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[Jesse-Lee]

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

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[djzombi]

Recent acquisitions!  Most are 9.0+, I would estimate. The ASM (date: Jan 2006) is a price variant, I noticed. Most recent Adv. of Superman is cover dated September 2004.

 

[paqart]

On 3/14/2022 at 7:34 PM, djzombi said:

Recent acquisitions!  Most are 9.0+, I would estimate. The ASM (date: Jan 2006) is a price variant, I noticed. Most recent Adv. of Superman is cover dated September 2004.

 

FYI: It isn't a "price variant" because the newsstand price is different from the direct. The reason is that all of the newsstand edition copies have the same price. A "price variant" is when the newsstand edition itself has multiple prices. Marvel did this for 36 issues between Nov '1999-Jan '00

 

[littledoom]

2nd print newsie!

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 3/14/2022 at 8:06 PM, littledoom said:

2nd print newsie!

Congratulations! May also want to share that one here..

 

[littledoom]

Spider-Man Media Blizzard 1-3 newsstands! 100 pages extravaganza! What are the best newsstands posted in this thread? 

Edited March 15, 2022 by littledoom

[djzombi]

On 3/14/2022 at 8:30 PM, paqart said:

FYI: It isn't a "price variant" because the newsstand price is different from the direct. The reason is that all of the newsstand edition copies have the same price. A "price variant" is when the newsstand edition itself has multiple prices. Marvel did this for 36 issues between Nov '1999-Jan '00

 

now even more to hunt down  

[paqart]

On 3/14/2022 at 9:06 PM, littledoom said:

2nd print newsie!

I bought one of these at NYCC for $5.00 because I know some collectors will pay a good premium for it. That said, I really hate the cover because it is such obvious propaganda. This reminds me of some of the comics from the sixties when celebrities would be on the cover, thus completely breaking the fourth wall between the comic book world and the real world. A cover related to the story, in the style of a proper Spider-Man cover, would be much preferred. If the story is about SM meeting "the president" it shouldn't be whoever is really president, but a made up president. Making it a real president limits the narrative options considerably.

Edited March 15, 2022 by paqart

[littledoom]

On 3/15/2022 at 3:33 PM, paqart said:

I bought one of these at NYCC for $5.00 because I know some collectors will pay a good premium for it. That said, I really hate the cover because it is such obvious propaganda. This reminds me of some of the comics from the sixties when celebrities would be on the cover, thus completely breaking the fourth wall between the comic book world and the real world. A cover related to the story, in the style of a proper Spider-Man cover, would be much preferred. If the story is about SM meeting "the president" it shouldn't be whoever is really president, but a made up president. Making it a real president limits the narrative options considerably.

They’ve done this multiple times. By they refer also to Spawn and Savage Dragon.. anything to get copies to sell. Cover cameos, variants, multiple prints 

Edited March 16, 2022 by littledoom

[paqart]

On 3/15/2022 at 8:02 PM, littledoom said:

They’ve done this multiple times. By they refer also to Spawn and Savage Dragon.. anything to get copies to sell. Cover cameos, variants, multiple prints 

Yep, and I hate them every time. It's like those sitcom episodes where they'd have a guest musician  who has to interrupt the already tiny 20 minute time slot with a five minute song and five minutes of all the sitcom actors praising the musicians for how wonderful they are.

[djzombi]

On 3/15/2022 at 6:33 PM, paqart said:

Making it a real president limits the narrative options considerably.

Not to mention seriously dates the book!  So much for "Marvel Time" if Peter Parker met The Beatles and President Obama  

At the risk of going off-topic, remember when Cap fought a serpentine Reagan?  LMAO
"Newsie" cover provided in a poor attempt to connect to OP:

Edited March 16, 2022 by djzombi

[paqart]

On 3/15/2022 at 9:21 PM, djzombi said:

Not to mention seriously dates the book!  So much for "Marvel Time" if Peter Parker met The Beatles and President Obama  

At the risk of going off-topic, remember when Cap fought a serpentine Reagan?  LMAO
"Newsie" cover provided in a poor attempt to connect to OP:

Oh brother. I didn't know about that one. Funny thing, I don't think there have been negative characterizations of certain presidents but I don't recall ever seeing positive portrayals of other presidents. 

Edited March 16, 2022 by paqart

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Edited March 16, 2022 by Dimebag_D

[paqart]

Just got my third big box of comics back from CGC. Again, just a few weeks shy of a year after sending them. The grades on these were disappointing to me, particularly the Hulk #1, which looked to me the same as my direct edition Hulk #1, which was graded a 9.8. This means I still have only 1 newsstand in 9.8 condition (Supergirl #50 from the 2005 series). The Hulk 92 was sent because I happen to like the issue, though I knew it would be an 8.0 or so. The 7.0 Supergirl #50 was a surprise though. I wish now I'd looked at it more carefully before sending. The Deadpool was a surprise. To my eye, it looked like a 9.6-9.8, not a 9.4. I have another one still at CGC, so we'll see if that one does any better. Unlike the last batch of price variants, the two ASMs in this batch didn't get a note on the label. The good news is that I now have about 73 slabbed newsstand editions.

Edited March 16, 2022 by paqart

[ThothAmon]

On 3/16/2022 at 4:42 PM, paqart said:

disappointing to me

Don’t be so hard on yourself, you’re a tremendous slouch. The truth is Newsstands WERE handled more than direct editions and are harder to find un-marred by the ravages of time. These ASMs notwithstanding. 
 

[paqart]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:01 PM, ThothAmon said:

Don’t be so hard on yourself, you’re a tremendous slouch. The truth is Newsstands WERE handled more than direct editions and are harder to find un-marred by the ravages of time. These ASMs notwithstanding. 
 

I'm curious if your #10, 11, and 13 are price variants?

[ThothAmon]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:08 PM, paqart said:

I'm curious if your #10, 11, and 13 are price variants?

Do tell?  They look the same as the others to me. 

[paqart]

On 3/16/2022 at 5:14 PM, ThothAmon said:

Do tell?  They look the same as the others to me. 

Yep, yours are all $1.99 prices (not variants". The ones in my photo are priced $2.49. I have a $2.29 variant of the #13 but that's it. The $2.29 issues are very hard to find.

[djzombi]

Dollar bin newsies!