Question on Variant Cover Pricing When Bought New

[apollobuzz]

I was browsing through some back issues on mycomicshop.com and noticed that they list the cover price to Ultimate Fantastic Four #60 variant as $80 and the cover price to The Walking Dead #50 superhero variant as $18. But the prices listed on the covers show the same prices as the regular issues. Admittedly, I haven't purchased comics "off the rack" since I was kid. But were these issues regular price or the hefty price listed on mycomicshop when purchased brand new at the LCS (assuming they were available at the LCS)? If priced differently, why do the covers show the normal price? Thanks in advance.

 

[synch]

What ever prices you are seeing here are not the cover prices but the price at which that shop chooses to sell them at! As far as I know its up to each shop to decided how they go about selling these things My shop normally charges $9-ish around for the 1:25 ratio stuff & $30 for the 1:100 range stuff

 

[apollobuzz]

Good to know. Thanks.

[kidcolt]

They usually list the same cover price as the regular issue. Some of theses are 1:100 or 1:250, obviously if the shop buys all those extra issues they expect to sell these rare variants at a premium.

[apollobuzz]

Makes sense. And if the LCS sells all of the regular issues, it's even a sweeter deal for them.

 

[dupont2005]

I remember my comic shop charged whatever multiple of cover the ratio the variant was.

 

Man, that sentence came out horrible

 

What I mean is, if it was a 1/25 variant, the comic would cost 25x cover and so on. I don't know if anybody was buying them or not. I asked the guy if I would get 24 other copies to go with it