Jon McClure’s Overstreet Price Guide #50 Full Market Report

A quick note from Ben, publisher of the Rare Comics Blog: Hi everyone, it is an honor to be publishing Jon’s full Overstreet #50 market report online this year. As you may know, for their 50th anniversary guide issue, Overstreet included special anniversary features that necessitated they restrict the length of other areas of the guide such as the market reports section. Therefore, advisors were given a length limit this year, and were invited to end their reports with a web address to read the full version. Welcome to all the Overstreet readers who have landed here as a result! What follows is Jon’s full OPG #50 report; the blue background section is what you already read in the guide.

By Jon McClure; As published in the Overstreet Price Guide #50

Greetings from Astoria Oregon!

Here’s a few sales from late 2019: Wartime Romances #5 (Matt Baker cover) VG+ $450, Tomb of Dracula #1-70 average F/F+ $895, Green Mask #10 VG- $69, Fast Willie Jackson #1 F+ $65, Crime Smashers #11 VG+ $159, Buffalo Bill #7 VG- $59, and Strange Planets #1 NM- $59. Low to mid-grade Marvels sold in antique malls at 150% Guide or higher. Double to triple Guide was not uncommon to receive from speculators and collectors looking for undervalued and overlooked titles. Comics sell in person that won’t move online. DCs were sluggish in general except for key issues and large runs sufficiently discounted. Sales in general were steady, with Marvel titles leading the pack as usual.

The best definition I know for a “Variant” comic book is (1) any non-standard edition created for distribution with a unique purpose, (2) anything reprinted for distribution under the same title with some changes to the cover and/or contents, and (3) any non-standard edition created for distribution in an unplanned or imperfect way. The primary characteristic of a Variant is a strong similarity to the “regular” or standard edition.

Here’s a list of the five unique types of Type 1 variants that exist:

• Type 1: Test Market Cover Price Variants (US Cents Priced)

• Type 1A: Foreign Distribution Variants (UK Pence, Canadian $, Australian $, L Miller Indicias)

• Type 1B: Reverse Cover Price Variants (US Cents Priced)

• Type 1C: Variant Covers

• Type 1D: US Cents Price Font Variants

Type 1: Test Market Cover Price Variants (US Cents Priced)

Cover Price Test Market Variants with regional or otherwise limited distribution, published simultaneously with standard or “regular” editions. Such Variants exist because publishers want to test the market prior to raising prices. The indicia and all aspects of the book, except for the cover price, are identical to regular editions.

Type 1A: U.S. Published Foreign Distribution Variants (UK Pence, Canadian $, Australian $, L Miller Indicias)

Cover Price Variants intended for foreign distribution with limited regional distribution, published simultaneously with standard or “regular” editions. In the majority of cases, the indicia and all aspects of the book are identical to regular U.S. editions except for the cover price. In some instances other alterations may be present. These may include missing or different cover dates, regional indicia details and variant company logos. Other minor alterations may also be present.

Note: The definition of Type 1A has been updated for clarification purposes to accommodate new variant discoveries.

Type 1B: Reverse Cover Price Variants (US Cents Priced)

Cover Price Reverse Variants with regional or otherwise limited distribution, published simultaneously with standard or “regular” editions. Reverse Variants exist because material is accidentally printed with a lower price than intended, a mistake not always sufficient for the publisher to destroy otherwise salable goods. The indicia and all aspects of the book are identical to regular editions, regardless of whether it is intended for U.S. or foreign distribution, and the primary characteristic is that there is another version with the same cover logo and markings and the correct cover price. The Gold Key 30 cent and Whitman 40 cent Price Variants are perfect examples.

Type 1C: Variant Covers

Cover Variants with limited or standard distribution, published simultaneously with standard or “regular” editions. This type of Variant exists because publishers choose to experiment with the market without making widespread appearance changes to their logos or regular editions, or to capitalize on current popularity. The indicia and all aspects of the book are identical to regular editions except for the front, inside, and/or back cover deviations, with Variant covers sometimes noted inside. If one book has two different covers, it may be impossible to identify a “regular” edition beyond “cover 1a, 1b,” etc. DC’s Fury of Firestorm #61 and Justice League #3 Superman Logos Variant are good examples. A good multiple cover example is DC’s Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #1; The Walking Dead #100 is another solid example. Many contemporary publishers produce multiple different covers for their titles, and Type 1C is the most commonly used variety.

Type 1D: US Cents Price Font Variants

As of last year (2018), a new Type of variant has also surfaced, brought to my attention by UK based researcher Steve Cranch. Type 1D is defined as “Cover price variants with a unique price font. All aspects of the book are identical to regular editions but with a unique style of cover price.” There are 13 such variants currently proven to exist; they are Marvel U.S. Ten Cent Price Font Variants. Because no copy can be yet said to be the primary copy, all are “variants” in their own right, and can be catalogued as cover 1, 1a, 1b, etc. Twelve of thirteen known examples have two unique 10 cent fonts, and the 13th is a key issue, Rawhide Kid #17(8/60), which contains an origin story with Jack Kirby art, and which has three different ten cent fonts, not to mention a Type 1A 9d price variant! I know many of you may be thinking I’m splitting hairs, but we’re talking about original copies of the same books with different and identifiable characteristics on the covers.

There are three unique cents fonts known: 10 cents in bold with a slashed c, a ’slim font’ 10 cents with a small c next to the 10, and a slim font 10 cents with a big C next to the 10. In most cases, the slim font mirrors that of the Type 1A 9d copies raising the possibility of a link between the two. The cents font variations begin when the UK 9d prices are introduced; up until that point, all Marvels had the standard bold 10 / slashed c cents font.

Why do these variants exist and which copy was printed first? Might they have played with the appearance of a few books as an experiment of sorts, just for eye appeal, or on a whim, or due to some error? Or, given the timeline link to the 9d UK copies, could the additional cents fonts indicate some other purpose like foreign distribution – Canada perhaps – especially because of the example of Rawhide Kid #17? For the record, I believe all Type 1D 10 cent font variants should be valued equally in respect to scarcity and potential interest until more is known.

The 13 known Type 1D variants were published from June 1960 to February 1961 inclusive, and more variant examples may exist. Issues with font variants include Battle #70(6/60), with Kirby and Ditko art, Journey Into Mystery #60(9/60), 64-65(1-2/61), with Kirby art in #60 and #64, Rawhide Kid #17 (origin by Kirby), Strange Tales 75-77(6, 8, 10/60), 81(2/61), with Ditko art, Tales To Astonish #14(12/60), 16(2/61), with Kirby and Ditko art, and Two-Gun Kid #54-55(6, 8/60), with Kirby art. Although Steve is not the first to notice the font differences on Marvel covers, I believe he is the first to research and document the extent to which these variations exist.

For the remainder of my report, limited spatially because this is the 50th Annual Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, please go to rarecomicsblog.com.

By Jon McClure; Remainder of OPG #50 market report:

Marvel Type 1 test market cover price variants continue to break record sales results. Publisher experiments in the 20th century repeatedly birthed Type 1 cover price variants immediately before universal price hikes, such as the shift from 10 to 12 cents per copy that occurred in January 1962 from Marvel and DC, and the 25 cent to 30 cent shift famously embodied by the Marvel variants cover dated 4-8/1976 and from 30 to 35 cents for variants cover dated 6-10/1977. Archie and Charlton also played with 15 cent variants in the beginning of the 12 cent era. Despite much heckling back in the day from fellow advisors and critics, when I discovered and publicized the existence of the Marvel cover price variants in Comic Book Marketplace #51(8/97), such comics have soared in popularity and value. For a history of comic book variants from the Golden Age to the present, as well as a list of known variants and a detailed lexicon of variant types, with examples that continue to evolve and expand, refer to my article from 2010 in the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #40, “A History of Publisher Experimentation and Variant Comic Books,” pages #1010-1038. An updated version is in progress for the 51st Annual OPG. All variant types and publishers are represented into the early 1990s.

Marvel Type 1 test market cover price variants are among the hottest Bronze Age books pursued by collectors and speculators. The key books listed by the Guide in the top 10 Gold, Silver and Bronze Age categories are there due to consistent sales and demand, and currently five of the top ten Bronze Age comics are 35 cent variants. The ratio of regular 30 cent copies of Star Wars #1 in CGC 9.4 NM to 9.8 NM/M (there are over 2000) to the 35 cent variant of #1 is 200 to 1, according to the CGC census. Roughly twenty certified 35 cent copies exist in NM 9.4 or better, of which two certified copies exist in CGC 9.6 NM+ condition to date, despite the fact that the CGC census says there are three; a processing error mis-identified a reprint with a 35 cent cover price, which sold on eBay in 2018, at many times its value due to inept misrepresentation and lack of understanding by the bidders. The highest graded examples of Marvel variants are bringing record prices at auction, on the rare occasion they come up for auction at all, especially the western and horror titles that had the lowest distribution. Sales were slow for Marvel western and horror titles back in the day, hence their cancellations in 1976-1977.

Tip Top Comics #56(12/40) has surfaced as a 15 cover price variant, bringing other United Features’ titles and all issues from December 1940 (and months before and after) into potential variant territory. It is a Type 1A variant as Golden Age books were universally 10 cents unless a giant size. The best place to find variants is where you have already found one. Captain and the Kids #1(1938) exists as a Type 2 Variant dated December 1939 that reads “Reprint” on the cover. True Comics #60(5/47) has surfaced this year with a Type 1A 15 cent cover price. Other issues show small and subtle differences that make them variants. For example, #57(2/47) has gray and blue cover variants, and #29(11/43) has two versions: The regular copy has a ten cent price that stands alone, but the second copy has “cc” under the price. Additional examples likely exist within this title.

On another note, I.W./Super comics have not shown any appreciable interest yet, including the variants, despite my article in the OPG #47, “The Strange Story of Israel Waldman and the I.W./Super Comics Mystery,” pages #1169-1180. Such books have been overlooked for decades but I believe their day will come.

Archie 15 cent Type 1 cover price variants exist for issues from March 1962 to April 1963, and they now have over 80% confirmed to exist, so I feel confident that all 112 issues will eventually surface. Doug Sulipa and I estimate that such 15 cent variants are about 500-1000 times scarcer than their 12 cent counterparts. Regular 12 cent sci-fi monster issues from 1961-1962 sell for about 2-4 times guide, so the 15 cent variants of these books should logically be higher in value. It’s difficult to nail down actual worth when such items rarely change hands, and the listings do not appear in the guide yet, although collectors and dealers are well aware at this stage. I believe all 15 cent Archie Type 1 cover price variants have enormous investment potential, especially the three super-keys: Archie’s Madhouse #22(10/62), Archie’s Girls Betty and Veronica #75(3/62) and Josie #1(2/63). March 1962 to April 1963 is the time period where all Archie titles had a 15 cent counterpart.

Forty one different Type 1 Charlton 15 cent test market cover price variants from March 1962(20 titles) and April 1962(21 titles) are potentially hiding out there. Currently Fightin’ Marines #46(4/62), I Love You #39(4/62), LI’l Genius #37(3/62), Six-Gun Heroes #67(3/62), Space War #15(3/62), Sweethearts #64(3/62), Texas Rangers #32(3/62), and Timmy The Timid Ghost #31(3/62) are the only eight examples confirmed to exist. Such 15 cent variants are so scarce and unknown to collectors that no sales have yet to bring a premium due to the fact that almost no one is looking for them and dealers are unaware. Real value is difficult to judge without any money changing hands. I find such cusp era variants interesting and hope collectors will share acquisitions with me so I can continue to disseminate all Variant information. You can reach me at jonmcclurescomics.com with these or other variant discoveries.

Type 1A cover price variants simultaneously published for foreign distribution are increasing in demand according to Doug Sulipa. Bronze and Copper Age Marvel and to a lesser extent DC Type 1A Canadian cover price variants are now routinely selling for 150-500% Guide, and select CGC high grade key issues of popular characters have been bringing 200% to 1000% of guide; such Type 1A books are at least 10 times scarcer due to low print runs. Canada’s population is about 10% of the US population, thus about 10% of all Print Runs are Canadian copies, however roughly 80% of the surviving copies are Direct Editions, bought in comic shops and saved by collectors. “Type 1A Canadian Newsstand Cover Price Variants from the 1980s were easily our #1 bestselling variants of the year,” according to Sulipa. “Demand for them continues to grow at an accelerated rate, with many record-breaking sales taking place in 2019. In record numbers, collectors are learning about the scarcity and appeal of this type of price variant.”

Most of the Newsstand editions were bought by non-collecting readers, with a much lower survival rate, and most are well read FA/G to FN/VF copies. Most VF/NM or better Type 1A Canadian Newsstand Cover Price Variants are roughly 50 to 300 times scarcer than their US Direct Market counterparts in high grade; randomly checking the CGC census will substantiate this for most items. High grade examples from the Silver and Bronze age of Type 1A variants are scarcer; this is largely due to damages that occurred in transit, and in particular water damage found on pence editions shipped overseas. Such difficulties predate contemporary standard procedures like simultaneous off-site printing, a reality that renders the concept of origination meaningless, at least for modern books. Marvel collectors dominate about 75% of the Type 1A Canadian cover price and British pence variant market, while DC and the others split the remaining 25%, with non-DC books accounting for less than 10% of total sales, a ratio that steepens when you hit the 1990s, when Type 1A cover price variants that don’t say Marvel or DC have yet to show much interest outside of key issues.

Only five Type 1A DC pence issues exist from the early Bronze age: Action #402(7/71), Adventure #408(7/71), Detective #413(7/71), Flash #208(8/71), and Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #139(7/71). Action #402, Detective #413, and Flash #208 have Neal Adams covers, and the Flash issue is a 52 page giant, so such books have attractive qualities beyond just being Type 1A variants, and can bring 300% guide or more than cents editions, especially in high grade. The bulk of DC Type 1A pence issues exist from February 1978 to September 1981 and are more common.

Dell Canadian and U.K. Type 1A cover price editions are being collected more, and currently sell at at a modest premium of 125-150% of standard cents editions. The first published Canadian price variant Dell Giants were Bugs Bunny’s Christmas Funnies #2(11/51) and Walt Disney’s Christmas Parade #3(11/51). Western Publishing’s Type 1A 75 cent cover price variants of 60 cent Whitmans from 1984 sell briskly at 300-400% Guide due to extremely low print runs, according to Doug Sulipa. Whitman pre-pack comics dated 8-12/1980 are red hot sellers due to scarcity and bring $80-$500 or more in Very Fine or better condition for the finest examples. Refer to my article, “The Whitman Mystery,” in Comic Book Marketplace #85-86(9-10/01) for the strange story behind what caused the scarcity of Gold Key/Whitman comics dated 1980-1984 and their untimely demise.

Type 1A variants are drawing the attention of collectors and investors like never before. I have long argued that Type 1A variants of all eras would climb in interest due to scarcity. The scarcity of Canadian newsstand cover price variants versus simultaneously published U.S. direct editions is a chasm of difference, roughly 50 to 1 by comparison! Even “newsstand variants,” the newsstand edition of comics extending into the 1990s, have come to bring a premium of up to 1000% or more due to scarcity, as print runs descended year by year. Comiclink sold an Amazing Spider-Man #238(3/83) Type 1A CGC 9.6 for $2300 in August 2018; such items rarely surface.

CBCS and CGC now label Type 1A books “variants” on the labels, which is a positive step forward in understanding what they are and how to discuss them intelligently. Check out the free new online Price Guide for Type 1A Canadian cover price Marvel and DC comics from the 1980s at cpvpriceguide.com. The Guide contains only Marvel, DC and Archie at this juncture, beginning with books cover dated 10/82 and ending with issues cover dated 9/88 for DC and 8/86 for Marvel. Key issues in the top ten include Batman #357(3/83), Swamp Thing #37(6/85) and Amazing Spider-Man #238(3/83), the latter key issue burdened with an insert, an unusual conundrum.

Early Marvel Direct Sale Editions are scarcer and sell for an average of 200-500% of regular newsstand editions according to Doug Sulipa; such books were sometimes erroneously referred to as “Marvel Whitmans” due to their simultaneous distribution in department and drug stores in Whitman bags. Early Marvel Direct Market Editions have a duality of purpose, and thus have the unique honor of being “special market editions” that required a secondary market to help justify the cost of their existence in smaller print runs. The Direct Sales market was in its infancy, and Marvel wanted to monitor retailers’ return credits, hence the confusion surrounding the odd but necessary difference in appearance between such books and their newsstand counterparts. Short gaps in production occurred from 2/1977 to 5/1979, as it cost less for Marvel to roll the dice against bogus returns than over-produce books erratically purchased by chain retailers. All early Direct Market Editions were produced except for the cover dates 1-3/1978, 7/1978, and 3-4/1979, and such comics are sought after largely by hardcore Marvel completists.

First printing Type 1A single priced Australian price variants exist for Marvel comics published between October 1990 to January 1994 and February 1996 to November 1996 inclusive; 1147 comics out a possible 1702 have been confirmed to exist based on 101 known titles. The majority of titles produced by Marvel during this period are believed to have Australian priced copies. The confirmed range for Amazing Spider-Man is issue #341 to #384, #408 and #410 to #417. A $4.75 Australian priced annual #27 also exists making 54 books for that title alone. The Australian copies produced 1990-1994 have amended cover dates that are three months later than their US counter-parts to account for the shipping time to Australia. The indicia are unchanged, meaning the Australian price variant for an issue published in October of 1990 will carry a cover date of January; an issue published January 1994 will carry a cover date of April.  CGC catalogs the variants by their cover dates instead of the indicia dates but also mentions the indicia date on most labels.  The Australian price variants were printed on the same presses at the same time as their other first print counterparts, so this catalog date versus actual publication date disparity should hopefully not create the false impression that the price variants with different cover dates are reprints. The later 1996 price variant copies meanwhile have the same cover dates as their US counterparts. The Australian Type 1A price variants are as legitimate as their Canadian and UK Pence price variant cousins. Although they are less well known with relatively few collectors currently seeking them out, I expect that to change. People collect what they know about, and Marvels are the most pursued comics in the hobby.  Three example Australian Type 1A keys are New Mutants #98(2/91 indicia; May cover date), Amazing Spider-Man #361(4/92 indicia; July cover date), and Iron Man #282(7/92 indicia; October cover date).

For those of you who collect Type 1A pence price variants, here’s an update on Silver and Bronze Age gems from UK researcher Steve Cranch who is in the process of documenting all known first printing pence price variants for all US published comics. Seven publishers are known to have pence variants as follows:

• Archie – 24 issues confirmed of a potential 46 issues within the date range of March 1960 to August 1960 inclusive. All issues have 9d printed prices. 11 titles confirmed.

• Charlton – 476 issues confirmed of a potential 833 issues within the date range of April/July 1960, January 1961 to December 1963 inclusive. All issues have 6d or 9d printed prices. 75 titles confirmed.

• DC – 840 issues confirmed. The inclusive date range is July/August 1971, February 1978 to September 1981. All issues have 5p, 7 1/2p, 12p or 15p printed prices. 75 titles confirmed.

• Dell – 212 issues confirmed of a potential 424 issues within the date range of April 1960 to July 1961 inclusive. All issues have 9d, 1/- or 2/- printed prices. 40 titles confirmed (where Four Color and Dell Giants represent one title each).

• Gold Key – 120 issues confirmed of a potential 171 issues within the date range of April 1973 to November 1975 inclusive. All issues have 6p, 7p or 8p printed prices. 8 titles confirmed.

• King Comics – 20 issues confirmed of a potential 24 issues within the date range of August 1967 to November 1967 inclusive. All issues have 10d printed prices. 6 titles confirmed.

• Marvel – 3,019 issues confirmed, with only one or two more expected to exist. The inclusive date range is May 1960 to December 1981. All issues have 9d, 10d, 1/-, 6p, 7p, 8p, 9p, 10p, 12p, 15p, 20p, 30p or 40p printed prices. 118 titles confirmed.

Another new Type 1A group of books has surfaced — L. Miller indicia variants. Such books fall under the expanded type 1a category as they are cover price variants and non-cover price variants with a unique indicia with regional or otherwise limited distribution. When Marvel pence priced copies first began in May 1960, all copies were previously assumed to have been distributed by Thorpe and Porter, carrying T&P indicias accordingly for the first 4 years. It has since been discovered that the UK distributor L Miller & Co also distributed a handful of Marvel titles from May 1960, and these books have unique L Miller indicias.

Steve Cranch initially contacted me to discuss these 26 previously unknown L. Miller Silver Age Marvel comics in 2018. The books range from May 1960 to August 1961 inclusive and 24 out of a potential 26 have been proven to exist, with the remaining two expected to be proven. L. Miller (a UK distributor) indicia variants are currently confirmed to exist for Amazing Adventures #1-4(6-9/61), with Kirby and Ditko art, Gunsmoke Western #58(5/60)-60, (#61 awaiting verification) 62-65(7/61), with #59, 62-65 sporting Kirby art, Rawhide Kid #17(8/60)-23(8/61), all with Kirby art, Two-Gun Kid #54(6/60)-57, (#58 awaiting verification) 59(4/61), with Kirby art in #54-55, 57-59, and Wyatt Earp #29(6/60). The title Kid Colt Outlaw, from the same time period, was skipped entirely by L. Miller despite being the only other major Western title of the time. All 9d copies of Kid Colt Outlaw in the L. Miller date window have Thorpe & Porter indicias.

Uniquely, the Type 1A L. Miller variants with cover dates 5/60 to 8/60 are priced 9d and those dated 9/60 to 8/61 are priced at 10c instead of 9d. The latter books are identical in appearance except for the indicia. All confirmed issues of such Type 1A variants were printed in the U.S. and with the exception of Two-Gun Kid #55, carry an additional line of indicia data indicating that the books were “Exclusively printed for L Miller & Co. (Hackney) Ltd. 342 & 344 Hackney Road, London, E.2.” My speculation is that Marvel probably didn’t bother with changing the plates for the price change, or just forgot, hence the 10 cent covers for later L. Miller issues.

Marvel pence variants – understanding the differences: There are no known Marvel books with printed pence prices prior to May 1960. With the exception of the aforementioned L Miller copies, every Marvel pence variant from 5/60 through 11/64 inclusive, plus every Marvel pence variant from 1961 (with the exception of August 1961 for some depraved reason), plus every Marvel pence variant from 1962 to 11/64, are all going to have some variation of the Thorpe & Porter line included in the indicia. Some have the entire cents indicia removed and replaced with a Thorpe & Porter line, some have the Thorpe & Porter line in an added sentence, and some have it as an added paragraph/line.

Amazing Fantasy #15(8/62), the first appearance of Spider-Man, exists as a Type 1A 9d cover price variant with a missing cover date and a Thorpe and Porter indicia, and there are three differences to the cents/regular edition: (1) the cover price difference (9d for the pence version), (2) the date omitted (no “Aug” on cover) from the pence version and (3) the indicia of the pence version does not match the regular edition, because the pence version has the line about Thorpe & Porter included. The indicia on both the regular and pence copies say September in the indicia, although the regular edition has an August cover date. There are many examples from the Golden and Silver age of mis-numbered and contradictory dates. CGC lists the pence edition as September due to the missing cover date, essentially defaulting to the indicia. Both versions were printed on the same presses at the same time, so this disparity should hopefully not create the false impression that the pence copy is a reprint.

Other new Type 1 variant finds as of 2018: Steve Cranch has documented some modern Marvel newsstand cover price variants as well. During the months of October 1999 to February 2000 inclusive additional single price $2.29 and $2.49 variant covers of regular $1.99 newsstand books have been found to exist, making three different prices of newsstand copies. A total of 32 variant $2.29 / $2.49 copies have been found to exist covering six titles. The current titles with one or both variant prices confirmed are Amazing Spider-Man #10-11, 13, Cable #72-74, Fantastic Four #23-24, 26, Hulk #8-10, Mighty Thor #17-19, and X-Men #93, 95-96. The $2.29 / $2.49 price variants only appear to exist where the regular newsstand price was $1.99 – the regular $2.99 double sized issues within the range have no variant prices confirmed, hence the breaks in sequence. Such variants indicate a further Type 1 variant market test by Marvel in line with the more widely known 30 and 35 cent price variants.

Vast numbers of Type 1C cover variants are published today, and are fare for many titles such as The Walking Dead (now completed). Modern cover variants can bring serious money, some of which are slabbed 9.8 signature series variants. Variant comics are now used to entice completists as well as provide options for a “favorite” cover when collecting a title, and many popular artists contribute to that end that do not normally create material for the various titles. A myriad of publishers employ this strategy to boost their bottom line as the term “variant” is now a household term to most collectors. There are more variants (mostly Type 1C) published today than at any time in comic book history.

Happy hunting to collectors and completists everywhere!

The Story of the Wawa Collection

A quick note from Ben, publisher of the Rare Comics Blog: Hi everyone, I am excited to be publishing the incredible story of the Wawa Collection, as shared by the team who discovered and acquired it: Craig Foxhoven and Philip Standhart. This collection is practically “famous” in the CPV niche, because it encompassed the full 1980’s price variant window, and is thought of by many as the first “pedigree” ultra-high-grade CPV collection to ever hit the market — many of us were lucky enough to acquire CBCS-graded copies which were consigned to MyComicShop. When Conan Saunders of MyComicShop joined our CPV price guide team last year, he was able to put me in touch with Craig & Phil. I commend them for not only recognizing what a once-in-a-collecting-lifetime-type opportunity they had come across, but having the guts to seize the opportunity and having the fortitude and follow-through to see it across the finish line! What follows is their amazing story, followed by a “Q&A”…

The Wawa Collection

By Philip Standhart and Craig Foxhoven

Craig and I worked together and were both comic collectors. I suggested the idea of buying raw books off Ebay and sending them for grading. We combined some cash together and picked a couple of key books to bid on. We won a few from the same seller, one of which was X-Men 141. We graded 2-3 of the books and all came back 9.6-9.8.

Craig suggested that we email the seller to see what else he had. I started an email conversation with Clarence, the owner of the collection to see what else he had. He told us he collected all different titles over 40 years and had almost anything we were looking for. Then, the bombshell – he had about 50,000 books!

Craig and I asked if we could fly up and see his collection to buy more from him. Clarence agreed and 2 weeks later we were on a flight to Detroit.

After an 8 hour car ride north from Detroit into Canada, we arrived at the small town of Wawa, Ontario. (The Wawa Goose Monument pictured at right is a landmark there).

 

We walked into a modest single level home and Clarence took us into the basement. He had built a room there complete with de-humidifier to protect the books. When he opened the door, Craig and I were speechless.

Inside the room, There were 4 rows of shelves with books stacked on either side from floor to ceiling! We went crazy!

Craig and I spent 2 days going through literally thousands of books and hand picked about 200. Some of the gems were Conan #1 and Luke Cage #1. As a token of his appreciation, Clarence gave us Incredible Hulk #271 with Rocket Raccoon. (That graded 9.8 later on.)

We returned to Florida with our short box of treasure and took it to Steve Borock who recently started CBCS. We sent those books off to be graded and started discussing options for a return trip. After negotiating back and forth over phone and email, we struck a deal to buy the ENTIRE collection.

We prepared by ordering plastic bags and boards along with long and short boxes for the transportation of the books. 4 weeks later, we flew back to Detroit and had a panel truck rented to collect our loot. Back to Wawa we drove and spent 3-4 hours the first night loading boxes. That night in our hotel room, Craig and I celebrated by looking at about 15 copies of Ms. Marvel #1 and Star Wars #42 while putting boxes together.

We went back the next morning and began packing. 144 long boxes and 10 hours later, we left Wawa and got to the border. We waited inside customs as the truck was x-rayed and inspected, all the way to the back of the truck, middle box on the bottom row!

We spent the night in Sioux St. Marie and left at 6 am the next morning because of snow. We drove 17 hours and spent the following night in Atlanta. Sunday, we made it to CBCS. Many thanks to Steve Borock, who allowed us to store the collection at the CBCS offices.

Over the next 6-8 months, Craig and I went through each and every book looking for the best books to grade. Once all the boxes were gone through, Craig went through many of them again to make sure nothing was missed. I was posting graded books and many raw runs on Ebay in the meantime and doing a lot of packaging.

The whole project took about 3 years. In the end, we graded approximately 10,000 books and moved the rest raw.

We went to many local comic cons including Tampa Con. At one point, I knew some of the books went as far as Australia.

The highlights of 50,000 books? Some overall highlights included two 9.9s of Uncanny X-Men #153 and #181, a 9.6 of G.I. Joe #21, a Daredevil #66 double cover graded 9.6, and a lot more. 95% of what we graded were 9.6s and 9.8s.

Here are some of the CPV highlights specifically, first from DC:

Batman 354 9.6
Batman 357 9.4
Batman 358 9.8
Batman 359 9.8
Batman 366 9.6
Batman 368 9.8
Batman 386 9.8
Batman 400 9.6
Batman 404 9.6
Blue Beetle 1 9.8
Brave and the Bold 200 9.2
Detective Comics 523 9.8
Detective Comics 525 9.8
Detective Comics 566 9.6
Doom Patrol 1 9.8
Flash 324 9.8
Jonah Hex 92 9.4
Masters of the Universe 1 9.8
New Teen Titans Annual 2 9.6
Suicide Squad 1 9.2
Saga of the Swamp Thing 20 9.4
Saga of the Swamp Thing 21 9.6
Saga of the Swamp Thing 25 9.8
Saga of the Swamp Thing 32 9.8
Saga of the Swamp Thing 37 9.6
Tales of the Teen Titans 44 9.6

Some of the Marvel CPV highlights:

Amazing Spider-Man 238 9.6
Amazing Spider-Man 239 9.8 x2
Amazing Spider-Man 252 8.5
Amazing Spider-Man 265 9.6
Avengers 257 9.8
Fantastic Four 281 9.8 DOUBLE COVER
Ghost Rider 81 9.8
G.I. Joe 21 9.6
Marvel Movie Showcase 1 9.6
Marvel Movie Showcase 2 9.6
Marvel Team-Up 141 9.6
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 8 9.8
New Mutants 1 9.8 x8
New Mutants 25 9.8
New Mutants 26 9.8
Power Pack 1 9.8
Punisher 1 9.4
Punisher 2 9.8
Rocket Raccoon 1 9.6
Star Wars 68 9.8
Star Wars 81 9.8
Thing 1 9.8
Thor 337 9.4
Transformers 1 9.8
Transformers 8 9.8
Web of Spider-Man 1 9.8 x3
Wolverine Limited Series 2 9.8 x4
Wolverine Limited Series 4 9.8 x3
X-Factor 6 9.8
Uncanny X-Men 181 9.9
Uncanny X-Men 201 9.6

Outside of Marvel and DC, a CPV highlight was Voltron 1 9.8

Notably missing from our list of graded copies were Batman 423, Booster Gold 1, Legends 3, and Unknown Soldier 268. These were probably there in the collection but were not selected to be sent for grading by CBCS (my gut says they were there in the collection but I couldn’t find them listed on any invoices).

Here is a sampling of pictures of some of the CPV highlights mentioned above:

I know for Craig and I, the Wawa collection was the comic find and adventure of a lifetime. At one point, we thought we wouldn’t do it again, but I bet if an opportunity arose, I could talk Craig into it!

Excelsior!

Philip Standhart & Craig Foxhoven

 

Q: Thank you guys, so much, for sharing your incredible story! And I appreciate the opportunity for this Q&A. Can you share anything about Clarence and how he came to collect comics?

A: Clarence, the original owner of the collection, worked at a copper mine up in Canada. He began buying comics in the late 60’s and planned that those would be his retirement plan. He started posting individual books on Ebay, and we bought them up. After seeing the condition in person, we scheduled our first meeting with him!

Q: You mentioned he had collected for 40 years; what were the approximate start and end dates of the collection?

A: The start/end date of the collection is 1969-2009 ish.

Q: From the CPVs we saw consigned to MyComicShop, it seemed like Clarence acquired 100% of his comics from a local newsstand: Is that true, or were there direct editions in the collection too? [What makes CPVs so relatively rare as a percentage, is their newsstand exclusivity, crossed with Canadian exclusivity, plus the fact that most collectors in the 80’s were taking home and preserving direct editions from comic shops — it seems Clarence may have been the exception to that norm and preserved newsstand comics even well into the 80’s?].

A: Clarence acquired at least 90-95% from the newsstand during those years from 10/82-9/88. He bought everything that was available to him which means he had multiple copies of these newsstand issues, sometimes up to 15-20 ea!!! That’s how he ended up with 45,000+ books.

Q: Was the collection newsstand all the way through to the 2009 end?

A: Almost all of the collection was newsstand, so basically yes it was nearly all that way, through to the end.

Q: Was the collection mostly intact when you acquired it (did you catch him at the beginning of his online sales) or had he already sold off substantial parts of it by the time you found him?

A: The collection was mostly intact and he was very particular and had everything cataloged. I tried to get those log books from him but surprisingly he would not part with them. I even took pictures of the contents because it was so interesting to me. He priced every book according to Overstreet and gave the “mint” books a 9.2 price which as you know is not indicative of the true market value of these gems. He had sold off some key books such as Batman 232, Amazing Spider-man 129 and Iron Man 55 for example. We caught him near the beginning of his online sales.

Q: I’m wondering whether all Marvel and DC titles of 10/82 to 9/88 were represented in the collection — were there any noteworthy titles absent that you recall?

A: All Marvel and DC titles were represented and I don’t recall any titles that were absent.

Q: Do you know if every issue number was represented in the collection for the titles he collected, or were there any issues absent that he missed that you noticed?

A: Mostly every issue number was represented that I recall. What we did was box every book as carefully as we could and brought approx. 140 long boxes from his basement up the steps and onto a rental truck in the course of one night and the next morning. Time was of the essence because a winter storm was coming and Clarence said we would be stuck up there for awhile!! This was the end of October 2014. As a result the books and titles weren’t as neatly cataloged as he had them. We also separated them according to grade, etc for encapsulation.

Q: I’ve got to ask about one specific issue that we believe should exist but has still never been confirmed to date after all these years: Did he have a Zatanna Special #1 CPV (with $2.85 cover price) from 1987?

A: No, he did not have the Zatanna Special #1.

Q: In the CPV niche many have observed that there are more Marvel books out there than DC; was that reflected in Clarence’s collection? Do you have a sense of roughly what proportion of the collection was Marvel and what was DC (and did he also collect books from other publishers as well)?

A: You are correct that there are more Marvel CPV’s than DC. Approx. 60/40. He had extensive Charltons and Gold Key as well.

Q: Was the collection considered “too modern” to be an official pedigree at the grading company level?

A: It’s funny because I pleaded with Steve Borock to get the WAWA pedigree on it but he shot it down every time. Because the scope of the whole collection was not high grade which was the only thing keeping it out of pedigree status. In the beginning I think neither of us had a clue of the CPV goldmine we discovered. In hindsight the CPV aspect of this collection would easily have garnered pedigree status. I believe Doug Schmell from Pedigree Comics, who has the remaining books from the WaWa collection, is working on getting what’s left some designation.

Q: Can you share a little bit about why you chose CBCS over CGC for grading?

A: We chose CBCS because they were a startup and Craig knew Steve Borock, one of the founders of CGC (and CBCS). They offered us a deal on their services and let us store the books there.

Q: Can you share a little bit more about yourselves, and what you do for a living?

A: Craig and I are both physical therapists who grew up with a love for comics. My older brother Ed taught me how to read with comics and I was hooked ever since – especially Spider-Man because I felt I could associate with a teenager like Peter Parker! Craig’s brother actually owned a comic shop at one time, so Craig had access to a lot of comic swag and even original art. He’s more a DC guy, I’m the Marvel guy. Both of our wives start to sweat when we start talking comics, especially after the Wawa find!

Q: So did you guys sell everything from the WaWa collection, or did you keep a few books for yourselves?

A: Yes of course we held onto a few of the books! The beauty of the Wawa collection was there were multiple copies of many of the titles, allowing us to keep some.

Q: Thanks so much Craig and Phil, I really appreciate you opening up about this incredible adventure, sharing your story, and answering these questions!

A: Thank You for your interest!

Whitman 1984 Canadian Price Variants

By Benjamin Nobel, August 5, 2020 — this post is for readers of the 2020 CPV Price Guide and features pictures from the collection of 1984 Whitman CPVs generously shared with us by Stefane Bellec. Stefane spent the last decade+ hunting all of these down, and we believe this is the full list of Whitman’s 1984 CPVs that exist (but let us know if you find others!). Huge thanks to Stefane for making this page possible!

“75 cent cover price issues of 1984 Whitman Comics that are 60 cents in USA; These are Quite Rare in High Grade, with 9.2 copies worth $75.00 or more each.”
— Doug Sulipa, Canadian Newsstand Cover Price VARIANTS 2018-2019 Market Report

As Doug touched upon more fully in the market report quoted above, there were a number of Whitman variants published over the course of time, including their 1984 batch of CPVs carrying 75¢ cover prices (versus the 60¢ cover prices on their regular counter-parts). [For even more Whitman information from Doug, see this inventory page on dougcomicworld.com]

Today we are presenting those variants from 1984, which occurred from publication dates 2/1984 through 7/1984. Interestingly, rather than the “direct edition versus newsstand” distribution circumstance that we’re used to with other 1980’s publishers of Canadian Price Variants, in this case with Whitman, every single one of these 75¢ variants looks to have been distributed in multi-packs like this example pack:

With bar codes on the outside of the bag itself, there was no need to have printed bar codes on the actual covers. Notice also the “Imported By” line on the bag, giving information about the comics being imported into Canada (from the United States):

This “Imported By” line is a great reminder about one of the “big picture” points that is so important for collectors to grasp about Type 1A Price Variants: even while the target market for distribution was outside of the USA, these books are in fact US-Published; they are from the USA. [If these Whitman CPVs had been from Canada, then they wouldn’t have needed to be imported into Canada, would they?]

Something else that strikes me about the above pack is that it contains two 75¢ cover price comics, for $1.49 — “a whole penny” of savings against the combined cover price. But meanwhile the packs sold in the US were much more of a bargain/discount; for example here’s a pack with two 60¢ cover price comics inside, a “$1.20 value” but with the whole pack priced at 99¢:

Here’s another pack I found with 60¢ cover price comics inside, this time a 3-pack, for $1.39:

So although they carry 60¢ cover prices, averaging the cost of a pack over the number of comics inside, US buyers were effectively paying about 46¢ to 50¢ per comic, whereas buyers of the $1.49 CAN pack were paying practically the full 75¢ each. I find this interesting in the context of the cover price hike to Canadians from other publishers in 1982 from 60¢ to 75¢ (where publishers started to charge 75¢ north of the border but left prices at 60¢ in the US) — at the time of that 1982 hike, Canadians saw the cost of comics increase 25% from the 60¢ they had been used to… By 1984, Canadians were used to paying 75¢ cover prices; but I still find it interesting that the 1984 Whitman packs effectively cost not 25% more but a full 50% more (1.49 CAN per two-pack versus .99 US per two-pack)!

An example indicia page is shown below shared by Stefane, from his 75¢ variant copy of Daffy Duck #144:

As you can see, the variants were published by Western Publishing Company, New York, NY, USA. No “expected” cover price is mentioned in the indicia, and aside from copyright dates there is no publication month or date specifically listed (which seems to be the case for most of these), making these issues harder to date — but Overtreet has dated nearly all of them, with publication months from 2/1984 through 7/1984. And just like the other Canadian Price Variants we are used to, the indicia on variant copies is a 100% match against the regular cover priced version: here below is a 60¢ copy I found on eBay with an indicia picture included, and as you can see it is the same as what we saw on Stefane’s copy.

Looking at the regular non-variant guide values in 9.2 from the Overstreet #49 guide, for the universe of Whitman 1984 issues the “typical” regular non-variant value is around $20-40, with an average of $31.25. The Uncle Scrooge issues appear to be stand-outs, with 9.2 values listed at $55. There were a couple of issues with “low print run” notes: Donald Duck #245, and Porky Pig #109. Mickey Mouse #218 has a note about being mis-dated 2/82 (and I noticed some others that have weird CGC census entries dated 1982 — so this may not be the only one that is mis-dated; or maybe with no month or year in the indicia CGC just entered the latest copyright date shown). For Bambi #1, Oversteet dates the issue to just the year 1984. Stefane notes that he suspects that Bambi #1 and Peter Pan #1 may have been packaged together given how difficult both of those issues are to find (these were the toughest find for him among all Whitman CPVs, but he notes that the distribution may have varied by region making different issues harder to find region by region).

Looking at the CGC census, as of the date of this writing there are a grand total of 440 of these 1984 Whitman issues that have been through CGC’s doors to date, 402 of which are denoted as regular 60¢ copies, and 38 of which are classified as the 75¢ type. That breaks down to approximately 91.4% regular to 8.6% variant — this is a higher variant percentage than we’ve seen for the 1980’s price variants from other publishers like Marvel and DC, which makes sense, given that we’d expect the rarity breakdown in this case to be driven by the difference in market size, i.e. with no bifurcation of the Canadian market into newsstand::direct edition for Whitman (recall that with other publishers like Marvel and DC, the variants were exclusively found on newsstands while the direct editions sold in comic shops throughout Canada were the identical ones sold in comic shops in the US).

Here below is the full list of 1984 Whitman CPVs — click any thumbnail to bring up a full-size picture.

	Whitman CPV	Date	Non-Variant 9.2	CGC Census 8/5/2020 60¢	CGC Census 8/5/2020 75¢
	Alice In Wonderland #1	3/1984	$32	11	0
	Bambi #1	1984	$18	4	1
	Beep Beep, The Road Runner #104	5/1984	$40	5	0
	Beep Beep, The Road Runner #105	6/1984	$40	17	2
	Bugs Bunny #244	3/1984	$28	3	0
	Bugs Bunny #245	4/1984	$28	7	0
	Chip ‘N’ Dale #82	5/1984	$28	14	0
	Chip ‘N’ Dale #83	7/1984	$28	12	0
	Daffy Duck #144	3/1984	$35	7	0
	Daffy Duck #145	6/1984	$35	6	0
	Daisy And Donald #59	7/1984	$40	14	0
	Donald Duck #243	3/1984	$24	10	2
	Donald Duck #244	4/1984	$24	10	1
	Donald Duck #245	7/1984	$24	4	0
	Huey Dewey And Louie #79	4/1984	$30	7	3
	Huey Dewey And Louie #80	5/1984	$30	7	0
	Huey Dewey And Louie #81	7/1984	$30	15	4
	Jungle Book #1	7/1984	$18	4	0
	Little Lulu #268	3/1984	$35	5	0
	Looney Tunes #46	3/1984	$26	12	1
	Looney Tunes #47	6/1984	$26	14	1
	Mickey Mouse #217	3/1984	$18	2	0
	Mickey Mouse #218	7/1984	$18	3	3
	Peter Pan #1	3/1984	$20	5	0
	Pink Panther #87	3/1984	$26	8	1
	Popeye #170	3/1984	$35	4	1
	Popeye #171	6/1984	$35	8	2
	Porky Pig #108	2/1984	$26	10	0
	Porky Pig #109	6/1984	$26	12	0
	Super Goof #72	5/1984	$28	4	0
	Super Goof #73	6/1984	$28	3	1
	Super Goof #74	7/1984	$28	8	1
	Tom And Jerry #344	6/1984	$32	12	1
	Tweety And Sylvester #119	2/1984	$35	4	0
	Tweety And Sylvester #120	5/1984	$35	11	2
	Tweety And Sylvester #121	6/1984	$35	4	0
	Uncle Scrooge #206	4/1984	$55	11	1
	Uncle Scrooge #207	5/1984	$55	19	2
	Uncle Scrooge #208	6/1984	$55	18	1
	Uncle Scrooge #209	7/1984	$55	20	1
	Walt Disney’s Comics And Stories #507	4/1984	$22	3	0
	Walt Disney’s Comics And Stories #508	5/1984	$22	6	1
	Walt Disney’s Comics And Stories #509	6/1984	$22	3	1
	Walt Disney’s Comics And Stories #510	7/1984	$22	4	1
	Winnie The Pooh #32	4/1984	$42	6	0
	Winnie The Pooh #33	7/1984	$42	12	2
	Woody Woodpecker #201	3/1984	$32	7	1
	Yosemite Sam And Bugs Bunny #81	2/1984	$32	7	0

Whitman 1984 CPV Picture Gallery

Happy Collecting! 🙂

That Newsstand Comic You Didn’t Know You Owned May Be Worth Over $8000

By Benjamin Nobel, July 26, 2020

Both of the comics below are 1st print copies of Ultimate Fallout #4 (1st appearance of Miles Morales), in the same grade, and their original owners both paid $3.99 for their copies in October of 2011. I pose this question to you: are the two copies below different or the same? (It’s like that old spot-the-differences game! Hint: it has nothing to do with colors, or the artwork.)

If you said “the same” you just made a $6,700 mistake. But that’s not your fault. The Overstreet Price Guide (considered “the Bible” to many comic collectors and dealers) does not differentiate them in their guide as two distinct versions (instead they have just the one entry for the issue number), with just one guided value (with NM- listed at $80 as of guide #49). So there’s no “heads-up” in the guide that would even make you think that your copy might possibly be anything special or different from the rest:

But while Overstreet fails to differentiate the two versions shown before with their own separate value entries, Mr. Market meanwhile does differentiate them as having vastly different value: the copy you saw earlier at the left side of the picture is the one in the below screenshot which was bid to $8,100, whereas the one at right in the picture you saw earlier is the one below it that sold for $1,400:

As you can see from the above screenshots, both copies had the same grade assigned by CGC at 9.8 and both were sold around the same time, in June of 2020. So what made one of them worth a full $6,700 more than the other?!?

The answer: The $8100 example is a “NEWSSTAND” copy: its printed bar code says “Newsstand” on it — meaning it was the returnable type sold in places like Barnes & Noble, whereas the $1400 example is a “DIRECT EDITION” copy: its printed bar code says “Direct Edition” on it — meaning it was the type sold in comic shops (where the comic shops ordered them at a discounted but non-returnable basis).

But it isn’t these words themselves that drive the value difference (although sharp-eyed readers may also notice that the newsstand version of this issue has the neat quirk of being “mis-identified” by its UPC code as the “Black Panther” title), rather, it is the difference in rarity between the two types that Mr. Market is paying attention to.

By 2011 when this book was published, sales of newsstand comics had been on the decline for decades relative to their direct edition counter-parts, and made up only a small fraction of Marvel’s 2011 comic book sales sales — a 2003 BPA audit showed Marvel was down to 4.25% newsstand sales by May of that year and other newsstand rarity discussions and estimates peg Marvel’s newsstand percentage at an even tinier fraction later into the 2000’s (in their last year of newsstand sales in 2013, one insider estimates as low as 1% newsstand).

And there was also a stark contrast in the typical survival characteristics of comics sold via the two different distribution channels: direct edition copies were sold in comic shops where the proprietors handled them with great care (treating them as collectibles) and where the typical buyer was a collector who took great care to preserve them, typically in a plastic bag with a backing board.

By contrast, newsstand staff treated comics like magazines (something to read, not something to be handled with great care), and then the typical buyer of newsstand comics was a reader who most likely spent their $4 on a comic in 2011 in order to actually read it. A collector preserving newsstand comics was the exception, not the norm.

Thus, as a general rule, surviving copies of modern age comics in the coveted 9.8 NM/MT grade tier are much more likely to be direct editions, than newsstand copies. Said another way, 9.8 newsstand copies are in much lower supply and thus much harder to find… and market prices all boil down to supply versus demand. I recently studied the newly-released CBCS census and found that as the decades progressed, the 9.8 newsstand census numbers were drastically lower compared to 9.8 direct editions:

But amazingly, even with all the growing newsstand awareness out there, to this day I still see newsstand comics listed on eBay all the time that clearly show a newsstand comic in the listing’s picture, but are not identified as being newsstand books in the title or description (and where the owner quite often prices them for sale at the going rate for the issue number in general). For example I saw a “mis-listed” newsstand copy recently for Venom/Deadpool: What If? #1. In my imagination I draw a mental picture of the owner of the book opening up their copy of the latest Overstreet guide, finding the right page to look up its value, and seeing this:

Here again, there is just the one entry, with NM- at $185 as of guide #49. [Notice the cover price cited at $2.99]. Seeing this guide entry, what would prompt the book’s owner to even think there is a possibility that their copy was anything different or special? And here, I find the guide’s “newsstand omission” even more egregious than in the case of Ultimate Fallout #4, because with this 2011 comic we are also dealing with the newsstand version being a cover price variant of the issue number:

As you can see above, the newsstand version is indeed a cover price variant of the issue number — the original buyer paid $1 more, at $3.99, versus the original buyer of the direct edition who paid $2.99. There’s a chance someone might notice the cover price difference on their own, but most collectors looking up their comic’s value are probably not scrutinizing the UPC code box to notice whether the cover price on their copy matches the cover price information in the guide.

If Ultimate Fallout #4, as an example 2011 key comic, guides for $80 in NM-, and a CGC 9.8 newsstand copy of that issue fetched $8100 sitting here in 2020, then what might a CGC 9.8 newsstand copy of Venom/Deadpool: What If? #1 fetch today, what with its guide value at $185 in NM-? I wish I could tell you, but I’d only be guesstimating… I’ve had various discussions about this book since the time of my 2017 post about it, yet in all these years I haven’t once seen a 9.8 newsstand copy of the book hit the market.

CGC began broadly “breaking out” $3.99 newsstand comics (when price variants of the issue number) on census back in 2016, and so Venom/Deadpool: What If newsstand comics, as price variants, got their own census entry… and after all these years have passed, the grand total number of 9.8 newsstand copies of this book on record at CGC is… drum roll… TWO (as shown in the screenshot below):

Not exactly strong odds of seeing a CGC 9.8 newsstand copy hit the market, with census numbers like these! And unfortunately that’s the case for a great many highly-sought-after newsstand comics. Here’s the $3.99 newsstand census entry for Hulk #1 (2008; 1st Red Hulk), also showing a mere TWO in CGC 9.8:

The other day I looked up the current census for one of the most sought-after 1990’s Spawn newsstand comics that I know of, one which currently stands as the one-and-only example that I know about of a newsstand-exclusive title from one of the big publishers (please tell me if you know of another example!): Spawn/The Savage Dragon #1. And I found that there is just one 9.8 copy on record today:

How can we possibly guesstimate where a 9.8 newsstand copy would sell, with census numbers like these? If the one owner of the 9.8 wants to hold onto it, and the next 9.8 doesn’t appear until far out into the future, then we can kiss any potential near-term 9.8 sales data goodbye!

One way to get at least a ballpark sense of where an elusive 9.8 might sell, is to find the highest grade sale we can, and then find some other book that is “very close” with full sales data all the way out to the 9.8 tier, and then use that information to extrapolate. I’ll walk through what I mean by this. For example, the most recent sale of a CGC graded copy of Spawn/The Savage Dragon #1 was a CGC 9.4:

Another comic that we could use as “something very close” to Spawn/The Savage Dragon #1 in terms of its characteristics, could be newsstand copies of Spawn #1 — also from the 1990’s, also an important Spawn book, also a #1, and also coveted in newsstand. And for this book we do have recent example sales of newsstand copies of Spawn #1 in CGC 9.8 (and CGC 9.4 as well):

From there, our extrapolation would have the 9.4 Spawn/Savage Dragon #1 (and a 9.8 question mark) on one side of the equation, and the two above Spawn #1 sales on the other side, and then we cross-multiply and divide (462.99 times 298, divided by 186.99) to extrapolate the missing 9.8 number… coming to a rounded $738 for the ballpark value of Spawn/Savage Dragon #1 in CGC 9.8. Who knows what it would actually get in the marketplace, but, this exercise does give us some “rough sense” of the potential — and to show you that this estimation method has the potential to sometimes work very well, suppose it was the Spawn #1 newsstand 9.8 that was missing sales data, suppose we had only the 9.4 sale example for the book, and suppose we chose regular direct edition copies of Spawn #1 as our “something very close” example to use. Here below are recent direct edition sales examples for Spawn #1:

If hypothetically we had been missing the Spawn #1 newsstand 9.8 data, but we did have the $186.99 sale data for the 9.4 newsstand copy, then using the above direct edition sales we could use the same extrapolation trick to compute an estimate: 110 times 186.99, divided by 44, equals (rounded): $467 as our estimate for a 9.8 newsstand copy.

Comparing this extrapolated estimate of $467 against the last actual sale at $463, we didn’t hit an exact bullseye but we’re remarkably on-target! So potentially, this type of extrapolation can give us a sense for where more-elusive newsstand 9.8’s might sell, in cases where sales data is itself elusive (while, naturally, the very fact that they are elusive could argue for the possibility of bidding wars and thus unpredictable market values).

What other newsstand books might hit $8000 next?

The $8100 sale for Ultimate Fallout #4 is a big newsstand milestone. What other newsstand books are chasing just behind in the horse race? I checked eBay for high recent sales under the “newsstand” keyword, and found a big 1990’s book which (fortunately) has recent CGC 9.8 newsstand sales we can look at: the Harley Quinn key Batman Adventures #12, published in September of 1993 by DC. There are two recent newsstand sales in 9.8, one just happened and the other was back in May for $3000:

This compares to recent (and May) direct edition comparable sales examples I found below at about $1700-1900:

And moving backwards in time into the 1980’s, Amazing Spider-Man #300 has a recent CGC 9.8 newsstand sale at $4500 (by the way, to find the below I had to search with “newstand” [one ‘s’] which is a good trick to know about in order to find newsstand books on the marketplace that others might miss by searching only with the correctly-spelled “newsstand”):

This compares against $2500 as the current going rate for direct editions in 9.8:

Moving even further backwards in time in the 80’s we hit the 1980’s newsstand “cover price variant window” where instead of printing newsstand copies that had prices for both the US and Canada (as, say, “60¢ US, 75¢ CAN” on the whole newsstand print run) like they eventually did, for the period from 10/1982 out to 8/1986 Marvel printed two distinct single-price newsstand batches (other publishers did this too; learn more about CPVs here)! Amazing Spider-Man #238 is one of Marvel’s biggest keys falling into this window, and a 75¢ variant newsstand copy in CGC 9.8 sold back in March for $4650:

Like with the $3.99 price variants, CGC also “breaks out” the 75¢ variants on census on account of the cover price difference, so this census visibility helps us to see what other big 1980’s keys are in the “elusive 9.8” newsstand category. One example that comes to my mind immediately is G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero #21, a raw VF-range copy of which recently sold for $589, and where the number of CGC 9.8 75¢ cover price newsstand copies on record (which they “break out” as “Canadian Price Variant”) is… drum roll… one:

If a CGC 9.8 75¢ variant newsstand copy of that book ever hit the market, it is bound to fetch a huge number at auction. I mentioned that other publishers beyond Marvel have 1980’s newsstand price variants too — from Archie, the big Cheryl Blossom key Archie’s Girls Betty & Veronica #320 has a 75¢ variant that could deliver a huge number at auction in 9.8, and from D.C., Saga of the Swamp Thing #37 has a 95¢ variant. [Here’s a top 50 list for the 1980’s CPVs]. And guess the number of CGC 9.8 copies on record for that Swamp Thing #37 variant? As of today, the answer is zero… a 9.8 for that 95¢ variant newsstand book is still a hypothetical!

Wow.

The takeaway:

Clearly, for any important copper age or modern comic book you own, it is worth knowing if yours is a newsstand copy, or, just a prevalent direct edition. [Here’s a separate post to read if you need help learning more about how to tell them apart: Comic Book Newsstand Editions: Understanding The Difference]

Can you imagine if you had spent $3.99 in a Barnes & Noble in the year 2011 on a copy of Ultimate Fallout #4, if your copy has survived in NM/MT shape, but in the whole nine years since you bought it you never actually realized that you owned a newsstand copy? You could easily leave $6700 on the table without this knowledge!

And many people do leave money on the table by pricing their newsstand comics for sale at a buy-it-now which they set by checking the going rate for the issue number in general, either by checking the price guide or checking recent sales online for the issue number and clicking on direct edition sales examples. Don’t be one of the too-many collectors who own these treasures without realizing it!

Ask yourself this question: for any of the key books you’ve heard me touch upon here today (or any other copper or modern age keys you can think of), that you know you definitely own (somewhere deep in those long boxes of yours), can you answer right now without looking whether it is a direct edition or a newsstand copy you own?

Clearly the newsstand versus direct edition distinction is becoming more and more important to Mr. Market as time passes; it should be equally important to you too!

Happy Collecting! 🙂
– Ben

Newsstand Rarity By Year: CBCS Census

By Benjamin Nobel, 5/16/2020

With the release of the CBCS Census (aka “Population Report”) there is a treasure trove of new data we can study that goes beyond what we can study over on the CGC census; in particular, CBCS elected in 2017 to start differentiating between Newsstand vs. Direct Edition comics (unfortunately only up to the year 2000 but we’ll take what we can get), and with the release of the population report, all of that Newsstand vs. Direct Edition census data is now available online! 🙂

Today I will investigate how the Newsstand vs. Direct Edition rarity currently shows up on the CBCS census for Marvel by publication year, studying three of Marvel’s biggest titles — and how that census data compares against the newsstand rarity discussions & estimates we’ve seen from industry experts. Here are some of the expert estimates we’ve seen for Marvel newsstand percentages versus direct edition, for the percentage sales split at time of initial distribution:

Source links for these numbers

Here’s how those percentages look graphically when charted, for the CBCS-relevant years 1979-1999, making it easy to see the big-picture-trend (with newsstand shown in blue and direct edition in orange — after the mid-1980’s the orange really “takes over” the comic book market):

Newsstand vs. direct edition estimates, for the percentage sales split at time of initial distribution

These estimates above are incredibly helpful to illustrate how direct editions took over in the 80’s and then dominated the comic book marketplace into the 90’s-onward, but the estimates were presented as being intended to measure the newsstand vs. direct edition sales difference at the time of initial distribution — and therefore these numbers wouldn’t capture the survivorship differences between the two types through to the present day. Direct editions were sold in specialty comic shops and purchased mainly by collectors (who kept them generally very well preserved), versus newsstand comics which were purchased mainly by readers and were therefore less likely to survive through to the present day in collectible condition.

The CBCS census, although still young (with smallish numbers at present), can potentially help give us some interesting insights into the surviving percentages by type, year by year. Although the sample size is still very small, we’re comparing newsstand versus direct edition numbers among the sample — which can still potentially give us important insights, much in the same way that the New York State Covid-19 antibody survey only tested a small sample of the total population but teaches us important information about the relative percentages among the sample. So let’s take a look at the CBCS census and examine some newsstand versus direct edition data! 🙂

A few caveats before we proceed, for us to keep in mind about the characteristics of the data sample we’re about to examine. I already mentioned the very small sample size of the CBCS data; here’s some further perspective on that: Consider for example Amazing Spider-Man #252. According to my copy of Standard Catalog of Comic Books, in the entry for ASM #252 it notes, “Avg. print run 470,527” (which refers to the average for the title, for the prior year). [Print run for issue #252 specifically may have been considerably higher than surrounding issues as such a “big event” issue, but let’s consider that 470,527 number as our reference point]. Compared to that number, as of today we see 12,394 copies appearing on the CGC census which works out to about a 2.6% percentage. [And keep in mind, these 12,394 CGC census copies are not a “random sample” of the total population of #252 copies still in existence, but rather, this CGC group was a sample selected for grading (as the CBCS group will be as well).]

And how does the CBCS Newsstand and Direct Edition sample size compare to these CGC numbers? The number of copies denoted today as either as “Newsstand Edition” or “Direct Edition” for issue #252 on the CBCS census totals to… drum roll… just 421 copies. In total. That’s practically a “rounding error” in contrast to the 470,527 print run average — and so we must keep in mind that as of today, with CBCS still very young, and the change to delineate newsstand versus direct edition taking place only a few years back in 2017, the size of their census data when it comes to this information is still very small indeed, sitting here in May of 2020.

Next caveat: I’m going to focus my time today looking at just three of Marvel’s biggest titles — Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk. So I’m looking at a “sample within a sample” here, not at the complete universe of Marvel titles on the CBCS census.

Finally, as I mentioned in my prior post about the new CBCS census, the data they present is a little bit “tricky” to work with, because there are all the “old way” entries presented together with the “new way” entries meaning there are more census variations than there are actual variations published — and this includes the Type 1A price variant newsstand comics which also have their own “old way” entries named with “Edition” and “new way” entries named with “Price Variant.”

Also: It was brought to my attention that recently-graded CBCS slabs have been spotted out there that still fall under the “old way” notation — i.e. books that should have been denoted either “Direct Edition” or “Newsstand Edition” but the slab had no variant indication either way (even though the book was graded well after the 2017 label change announcement). This observation could be an indication that even post-2017-announcement about their labeling change, that CBCS does not always go out of its way to actually delineate between the types when the submitter has not taken the step of penciling in the variant name on their own, on their submission form. Thus the behavior of the typical CBCS submitter could exert an influence of unknowable degree, on the ultimate census data we see in the population report — i.e. if the submitter wanted their label to read “Newsstand Edition” or “Direct Edition”, or wanted neither designation on the label, that preference could skew the census data in favor of those submitter desires, as opposed to the data being a more natural sample of what’s out there that has been submitted to CBCS.

So with all of these caveats, we can see that the CBCS data is far from perfect; and the multiple census entries under the various “old way” and “new way” categories make it even more difficult to make comparisons… For instance if we have a combined count of price variants under Canadian Edition as well as under Canadian Price Variant we’d need to compare that combined count against the grand-total that includes all the “old way regular” copies (no variant name; direct and newsstand regular-cover-price copies “lumped together”) plus the “new way regular” copies (“direct edition” or “newsstand edition” actually denoted). In the prior post I sampled a bunch of price variants and did some extrapolating to combine the “old way” and “new way” entries together, and I found that the price variant percentages for the sampled books ranged from under 1% to 1.8%.

For today’s exercise, ideally I’d want to include those newsstand price variants together with the regular-cover-price newsstand copies, when computing a newsstand total versus a direct edition total. But that requires the introduction of assumptions when combining the entries, plus it creates a lot more work, and so for today’s exercise I’m going to simplify the workload by ignoring the “old way” entries and ignoring the price variants altogether (as a tiny percentage they won’t really move the needle too much anyway so I’ll just drop them from today’s exercise to keep this census study down to a simpler job to perform).

Thus, all I’m doing today is going through the CBCS population report, entering just the title (e.g. “Amazing Spider-Man”) and the year (e.g. “1982”) into the search fields, and then I’m going through the search results and tallying the “Newsstand Edition” entries and the “Direct Edition” entries across all books for that entire year. I’m doing this for Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk. (I’ll share the raw data at the end). In this way, I’m gathering a grand-total count by publication year, for how many copies CBCS has specifically denoted as Newsstand versus how many copies CBCS has specifically denoted as Direct Edition, across these selected titles. This ratio will most certainly be interesting to see, albeit imperfect because of the caveats just discussed.

I’ll first do this exercise for each of the years seen earlier in the chart of estimates (1979, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1990, 1995, and 1999) so that we can directly compare the census results against those newsstand estimates. To start, I’ll tally the totals of all graded copies, and then later I’ll look at just the 9.8 counts.

Here’s the result of total Newsstand Edition count by publication year, versus Direct Edition count, on the CBCS census as of May 15, 2020, for ASM, X-Men, and Hulk:

Year	Newsstand Percentage	Direct Edition Percentage
1979	70.87% (562/793)	29.13% (231/793)
1982	39.17% (141/360)	60.83% (219/360)
1985	21.31% (52/244)	78.69% (192/244)
1986	18.46% (55/298)	81.54% (243/298)
1987	17.76% (81/456)	82.24% (375/456)
1990	19.02% (175/920)	80.98% (745/920)
1995	12.20% (5/41)	87.80% (36/41)
1999	0.00% (0/23)	100.00% (23/23)

And here’s how it presents graphically:

CBCS census study: May 15, 2020 Population Data — total newsstand versus direct edition by year, for Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk

Wow! So looking at this census data chart, the “shape of the curve” is relatively in-line with the insider estimates we reviewed earlier, i.e. what with newsstand dominating the results in 1979 but then dropping off in the 1980’s and then representing an even smaller percentage into the 1990’s. [Note that there exist non-newsstand comics pre-1979 but I’m not covering them in today’s study; CBCS does not denote them in their census with the same terminology either as direct editions, e.g. Spectacular Spider-Man #27 is denoted “3-Pack Variant” — see my separate post entitled No Month Variants / Pre-Pack Editions / Whitman 3-Pack Variants for a discussion].

The survivorship difference between the types really shows through when comparing this chart against the chart of estimates at time of distribution that we saw earlier, with the CBCS data showing lower newsstand percentages compared to the chart of estimates. And this makes great sense, because in order for a collector to pay money for a comic book to be graded professionally, we’d expect that the book in question would be in collectible grade condition — or thought about another way, the market value of a given comic in its surviving condition had better be high relative to the cost of grading, otherwise why bother paying to get it graded? And if newsstand comics are less likely to survive in collectible condition, then naturally it would be less likely for the newsstand type to actually be sent in to CBCS: when we move from looking at the “total population” of a given issue, and drill down to “grading candidates” among that issue, then the newsstand numbers should start to “melt away” from their original distribution numbers.

And if this theory about typically much-poorer surviving newsstand condition holds, then we’d expect to see an even greater census difference between the types when we move up to the NM/MT grade tier: since newsstand comics were handled so poorly relative to direct editions, we’d expect the 9.8 newsstand percentage to be an even more stark difference. Does that theory hold true? I repeated the same CBCS census data exercise as before but this time I examined just the 9.8 counts and found the following:

Year	Newsstand Percentage	Direct Edition Percentage
1979	67.92% (36/53)	32.08% (17/53)
1982	13.79% (8/58)	86.21% (50/58)
1985	11.11% (7/63)	88.89% (56/63)
1986	3.92% (2/51)	96.08% (49/51)
1987	5.26% (3/57)	94.74% (54/57)
1990	9.29% (13/140)	90.71% (127/140)
1995	0.00% (0/13)	100.00% (13/13)
1999	0.00% (0/10)	100.00% (10/10)

Here’s how the above data charts graphically:

CBCS census study: May 15, 2020 Population Data — NM/MT newsstand versus direct edition by year, for Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk

Bringing the three charts together side-by-side for comparison, below are (1) the chart of expert estimates (left), (2) the total newsstand versus direct edition CBCS census data chart (middle), and (3) the NM/MT newsstand versus direct edition CBCS census data chart (right):

Newsstand vs. direct edition estimates, at time of initial distribution

CBCS census study: May 15, 2020 Population Data — total newsstand versus direct edition by year, for Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk

CBCS census study: May 15, 2020 Population Data — NM/MT newsstand versus direct edition by year, for Amazing Spider-Man, Uncanny X-Men, and Incredible Hulk

You can really see how when moving up to 9.8, the newsstand percentages melt away even further. So even with all those caveats we reviewed, I’d say we still ended up with some very interesting data to look at!

Here’s something else that is interesting, which I observed when I went back and “filled in” the other years that weren’t part of the chart of estimates and when I got to 1984: the “big event” books truly skew the data and need to be thought about uniquely. I mentioned ASM #252 earlier — this is a book I’ve written about in the past regarding the mystery of its higher price variant percentage (it has the single-highest CPV census count among any issue I’ve seen and also its price variant percentage, even while very low on an absolute basis, is still higher than other keys). It is also a book we’ve discussed from time to time in the blog’s comments forum — for example in a great discussion with Andrew Paquette he noted: “According to my database, ASM 252 was auctioned 385 times by Heritage at the time I checked. Of those, 201 were newsstand versions, making it more common than the direct version. This was true of 9.2 and up copies (167/163) and below (34/21).”

Amazing Spider-Man #252 was truly an “event book” — Spider-Man has a new costume, we’ve got the Amazing Fantasy #15 cover swipe, the cover saying “The rumors are true… introducing the new Spider-Man” … it clearly was an important issue that would have been immediately treated as something important to collect. I picture the line of kids at the local comic shops, and I wonder if the direct editions sold out very quickly. If collectors couldn’t get their fill at the comic shops, it makes great sense that they would have turned to the newsstands.

And over on the newsstands, a key variable we always have to keep in mind is a given issue’s individual sell-through versus the typical sell-through. Earlier, I mentioned the 470,527 number, for average print run listed for Amazing Spider-Man in 1983 (I just looked up 1984 too and it was similar at 461,691). There was typically a huge difference between the number of issues printed and the number actually sold — recall that the newsstand model called for comics to be sent to the newsstands, and unsold copies could be returned. Not knowing how many would sell and not wanting to under-produce, it was typical for publishers to print many more copies than actually sold through — and against the average 470,527 print run number, Marvel reported 222,090 copies were later returned unsold on average.

That means 47% of the print run was typically returned unsold in that year!

But that’s the average ASM issue of the time… and depending on how big of a “hit” each individual issue was, that 47% buffer gives us a huge potential variance that could tilt the newsstand:direct edition sales ratio issue by issue, depending on sell-through at the newsstand. What about a mega-event hit issue like ASM #252? If the demand for such an individual issue was huge, then it is highly likely the sell-through on newsstands was way better than the average. And if collectors couldn’t get their fill of ASM #252 at the comic shops (where they would have taken home direct editions), it definitely makes sense that some of those collectors would have turned to the newsstands to collect their copies.

[Side note: the average percentage of the ASM print run returned fluctuated but generally moved down over the years as direct edition sales (which were non-returnable) became more dominant; in 1985 the average percentage of ASM print run returned was 34%; in 1992, 17.4%.]

How does this all express itself in the CBCS census data for ASM #252? It is actually quite remarkable: Excluding Amazing Spider-Man #252, the CBCS census data for the year 1984 looks like this: 16.9% newsstand (31/183) versus 83.1% direct edition (153/183). But then for ASM #252 itself, there are a full 291 Newsstand Edition copies listed on the CBCS census, versus 130 Direct Edition copies! Factoring in the “old way” copies and price variant copies, the break-down looks like this for ASM #252:

I find this rather remarkable to observe… Rather than following the normal newsstand versus direct edition breakdown of other 1984 books, ASM #252 as an immediately-heavily-collected “event book” skews the other way with the vast majority of CBCS census entries showing newsstand copies for the issue! This issue must have sold exceptionally well on newsstands!

This example illustrates how important it is to consider issue-by-issue variations — because of differences in sell-through, the “typical” newsstand versus direct edition split for a given time period isn’t necessarily going to hold for each individual issue and is only a broad guideline for big-picture thinking.

And for the earlier part of the 1980’s especially (before direct edition sales overtook newsstand), it isn’t safe to conclude that newsstand is always going to be the more-rare type. But because we have a price variant window from 1982-1986 for Marvel, it is safe to conclude that the newsstand price variants are going to be the most-rare type, thereby providing a newsstand-focused collecting approach that brings us the kind of extreme rarity we newsstand-focused collectors like to look for — and for ASM #252 which was published in 1984 and thus falls directly into that 1980’s price variant window, the 75¢ price variant newsstand copies of issue #252 are going to be the most-rare type, accounting for just 2% of the CBCS census total for the issue, as of the May 15, 2020 data.

I noticed a similar occurrence (albeit less extreme) in the 1992 numbers with ASM #361 (Carnage Part One): Excluding Amazing Spider-Man #361, the data for 1992 looks like this: 17.4% newsstand (97/557) versus 82.6% direct edition (460/557). But then for ASM #361 itself, we find a full 40% of the CBCS census copies labeled as Newsstand Edition (379 copies) versus 60% labeled as Direct Edition (563 copies). While still skewed towards direct edition prevalence, the newsstand percentage for this issue is notably higher than the rest of 1992 ex-ASM-361, and this may once again tie back to the “big event” nature of the issue (part one of Carnage) — perhaps collector demand did not get filled at the comic shops with direct editions, leading collectors over to newsstands to gather and preserve more copies of issue #361.

But like with ASM #252 which had a newsstand price variant — in that case a 75¢ Canadian Price Variant (1st print Type 1A variant copies sold on newsstands in Canada) — here again with ASM #361 there is a newsstand price variant we can choose to collect and it makes up a minuscule fraction of total census copies of the issue: the $1.80 Australian Price Variant (1st print Type 1A variant copies sold on newsstands in Australia).

[And since this post covered 1979-1981 I’d be remiss if I did not mention that there exist U.K. Pence Price Variants during those years, e.g. X-Men #141 (notice below how rather than carrying a bar code, it has a Spidey-head logo counterpart to direct editions).]

With that I’m going to bring this post to a close… I hope you found this to be an interesting peek into the newsstand versus direct edition CBCS population data, and you can delve further into the CBCS census yourself at the following address: https://www.cbcscomics.com/population-report/

Happy Collecting, and below is the raw data itself that I collected from the CBCS census for this post.

– Ben

All “Newsstand Edition” and “Direct Edition” counts found by publication year, for ASM, X-Men, and Hulk, as of 5/15/2020:

Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #188 Newsstand Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #189 Newsstand Edition count: 13
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #190 Newsstand Edition count: 16
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #191 Newsstand Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #192 Newsstand Edition count: 11
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #193 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #193 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #194 Direct Edition count: 100
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #194 Newsstand Edition count: 173
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #195 Newsstand Edition count: 18
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #195 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #196 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #197 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #197 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #198 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #198 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #199 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #199 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #200 Newsstand Edition count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #117 Newsstand Edition count: 23
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #118 Newsstand Edition count: 25
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #119 Newsstand Edition count: 23
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #120 Newsstand Edition count: 72
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #121 Newsstand Edition count: 66
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #122 Newsstand Edition count: 12
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #122 Direct Edition count: 13
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #123 Direct Edition count: 14
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #123 Newsstand Edition count: 8
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #124 Newsstand Edition count: 13
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #124 Direct Edition count: 14
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #125 Newsstand Edition count: 9
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #125 Direct Edition count: 20
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #126 Direct Edition count: 14
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #126 Newsstand Edition count: 7
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #127 Direct Edition count: 12
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #127 Newsstand Edition count: 13
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #128 Direct Edition count: 16
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #128 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #231 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #232 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #233 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #234 Newsstand Edition count: 10
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #235 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #236 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #236 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #237 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #239 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #240 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #241 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #242 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #242 Newsstand Edition count: 1
1979 NEWSSTAND: 70.87% (562/793)
1979 DIRECT EDITION: 29.13% (231/793)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #200 Newsstand Edition count: 23
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #200 Direct Edition count: 31
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #201 Direct Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #201 Newsstand Edition count: 10
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #202 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #202 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #203 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #203 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #204 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #204 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #205 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #205 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #206 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #206 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #207 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #208 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #208 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #209 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #209 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #210 Direct Edition count: 11
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #210 Newsstand Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #211 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #136 Direct Edition count: 3
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #131 Direct Edition count: 15
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #131 Newsstand Edition count: 19
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #132 Newsstand Edition count: 17
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #132 Direct Edition count: 14
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #133 Direct Edition count: 22
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #133 Newsstand Edition count: 25
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #134 Direct Edition count: 32
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #134 Newsstand Edition count: 40
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #135 Direct Edition count: 31
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #135 Newsstand Edition count: 32
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #136 Newsstand Edition count: 31
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #136 Direct Edition count: 33
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #137 Newsstand Edition count: 34
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #137 Direct Edition count: 72
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #138 Direct Edition count: 21
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #138 Newsstand Edition count: 12
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #139 Direct Edition count: 23
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #139 Newsstand Edition count: 21
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #140 Newsstand Edition count: 22
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #245 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #247 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #248 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #250 Newsstand Edition count: 8
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #250 Direct Edition count: 7
1980 NEWSSTAND: 49.26% (332/674)
1980 DIRECT EDITION: 50.74% (342/674)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #212 Direct Edition count: 20
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #212 Newsstand Edition count: 17
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #213 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #213 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #214 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #214 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #215 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #215 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #216 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #216 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #217 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #217 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #218 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #218 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #219 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #219 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #220 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #220 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #221 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #222 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #222 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #223 Newsstand Edition count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #141 Direct Edition count: 96
X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #141 Newsstand Edition count: 83
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #142 Direct Edition count: 93
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #142 Newsstand Edition count: 49
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #143 Newsstand Edition count: 14
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #143 Direct Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #144 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #144 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #145 Newsstand Edition count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #145 Direct Edition count: 8
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #146 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #146 Direct Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #147 Direct Edition count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #147 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #148 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #148 Direct Edition count: 14
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #149 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #149 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #150 Direct Edition count: 17
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #150 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #151 Direct Edition count: 9
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #151 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #152 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #152 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1981) #255 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1981) #258 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1981) #259 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1981) #265 Newsstand Edition count: 1
1981 NEWSSTAND: 40.94% (217/530)
1981 DIRECT EDITION: 59.06% (313/530)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #224 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #225 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #225 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #226 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #226 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #227 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #153 Direct Edition count: 8
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #161 Newsstand Edition count: 4
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1982) #270 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1982) #271 Direct Edition count: 49
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1982) #271 Newsstand Edition count: 62
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1982) #273 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1982) #276 Newsstand Edition count: 1
1982 NEWSSTAND: 39.17% (141/360)
1982 DIRECT EDITION: 60.83% (219/360)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1983) #236 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1983) #236 Newsstand Edition count: 2
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1983) #238 Direct Edition count: 141
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #165 Newsstand Edition count: 5
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #172 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #172 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #173 Direct Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #174 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #175 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #175 Direct Edition count: 10
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1983) #176 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #280 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #281 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #282 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #282 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #284 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #285 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #287 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #289 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #290 Direct Edition count: 2
1983 NEWSSTAND: 34.03% (162/476)
1983 DIRECT EDITION: 65.97% (314/476)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #249 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #249 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #250 Direct Edition count: 6
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #252 Direct Edition count: 130
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #258 Direct Edition count: 29
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #259 Direct Edition count: 10
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1984) #177 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1984) #186 Direct Edition count: 6
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1984) #291 Direct Edition count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1984) #300 Direct Edition count: 6
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1984) #301 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1984) #302 Direct Edition count: 1
1984 NEWSSTAND: 53.31% (322/604)
1984 DIRECT EDITION: 46.69% (282/604)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #260 Direct Edition count: 22
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #260 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #261 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #261 Direct Edition count: 15
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #262 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #263 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #263 Direct Edition count: 12
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #264 Direct Edition count: 5
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #265 Direct Edition count: 58
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #266 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #267 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #267 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #268 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #268 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #269 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #270 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #270 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #271 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #189 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #190 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #191 Direct Edition count: 11
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #193 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #194 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #195 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #196 Direct Edition count: 3
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #198 Direct Edition count: 3
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #199 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #199 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1985) #200 Direct Edition count: 3
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1985) #303 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1985) #308 Direct Edition count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1985) #314 Direct Edition count: 6
1985 NEWSSTAND: 21.31% (52/244)
1985 DIRECT EDITION: 78.69% (192/244)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #273 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #274 Direct Edition count: 11
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #274 Newsstand Edition count: 2
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #277 Direct Edition count: 7
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #278 Direct Edition count: 9
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #279 Direct Edition count: 12
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #280 Direct Edition count: 5
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #201 Newsstand Edition count: 10
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #201 Direct Edition count: 47
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #207 Direct Edition count: 7
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #210 Direct Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #210 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #211 Direct Edition count: 33
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #211 Newsstand Edition count: 13
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #212 Direct Edition count: 25
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #212 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #317 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #318 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #319 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #319 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #321 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #322 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #324 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #324 Direct Edition count: 13
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #325 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #325 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #326 Direct Edition count: 1
1986 NEWSSTAND: 18.46% (55/298)
1986 DIRECT EDITION: 81.54% (243/298)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #284 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #285 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #285 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #286 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #286 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #287 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #288 Direct Edition count: 6
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #289 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #289 Direct Edition count: 8
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #290 Direct Edition count: 8
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #294 Direct Edition count: 38
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #213 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #213 Direct Edition count: 36
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #217 Direct Edition count: 3
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #221 Direct Edition count: 111
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #222 Direct Edition count: 41
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #222 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #223 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #223 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #224 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #327 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #330 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #330 Direct Edition count: 12
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #331 Direct Edition count: 5
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #331 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #332 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #333 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #334 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #335 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #336 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #336 Direct Edition count: 5
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #337 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #338 Direct Edition count: 1
1987 NEWSSTAND: 17.76% (81/456)
1987 DIRECT EDITION: 82.24% (375/456)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #296 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #297 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #298 Direct Edition count: 111
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #299 Direct Edition count: 95
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #301 Direct Edition count: 57
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #302 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #302 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #303 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #304 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #305 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #306 Direct Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #306 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #307 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #307 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #308 Direct Edition count: 6
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #309 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #310 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #310 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #225 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #226 Direct Edition count: 2
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #229 Newsstand Edition count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #230 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #231 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #232 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #233 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #234 Direct Edition count: 8
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #234 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #235 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #236 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #237 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #238 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #239 Direct Edition count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #248 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #248 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #339 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #340 Newsstand Edition count: 43
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #340 Direct Edition count: 183
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #341 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #342 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #343 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #343 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #344 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #344 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #345 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #346 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #347 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #349 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #350 Direct Edition count: 3
1988 NEWSSTAND: 26.88% (439/1633)
1988 DIRECT EDITION: 73.12% (1194/1633)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #311 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #311 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #312 Direct Edition count: 16
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #312 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #313 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #313 Direct Edition count: 15
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #314 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #314 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #315 Direct Edition count: 19
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #315 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #316 Direct Edition count: 96
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #316 Newsstand Edition count: 25
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #317 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #317 Direct Edition count: 24
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #318 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #318 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #319 Direct Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #320 Direct Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #321 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #321 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #322 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #322 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #323 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #324 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #324 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #325 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #325 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #326 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #327 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #240 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #240 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #241 Direct Edition count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #242 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #242 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #243 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #244 Newsstand Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #244 Direct Edition count: 81
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #245 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #245 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #246 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #247 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #247 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #248 Direct Edition count: 60
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #248 Newsstand Edition count: 13
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #249 Direct Edition count: 10
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #250 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #250 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #251 Direct Edition count: 9
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #251 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #252 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #252 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #253 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #254 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #255 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #256 Direct Edition count: 26
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #256 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1989) #351 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1989) #354 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1989) #355 Direct Edition count: 1
1989 NEWSSTAND: 16.70% (88/527)
1989 DIRECT EDITION: 83.30% (439/527)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #328 Newsstand Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #328 Direct Edition count: 25
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #329 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #330 Direct Edition count: 28
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #330 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #331 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #331 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #332 Direct Edition count: 12
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #332 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #333 Direct Edition count: 12
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #333 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #334 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #335 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #337 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #337 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #338 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #339 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #340 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #342 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #365 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #257 Direct Edition count: 8
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #258 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #260 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #262 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #263 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #264 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #264 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #265 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #266 Newsstand Edition count: 146
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #266 Direct Edition count: 527
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #267 Direct Edition count: 15
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #267 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #268 Newsstand Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #268 Direct Edition count: 60
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #269 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #270 Direct Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #271 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #368 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #372 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #373 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #374 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #375 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #376 Direct Edition count: 2
1990 NEWSSTAND: 19.02% (175/920)
1990 DIRECT EDITION: 80.98% (745/920)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #343 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #344 Direct Edition count: 85
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #344 Newsstand Edition count: 16
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #345 Direct Edition count: 33
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #345 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #346 Direct Edition count: 21
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #346 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #347 Direct Edition count: 27
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #347 Newsstand Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #348 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #350 Direct Edition count: 10
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #351 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #351 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #352 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #352 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #353 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #354 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #355 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #356 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #361 Newsstand Edition count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #361 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #362 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #363 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #272 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #273 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #273 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #274 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #274 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #275 Direct Edition count: 12
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #275 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #276 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #277 Direct Edition count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #280 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #281 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #281 Direct Edition count: 56
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #282 Direct Edition count: 94
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #282 Newsstand Edition count: 10
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #283 Direct Edition count: 44
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #283 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #377 Direct Edition count: 87
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #377 Newsstand Edition count: 8
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #379 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #382 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #385 Newsstand Edition count: 1
1991 NEWSSTAND: 11.82% (70/592)
1991 DIRECT EDITION: 88.18% (522/592)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #101 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #357 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #358 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #359 Direct Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #359 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #360 Direct Edition count: 23
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #360 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #361 Direct Edition count: 563
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #361 Newsstand Edition count: 379
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #362 Newsstand Edition count: 48
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #362 Direct Edition count: 128
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #363 Direct Edition count: 115
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #363 Newsstand Edition count: 21
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #364 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #365 Direct Edition count: 92
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #365 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #366 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #366 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #367 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #368 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #369 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #370 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #370 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #371 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #282 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #282 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #284 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #285 Direct Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #286 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #286 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #287 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #287 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #288 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #289 Direct Edition count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #290 Direct Edition count: 8
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #290 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #291 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #292 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #293 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #294 Direct Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #295 Direct Edition count: 4
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1992) #295 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #389 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #390 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #391 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #393 Newsstand Edition count: 8
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #393 Direct Edition count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #394 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #397 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #399 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #400 Direct Edition count: 6
1992 NEWSSTAND: 31.75% (476/1499)
1992 DIRECT EDITION: 68.25% (1023/1499)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #372 Direct Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #373 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #374 Direct Edition count: 19
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #374 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #375 Newsstand Edition count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #375 Direct Edition count: 85
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #376 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #377 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #378 Direct Edition count: 17
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #378 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #379 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #379 Direct Edition count: 8
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #380 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #380 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #381 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #381 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #382 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #383 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #384 Direct Edition count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #296 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #297 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #300 Direct Edition count: 18
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #300 Newsstand Edition count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #302 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #303 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #304 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #304 Direct Edition count: 13
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1993) #307 Direct Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #393 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #405 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #409 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #410 Direct Edition count: 1
1993 NEWSSTAND: 8.30% (19/229)
1993 DIRECT EDITION: 91.70% (210/229)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #385 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #385 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #386 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #386 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #387 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #387 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #388 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #388 Direct Edition count: 12
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #389 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #392 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #393 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #394 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #395 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #308 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #309 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #312 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #316 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #316 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #317 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1994) #318 Direct Edition count: 3
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #418 Direct Edition count: 10
Incredible Hulk (marvel – 1994) #418 Newsstand Edition count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #419 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #420 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #423 Direct Edition count: 1
1994 NEWSSTAND: 15.52% (9/58)
1994 DIRECT EDITION: 84.48% (49/58)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #399 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #400 Direct Edition count: 23
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #400 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #401 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #403 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #405 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1995) #320 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1995) #322 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1995) #325 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1995) #425 Direct Edition count: 3
1995 NEWSSTAND: 12.20% (5/41)
1995 DIRECT EDITION: 87.80% (36/41)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #407 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #408 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #408 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #410 Newsstand Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #410 Direct Edition count: 13
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #411 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #412 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #413 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #415 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #416 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #418 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1996) #328 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1996) #333 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1996) #338 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1996) #441 Direct Edition count: 6
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1996) #442 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1996) #444 Direct Edition count: 1
1996 NEWSSTAND: 14.00% (7/50)
1996 DIRECT EDITION: 86.00% (43/50)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #419 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #421 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #422 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #423 Direct Edition count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #424 Direct Edition count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #425 Direct Edition count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #427 Direct Edition count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #428 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #429 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #342 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #346 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #350 Direct Edition count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #-1 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #449 Direct Edition count: 44
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #454 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #454 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #-1 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #-1 Direct Edition count: 1
1997 NEWSSTAND: 2.60% (2/77)
1997 DIRECT EDITION: 97.40% (75/77)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #430 Direct Edition count: 32
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #430 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #431 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #431 Direct Edition count: 11
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #433 Direct Edition count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #439 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #440 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #441 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1998) #352 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1998) #356 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1998) #358 Direct Edition count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1998) #360 Newsstand Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1998) #460 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1998) #467 Direct Edition count: 2
1998 NEWSSTAND: 5.17% (3/58)
1998 DIRECT EDITION: 94.83% (55/58)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1999) #v2 #1 Direct Edition count: 16
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1999) #v2 #12 Direct Edition count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1999) #1 Direct Edition count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1999) #474 Direct Edition count: 5
1999 NEWSSTAND: 0.00% (0/23)
1999 DIRECT EDITION: 100.00% (23/23)

Just 9.8 “Newsstand Edition” and “Direct Edition” counts found among the above, as of 5/15/2020:

Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #189 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #190 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 6
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #191 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #192 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #193 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #193 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #194 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #195 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #195 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1979) #198 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #117 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #119 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #120 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 3
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #121 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 6
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #122 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 3
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #123 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #123 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #124 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #124 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #125 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #126 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #127 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 4
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #127 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1979) #128 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #234 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #236 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1979) #241 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1979 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 67.92% (36/53)
1979 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 32.08% (17/53)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #200 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #201 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #201 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #202 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #203 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #204 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #206 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1980) #209 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #136 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #134 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #135 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #135 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #136 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #137 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #137 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #138 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1980) #138 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #248 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1980) #250 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
1980 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 25.00% (11/44)
1980 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 75.00% (33/44)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #212 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #212 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #214 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #215 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #217 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #219 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #220 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #221 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1981) #222 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #141 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #141 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #142 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #143 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #144 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #145 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #145 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #146 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #147 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #148 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #149 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #149 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #150 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #151 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1981) #152 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1981) #265 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
1981 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 20.37% (11/54)
1981 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 79.63% (43/54)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #226 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #229 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #230 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #233 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1982) #235 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #153 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #154 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #155 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 5
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1982) #156 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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1982 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 13.79% (8/58)
1982 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 86.21% (50/58)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1983) #238 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 11
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1983) #290 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1983 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 9.72% (7/72)
1983 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 90.28% (65/72)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #250 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #252 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 13
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1984) #252 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 7
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1984) #302 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1984 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 14.29% (11/77)
1984 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 85.71% (66/77)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #260 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1985) #261 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 9
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1985) #311 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1985) #312 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1985 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 11.11% (7/63)
1985 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 88.89% (56/63)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #272 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #274 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1986) #275 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #201 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1986) #202 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #318 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #324 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1986) #325 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1986 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 3.92% (2/51)
1986 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 96.08% (49/51)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #284 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #286 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1987) #292 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #213 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 6
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #215 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #217 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1987) #222 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 4
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #327 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #330 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #334 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #336 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1987) #337 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
1987 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 5.26% (3/57)
1987 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 94.74% (54/57)
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #298 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 10
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #298 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #299 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 11
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #300 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 8
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #303 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #305 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #306 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #307 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #308 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1988) #310 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1988) #225 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #340 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 10
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #342 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #347 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1988) #350 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1988 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 9.21% (7/76)
1988 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 90.79% (69/76)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #311 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #311 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #312 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #314 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1989) #315 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1989) #256 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
1989 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 14.55% (16/110)
1989 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 85.45% (94/110)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #328 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #328 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 8
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #329 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #331 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #332 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1990) #338 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #258 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1990) #262 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #372 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1990) #374 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1990 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 9.29% (13/140)
1990 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 90.71% (127/140)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #343 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #344 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 18
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1991) #344 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #272 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1991) #283 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 13
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1991) #377 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 12
1991 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 5.80% (8/138)
1991 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 94.20% (130/138)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #359 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #360 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #361 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 103
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #361 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 43
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #362 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 21
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #362 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 46
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1992) #363 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 37
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #399 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1992) #400 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 4
1992 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 22.59% (75/332)
1992 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 77.41% (257/332)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #372 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #373 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #374 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 9
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #375 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #375 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 39
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1993) #378 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 8
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #405 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #409 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1993) #410 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1993 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 3.26% (3/92)
1993 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 96.74% (89/92)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #385 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1994) #386 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #418 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1994) #420 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1994 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 7.69% (2/26)
1994 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 92.31% (24/26)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #399 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #400 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 4
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1995) #401 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1995) #320 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1995) #322 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1995) #425 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
1995 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 0.00% (0/13)
1995 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 100.00% (13/13)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #410 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #410 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 7
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #411 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 3
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1996) #412 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1996) #333 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1996) #441 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 4
1996 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 12.50% (3/24)
1996 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 87.50% (21/24)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #421 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1997) #422 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
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Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #342 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #350 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Uncanny X-Men (Marvel – 1997) #-1 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #449 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 9
Incredible Hulk (Marvel – 1997) #-1 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1997 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 0.00% (0/27)
1997 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 100.00% (27/27)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #430 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 25
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #430 Newsstand Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #431 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #433 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 2
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #439 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1998) #440 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 1
1998 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 3.12% (1/32)
1998 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 96.88% (31/32)
Amazing Spider-Man (Marvel – 1999) #v2 #1 Direct Edition 9.8 count: 10
1999 NEWSSTAND 9.8: 0.00% (0/10)
1999 DIRECT EDITION 9.8: 100.00% (10/10)

Applause To CBCS Releasing Their Census!

By Benjamin Nobel, 5/9/2020

On Thursday of last week, CBCS announced their long-awaited census — or “Population Report” as they are calling it — revealing the counts and grades for each of the books that have passed through their doors since the time they first appeared on the scene as CGC’s primary competitor in the comic book grading business.

For newsstand-focused collectors such as myself, this new research tool is going to provide a treasure trove of data that CGC hasn’t been able to give us, because ever since April of 2017, CBCS has been distinguishing newsstand versus direct edition on their labels and in their records (at least for books up until the year 2000; unfortunately after that arbitrary publication date we’re out of luck). And, from the beginning CBCS has been distinguishing Canadian Price Variants as well, as distinctly-labeled census variants — initially denoting them as “Canadian Edition” and then since October 2018 denoting as “75¢ Canadian Price Variant” (and similar, depending on actual cover price).

All of this data in turn is now available in the new population report! Yippee!! 🙂 But given all the changes to their labeling over time, the numbers revealed in the new population report are a little tricky to work with when it comes to issues with US newsstand and CPV variants because there are more census entries than there are actual variants of each issue.

To illustrate this trickiness, and to lay out how I think it makes sense for us to look at the CBCS census data when exploring relative rarity, consider Amazing Spider-Man #238. Marvel published three different “triplets” when this book was manufactured, i.e. three versions manufactured on the same equipment with identical indicia and interior pages, and with the exact order of birth among the triplets unknown (thus all three have equal claim on being 1st print copies).

But instead of three matching entries in the CBCS census report, they give us five entries: there’s an entry with a blank variant field for books where the US newsstand versus direct edition distinction wasn’t recorded for 60¢ cover price copies (the “old way”); there’s the old “Canadian Edition” entry for 75¢ cover price copies (the “old way”); there’s the new “75¢ Canadian Price Variant” entry for CPVs graded after October 2018; and there’s the “Direct Edition” and “Newsstand Edition” entries — the “new way” following their April 2017 announcement:

Much like television ratings, election polling, and Governor Cuomo’s recent Covid-19 antibody testing in NY all are done by taking a sample (a small portion of the population) to determine relative percentages among the sample, I believe that looking at the census data from CBCS can give us excellent information about the relative rarity among the three types of ASM #238 comics published, even though CBCS-graded books are just a small sample of the total copies out there in the world.

So: Is there a way to look at the new census data for the above 5 census entries for this book and translate that data down to the three actual types published? Here’s how I approach this question:

• First, I want to look at the 60¢ cover price copies and see the ratio of newsstand to direct edition copies using the “Newsstand Edition” and “Direct Edition” census entries. Unfortunately the sample size is still pretty small because CBCS is still young, but, let’s work with the data we have for now, and keep an eye on the population report numbers over time as more data accumulates. And the data we have for now, as of the May 9, 2020 population report for ASM #238, shows 141 direct editions against 102 newsstand editions. That’s 58% direct edition : 42% newsstand.

• Next, I’m going to apply that 58:42 ratio, against the “old way” census count from when the two types were still lumped together, i.e. let’s assume for this exercise that the ratio we see will be similar to that of the “broken out” copies that were graded post- April 2017. I recognize that this is an assumption, and we don’t know for sure; not only are the numbers smallish, but submission behavior might have actually changed as a result of the label change once it happened… but we have to work with the data set we have, not the ideal data that we want. So we’ll make the assumption and we’ll extrapolate. This extrapolation breaks the “lumped” census entry into 118 direct editions and 86 newsstand editions, bringing the “extrapolated total” to 259 direct edition : 188 newsstand edition.

• Finally, we can add together the “Canadian Edition” and the “75¢ Canadian Price Variant” counts: this gives us a total of 8 price variants across the two differently-named entries.

• So now we can input our three pie slices, revealing the relative rarity difference between the three types using the CBCS population report, as of the May 9, 2020 data:

So that’s ~1.8% for the 75¢ variant of ASM #238 as a percentage of the total — and to think about such a percentage in the context of “modern variant terms” it is worth noting that “1:50” as a percentage is 1 divided by 50 which is 2%, so that’s good context for wrapping our heads around the price variant relative rarity level seen on the CBCS census today for this issue.  Meanwhile the US newsstand version made up 41.3% and the direct edition made up 56.9%.

So that “walk-through” above is how I’m approaching the CBCS census data.  Performing this same type of exercise should be interesting for many other books as well; it will be interesting to study how the rarity numbers trend for certain titles compared to others, and also for later years compared to earlier years (not to mention publisher vs. publisher).

There are thousands of books to potentially study ultimately, but for a quick look at some interesting keys and to satisfy my own curiosity for today, I performed the same exercise as done with ASM #238 above, for a number of other comics.

First, I took a quick glance at the universe of Canadian Price Variants through time, using some of my favorite Marvel & DC CPVs by year, picking one key book for each year from 1982-1988; I found the following relative rarity data (again this is all using the May 9, 2020 data from CBCS, which for the table below is for a total of 5,179 submissions, and we’ll have to see how the numbers fill out as time passes and more data accumulates):

Year	Book	Direct Edition	Newsstand Edition
			Regular	Price Variant
1982	Wolverine #2 (1st Full Yukio)	80%	18%	1.5%
1983	ASM #238 (1st Hobgoblin)	57%	41%	1.8%
1984	Secret Wars #8 (Symbiote Origin)	79%	19%	1.4%
1985	Web of Spider-Man #1 (1st Vulturions)	88%	11%	1.4%
1986	X-Factor #6 (1st Apocalypse)	78%	21%	1.2%
1987	Batman #404 (Year One Part I)	94%	5%	0.7%
1988	Batman #423 (Todd McFarlane Classic)	82%	17%	1.3%

Over in our CPV price guide intro section we presented survivorship estimates for 1980’s Marvel & DC CPVs as a group, estimating ~80% direct edition, ~18% regular newsstand, and ~2% newsstand price variants, and in the detailed explanation page we talked about how the percentage of total sales shifted towards direct edition prevalence sometime near the middle of the 1980’s; since the variants were a newsstand-only phenomenon, this would drive the variant percentage to be higher towards the beginning of the variant window, and lower towards the end of the variant window, all else equal. The CBCS census data will no doubt help with researching newsstand percentages in more detail, not just by year and by publisher, but issue-by-issue.

And moving into the 1990’s and another section of the world of cover price variant comics, I was also curious to look up CBCS census data for Marvel’s two big APVs: the New Mutants #98 $1.50 Australian Price Variant and the Amazing Spider-Man #361 $1.80 Australian Price Variant.  As it turns out, CBCS has only graded one of each variant to date, but it is still interesting to see the direct edition : newsstand : price variant ratios on census as of today for these two mega-key comic books:

Year	Book	Direct Edition	Newsstand Edition
			Regular	Price Variant
1991	New Mutants #98 (1st Deadpool)	76%	24%	0.04%
1992	ASM #361 (1st Full Carnage)	60%	40%	0.06%

Here are a few other books of the late-1980’s and 1990’s, ones that don’t have Type 1A price variants but where I was still interested to see the direct edition : newsstand percentage on census:

Year	Book	Direct Edition	Newsstand
1988	ASM #300 (1st Venom)	67.2%	32.8%
1988	Hulk #340 (McFarlane Classic)	81.0%	19.0%
1990	Uncanny X-Men #266 (Gambit)	78.4%	21.6%
1990	New Mutants #87 (Cable)	80.7%	19.3%
1992	Spawn #1	91.4%	8.6%
1993	Batman Adventures #12 (1st Harley Quinn)	83.8%	16.3%

Unfortunately CBCS decided only to break out the newsstand vs. direct edition difference through the end of the 1990’s (hopefully one day they’ll extend that, because ending at the year 2000 as they did is completely arbitrary, and the newsstand rarity discussions and estimates really have the newsstand numbers falling off a cliff into the 2000’s so it would have been great to measure those later newsstand books too). [Fortunately, CGC meanwhile does break out some of the newsstand comics of the 2000’s when they are cover price variants of the issue number, such as the $3.99 cover price newsstand comics whose direct edition counterparts are priced $1 lower at $2.99, so we can study census data over there at CGC for those.]

But while CBCS’s new census doesn’t help us study relative rarity data into the 2000’s through to the end of the newsstand distribution era, it can help us see some data for the beginning of the direct edition era, which is also a quite fascinating period to look into. Some of the estimates out there for the very early direct editions have the year 1979 for example at 90-94% newsstand at time of distribution. Even after layering on the notorious newsstand destruction rate (with direct editions meanwhile tending to be purchased by collectors and carefully preserved), surviving direct editions from this “early” time-frame sometimes seem much harder to find out there in the marketplace; will they show up with smaller numbers on the CBCS census? Let’s check a couple of big keys.

I consider any direct editions with the bar-code strike-through instead of a graphical logo (like the Spidey Head) to be “early” direct editions [if you are unfamiliar with the newsstand vs. direct edition difference, see Comic Book Newsstand Editions: Understanding The Difference]. One example key with a bar-code strike-through being Amazing Spider-Man #194 (1st Black Cat). And before 1979 there are the No Month Variants / Pre-Pack Editions / Whitman 3-Pack Variants like Spectacular Spider-Man #27 which has just a blank box in place of a bar code (on CBCS’s census, instead of calling them “Direct Edition” CBCS uses “3-Pack Variant”). What is the newsstand : direct CBCS census breakdown for these early direct-sold examples? Here are the current numbers (once again based on the 5/9/2020 CBCS census data):

Year	Book	Direct	Newsstand
1977	Spectacular Spider-Man #27 (1st Frank Miller Daredevil)	11.8%*	88.2%
1979	Amazing Spider-Man #194 (1st Black Cat)	36.9%	63.1%

* I don’t know if “3-Pack Variant” tracking began at CBCS at the same time as the newsstand/direct break-outs, or if it began from the beginning; there are 4 books classified “3-Pack Variant” against 30 “Newsstand Edition” and 36 without a designation for Spectacular #27; in the above I have counted the 4 against only the “Newsstand Edition” copies yielding 4/34=11.8% but the proper comparison might also be to add in the 36 unclassified copies if “3-Pack Variant” dates back to the beginning, in which case it would be copies 4/70=5.7% — either way the 3-pack variants are clearly the more rare type on census.

And the final book I looked up today is Wolverine Limited Series #1, published in 1982 when we’d expect to still be seeing mostly newsstand copies dominating Marvel’s sales, and yet, much like we see when studying marketplace availability for this issue, the bulk of CBCS graded copies of the issue on record to date are direct editions — about 3 of every 4:

Year	Book	Direct	Newsstand
1982	Wolverine Limited Series #1	75.4%	24.6%

 
The newly launched CBCS census is a great research tool for newsstand-focused collectors; there are soooo many other books we can check out, and it is also fascinating to drill down into the 9.8 grade and compare the types surviving in that coveted NM/MT condition, but for now I’m going to end this post here [5/16 update: here’s another post, studying CBCS census newsstand rarity by year]. If you’re curious about other books yourself, here’s a direct link to the new CBCS census: https://www.cbcscomics.com/population-report/

Happy Collecting! 🙂
– Ben

Collecting Comics During The Coronavirus Pandemic

By Benjamin Nobel, April 2, 2020

You’re getting dozens of ‘Coronavirus letters’ these days in your inbox; here’s one more!

Hi everyone, first and foremost, I hope you are all staying healthy and safe. I’ve had to put comics on the back burner and focus fully on work and family, so you haven’t seen a post from me for awhile (and you will likely not see another for awhile after this). We’ve all heard the comparisons to the 1918 Spanish Flu as the last time a pandemic of this magnitude took place, so this is truly a “100-year-storm” type of event we are collectively experiencing.

It occurs to me that anyone who was actually alive back in 1918 is now ~102 years old now, so any memories they might have of that past event would have been as a toddler or young child at best… Nobody alive today has a first-hand recollection in the memory banks of their brains, of what this type of 100-year-storm global pandemic event is like to live through as an adult. A lot has been written of the 1918 pandemic for sure, but this is the very first time, for every adult alive on the planet today, to actually experience this type of once-in-a-century global pandemic themselves. Wow.

Country by country and state by state, we’re seeing schools and non-essential businesses closed by government mandate until further notice, and in most states here in the USA we presently have shelter-in-place/stay-at-home types of orders for the public; the streets of our large cities are now eerily empty. We’ve simply never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes. With no prior reference point in our brains from our own memories of our past to compare this to, there is naturally unprecedented fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the future. Collectively, nobody knows what to expect will happen next (and for now the news just keeps getting worse).

In the comics industry, first we saw announcements of canceled attendance at comic cons, then announcements that the cons themselves were postponed or canceled. As we speak, the Jacob Javits Center in New York City (where NYCC has been held historically) has been transformed by the Army Corp of Engineers into a hospital in an amazing and awe-inspiring feat, and one that speaks to the priorities right now: all the measures to slow the spread of the virus are critical because of our limited hospital capacity against the percentage of active cases that will require hospitalization. The Javits center transformation is remarkable but we can make only so many additional hospital beds, and thus we must take the ‘self-inflicted hit’ of shutting down economically in order to slow the spread, because if the spread happens too fast we’ll suffer the feared mega health hit measured in deaths too many to bear. So, on with the economic hit we must go…

Back when cancellation of large events/gatherings was still the news-of-the-day it might have been hard to envision that comic shops themselves would be forced to close, but now, I’m sure that you too are receiving announcements and having friends forwarding you announcements from their local comic shops, about their forced closure. And then last week, Diamond Comics Distributors announced they will cease distributing new comics, until further notice. So not only are the physical storefronts of our favorite comic shops closed, but now, until further notice these shops will have no new shipments coming to them, at all, of new comics to sell. Wow.

Even with no new comics coming in, a closed comic shop still has to pay the rent… Hopefully the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act” will be able to provide some help in that regard. But the precise extent of the help doesn’t yet seem clear. And if you’re a comic shop with no new books coming in, then it would sure seem to me that you’ll be looking at selling your old books (back issues) as aggressively as needed in order to generate the cash required to survive this event through to the other side.

And it isn’t just businesses like our local comic shops that need cash right now. It is of course the many individuals too, who are losing their jobs. It is upsetting to think of all the industries where so many people are being let go or furloughed: airlines, hotels, restaurants, movie theaters, malls, the list goes on and on. A recent projection from the St. Louis Fed puts the potential job losses at 47 million and the unemployment rate surging past 32% at the peak of this mess… All these people are going to be wondering how they are going to pay their living expenses, feed their families, make their rent / mortgage payments. Will they receive one of those government checks and will it be enough?

Certainly, there is a sudden giant need out there all over the place, for cash… For those individuals in cash-raising mode who own collectible comics, they might be thinking about parting with some of them right about now. But we should keep in mind, that the need for generating cash by selling assets is everywhere, not just in the area of comics. In the stock market, prices of stocks across the board began to plunge when huge numbers of investors and traders, pretty much all at once, started to sell stocks to raise cash: According to CNN, the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded its worst quarterly start to a year in history, down 23.2% for the first quarter. The price of a barrel of oil meanwhile set its worst quarter on record according to Bloomberg, with a stunning 66% loss in price, a shock that has been absolutely hammering the energy industry.

With uncertainty and doubt about who is going to be able to afford to pay their April rent (and mortgage payments, and payments on loans), the value of real estate companies (landlords), the value of riskier corporate bonds, and also the value of mortgage-backed securities has been plunging in tandem. What is particularly alarming about the plunge in mortgage-backed securities is how what’s currently happening “rhymes historically” with what happened during the financial crisis of 2008-2009, which is that many of the companies set up to be the owners of those securities actually own them with mostly borrowed money — i.e. they essentially made a “down-payment” on the securities and then they borrow the rest with short-term borrowings.

Borrowing to buy something is not abnormal of course (people borrow to buy cars, houses, you name it, all the time), but in the case of the mortgage-backed securities owners, those borrowings were short-term in nature and came with the stipulation that if the market value of the securities fell, then more cash would need to be delivered to the lender — basically what’s known as a “margin call.” [Imagine if you bought a comic on eBay, but instead of paying the full purchase price in cash, you had a business partner who allowed you to make just a small down-payment on the comic and lent you the balance of the purchase price… but lent it with the stipulation that you would both check the market value on a regular basis and if the value of the book were to fall as observed by other sales, then you’d have to put up more and more money as the value fell further and further, otherwise you’d lose the book to the lender or be forced to sell it to make the lender whole.]

And what happens if the owner of the securities doesn’t have any more cash left to meet that final margin call? Things like this happen: someone forwarded me an example of a sale filed just days ago, by a company that had owned a portfolio of $6.1 billion face value of residential mortgage-backed securities and after a series of margin calls ultimately decided to sell them quickly — generating proceeds of just $3.3 billion. Wow. And now that sale becomes a reference-point for market participants assessing current market value for other similar assets owned with borrowed money… you can see how it can easily become a self-reinforcing downward spiral. And similar stresses caused by falling market value and forced selling are a systemic risk to the commercial mortgage market too according to Tom Barrack, unless something is done to step in and stop the downward spiral.

And here’s just one more recent “sudden need for cash” example: Carnival — the cruise line — is publicly traded and was at around the $50/share level before the pandemic struck. Its share price had fallen to about $13 by Monday of this week. Then on Tuesday morning the company announced it wanted to raise $1.25 billion in cash via the sale of newly issued shares of their stock. Typically, in such a situation the company would need to offer the new shares at a discount to where they had been trading, with the hefty discount then luring in the new buyers for those newly offered shares. The outcome of the money-raising endeavor was just filed with the SEC: even after discounting the shares all the way down to $8/ea — a nearly 40% discount to where the stock had traded days earlier and a small fraction of where they traded before the pandemic — they only ended up with buyers for $500 million worth of new shares ($750 million short of what they originally were hoping to raise).

I give these examples for some backdrop of everything that’s going on out there around us, to provide context of the discounts being seen left and right: all over the place right now in the world there are sellers of all types of assets and many of them need to be sellers, even at prices that a month ago would have seemed unthinkably too-low to contemplate selling.

Tying this all back to our hobby: When it comes to collecting comics during the pandemic, I think that here too in our hobby we’ll be seeing lots of really interesting stuff hit the market that might not otherwise have been put up for sale in normal times. Some people (and comic shops) will simply need to sell some books that they would otherwise have wanted to keep, in order to raise much-needed cash.

I’m seeing this plenty already and I bet you are as well; I have been quite surprised by just how many alerts I am getting in my inbox for wantlist comics that are now available on the marketplace — weird quirky stuff like manufacturing errors that I haven’t seen available in years and now suddenly people are putting them up for sale. And for CPV collectors, earlier this month (as I’m sure many of you reading this also noticed), for the very first time in several years someone was willing to put up for auction a 9.8 CPV copy of Amazing Spider-Man #238 (it sold for $4,650). Whether related to cash-raising or not, that’s the first 9.8 of this key book we’ve seen for sale since our first guide was published in 2017.

Bottom line, these are clearly unprecedented times for any of us living on this Earth today, and for many the #1 focus is literally just staying alive and seeing our loved ones survive. After health, financially speaking the first priority for your cash is to ensure that you are in a position to provide for yourself and your families and make it through to the other side of this awful period. Right now your cash is extremely precious; I envy those who have a massive pile of cash right now.

If you don’t have any “extra” cash but you are able to make it through to the other side of this, I’d still consider that a big win. (Even without extra cash, this might also be a good time to barter — another way to stay active in the hobby.)

If you are lucky enough to fall into the category of people who have some “extra” cash, I have to think that in the future, when you’re looking back on this period once it has become a memory (and it will become a memory), it might be nice for you to recall happily about how you were able to use some of that “extra” cash for investment into your favorite collectible comics (or investment into any other asset class for that matter where you see strong value). Landing something great for your collection during the pandemic, whether it is a book that you’d been looking for unsuccessfully for years and years that finally became available, or getting a tremendous deal on something at a fraction of what you feel it will be worth two years out, is a nice thing you can do for your future self, during this pandemic. [And, chances are you may be providing cash for someone who desperately needs it immediately, in the process].

I recognize that right now, the total number of COVID-19 cases in the USA (and the worldwide count) is still rising rapidly and people are still extremely scared. The numbers are alarming, and growing, no doubt about it. And the longer the ‘shutdown’ goes on, the more the economic situation becomes a self-reinforcing downward spiral and the harder it will be for the economy to bounce back from the damage. But on the other hand we know this period will not go on forever: there is going to be a day that this is all just a memory.

When the economy “opens back up” again, the survivors in every business area currently impacted, comics included, will move forward and thrive once more, and lost jobs will return. The energy industry too may snap back if the Saudis reach an agreement with Russia or other positive news emerges that sends energy prices back upward.

Today in the current US “epicenter” of the outbreak, Governor Cuomo of New York gave estimates that the “apex” of hospitalizations could come as early as one week from now or as long as three weeks from now, depending on which expert opinions you draw from. I keep reminding myself that after the apex is finally reached, we will start to go down the other side of the hill. While we don’t know exactly how long that will take, at some point in the future we will start to see that proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. We’ll be able to once again envision the world re-opening and envision the economy starting to come back. We’ll envision asset prices, including comics, returning to their pre-pandemic “normal levels” … and the big fear that’s out there, the fear of things getting worse, will transform into a fear of missing out on the recovery where those who are lucky to be sitting on their pile of cash will fear they waited too long and missed the rebound without having done anything with their cash pile. And then, finally, at some point we’ll reach the time when we look back on this pandemic as a memory.

I wish you all well during these tough times, dear readers of the Rare Comics Blog! I hope we can all remember that above all else the “Key” in this particular situation is being able to make it through to the other side of this pandemic. And any great comic collecting wins in the interim are just a bonus.

All the best,
– Ben

Harvey Canadian Price Variants

January 7, 2020, by Bill Alexander, Salvatore Miceli, and Benjamin Nobel — this post is for readers of the 2020 CPV Price Guide and shares Harvey Type 1A price variant research from Salvatore Miceli and Bill Alexander

Everyone knows about Marvel’s 35¢ cover price variants from 1977 (Type 1)… but few know that Harvey published 35¢ cover price variants in 1974… and 1973… and 1972… and all the way backwards to December of 1958!!

Indeed, as it turns out, for Harvey Giant comics with a regular cover price of 25¢ there have been found 35¢ price variants! These have been determined to have been Type 1A and exclusive to Canada; below is an example indicia photo from the 35¢ variant of Casper’s Ghostland #1:

For many of the other 35¢ variants, single-issue price information is absent from the indicia. Toronto-based researcher extraordinaire Salvatore Miceli, with help from price variant specialist and Overstreet Advisor Bill Alexander, set out to document the Harvey CPVs.

Together they found 974 Harvey issues that would have corresponding 35¢ Canadian Price Variants, from December 1958 to April 1974. Today, below, Sal and Bill share their research with you into these cool 35¢ CPVs, as well as a batch of 75¢ CPVs from 1982 just before Harvey paused/ceased publishing comics, and then a window of “Phase Two” variants following Harvey’s revival (which include the neat 89¢ variants as well as various other cover price points). And they have also covered Harvey’s digests as well.

As you review the lists, if you can help us confirm any of the still-unconfirmed issues, please let us know! For the 75¢ variants from 1982 we have included the list of August and September issues that might have variants but we have yet to spot any from these months as of the time this is being published (if you might have any of the unconfirmed 1982 Harveys we hope you’ll check your collection!).

Harvey had not introduced Direct Editions yet at this point (their reliance purely on newsstand sales may have been a big factor in their decline and ultimate pause/cessation of comic publishing in 1982), making it all the more difficult to predict when CPVs may exist for these issues [later, their “phase two” CPVs do have corresponding direct editions].

But one reason we believe CPVs for the listed 1982 issues could exist out there has to do with a “font change” that Harvey implemented, as pointed out below (Richie Rich and Jackie Jokers #46, 47, and 48 shown):

As you can see, at issue #48 (at right), the font style changes to a different font with a more bold appearance. And for this issue, a 75¢ variant is confirmed to exist:

Thus far we’ve only found 75¢ variants for the final issues from October and December. However, the very same font change is observed for Richie Rich Bank Books #59, for instance, from September:

And we do know of Archie Canadian Price Variants from September of 1982, so we cannot rule out the existence of Harvey 75¢ variants too… keep your eyes out, and if you spot any please share the news with us!

A final note: as you peruse the lists, note that we have included the most recent NM- non-variant/baseline issue value, but in reality for the earlier-year 35¢ CPVs, such high grade is unheard of… In his experience hunting for these, Bill points out that finding certain of these older Silver Age variants above VG grade would be like getting struck by lightning. Thus, comparing NM- baseline value may be at best purely theoretical.

In the next section of this post, a sampling of example pictures are presented below by category, and then the Harvey lists follow, grouped together by category: 35¢ CPVs, 75¢ CPVs, “Phase Two” CPVs, and Harvey digests

Example 35¢ Canadian Price Variant Pictures

Example 75¢ Canadian Price Variant Pictures

Example “Phase Two” CPV Pictures

Example Digest CPV Pictures

Harvey 35¢ Canadian Price Variant Comics

Baby Huey Duckland
15 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Nov-62		$210
2	$0.35	Feb-63		$85
3	$0.35	May-63		$85
4	$0.35	Aug-63		$85
5	$0.35	Nov-63		$85
6	$0.35	Feb-64		$45
7	$0.35	Oct-64		$45
8	$0.35	Jan-65		$45
9	$0.35	Apr-65		$45
10	$0.35	Jul-65		$45
11	$0.35	Oct-65		$45
12	$0.35	Jan-66		$45
13	$0.35	Apr-66		$45
14	$0.35	Sep-66		$45
15	$0.35	Nov-66		$45
Baby Huey The Baby Giant
18 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
80	$0.35	Dec-68		$32
81	$0.35	Mar-69		$32
82	$0.35	Apr-69		$32
83	$0.35	Jun-69		$32
84	$0.35	Aug-69		$32
85	$0.35	Oct-69		$32
86	$0.35	Dec-69		$32
87	$0.35	Feb-70		$32
88	$0.35	Apr-70		$32
89	$0.35	Jun-70		$32
90	$0.35	Aug-70		$32
91	$0.35	Oct-70		$32
92	$0.35	Dec-70		$32
93	$0.35	Feb-71		$32
94	$0.35	Apr-71		$32
95	$0.35	Jun-71		$32
96	$0.35	Aug-71		$24
97	$0.35	Oct-71		$24
Black Cat Mystery
3 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
63	$0.35	Oct-62		$285
64	$0.35	Jan-63		$285
65	$0.35	Apr-63		$285
Blondie
13 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
125	$0.35	May-59	*Unconfirmed	$60
137	$0.35	May-60	*Unconfirmed	$55
140	$0.35	Aug-60		$55
148	$0.35	Nov-61		$45
155	$0.35	Nov-62		$45
156	$0.35	Feb-63		$45
157	$0.35	May-63		$45
158	$0.35	Sep-63		$45
159	$0.35	Nov-63		$45
160	$0.35	Mar-64		$45
161	$0.35	Oct-64		$45
162	$0.35	Sep-65		$45
163	$0.35	Nov-65		$45
Blondie And Dagwood Family
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Oct-63		$70
2	$0.35	Sep-64		$40
3	$0.35	Oct-64		$40
4	$0.35	Dec-65		$40
Bunny
20 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Dec-66		$135
2	$0.35	Apr-67		$65
3	$0.35	Nov-67	1st Fruitman	$65
4	$0.35	Mar-68		$65
5	$0.35	Oct-68		$65
6	$0.35	Dec-68		$65
7	$0.35	Feb-69		$65
8	$0.35	Apr-69		$65
9	$0.35	May-69		$65
10	$0.35	Jul-69		$65
11	$0.35	Sep-69		$60
12	$0.35	Nov-69		$60
13	$0.35	Jan-70		$60
14	$0.35	Mar-70		$60
15	$0.35	Jun-70		$60
16	$0.35	Sep-70		$60
17	$0.35	Oct-70		$60
18	$0.35	Mar-71		$60
19	$0.35	Sep-71		$55
20	$0.35	Dec-71		$55
Casper the Friendly Ghost
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
160	$0.35	Mar-72		$26
161	$0.35	May-72		$26
162	$0.35	Jul-72		$26
163	$0.35	Sep-72	15¢ cover price version also found	$26
Casper And Nightmare
32 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
6	$0.35	Nov-64		$80
7	$0.35	Feb-65		$45
8	$0.35	May-65		$45
9	$0.35	Aug-65		$45
10	$0.35	Nov-65		$45
11	$0.35	Feb-66		$35
12	$0.35	May-66		$35
13	$0.35	Aug-66		$35
14	$0.35	Oct-66		$35
15	$0.35	Dec-66		$35
16	$0.35	Feb-67		$35
17	$0.35	May-67		$35
18	$0.35	Nov-67		$35
19	$0.35	Feb-68		$35
20	$0.35	Jun-68		$35
21	$0.35	Sep-68		$26
22	$0.35	Dec-68		$26
23	$0.35	Apr-69		$26
24	$0.35	Jun-69		$26
25	$0.35	Sep-69		$26
26	$0.35	Nov-69		$26
27	$0.35	Jan-70		$26
28	$0.35	Jun-70		$26
29	$0.35	Sep-70		$26
30	$0.35	Nov-70		$26
31	$0.35	Jan-71		$26
32	$0.35	Jun-71		$26
33	$0.35	Sep-71		$26
34	$0.35	Nov-71		$26
35	$0.35	Apr-72		$26
36	$0.35	Jun-72		$26
37	$0.35	Aug-72		$26
Casper Spaceship
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Aug-72		$38
Casper And Wendy
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-72		$40
Casper’s Ghostland
77 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Jan-59		$425
2	$0.35	Mar-59		$175
3	$0.35	Summer 1959		$120
4	$0.35	Jan-60		$120
5	$0.35	Apr-60		$120
6	$0.35	Jul-60		$120
7	$0.35	Oct-60		$120
8	$0.35	Jan-61		$120
9	$0.35	Apr-61		$120
10	$0.35	Jul-61		$120
11	$0.35	Oct-61		$90
12	$0.35	Jan-62		$90
13	$0.35	Apr-62	Christmas cover	$90
14	$0.35	Jul-62		$90
15	$0.35	Oct-62		$90
16	$0.35	Jan-63		$90
17	$0.35	Apr-63		$90
18	$0.35	Jul-63		$90
19	$0.35	Oct-63		$90
20	$0.35	Jan-64		$90
21	$0.35	Apr-64		$65
22	$0.35	Jul-64		$65
23	$0.35	Oct-64		$65
24	$0.35	Jan-65		$65
25	$0.35	Apr-65		$65
26	$0.35	Jul-65		$65
27	$0.35	Oct-65		$65
28	$0.35	Jan-66		$65
29	$0.35	Apr-66		$65
30	$0.35	Jul-66		$65
31	$0.35	Aug-66		$65
32	$0.35	Oct-66		$65
33	$0.35	Dec-66		$65
34	$0.35	Feb-67		$65
35	$0.35	Apr-67		$65
36	$0.35	Jun-67		$65
37	$0.35	Aug-67		$65
38	$0.35	Oct-67		$65
39	$0.35	Dec-67		$65
40	$0.35	Feb-68		$65
41	$0.35	Apr-68		$32
42	$0.35	Jun-68		$32
43	$0.35	Aug-68		$32
44	$0.35	Oct-68		$32
45	$0.35	Dec-68		$32
46	$0.35	Feb-69		$32
47	$0.35	Apr-69		$32
48	$0.35	May-69		$32
49	$0.35	Jul-69		$32
50	$0.35	Sep-69		$32
51	$0.35	Nov-69		$32
52	$0.35	Jan-70		$32
53	$0.35	Mar-70		$32
54	$0.35	May-70		$32
55	$0.35	Jul-70		$32
56	$0.35	Sep-70		$32
57	$0.35	Nov-70		$32
58	$0.35	Jan-71		$32
59	$0.35	Mar-71		$32
60	$0.35	May-71		$32
61	$0.35	Jul-71		$32
62	$0.35	Sep-71		$16
63	$0.35	Nov-71		$16
64	$0.35	Jan-72		$16
65	$0.35	Mar-72		$16
66	$0.35	May-72		$16
67	$0.35	Jul-72		$16
68	$0.35	Sep-72		$16
69	$0.35	Nov-72		$16
70	$0.35	Jan-73		$16
71	$0.35	Mar-73		$16
72	$0.35	May-73		$16
73	$0.35	Jul-73		$16
74	$0.35	Sep-73		$16
75	$0.35	Nov-73		$16
76	$0.35	Jan-74		$16
77	$0.35	Mar-74		$16
Dagwood
12 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
122	$0.35	Oct-61		$45
129	$0.35	Oct-62		$45
131	$0.35	Jan-63		$45
132	$0.35	Apr-63		$45
133	$0.35	Aug-63		$45
134	$0.35	Oct-63		$45
135	$0.35	Jan-64		$45
136	$0.35	Apr-64		$45
137	$0.35	Sep-64		$45
138	$0.35	Nov-64		$45
139	$0.35	Sep-65		$45
140	$0.35	Nov-65		$45
Devil Kids Starring Hot Stuff
15 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
41	$0.35	Sep-69		$45
42	$0.35	Nov-69		$45
43	$0.35	Feb-70		$45
44	$0.35	May-70		$45
45	$0.35	Jul-70		$45
46	$0.35	Sep-70		$45
47	$0.35	Dec-70		$45
48	$0.35	Mar-71		$45
49	$0.35	May-71		$45
50	$0.35	Jul-71		$45
51	$0.35	Sep-71		$40
52	$0.35	Dec-71		$40
53	$0.35	Mar-72		$40
54	$0.35	May-72		$40
55	$0.35	Aug-72		$40
Dick Tracy
5 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
141	$0.35	Aug-60		$105
142	$0.35	Oct-60		$105
143	$0.35	Dec-60		$105
144	$0.35	Feb-61		$105
145	$0.35	Apr-61		$105
Double-Dare Adventures
2 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Dec-66	Origin & 1st app. Bee-Man, Magic-Master & Glowing Gladiator.	$105
2	$0.35	Mar-67		$75
Famous TV Funday Funnies
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-61		$85
Fighting American
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Oct-66		$80
Fruitman Special
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Dec-69		$55
Harvey Pop Comics
2 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Oct-68		$85
2	$0.35	Nov-69		$75
Hi-School Romance Date Book
3 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Nov-62	* Unconfirmed	$95
2	$0.35	Jan-63	* Unconfirmed	$45
3	$0.35	May-63	* Unconfirmed	$45
Hot Stuff, The Little Devil
7 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
106	$0.35	Sep-71		$35
107	$0.35	Nov-71		$35
108	$0.35	Jan-72		$35
109	$0.35	Mar-72		$35
110	$0.35	May-72		$35
111	$0.35	Jul-72		$35
112	$0.35	Sep-72		$35
Hot Stuff Sizzlers
59 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Jul-60		$325
2	$0.35	Nov-60		$135
3	$0.35	Feb-61		$135
4	$0.35	May-61		$135
5	$0.35	Aug-61		$135
6	$0.35	Nov-61		$90
7	$0.35	Feb-62		$90
8	$0.35	May-62		$90
9	$0.35	Aug-62		$90
10	$0.35	Nov-62		$90
11	$0.35	Feb-63		$60
12	$0.35	May-63		$60
13	$0.35	Aug-63		$60
14	$0.35	Nov-63		$60
15	$0.35	Feb-64		$60
16	$0.35	May-64		$60
17	$0.35	Aug-64		$60
18	$0.35	Nov-64		$60
19	$0.35	Feb-65		$60
20	$0.35	May-65		$60
21	$0.35	Aug-65		$40
22	$0.35	Nov-65		$40
23	$0.35	Feb-66		$40
24	$0.35	May-66		$40
25	$0.35	Aug-66		$40
26	$0.35	Oct-66		$40
27	$0.35	Dec-66		$40
28	$0.35	Mar-67		$40
29	$0.35	Jun-67		$40
30	$0.35	Sep-67		$40
31	$0.35	Nov-67		$40
32	$0.35	Feb-68		$40
33	$0.35	Jun-68		$40
34	$0.35	Sep-68		$40
35	$0.35	Dec-68		$40
36	$0.35	Mar-69		$40
37	$0.35	Jun-69		$40
38	$0.35	Sep-69		$40
39	$0.35	Nov-69		$40
40	$0.35	Jan-70		$40
41	$0.35	Jun-70		$40
42	$0.35	Sep-70		$40
43	$0.35	Nov-70		$40
44	$0.35	Jan-71		$40
45	$0.35	Jun-71		$40
46	$0.35	Sep-71		$30
47	$0.35	Nov-71		$30
48	$0.35	Feb-72		$30
49	$0.35	May-72		$30
50	$0.35	Aug-72		$30
51	$0.35	Oct-72		$30
52	$0.35	Dec-72		$30
53	$0.35	Mar-73		$18
54	$0.35	May-73		$18
55	$0.35	Jul-73		$18
56	$0.35	Sep-73		$18
57	$0.35	Nov-73		$18
58	$0.35	Jan-74		$18
59	$0.35	Mar-74		$18
Joe Palooka
3 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
116	$0.35	Sep-60		$75
117	$0.35	Dec-60		$85
118	$0.35	Mar-61		$75
Little Audrey And Melvin
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
51	$0.35	Sep-71		$22
52	$0.35	Nov-71		$22
53	$0.35	Jun-72		$22
54	$0.35	Sep-72		$22
Little Audrey TV Funtime
33 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-62		$195
2	$0.35	Dec-62		$60
3	$0.35	Mar-63		$60
4	$0.35	Jun-63		$50
5	$0.35	Sep-63		$50
6	$0.35	Dec-63		$35
7	$0.35	Mar-64		$35
8	$0.35	Jun-64		$35
9	$0.35	Sep-64		$35
10	$0.35	Dec-64		$35
11	$0.35	Mar-65		$24
12	$0.35	Jun-65		$24
13	$0.35	Sep-65		$24
14	$0.35	Dec-65		$24
15	$0.35	Mar-66		$24
16	$0.35	Sep-66		$24
17	$0.35	Nov-66		$24
18	$0.35	Mar-67		$24
19	$0.35	Dec-67		$24
20	$0.35	Oct-68		$24
21	$0.35	Dec-68		$20
22	$0.35	May-69		$20
23	$0.35	Jul-69		$20
24	$0.35	Sep-69		$20
25	$0.35	Nov-69		$20
26	$0.35	Feb-70		$20
27	$0.35	May-70		$20
28	$0.35	Aug-70		$20
29	$0.35	Oct-70		$20
30	$0.35	Dec-70		$20
31	$0.35	May-71		$20
32	$0.35	Aug-71		$20
33	$0.35	Oct-71		$20
Little Dot
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
142	$0.35	Mar-72		$35
143	$0.35	May-72		$35
144	$0.35	Jul-72		$35
145	$0.35	Sep-72		$35
Little Dot Dotland
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
51	$0.35	Sep-71		$35
52	$0.35	Nov-71		$35
53	$0.35	Jun-72		$35
54	$0.35	Sep-72		$35
Little Dot’s Uncles And Aunts
52 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Oct-61		$320
2	$0.35	Aug-62		$140
3	$0.35	Nov-62		$140
4	$0.35	Feb-63		$90
5	$0.35	May-63		$90
6	$0.35	Aug-63		$75
7	$0.35	Nov-63		$75
8	$0.35	Feb-64		$75
9	$0.35	May-64		$75
10	$0.35	Aug-64		$75
11	$0.35	Nov-64		$50
12	$0.35	Feb-65		$50
13	$0.35	May-65		$50
14	$0.35	Aug-65		$50
15	$0.35	Nov-65		$50
16	$0.35	Feb-66		$50
17	$0.35	May-66		$50
18	$0.35	Sep-66		$50
19	$0.35	Nov-66		$50
20	$0.35	Aug-67		$50
21	$0.35	Nov-67		$38
22	$0.35	Feb-68		$38
23	$0.35	Jul-68		$38
24	$0.35	Oct-68		$38
25	$0.35	Dec-68		$38
26	$0.35	Apr-69		$38
27	$0.35	Jun-69		$38
28	$0.35	Aug-69		$38
29	$0.35	Oct-69		$38
30	$0.35	Nov-69		$38
31	$0.35	Mar-70		$38
32	$0.35	Jun-70		$38
33	$0.35	Aug-70		$38
34	$0.35	Oct-70		$38
35	$0.35	Nov-70		$38
36	$0.35	Mar-71		$38
37	$0.35	Jun-71		$38
38	$0.35	Aug-71		$30
39	$0.35	Oct-71		$30
40	$0.35	Dec-71		$30
41	$0.35	Mar-72		$30
42	$0.35	Jun-72		$30
43	$0.35	Oct-72		$30
44	$0.35	Dec-72		$30
45	$0.35	Feb-73		$30
46	$0.35	Apr-73		$30
47	$0.35	Jun-73		$30
48	$0.35	Aug-73		$30
49	$0.35	Oct-73		$30
50	$0.35	Dec-73		$30
51	$0.35	Feb-74		$30
52	$0.35	Apr-74		$30
Little Lotta
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
100	$0.35	Mar-72		$24
101	$0.35	May-72		$24
102	$0.35	Jul-72		$24
103	$0.35	Sep-72		$24
Little Lotta Foodland
28 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-63		$240
2	$0.35	Dec-63		$100
3	$0.35	Mar-64		$100
4	$0.35	Jun-64		$70
5	$0.35	Sep-64		$70
6	$0.35	Dec-64		$50
7	$0.35	Apr-65		$50
8	$0.35	Jul-65		$50
9	$0.35	Oct-65		$50
10	$0.35	Jan-66		$50
11	$0.35	Apr-66		$30
12	$0.35	Sep-66		$30
13	$0.35	Nov-66		$30
14	$0.35	Oct-67		$30
15	$0.35	Oct-68		$30
16	$0.35	Dec-68		$30
17	$0.35	May-69		$30
18	$0.35	Jul-69		$30
19	$0.35	Sep-69		$30
20	$0.35	Nov-69		$30
21	$0.35	Feb-70		$25
22	$0.35	May-70		$25
23	$0.35	Aug-70		$25
24	$0.35	Oct-70		$25
25	$0.35	Dec-70		$25
26	$0.35	May-71		$25
27	$0.35	Aug-71		$20
28	$0.35	Oct-71		$20
Mutt And Jeff Jokes
3 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Aug-60		$65
2	$0.35	Nov-60		$65
3	$0.35	Feb-61		$65
Mutt And Jeff New Jokes
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Oct-63		$50
2	$0.35	Jan-64		$50
3	$0.35	Oct-64		$50
4	$0.35	Nov-65		$50
Nightmare And Casper
5 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Aug-63		$125
2	$0.35	Nov-63		$70
3	$0.35	Feb-64		$70
4	$0.35	Apr-64		$70
5	$0.35	Aug-64		$70
Playful Little Audrey
4 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
100	$0.35	Mar-72		$25
101	$0.35	May-72		$25
102	$0.35	Jul-72		$25
103	$0.35	Sep-72		$25
Richie Rich Diamonds
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Aug-72		$70
Richie Rich Dollars And Cents
60 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Aug-63		$435
2	$0.35	Oct-63		$190
3	$0.35	Jan-64		$150
4	$0.35	Apr-64		$150
5	$0.35	Jul-64		$150
6	$0.35	Aug-64		$105
7	$0.35	Jan-65		$105
8	$0.35	Apr-65		$105
9	$0.35	Jul-65		$105
10	$0.35	Oct-65		$105
11	$0.35	Dec-65		$65
12	$0.35	Apr-66		$65
13	$0.35	Jun-66		$65
14	$0.35	Aug-66		$65
15	$0.35	Oct-66		$65
16	$0.35	Dec-66		$65
17	$0.35	Feb-67		$65
18	$0.35	Apr-67		$65
19	$0.35	Jun-67		$65
20	$0.35	Oct-67		$65
21	$0.35	Dec-67		$45
22	$0.35	Feb-68		$45
23	$0.35	Apr-68		$45
24	$0.35	Jun-68		$45
25	$0.35	Aug-68		$45
26	$0.35	Oct-68		$45
27	$0.35	Dec-68		$45
28	$0.35	Feb-69		$45
29	$0.35	Apr-69		$45
30	$0.35	May-69		$45
31	$0.35	Jul-69		$35
32	$0.35	Sep-69		$35
33	$0.35	Nov-69		$35
34	$0.35	Jan-70		$35
35	$0.35	Mar-70		$35
36	$0.35	May-70		$35
37	$0.35	Jul-70		$35
38	$0.35	Sep-70		$35
39	$0.35	Nov-70		$35
40	$0.35	Jan-71		$35
41	$0.35	Mar-71		$35
42	$0.35	May-71		$35
43	$0.35	Jul-71		$35
44	$0.35	Sep-71		$25
45	$0.35	Nov-71		$25
46	$0.35	Jan-72		$25
47	$0.35	Mar-72		$25
48	$0.35	May-72		$25
49	$0.35	Jun-72		$25
50	$0.35	Aug-72		$25
51	$0.35	Oct-72		$25
52	$0.35	Dec-72		$25
53	$0.35	Feb-73		$25
54	$0.35	Apr-73		$25
55	$0.35	Jun-73		$25
56	$0.35	Aug-73		$25
57	$0.35	Oct-73		$25
58	$0.35	Dec-73		$25
59	$0.35	Feb-74		$25
60	$0.35	Apr-74		$25
Richie Rich Fortunes
15 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-71		$85
2	$0.35	Nov-71		$40
3	$0.35	Jan-72		$40
4	$0.35	May-72		$40
5	$0.35	Jul-72		$40
6	$0.35	Sep-72		$22
7	$0.35	Nov-72		$22
8	$0.35	Jan-73		$22
9	$0.35	Mar-73		$22
10	$0.35	May-73		$22
11	$0.35	Jul-73		$15
12	$0.35	Sep-73		$15
13	$0.35	Nov-73		$15
14	$0.35	Jan-74		$15
15	$0.35	Mar-74		$15
Richie Rich And Jackie Jokers
3 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Nov-73	*No Giant Size notation on cover. 52pgs	$50
2	$0.35	Jan-74	*No Giant Size notation on cover. 52pgs	$28
3	$0.35	Mar-74	*No Giant Size notation on cover. 52pgs	$28
Richie Rich Millions
64 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-61		$540
2	$0.35	Sep-62		$225
3	$0.35	Dec-63		$160
4	$0.35	Mar-63		$160
5	$0.35	Jun-63		$160
6	$0.35	Sep-63		$135
7	$0.35	Dec-63		$135
8	$0.35	Mar-64		$135
9	$0.35	Jun-64		$135
10	$0.35	Sep-64		$135
11	$0.35	Dec-64		$90
12	$0.35	Mar-65		$90
13	$0.35	Jun-65		$90
14	$0.35	Sep-65		$90
15	$0.35	Dec-65		$90
16	$0.35	Mar-66		$90
17	$0.35	Jun-66		$90
18	$0.35	Jul-66		$90
19	$0.35	Sep-66		$90
20	$0.35	Oct-66		$90
21	$0.35	Jan-67		$60
22	$0.35	Mar-67		$60
23	$0.35	May-67		$60
24	$0.35	Aug-67		$60
25	$0.35	Oct-67		$60
26	$0.35	Nov-67		$60
27	$0.35	Feb-68		$60
28	$0.35	Apr-68		$60
29	$0.35	Jun-68		$60
30	$0.35	Aug-68		$60
31	$0.35	Oct-68	1st The Onion	$40
32	$0.35	Dec-68		$40
33	$0.35	Feb-69		$40
34	$0.35	Apr-69		$40
35	$0.35	May-69		$40
36	$0.35	Jul-69		$40
37	$0.35	Sep-69		$40
38	$0.35	Nov-69		$40
39	$0.35	Jan-70		$40
40	$0.35	Mar-70		$40
41	$0.35	May-70		$40
42	$0.35	Jul-70		$40
43	$0.35	Sep-70		$40
44	$0.35	Nov-70		$40
45	$0.35	Jan-71		$40
46	$0.35	Mar-71		$40
47	$0.35	May-71		$40
48	$0.35	Jul-71		$40
49	$0.35	Sep-71		$25
50	$0.35	Nov-71		$25
51	$0.35	Jan-72		$25
52	$0.35	Mar-72		$25
53	$0.35	May-72		$25
54	$0.35	Jul-72		$25
55	$0.35	Sep-72		$25
56	$0.35	Nov-72		$25
57	$0.35	Jan-73		$25
58	$0.35	Mar-73		$25
59	$0.35	May-73		$25
60	$0.35	Jul-73		$25
61	$0.35	Sep-73		$25
62	$0.35	Nov-73		$25
63	$0.35	Jan-74		$25
64	$0.35	Mar-74		$25
Richie Rich Money World
1 issue
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Sep-72	1st Mayda Munny	$80
Richie Rich Riches
2 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Jul-72	1st The Money Monster	$80
2	$0.35	Sep-72		$40
Richie Rich Success Stories
55 issues
Issue #	CPV Cover Price	Month/Year	Notes	Baseline (Non-Variant) NM- Issue Value
1	$0.35	Nov-64		$415
2	$0.35	Feb-65		$165
3	$0.35	May-65		$140
4	$0.35	Aug-65		$140
5	$0.35	Nov-65		$140
6	$0.35	Feb-66		$90
7	$0.35	May-66		$90
8	$0.35	Jul-66		$90
9	$0.35	Aug-66		$90
10	$0.35	Oct-66		$90
11	$0.35	Dec-66		$75
12	$0.35	Feb-67		$75
13	$0.35	Apr-67		$75
14	$0.35	Jun-67		$75
15	$0.35	Sep-67		$75
16	$0.35	Nov-67		$75
17	$0.35	Jan-68		$75
18	$0.35	Mar-68		$75
19	$0.35	May-68		$75
20	$0.35	Jul-68		$75
21	$0.35	Sep-68		$50
22	$0.35	Nov-68		$50
23	$0.35	Jan-69		$50
24	$0.35	Mar-69		$50
25	$0.35	Apr-69		$50
26	$0.35	Jun-69		$50
27	$0.35	Aug-69	1st Penny Van Dough	$50
28	$0.35	Oct-69		$50
29	$0.35	Dec-69		$50
30	$0.35	Feb-70		$50
31	$0.35	Apr-70		$40
32	$0.35	Jun-70		$40
33	$0.35	Aug-70		$40
34	$0.35	Oct-70		$40
35	$0.35	Dec-70		$40
36	$0.35	Feb-71		$40
37	$0.35	Apr-71		$40
38	$0.35	Jun-71		$40
39	$0.35	Aug-71		$25
40	$0.35	Oct-71		$25
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