Books you just cant find in the Wild 22 22

[Beastfeast]

First time finding one of these but also the first time I remembered to look.  Chalk that up to dumb luck.  

[fastballspecial]

On 7/21/2022 at 7:20 PM, Beastfeast said:

First time finding one of these but also the first time I remembered to look.  Chalk that up to dumb luck.  

Yes that is a very very hard copy to find. I have one buyer locally looking to make the set now. 

[WolverineX]

On 7/21/2022 at 8:20 PM, Beastfeast said:

First time finding one of these but also the first time I remembered to look.  Chalk that up to dumb luck.  

What's the story about this?

[Beastfeast]

On 7/22/2022 at 9:34 PM, WolverineX said:

What's the story about this?

This and These were part of a set sold in the JC Penney catalog in the mid 90s.  I was almost positive I bought one of those sets from the catalog back in the day but they're long since sold/lost/given away. 

[Qalyar]

On 7/21/2022 at 7:20 PM, Beastfeast said:

First time finding one of these but also the first time I remembered to look.  Chalk that up to dumb luck.  

That one's tough! AND you found a copy where the cover was cut square and mostly aligned with the interior (looks a little high, I think I see pages peeking at the bottom, but that's way better than some of these). That's even tougher.

I swear Marvel's printer must have done those JC Penney books under protest, or had the accounting intern run the presses for them, or something, because so many of them are just so incompetently assembled.

[jsilverjanet]

I’ve run into the silver surfer one quite a bit - this is the first for the Doctor Strange (granted I don’t normally buy this title) @fastballspecial

 

[fastballspecial]

On 7/23/2022 at 7:32 PM, jsilverjanet said:

I’ve run into the silver surfer one quite a bit - this is the first for the Doctor Strange (granted I don’t normally buy this title) @fastballspecial

 

Yes I have heard about this book, but I have never seen it in person. Ive only seen like 2 Silver Surfers in person. 
Anyone seen the watch I am assuming it had one.

 

[fastballspecial]

On 7/22/2022 at 11:23 PM, Qalyar said:

That one's tough! AND you found a copy where the cover was cut square and mostly aligned with the interior (looks a little high, I think I see pages peeking at the bottom, but that's way better than some of these). That's even tougher.

I swear Marvel's printer must have done those JC Penney books under protest, or had the accounting intern run the presses for them, or something, because so many of them are just so incompetently assembled.

Still to this day I see people sell Young Heroes and Amazing Fantasy JCPenny's as NM copies from their decades. Man do they get Neg hard for it afterwards lol.

 

[Lazyboy]

[WolverineX]

Last witchblade newsstand

[fastballspecial]

[littledoom]

Dollar sale finds

[littledoom]

So darn rare. You find them by just not looking for them or expecting to find them lol. 
 

[littledoom]

On 7/15/2022 at 8:14 AM, manetteska said:

From Chicago Fan Expo. 
 

I have been looking in back issue bins for years for a Hardware 49 and never found one. Finally saw this copy from a dealer still setting up and bought it just to have one. The seller also had two copies of Static 45 but they were priced above graded copies. 
 

Found it! Final issue! 

[WolverineX]

On 8/6/2022 at 1:21 AM, littledoom said:

So darn rare. You find them by just not looking for them or expecting to find them lol. 
 

What is this monstrosity?

[littledoom]

On 8/7/2022 at 12:05 PM, WolverineX said:

What is this monstrosity?

Thrasher skateboard comics.. no comic shops sells these 

[littledoom]

Today’s lone dollar book. It was the only comic at a particular booth. It was freely sitting on top of a pile of photographs, stamps, newspapers, etc. The couple was happy I was able to buy their obscure odd comic 

[littledoom]

On 7/14/2022 at 9:25 AM, manetteska said:

So it's no longer Megaton #2?

Found it! Along with some other beauties! 

[IbukiLord]

Less than 1000 of these according to comichron print run, never thought I'd find one in the wild yet alone for cover price.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 8/16/2022 at 12:41 PM, Towhead said:

On 8/16/2022 at 2:12 AM, IbukiLord said:

Less than 1000 of these according to comichron print run, never thought I'd find one in the wild yet alone for cover price.

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Pardon but what is comichron?

for clarity you may google it, but it doesn't give "print runs" per se, it more gives a round number to the number of initial sales or something. It's been spoken of from time to time, to give an estimate to print runs, but may be a more of "at least this many" out there. Or something, I'm sure others have a more clear understanding