Dell back cover variants question 0

[byosti]

Recently when going through some books I picked up I noticed some dells have different back covers than others of the same issue. One with ads and one without. How much rarer, if at all, are the non-ad covers?

[Action252Kid]

On 5/14/2023 at 8:02 PM, byosti said:

Recently when going through some books I picked up I noticed some dells have different back covers than others of the same issue. One with ads and one without. How much rarer, if at all, are the non-ad covers?

In many cases, I feel like the market (currently) doesn't value the two types too differently.. but for certain books/titles (Four Color, for example), there are definitely collectors who only want the non-ad back covers, as it's the difference between an extra one-page story(!) and a boring ad.  I think it's one of those things where a lot of people are simply unaware or don't notice the difference (maybe similar to how newsstand copies are now valued higher for Bronze Age books.. but in the past, a lot of people didn't even notice or care about the difference).