Spiderman bar codes?..

[synch]

I am just wonderng why on some comics you can find a picture of spidermans head on front cover where the bar code should be?.. Is there some reason why they did this?.. Also I remember being in a comic shop one time picking out some transformers comics when I was a kid & some guy came along and started trying to talk me out of buying them because they were rarer than the regular ones with the bar code...

 

Is this true?..

 

& no he didn't get the comics I had gone a long way to get them and wasn't going to be giving them up to some guy that I beat there by about 10 min for whatever reason! Finding out that made them "rare" only made my score all the sweeter! I got a lot that day but I think the other guy still wound up with some stuff so don't feel too bad

[ComicSupply]

I believe that the barcodes were for the direct stores like 7/11's and Kmarts and the likes.

 

The spidy head was for the local comic shops.

[synch]

So how were the comic shops suppose to know the prices ? :D My guy finds it a pain in the enough when the bar code is on the back or they don't have the CDN price on (we just look at other books for the same price for that heh!)

 

hmm if thats the case I wonder which would be harder to find... I would think there would be more out there in good shape WITH spidey heads... Would something like this really make a difference in the value of a book?..

 

[ComicSupply]

The book still had the price on it. The barcode was only to make it easy for people to scan the comic book for sale.

 

To me, it doesn't make a difference at all. Of the thousands and thousands of backissues I have, I price them no differently based upon this characteristic.