bellrules Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 On 7/4/2024 at 8:33 PM, Shark said: Copy #5 is on the way. Picked up another nice copy off eBay on the cheap. I thought these were rare or scarce? My white whale. Have yet to find one of these out in the wild. Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 On 7/8/2024 at 1:06 PM, bellrules said: My white whale. Have yet to find one of these out in the wild. I've had good luck with those 2 in the wild and a dc presents 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted August 12 Share Posted August 12 (edited) I've been tracking and identifying DC Whitman multi-packs for quite a long time. Over the years, I've spotted 137 different DC Whitmans in a multi-pack. I've collected the multipacks that contain 122 of these 137 issues, but there are still a handful I need for my collection. Regardless of owning them, I'm still interested in documenting their existence. There are 27 issues (barring any errors in my analysis) that I've never found in multi-packs that are noted in the following list. I think it's time to ask for assistance in finding as many of these as possible. Unsurprisingly, the big 8 issues appear in this list, but some of the rest aren't as scarce so you'd think a multi-pack would turn up. Can anyone share a pic of any of the following issues in a 2-pack or 3-pack? Action 508 Batman 323, 324 DC Comics Presents 9, 10, 14, 22 Flash 273, 274, 276, 278, 286 Green Lantern 116, 117, 118, 119 Justice League of America 167, 168, 179 New Adventures of Superboy 6 Sgt Rock 329 Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes 264 Super Friends 16, 21, 32 Superman 348 Warlord 22 Edited August 12 by Warlord Brock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 On 8/12/2024 at 7:30 PM, Warlord said: I've been tracking and identifying DC Whitman multi-packs for quite a long time. Over the years, I've spotted 137 different DC Whitmans in a multi-pack. I've collected the multipacks that contain 122 of these 137 issues, but there are still a handful I need for my collection. Regardless of owning them, I'm still interested in documenting their existence. There are 27 issues (barring any errors in my analysis) that I've never found in multi-packs that are noted in the following list. I think it's time to ask for assistance in finding as many of these as possible. Unsurprisingly, the big 8 issues appear in this list, but some of the rest aren't as scarce so you'd think a multi-pack would turn up. Can anyone share a pic of any of the following issues in a 2-pack or 3-pack? Action 508 Batman 323, 324 DC Comics Presents 9, 10, 14, 22 Flash 273, 274, 276, 278, 286 Green Lantern 116, 117, 118, 119 Justice League of America 167, 168, 179 New Adventures of Superboy 6 Sgt Rock 329 Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes 264 Super Friends 16, 21, 32 Superman 348 Warlord 22 Very interesting how all the big ones are still a bit of unknown... Action 508 Batman 324 DC Presents 10 and 22 Flash 286 JLA 179 New Adv of Superboy 6 Sgt Rock 329 Legion 264 Superman 348 Warlord 22 ...and even a more recent key like GL 116... It's like a who's who of rare and desirable Whitmans...and mostly released in Canada... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 Yep, the surprises are the rest of the listed issues which are relatively much easier to find. For instance, JLA 167, 168, 179 or Flash 273, 274, 276 or GL 116, 117, 118, 119. But I've never seen a 3-pack that contains only JLA issues, or only Flash issues, or only GL issues. It sure would pare down that list quickly if such 3-packs exist! Ditto for Super Friends and DC Comics Presents. All of these titles where I'm still searching for multiple examples have only been seen to be in mixed packs. In comparison, the titles where I have seen 3-packs containing only a single title are Action (3 diff packs) Batman (3 or possibly 4 diff packs - I've seen images of a pack with Batman issues front and back, but don't know the middle comic) Brave and the Bold (4 diff packs) Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (3 diff packs) Superman (3 diff packs) Wonder Woman (4 diff packs) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 Here are two 3-packs that I've seen but don't own and I didn't find out the middle comic. Can anyone confirm the hidden middle comic in these packs? Batman #312, #316 and . For this one, you can see a sliver of the bottom of the middle comic peeking out from behind Batman #312. It looks like Batman #315 to me but I'd like a confirmation from someone who has seen or owns this pack. Superboy and the LSH #247, Superman #331, and ADAMANTIUM and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shark Posted August 25 Author Share Posted August 25 I swear they're having sex. Morganmi and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 On 8/25/2024 at 3:14 PM, Shark said: I swear they're having sex. All that did was remind me of the last song skit on an Adam sandler standup audio disc! (How's that for variant qualifiers!). That ends in, "All the world is Shluck!" Or something I want to say Sssh don't tell album but the guy has a funny perspective sometimes, and has a Netflix special that's 'new" coming out this week. Some relevance because the album is shleck. Shark and PeterPark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Having deja vu like I had that conversation before. The most Whitman's I run into are ones that are normally Dell, and it would float my boat if I knew anything about them. Some can look old to my untrained eye and not be... Anyways. Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Posted September 6 Share Posted September 6 I have removed the temptation to overpay for this unopened 3-pak. You're welcome. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted September 7 Share Posted September 7 (edited) On 9/6/2024 at 8:54 AM, Sal said: I have removed the temptation to overpay for this unopened 3-pak. You're welcome. There are three pairs of DC Whitman packs I've identified where the same group of three comics are in two different types of bags. Your pack is an one version of one of these situations. Here's the variation that also holds Superman #338, 339, and 340. Instead of the Superman logo and image, this one just has the Super Heroes top flap. This is the most dramatic difference in packaging. The other two pairs of packs are packaged similarly with the same style of logos, but there are two different color variations where one is red and the other is green. Edited September 7 by Warlord Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Variants of variants seems like a bridge too far for me but the temptation is definitely there Warlord 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morganmi Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 (edited) On 8/12/2024 at 7:30 PM, Warlord said: I've been tracking and identifying DC Whitman multi-packs for quite a long time. Over the years, I've spotted 137 different DC Whitmans in a multi-pack. I've collected the multipacks that contain 122 of these 137 issues, but there are still a handful I need for my collection. Regardless of owning them, I'm still interested in documenting their existence. There are 27 issues (barring any errors in my analysis) that I've never found in multi-packs that are noted in the following list. I think it's time to ask for assistance in finding as many of these as possible. Unsurprisingly, the big 8 issues appear in this list, but some of the rest aren't as scarce so you'd think a multi-pack would turn up. Can anyone share a pic of any of the following issues in a 2-pack or 3-pack? Action 508 Batman 323, 324 DC Comics Presents 9, 10, 14, 22 Flash 273, 274, 276, 278, 286 Green Lantern 116, 117, 118, 119 Justice League of America 167, 168, 179 New Adventures of Superboy 6 Sgt Rock 329 Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes 264 Super Friends 16, 21, 32 Superman 348 Warlord 22 Unfortunately only have some flimsy evidence of what might have been in the Sgt. Rock 329 3pak. Did a search in my database and realized the only 2 DC Whitmans I have from the my childhood collection in 1979 are Superboy and the LofSH 253 and Sgt. Rock 329. I also have a JLA 167 from my childhood collection that would fit perfect to complete the 3-pak I bought back in the day. It's not marked as a Whitman in my database but that could have been an oversight. Will try to dig it out and see soon. Update: Dug it out and JLA167 is a regular edition so there goes that theory. Makes me wonder though if they ever put regular DC's in the 3 packs. Edited September 12 by Morganmi Warlord 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted September 14 Share Posted September 14 On 9/10/2024 at 8:31 PM, Morganmi said: Unfortunately only have some flimsy evidence of what might have been in the Sgt. Rock 329 3pak. Did a search in my database and realized the only 2 DC Whitmans I have from the my childhood collection in 1979 are Superboy and the LofSH 253 and Sgt. Rock 329. I also have a JLA 167 from my childhood collection that would fit perfect to complete the 3-pak I bought back in the day. It's not marked as a Whitman in my database but that could have been an oversight. Will try to dig it out and see soon. Update: Dug it out and JLA167 is a regular edition so there goes that theory. Makes me wonder though if they ever put regular DC's in the 3 packs. I can't say I recall any regular DCs in the 3-packs. But there have been some combos with regular Marvels in the packs with DC Whitmans. And there's a pack with DC Whitmans that also includes a Flash Gordon Whitman. So it can't be ruled out! OtherEric and Morganmi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlord Posted September 23 Share Posted September 23 Fantastic DC Whitman 2-pack that's new to me, it contains Action #504 and Wonder Woman #264. Both of these comics are also found in 3-packs. The Action 504 is unseen as the middle comic in a pack with New Advs of Superboy 2 and Superman 344 so this is the only pack where it's one of the outer/visible comics. Wonder Woman 264 is one of the visible comics in a pack with Flash 283 and B&B 159. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 Guessing those were distributed in Canada, given the French warning about putting one's head inside a plastic bag, non? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Posted September 25 Share Posted September 25 On 9/25/2024 at 11:33 AM, Sal said: Guessing those were distributed in Canada, given the French warning about putting one's head inside a plastic bag, non? Oh, the fun we used to have as kids putting our head inside the bags... It's even funnier in French! You can also see the address for Whitman's mysterious Canadian offices in Cambridge, Ontario on the bag. I found a guy on LinkedIn who used to work there, but he resolutely refuses to answer my messages. I'd love to know what inside stories someone could share... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
