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[Ant-Man]

[Ant-Man]

And a few mags …

[George Brent]

Nice!   Those last Savage Sword's (with #235 being the last issue in the series) are tough to get in high grade  --though I have no clue what the newsstand ratio was, but it certainly is not in the 1/100 ballpark, given what I remember when I was looking for it on eBay, in fact, the two copies MCS has available now are both newsstands  (I did manage to find a very nice newsstand copy on eBay, still sealed in its subscription bag and I plan to keep it that way when/if I ever sell it).

 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

This one arrived today.

[MetalPSI]

Amazing the things I find when I go diving in my own boxes

No recollection of where or when I picked this up

 

[Jesse-Lee]

[djzombi]

On 2/28/2022 at 5:57 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

This one arrived today.

Check the UPC box.  "Spider-Man Family"?  REALLY?  

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 3/4/2022 at 8:14 PM, djzombi said:

Check the UPC box.  "Spider-Man Family"?  REALLY?  

That's a cool aspect to clue in on!

I know ASM #601 through about #609 are the same way on the UPC box, especially with the Newsstand versions, but wolverine/spider-man 

 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 3/4/2022 at 8:14 PM, djzombi said:

Check the UPC box.  "Spider-Man Family"?  REALLY?  

Spider-man is everywhere! 

I had an uncut sheet of The Death of Superman cards that the notation on the edge of it said Spiderman..

[bshowell]

On 3/4/2022 at 9:22 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

That's a cool aspect to clue in on!

I know ASM #601 through about #609 are the same way on the UPC box, especially with the Newsstand versions, but wolverine/spider-man 

 

This happened toward the end of when Marvel was offering newsstand editions (and mostly only through Barnes and Nobel). If they wanted to offer a new title there was a fee associated with that so they would just put titles that they had already sold on the barcode and sell that issue under the wrong title. That Wolverine issue would have rung up as "Spider-Man Family" at the cash register. I have a ton of Fantastic Four issues that say Astonishing X-men near the barcode because when it was replaced by FF and then later returned, FF kept the Fantastic Four designation on the newsstand. The funny thing was they actually fixed this a few months before they stopped selling them altogether. The last few issues of Fantastic Four that they offered actually say Fantastic Four. I wonder if they were getting complaints because they couldn't track sales of the correct titles?

[Ad Astra Collectibles]

Grab these today for a $1 each

[THE_BEYONDER]

My super random contribution for today 

[Beastfeast]

On 3/6/2022 at 10:27 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:

My super random contribution for today 

Apologies if this has been discussed but I wonder about Archie newsstands because I don't ever remember seeing them for sale at any comic shops I went to.  Were the majority of the copies sold AT newsstands? 

[ThothAmon]

 

Edited March 6, 2022 by ThothAmon

[djzombi]

This weekend's cheap modern newsies!  Most recent: Green Lantern #125, cover date June 2000.

Sorry crappy pix are crappy.

 

[ThothAmon]

A few random newsstands just back from the. CGC finishing school. Received 2 year degrees. 
 

[littledoom]

These were from a free pile at a con

[djzombi]

On 3/7/2022 at 11:28 PM, littledoom said:

These were from a free pile at a con

Nice!!

[paqart]

On 3/6/2022 at 4:34 PM, Beastfeast said:

Apologies if this has been discussed but I wonder about Archie newsstands because I don't ever remember seeing them for sale at any comic shops I went to.  Were the majority of the copies sold AT newsstands? 

I don't think so. I bought a few of these last year for fun, then did my research on them. From what I've seen, Archie newsstand editions are more common than newsstands from other publishers but remain less common than their direct counterparts.  They amount to variants you can have as opposed to variants you can't find in a month of looking. My guess is that the ratio of direct to newsstand Archies is about 3:1 to 8:1, depending on the year and title.