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Anyway my new pals, gotta jet. Hockey pool draft to work on here.

Trust me, I'm not offended. I just appear to be the only one to call you two out on being pretentious keyboard warriors. And errors? I've never claimed anything I said was factual, and have said on numerous accounts that they were assumptions. What you're not comprehending is your arguments to support your position, are also, based on assumptions as we've said countless times 'we do not know'. The difference between you and I, is that while I continue to say my post was based on my own experience in hunting and has no bearing on 'facts', you continue to talk about coins as if that example validates your position with 'facts'?

haha you're impossible! I'd love to know why you're fixated on this blogger guy. If you'd take the time to read my original comment on this thread, you'll see that I didn't say anything to support his 'facts', other than newsstands being harder to find supports the argument of a lower print run. What you'll read is my own experience searching for them, and me saying newsstands are definitely less than 5% of print run, an assumption based on my own experience. You're buddy over there had to take my entire comment and trying to 'educate' me with examples of coins and a vocabulary lesson on the word 'rare' (which, by the way, was used accurately). Then you come swooping in to save the day, guns blazing. You're the real superhero here, champ. If you're still here, Thanos doesn't stand a chance.

hahahaha there's only reality and my lack of comprehension? Wow, that's pretty bold of you to say. Had to go the keyboard warrior route, huh? You're only reading what you want to read.

We can agree to disagree - but that's what makes good conversation.

Of course no one 'knows' what the percentage of distribution is and there is no definitive way to validate it. All we have are our assumptions based on information at hand - even settling on "2,000/3,000" per issue sold, we assume some were returned, we assume some were thrown out at the newsstand, and we assume that single issue readers may or may not have just tossed once read. Either way, the number gets smaller, and smaller, and smaller every variable you toss in. You make some good arguments, but if every newsstand vendor sold multiple copies of every issue at every chain, we would still have Marvel selling at Newsstands today. What's theoretically possible isn't always probable. Absolutely, of course there could be storage full of these things, and thousands of people sitting on them not knowing they even have them, but, they're relatively unavailable at this point in time which makes them rare by definition. Until they're found and available to the market, they'll remain rare. Whether it's 1%, 5%, hell, even 10%, doesn't change the fact that they're hard to find - being hard to find supports the argument of a relatively low print run.

Looking specifically at Amazing Spider-Man for a moment .... go search for newsstands between issues 500-700 (700 is a bad example since the print run was huge, you can find them easily), and tell me how many you find compared to the direct copies. It's definitely less than 5% of print run. There are some issues I have NEVER laid eyes on, and I've been on the hunt for 3 years (literally search eBay every couple of days for each issue I'm missing) - I'm missing 19 newsstand issues. It's needle in a haystack. Newsstands matter to buyers who know the difference, and they matter more in high grade. This niche market will gain traction with more sellers AND buyers when it's just accepted how rare they actually are - kind of like Direct issues when they first hit the market (hard to find in high grade and distribution was relatively low compared to their newsstand counterpart), or any comic with mark jewellers inserts. People love rare and always want what others don't have - comic lovers just obsess over rarity. just my 2 cents.

Sooooo, like, I love hunting the ASM newsstands - I have oodles and oodles I've amassed over the years ... I'm still 50 short or so between 500-700, and am up for trades/buys if anything cares to help one another!!

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