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On 7/4/2023 at 1:12 AM, LordRahl said:

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but John Carter ran 28 issues, not 24. 

You're correct, of course!  Somehow my brain slipped that into the pile.  Whoopsie!

Some recent acquisitions.  Not pictured: Wetworks #5.

Some recent Marvel & DC final issue acquisitions:

On 2/27/2023 at 11:16 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Very nice. Very present. Keeping tally, some of those I can dig the covers. Is it all for collectables? And holding? Or filing away? I would love to flip

That ain't easy either

 

Oh, I just got them because they were there, and cheap.

I mean, "I got them for my collection."  Because I'm a hoarder...uh, "collector."

Yeah, that's the ticket!

More last issue love. Got these recently. The ASM is a newsie, to boot!

"So and so rumoured to play this," etc.
I swear they just make stuff up like this for the clicks.  
I can come up with some pie-in-the-sky casting choice, tell somebody about it, and write an online article claiming there's a rumour about it.  
Screen Rant is one of the worst of the lot.  
Speaking of ranting...
/rant

On 2/15/2023 at 11:20 PM, divad said:

 Mine are newsstands. 

I just recently found several newsstand copies of this run in the dollar bin    Score!

On 2/14/2023 at 9:38 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

That's what I inferred, but it's definitely not clear. You must admit that the OP used far too many words to describe the situation if the problem is as simple as we're 'understanding'.

I typically have the same problem myself...you should (not) hear some of the rambling voicemails I've left for people 

I subscribe to your theory - with zero proof/data - that more "kid-friendly", licensed, and/or more recognizable comics likely have higher newsstand print runs than other titles.  This would also apply to surviving copies, due to people purchasing fewer copies of the lesser-known titles, and thus many of them being returned to the distributor.  

For example, there are probably currently more surviving issues of Superman from the year 2000 than there are of, say, Aquaman (not to knock Aquaman LOL).  

Seems clear to me, folks.  

This person identified an issue where 1st and 2nd prints are being lumped together on the labels and in the census, instead of being correctly identified as different printings by CGC's professionals.  
 

I'm with the OP on this.  If it's happening with this specific comic, who knows how many other slabbed books of other comics have also been misidentified, and are now on the market.