wolverine94

For Americans too I bought alot of Canadian comic in the united state due to being 2 miles from the border. In those days you got asked 2 or 3 questions to cross the border, so it was easy and you didn't have to worry about going on vacation to Guantonomo Bay (). Seriously tho American issues were sold in Canada, and Canadian priced comics were sold in the US. They also used the 75 cent variants to do price tests in three cities in the US. One of them was amazing spider-man 252. Instead of ripping the covers off the north American newsstands, marvel/DC would fill the demands with the supplies to which ever store needed them and very often we would see all kinds of Canadian comic in the US, and vice versa. Some American stores would put 60 cent sticker where the 75 cent box is. If at the time you used a blow dryer the sticker would come off easy. This is my first hand experience.

I want to know what collectors favorite comic are, or what is the rarest comic you own? So what is your favorite? Mine is $0.75 price variant Alice in Wonderland #1 Whitman in about 9.2, or action #4

I find Whipples Rarity Scale way better, and much easier for people to related to the Whipples Rarity Scale Values here are much more accurate than Gerbers scale

I dont blame ya. I love those 75 and 95 cent variants.. awesome potential (thumbs u

I almost forgot, the other comics that would have a low print run is the last newsstand issues 95 cent variants. There was only 7 issues per series issued (marvel only). I remember this bumming me out, that I could no longer go to the local country store, and the 5 and dime to get my comics from. Sad, because the spirit of comics had come to an end.

I use to collect these because I thought the newsstand comics near my home were the original comics, so I stuck to them. These variations bring back sweet memories I use to fish at the Salmon river (more like a creek), on the way back home from the corner store and catching 10 -14 inch trout, I kept the books in a back pack with a strong board, I remember one time my books got wet. I had 171 x-men 242, 241 of Amazing spider-man, I was so mad that I bought them again, . Sorry to bore you, What I think a person should collect (if rarity and potential is the goal) are final issues of the Canadian newsstand variants. Like marvel two-in-one, the Thing, etc... The reason for this is the over all print runs would have been a lot lower given the fact that the sales aren't supporting these issues hence low print runs. Having said this, this would make those (cover price variants) last issues even rarer in the Canadian price variants. If they decided to print a half or a third of the normal production run (market pending at the time) these variations will soon see the market of today as defined by Overstreet as scarce Today these Canadian variants are a lot easier to sell, and this is why I decided to hold on to them. Future potential is big. We have to remember that these were not intended to be Cover price variations of a comic. If you disagree then I ask, do you have any for sale for me to buy? and thank you. Happy collecting,

That is impressive, very nice.

Its important to remember that Canadian edition books are in fact printed and made in the U.S. Canadian edition or Canadian cover price variant comics are American. They`re shipped over the border to a Canadian distributor. They are all printed at the same facility (U.S newsstand, direct and Canadian newsstand.) The same cant be said for foreign books. There is a good reason why some people (Americans too) are getting serious about these comics.