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[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 7/18/2024 at 6:17 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Unfortunately sold my 9.8 a few years back. Although I do still have another, it is not a 9.8 candidate

 

On 7/18/2024 at 6:19 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

I guess if I was going to add the Sup 50 , I should have added the Robin as well. I sold off a couple of these, but still have a couple more of these left.

[Jesse-Lee]

Batman Adventures Mad Love is another that comes to mind as really tough to find newsstands. And it's more difficult because the UPC is on the back cover.

[RockMyAmadeus]

On 7/18/2024 at 8:26 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

On 7/18/2024 at 4:17 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Unfortunately sold my 9.8 a few years back. Although I do still have another, it is not a 9.8 candidate

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[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

On 7/18/2024 at 11:17 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

 

 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 7/18/2024 at 3:42 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Aside from many of the others that are mentioned there are many newsstands that probably should be on the list but are either not a big enough interest or sales to establish value.  (A whole bunch of the late spawn newsstands)

or no known examples have been  found yet. (Wolverine #74 2009) Although even if some surfaced how much would it actually sell for and how long would those prices /interest sustain?

Another good example of this would be @Cpt Kirk 

What were some of the hardest to find newsstands in your runs and do you believe those to actually be some of the rarest ?(top 100 choices)

or would you say that it was more just the sporadic availablity of some of the issues in grade that you were specifically hunting?

For DC Comics, the big ones have already been mentioned.... i.e. Batman 457 2nd print news, Superman 50 2nd print news, and Robin 1 2nd print news.  For all others, I would say what drives the price the most is the condition of the comic book plus the value of the comic book itself (for example, Batman 567, Batman 423, Batman Adventures 12, Detective 880, etc.)

Another interesting twist would be to list the newsstand issues that have proven to be the hardest to find.   I have a friend who's been looking for 10+ years for all the Batman and Detective newsstand issues, and he still hasn't found Detective 867.  If you find one of those in FN or better, let me know and I'm sure he would pay you at least $50 for it even though there's nothing special about that issue.   

I was able to find every single newsstand issue in the titles of Batman, Detective, Superman and Action Comic books.   For me, the hardest ones to find were newsstand issues from approximately 2005 up until approximately the 13th issue of DC's New 52 series (especially Detective Comics).   Why?   Because 2005 was about the time they disappeared from most newsstands (Waldenbooks folded up around then).  To make matters worse, Detective Comics (and I'm sure other less popular titles) were distributed to the newsstands in very small quantities.  But right around the 13th issue of DC's New 52 series, I would say a lot of collectors jumped on the newsstand bandwagon, so I believe newsstand issues were bought and kept for speculation after that.  For example, an employee at Mile High comics told me that they made a deal with someone who would bring in newsstand issues that he got from Barnes & Nobles and trade them for other stuff so that Mile High could keep them in stock and list them on their website at ridiculous prices.   So except for a few issues, the most recent newsstand issues can be found if you have a little patience.  One notable exception.... Batman Rebirth #14.  That darn comic book didn't get sent to all the Barnes & Noble newsstands (those were about the only newsstands where you could still find comics). My daughter-in-law had to travel to a Barnes & Noble in north Atlanta to find it.   Just try and find that bad boy in newsstand format!    ... and also take note that newsstand issues at that time were price variants as shown below.

Edited July 25 by Cpt Kirk

[RockMyAmadeus]

On 7/21/2024 at 2:27 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

But right around the 13th issue of DC's New 52 series, I would say a lot of collectors jumped on the newsstand bandwagon, so I belive newsstand issues were bought and kept for speculation after that.