Anyone know how many SPAWN #1's were printed ?

[RockMyAmadeus]

WOW! no wonder these issue's are in the DOLLAR bins!

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I'm a dollar bin diver, have looked through hundreds of thousands of dollar and less box books (if not in the millions) and I've never seen a NM Spawn 1 in a dollar box. I've seen some with some dings. True, I tend to skip through when I hit a patch of 90's drek so I might be missing them for that reason, but for whatever reason, despite the vast number of these out there, I don't see them in dollar boxes so much. I think a lot of dealers are loath to dump them and stick them in the $2 box instead. Seriously, the series is pushing issue 200....

 

Honestly, I'd probably buy them out of a dollar box for fun. Relatively speaking, among the ranks of ridiculously overprinted books, it has actually "held" its value among the best (meaning I think it actually would sell pretty well at cover price).

 

One reason there might not be palettes of these sitting around is that they actually sold pretty briskly in the years following their release despite the print-run. I remember them moving pretty well at shows for $3 a pop, maybe it was 3 for $10.

 

I must echo my esteemed colleague Blob here...Spawn #1...unlike it's more disdained cousins Youngblood #1 and Wildcats #1, never seems to make it into the $1 bin.

 

If you have NM or better copies for $1, I'll buy a case from you.

 

After all....you can still get $10 (or more) sometimes for Supes #75, and there are twice as many....

[RockMyAmadeus]

 

And ironically, for all that speculation it remains a fairly difficult book in CGC 9.8.

I wonder how come? Did people overtime end up reading it then throwing it out afterward? or have they just forgot they have it? (it happens)

 

The bagged version suffers like all polybagged books with the heat seal line on the polybag leaving an indentation...which is pretty hard to have pressed out, even.

 

I tried to have a Spiderman #1 Silver Poly pressed, and the best it did was a 9.6 worth. :shrug:

[RockMyAmadeus]

If only the polybags were heat sealed across the top, instead of vertically down the back...

[RockMyAmadeus]

Bloodshot # 1's one-day sell-out and quick rise from $3.50 cover to $8-$12 was primarily due to its release on the same day as Superman # 75. A bunch of folks (even civilians) who went to the store for the sold-out Superman 75 ended up with the second-best cover of that week, Bloodshot # 1, instead.

 

Also, I remember reading that Superman # 75 was the most-dispersed comic in history. That is, the 4 million copies actually went to the most number of individual readers/people.

 

And ironically, for all that speculation it remains a fairly difficult book in CGC 9.8.

 

Nov 20, 1992. One of the craziest days I've ever seen in the comics industry.

 

I worked for a local distributor at the time, and saw stacks and stacks of the books the night before release, and just wanted one...he said no. Let me tell you...that Friday was a MADHOUSE. It was, of course, the biggest story of the day, week, and trumped only by the Presidential election for the month.

 

It's probably the single greatest "where were you?" day in all of comics.

 

[short_box-migration]

Now my next question is there a website that keeps records of how many copies of a issue were printed.

 

The past 13 years:

 

http://www.cbgxtra.com/Default.aspx?tabid=695