collect with foreign editions but they are simply price variants.. nothing else.. The books are the exact same except for the price, same cover, same language, same ads.

Cover on all of these la prensa non canon Spiderman is Jose Luis Duran

yep that was an epic sale for foreign comics. Interesting to see as the American comic market slows and slumps the foreign market seems to still be picking up steam. Probably has a lot to do with rarity and the fact many of these books were pretty undervalued for so long

I personally have never regarded this issue as a “response” to Gwen Stacy’s death but rather the whole non canon run as the Mexican publishers way of showing love for Gwen in general. You are 100% correct on the dates but don’t forget that la prensa for what ever reason did not publish 121 and 122 but rather continued with the non canon stories until almost 1974 after Gwen was dead in American comics. 121 was later published by MACC comics in July 1974 when they assumed the rights to Spiderman from marvel. They to had a run of non canon marvel comics including Spider-Man, Black Panther and a few other marvel properties.

In what way am I bashing America? You seem to be making A LOT of assumptions about me from one post.

So other countries comic history is irrelevant? You do realize there are more comic readers around the world then there are in the US and English speaking countries right? Comics are an international platform.. your American elitism is showing 🤮

This book has been a grail for foreign collectors long before this heritage sale and consistently selling in the thousands of dollars for the last 5 years.. I think the excitement is that there seems to be more mainstream acceptance of these amazing non canon comics from the mainstream and “big” collectors rather than just the foreign fringe. I can’t think of more than 5-10 Americans that own a copy so it’s not exactly like we are all just speculating to cash in.. we are just proud to see a foreign comic grail have such good results at auction.

Haha well he should have no problem selling it after that heritage sale.. last one I saw sell publicly was about 2 years ago on eBay and it went for $5000.. I could probably send a line of buyers his way depending on price

Huge moment for foreigns comics last night as a beautiful yet moisture damaged copy of the La prensa wedding issue sold for $15,600 at heritage auction!! I was bidding for a bit thinking it would go for cheap since it hung around $800 all the way until the time was nearly up.. at that point it jumped up to $3000.. then it went to live proxy bidding and went insane.. If anyone was wanting this issue I hope you were able to secure one before last night because this will definitely change the prices on this already grail foreign comic book

Yes you can request a book be slabbed backwards. I have requested it on a couple foreign flipbooks (Danish Werewolf by knight 1 with Ms5 on back cover) Even though it was approved by Matt Nelson; who ever slabbed my books didn't follow through. So basically its a gamble whether they do it or not. This superman seems strange that they allowed to slab backwards since it is not a front and back cover (flip book) I know it was submitted to Heritage then CGC so I'm assuming Heritage put in the request per the sellers preference. Obviously the superman page is what makes the book desirable so I think the seller and Heritage did what would help maximize profit.

Thanks so much! Happy to show off some goodies to the world

I’m glad they made the announcement to explain their position.. it’s no big surprise to most of us that collect foreign comics since they started labeling them like this over a year ago.. I think it will at least bring more awareness to the comics which is great in my opinion. I’m a bit confused about the Disney thing and also for some reason some magazine sized comics are still receiving the old style labels.. the big take away for me is that CGC is interested in getting involved in foreign comics and that it is a work in progress

That one will be labeled as “out of this world 17”…they are doing a cover only approach.. if the cover is not af15 then it won’t get that label.. i believe that issue may get a notation that it contains the af15 story inside..

Definitely, I have one at cgc now, also going to submit my Greek edition

Thanks! I appreciate the insight.. I’ll just leave them be

Haha yea apparently according to the eBay listing her 1st app too!

Telling of what? Haha the most common slabbed mags I could find were playboys and sports illustrated.. didn’t see the centering issue with sports illustrated for some reason though.. guess it’s a size thing

Haha wow, thanks for the valuable input… just asking if it’s normal or not.. I payed to have them incapsulated by “the industry leader” and seems pretty half assed to not center the comics in the slab

These are both oversized comics, neither come close to fitting in a regular sized slab unfortunately. They are bigger than what fits in a normal comic slab but smaller than a full sized magazine like you pictured. No its not shaken comic syndrome. The inner well is set in this off center position I’ve seen others set off center just like mine.. here’s some quick examples I found on eBay wondering it’s worth the hassle to send in as a ME or if CGC truly set these mags like that on purpose 😵‍🥴

i just wanted to throw a question out there.. is it normal for magazine sized slabs to be off center? I have seen ton of examples on eBay and Instagram that were off center and just got my 1st mag submission back and 2 were very off center. Is this normal? should cgc fix this? I’m not super OCD but some are and this would drive them nuts. thanks

Agree 100%, they definitely have bigger fish to fry.. but what do they do in the mean time.. the foreign census is growing rapidly every day.. I was under the impression they purchased a large database of foreign comic information.. i have actually been impressed that they knew what some of the books I sent them were.. although I sent them some Indonesian Batman comics they def didn’t label correctly and had no info on label

Foreign comics is from what I hear from others and have seen is of the fastest growing segments of comic collecting. I import and used to sell a ton of foreign comics and the past 12 months the interest and prices have exploded. Regarding your Spanish X-men comic it would be labeled as giant size xmen 1 Spanish edition second printing. The original edition was printed about 10 years prior. If your selling foreigns on ebay you definitely want to list it by its American counterpart name otherwise like you said you will miss 95% of buyers. Most of my sales were to first time foreign buyers who loved a certain American book and didn't realize it had foreign counterparts.

Looks like you must have found me on Instagram or Facebook since that’s a book I just got back last week! I too am confused as why they didn’t put the entire German title and instead just sub labeled it hulk 1.. I’ll stay out of the argument since I’ve already shared my opinion which seems to be the way that CGC is heading (or has been doing it for over a year now). I do enjoy hearing opinions from both sides though..

I'm not too familiar with superboy but if that is the superboy 1 cover then the new labeling strategy would call it Superboy 1 Australian edition.. word on the street is Heritage is going to hold an all foreign edition auction so it seems like the CGC announcement will be in alignment with the heritage auction announcement