On 9/25/2020 at 12:44 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Interesting enough these made their way to most baseball card, drug store, toy shop, and book stores. If you look at the back of the tab they were made and distributed by Beckett. If I remember correctly this specific one came from a Woolworths in Cincinnati Ohio.

I was able to get AOS 500 CE at Toys 'R' Us in 1993, so yes, DC distributors sure cast a wide net with these collector's editions.  Ah, the good ole' days. 

3 hours ago, Bibbo said:

I was able to get AOS 500 CE at Toys 'R' Us in 1993, so yes, DC distributors sure cast a wide net with these collector's editions.  Ah, the good ole' days. 

The AOS 505 CE we were discussing in addition to coming in the Beckett pack shown and one more I have not found the pack or pictures yet, was also found in these 

This pack has not only the 505 CE , but also where the Superman 82 second print hidden inside

The 500 CE was literally everywhere. After the success of the death storyline they WAY over produced the 500. Not only could the bagged CE be found in many different packs they also started sending them to 3 party companies to include in their multi packs. ( Those "Out of Print" packs) as well as set packs

Here is another Beckett Pack that contains the 75 second print and the 500 CE.

plus with the major distribution and popularity almost all of the storylines have been produced in many foreign versions as well..

and I do agree Toys R Us, Kaybee Toys, Waldenbooks were some of my favorites back then. I always found many of these packs and boxes that I could not get enough of and still have most of them.

Just arrived!

I just need Adventures of Superman #501 Collector's Edition to have them all of these editions in 9.8!

They look good together!

2 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

The AOS 505 CE we were discussing in addition to coming in the Beckett pack shown and one more I have not found the pack or pictures yet, was also found in these 

 

This pack has not only the 505 CE , but also where the Superman 82 second print hidden inside

The 500 CE was literally everywhere. After the success of the death storyline they WAY over produced the 500. Not only could the bagged CE be found in many different packs they also started sending them to 3 party companies to include in their multi packs. ( Those "Out of Print" packs) as well as set packs

Here is another Beckett Pack that contains the 75 second print and the 500 CE.

plus with the major distribution and popularity almost all of the storylines have been produced in many foreign versions as well..

and I do agree Toys R Us, Kaybee Toys, Waldenbooks were some of my favorites back then. I always found many of these packs and boxes that I could not get enough of and still have most of them.

Outstanding as always, thank you for sharing. 

1 hour ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

Outstanding as always, thank you for sharing. 

You are welcome . I always enjoy sharing .  Maybe one day, I will actually be able to go through and properly organize, photograph, and post all of it together.  I have such an extensive collection for several runs,but this one was my favorite.  

These four books probably mean the most to me, personally, from my collection. 

While certainly not the most “valuable” selections from the Death/Return catalog, they’re the ones closest to my heart as a collector.

I was a bit late to the party, and discovered the Death of Superman story through the TPB. I still remember walking past my local comic shop on the way to piano lessons and seeing it displayed in the front window in February of 1993. Superman, covered in blood, with a sobbing Lois Lane cradling him. What could have done this?! I had to know and promptly picked it up the following Saturday. The one pictured is one of the “Platinum Edition” copies, limited to a run of 4,500 which is pretty darn low for 1993.
 

While I missed the event that was Superman #75, I would not miss his “return” in Adventures of Superman #500 CE, which I found at Toys ‘R’ Us during its initial release. 

Superman #82 CE is still my favorite comic cover of all time. I remember seeing it on the rack for the first time at Osco, my local drug store, stopping me in my tracks.

Adventures of Superman #505 CE was gifted to me by a friend for my birthday that same year. It was part of the “Superman Greatest Hits” set which contained several other random books from “Reign of The Supermen”.  As noted earlier in this thread, the softer Holo-grafx cover makes a CGC 9.8 grade for this one extraordinarily rare. 
 

@Bibbo Awesome post, thank you for sharing. I was late to the party also, I didn’t jump on board until February, 1994.

Finally got my hands on this one! While not a "collector's edition" it's still one of my favorite covers from this run.

Currently on the hunt for Action Comics #692 CGC 9.8, if y'all can keep your eyes open for me. 

2 hours ago, Bibbo said:

Finally got my hands on this one! While not a "collector's edition" it's still one of my favorite covers from this run.

Currently on the hunt for Action Comics #692 CGC 9.8, if y'all can keep your eyes open for me. 

Congratulations, that’s a tough one for sure. I hope you find AC 692 soon.

3 hours ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

Congratulations, that’s a tough one for sure. I hope you find AC 692 soon.

Thanks! Thinking it must look pretty great as a trio next to Superman 82 & AOS 505 

Newest edition!

And...

The ‘poster’ direct editions look awfully nice together...

On 11/10/2020 at 7:40 PM, Bibbo said:

Newest edition!

Is this the one that was on eBay last week?

13 hours ago, Brandon Shepherd said:

Is this the one that was on eBay last week?

Yes! Nabbed it as soon as I saw it. Thought for sure I’d be on the hunt for a while, but lo and behold! 💥

So I did a thing on my office wall...

1 hour ago, Bibbo said:

So I did a thing on my office wall...

Nice, I like the DC logo also.

All done!

This was the last one of the four die-cut covers I needed, as well as the last 'Collector's Edition' to have each in 9.8 grade. It took me over ten years, since I waited for auctions over BINs on all but Adventures of Superman #505, a book which had only a single 9.8 in the census for over a decade, until 2020. The die-cut covers are readily available on eBay and Mycomicshop for outlandish prices if you ask me, thankfully I was able to obtain them all for around $30 to $40 each, but boy did I have to wait. 

These look good together!

Should I bear offspring, I shall work to convey the virtue of patience.