Show us your Modern Newsies! 22 22

[sonicdan]

I checked my collection for this book and discovered it was a newssie 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 2/27/2023 at 7:51 PM, djzombi said:

More recent newsie acquisitions, all from after the year 2000, nearly all from dollar bins. And two are "final" issues!

Very nice. Very present. Keeping tally, some of those I can dig the covers. Is it all for collectables? And holding? Or filing away? I would love to flip

That ain't easy either

 

[djzombi]

On 2/27/2023 at 11:16 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Very nice. Very present. Keeping tally, some of those I can dig the covers. Is it all for collectables? And holding? Or filing away? I would love to flip

That ain't easy either

 

Oh, I just got them because they were there, and cheap.

I mean, "I got them for my collection."  Because I'm a hoarder...uh, "collector."

Yeah, that's the ticket!

[mrwoogieman]

Recent finds out of the dollar boxes, mostly right in my newsies wheelhouse, post-2000 Marvels, along with a couple from the 90s including a glow in the dark Gene Colan cover. 

 

 

[Jesse-Lee]

On 3/1/2023 at 11:48 AM, Bart Allen said:

Underworld Unleashed #1 Neron's first appearance 

That's a sweet book, but not a newsstand.

[Bart Allen]

On 3/1/2023 at 6:27 PM, Jesse-Lee said:

That's a sweet book, but not a newsstand.

Whoops, wrong thread -- thanks 

[littledoom]

These were a buck each 

[Corona smith]

I recall someone asking me to show them a modern newsstand, since they had shared themselves. Well here’s my modern newsstand. 
 

 

[ThothAmon]

Trying to understand where the blank upc box fits into the variant world?  Does say made in Canada First Printing on splash page. 

 

[valiantman]

On 3/3/2023 at 10:39 AM, ThothAmon said:

Trying to understand where the blank upc box fits into the variant world?  Does say made in Canada First Printing on splash page. 

Usually, these are from packaged or boxed sets. There's no UPC so that the package/set doesn't scan a price for a single issue.

Knowing whether they're actually first prints is harder... because the companies are usually trying to "capitalize on popularity" with a "packaged set" which either isn't known until after the first printings are in the market or they aren't sold packaged as a set until all the other single books in the set have been released. The interior may say first printing because they wanted to go back to print quickly with the same guts as the original, or maybe the guts were overprinted initially in anticipation of a later "packaged set". The cover differences indicate that it's from a set that's not likely to be from the same timeframe as when the first printing single issues went on sale.

Edited March 3, 2023 by valiantman

[andyborehol]

On 3/3/2023 at 11:39 AM, ThothAmon said:

Trying to understand where the blank upc box fits into the variant world?  Does say made in Canada First Printing on splash page. 

 

Variants of Amalgam Comics are a pretty unique topic, especially because half of them were actually published by DC and half were actually published by Marvel, with each company using their own standards at that time. “Legends of the Dark Claw” was published by DC, and here’s 4 distinct versions of it (Direct edition, Newsstand edition, Multi-pack edition and 2nd printing):

The DC multi-pack versions have no UPC but are still indicated as “first printing” in the indicia…to valiantman’s point, whether that is actually true really depends on whether DC intended to sell these in multi-packs at the time of the original printing. The 2nd printing is properly indicated in the indicia, and it also has a small Roman numeral “II” on the cover (as was standard for DC 2nd/3rd/Nth printings in this era).

 

On the Marvel side of things, I don’t believe that they ever released any 2nd printings of their Amalgam titles. They did have multi-packs, but I don’t believe that the comics are distinguishable from normal Direct Editions…I won’t crack open this 3-pack, but “Spider-Boy Team-Up” appears to have the same barcode as my raw copy:

 

End of the day, my take is that if there is any published feature that made some copies of a book distinguishable from others, then you’ve got yourself a variant.

[mrwoogieman]

On 3/3/2023 at 1:42 PM, andyborehol said:

End of the day, my take is that if there is any published feature that made some copies of a book distinguishable from others, then you’ve got yourself a variant.

I'm more comfortable saying that they are different editions, rather than variants. Directs are not variants of newsstands and newsstands are not variants of directs.

 

 

[valiantman]

On 3/3/2023 at 2:02 PM, mrwoogieman said:

On 3/3/2023 at 12:42 PM, andyborehol said:

End of the day, my take is that if there is any published feature that made some copies of a book distinguishable from others, then you’ve got yourself a variant.

I'm more comfortable saying that they are different editions, rather than variants. Directs are not variants of newsstands and newsstands are not variants of directs.

What's interesting is that both of these points of view, plus the discussion of unintended differences and manufacturing errors, could be combined by using the word "variation".

Edited March 3, 2023 by valiantman

[Lifesuggs]

Going through some boxes I haven’t touched in a while, finding some fun stuff

[Jesse-Lee]

[awakeintheashes]

[Corona smith]

[littledoom]

$1 finds from a show over the weekend. Keepers

 

[Corona smith]

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 3/10/2023 at 5:39 PM, Corona smith said:

Man that's good stuff. So far I've come up dry on newsstands. Usual places, mostly looked for titles too if I'm honest. Haven't bit the Newsstand bug in a minute. Glad to see there are still some being bought. I'm not sure what the ball bounces in ways of appearances either, which is mostly my thing. Are you keeping all these raw?

Edited March 11, 2023 by ADAMANTIUM