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It's only risky ion the context of the other books out at the time. In and of themselves, - great books. Contextualized with all the other options at the same time - less so. Everyone is happy to tell you about the time they bought 25 copies of ASM 300. The entire New Universe... not so much. Anyhow - I don't want to be a thorn here! My original interest was more in the lifecycle of the modern pricing. I think they tend to move up, and then either fall or stabilize. Even books like X-Men 94 seem pretty stable for the past 10 years or so in mid-grade. Needless to say - at cover price, those would be GREAT! haha!

Um....hold the phone... what issue is that Robin Hood in the bottom picture???

I'll have a few to post shortly!

I just walked to a local shop an grabbed 4 Catwoman 23's at cover. We'll have to see how that pans out. As for Conan's, Howard's, and Dazzlers. Buying at cover would have been quite risky - because these are just examples of books that "hit". Most of these became sought-after shortly after release, saw an up-curve, then a leveling or decline. That said, there are certainly some moderns I think are good long-term. I'm happy to have a little stash of Catwoman 23's.

I think it would be interesting to track moderns over time - so few of them sustain their brief flight into the double-digits. Even when they do - you see them often being discounted a few months or years later. Obviously, a book like Waking Dead #1 is an exception, but I sincerely believe it will also eventually fall. Going way back (and showing how old I am). I remember two books specifically from my youth: Conan #1 and Howard the Duck #1.... heck, I even remember how Dazzler #1 had a bit of a spike. I think the DC 3D covers are neat, but I also think that we will see their prices come down pretty quick in about 6 months.

That's my go-to resource for Whitman books rarity. I'm thinking more of a way to track the sealed 3-packs. I have a number of un-opened ones. Fortunately, my flood was a clear-water over-flowing washing machine and only went about 1cm deep. The insurance was awesome. Put my entire basement (including 25,000 comics) into a secure, environmentally controlled storage facility while they repaired the basement - took everything up to 4 ft in drywall and completely rebuilt my basement. It took almost a year though. Word of advice all - raise your comics OFF the floor my a couple inches. Saved me thousands and thousands. Valuable stuff to main floor or a safe. Today I scanned a bunch of Whitman books into the database and will be posting on my blog about them shortly (www.funosphere.com) - if it's okay to post a URL here - if not, I guess I'll find out shortly.

Hello all, I had a flood in my basement (thank goodness no comics were harmed!) and it's been a blessing and a curse. Obviously, it was annoying to have all my comics moved into storage while they rebuilt my basement, but the good news is that I have been able to revisit all my comics as they return. Which brings me to the Whitman question. How do folks around here catalogue any unopened 3-packs/4-packs they have? I'm trying to create/maintain my 3-packs for he sake of creating want lists, knowing what I have etc. and am trying to see what sort of system might work. My collection is not huge on these, but I do have a dozen or so. I have "categories" that I've roughly developed based on the top of the packs: Marvel Packs - I only have one of these at the moment.Green top and called "Marvel Multi-Mags" ($99 cents) Character Pack - where are three books are the same character or title: Star Wars, Black Hole, Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, Donald Duck Orange Top - where the top is ... orange. Except this category has the "Comic-Pac" and the "Comic-Pack!" variety in my collection (89 cents and $1.09). Clear Top - the ones with no writing on the top. (which I also believe to be the ones where the rare books were. I don't have any 3-packs of all rare books, but one of my packs is an US #178). These have sub-categories: "3 Comic Value" ($1.09) "Fun-Pac 4 for 59 cents" "Disney Favorites" ($1.09) "Cartoon Favorites" ($1.09) - also could be called "gumball machine" as that is the image on the front. So those are the ones I am working with at the moment to try and get some sense of order for that I can put into a database. Does anyone have a system they use? It would be cool is we had a way to call the packs (if for no other reason than we could more easily identify those middle books!)

Just had some great luck with a long box of odds and ends. Some great Whitman's - including one of the elusive WRC&S that has been annoying me by being HTF. Love the super-hero scans above. Those are wonderful books.

Okay - I got us off-track, I suppose I have a responsibility to get us back on-track. I've seen this 3-pack several times and it seems common to find these issues as individuals or even in the 3-pack. The #4 differs not only in it's rarity, but also the fact that it lacks the UPC barcode - which, if you had a chance to read my post that I linked to, is a big deal with me. In my Whitman collecting, I consider ANY non-barcode 35 cent and above Whitman to be a bit of a great find: The Star Wars Whitman/Marvel pack also lacks the barcode, but has a place for it. Something that I assume has to do with the books being sold on the newsstand as well - something that we see again in the Gladstone/Disney/Marvel books (where things get even more confusing as more cooks enter the kitchen) What I really find odd is that the rare Bug Bunny has a barcode. I have no theory in why that one does. All my rares (and I am a long way off from the 42) are barcode-free.

I appreciate the sentiment and hopefully my apology is okay. Although I have been registered for many years - I'm not here as much, but that's no excuse. I really apologize everyone.

I'm sorry everyone! I am not here all that often as I only really collect a few odd things. My intention was really not to offend or do anything improper and I hope you can forgive this faux pas on my part. I am in fact very interested in Whitman books and made the mistake of assuming these being available would be of interest to others here - incorrectly. Hopefully, you can forgive this error and the other posts I had earlier are both evidence and somewhat redemptive in showing that I am a collector of these books (the "appreciation" part). Sorry again - it was not intended to be an idiotic move - but was.

Edited because I was in error for posting!

A couple of nice copies of two of the rarer books. Tom and Jerry 332

I love the books! I also find the newspaper image on the bottom right funny.

We always considered the "Black Diamond" price box books to be reprints. The only ones I can remember are the Micronauts 3-pack which did not get released at the same time as the newsstand books. It came out significantly later. It *may* have been printed at the same time, but it absolutely did not get distributed to my area at the same time. It's a bit of time since I experienced this, but I seem to think the Micronauts pack came out some time around the time Micronauts #12 or so was on the newsstand. Now I want to re-read those books! I remember this because the early Micronauts were books that were hard to find - then the Whitman packs came out and we were able to get them and we were all crazy about them. The Star Wars books were probably the same idea. They were reprinted or special printed for Whitman 3-packs and the price box was there to prevent them from being confused with the newsstand books. As for when they were printed? I have no idea. Maybe they were all printed at the same time, but released at different times?