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Highest Ratio Varient?

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mschmidt

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:gossip: It's not 1:1000. The "1000" means that only 1000 copies were printed.

 

What he said.

 

Marvel has a habit of doing "real" 1:100 sketch cover variants (meaning that you have to order 100 regular copies to get 1 variant) - I would assume that any of those would probably be the highest ratio variants.

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comic_stud

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:gossip: It's not 1:1000. The "1000" means that only 1000 copies were printed.

imagine if a retailed had to order 1000 copies of a book to qualify for one variant purchase. that would be one expensive book indeed.

 

I read another thread where they said the Spawn 185 B&W variant is a 1:1000 ratio....but I'm sure this isn't true. Mcfarlane said there was a 1/3 ratio for the headless variants...and then 10% of the two headless varaints were B&W...which came out to be about 800 copies of the B&W. Either way....kind of rare! (thumbs u

 

Spawn185FiveCoverSet.jpg

 

 

Black and white at bottom right.

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valiantman

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The ratios weren't used "back in the day",

but Valiant's standard of 5,000 copies for Gold variants

would mean that the Gold variant of Turok #1 is a 1:350,

and a few other Gold books are easily "rarer" than 1:100.

 

The problem with focusing on the variant ratio is that it really doesn't matter

if something is 1:10,000 if the book isn't important in its "normal" form.

 

When there's a comic where "nothing happens", it's hard to stay excited

about a "limited version of nothing happens" after the new wears off.

 

If you want to find something that's truly rare... try finding a "rare variant" that DIDN'T

fall in price after a year or two. They all fall... the new wears off... people move on.

The "rarest book of 2008" isn't as important in 2009.

Whatever's important today probably won't matter as much in 2010.

 

At some point, it's more about "Who Cares?"

 

That super-limited version of nothing special is still nothing special.

 

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followtheleader

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The ratios weren't used "back in the day",

but Valiant's standard of 5,000 copies for Gold variants

would mean that the Gold variant of Turok #1 is a 1:350,

and a few other Gold books are easily "rarer" than 1:100.

 

The problem with focusing on the variant ratio is that it really doesn't matter

if something is 1:10,000 if the book isn't important in its "normal" form.

 

When there's a comic where "nothing happens", it's hard to stay excited

about a "limited version of nothing happens" after the new wears off.

 

If you want to find something that's truly rare... try finding a "rare variant" that DIDN'T

fall in price after a year or two. They all fall... the new wears off... people move on.

The "rarest book of 2008" isn't as important in 2009.

Whatever's important today probably won't matter as much in 2010.

 

At some point, it's more about "Who Cares?"

 

That super-limited version of nothing special is still nothing special.

 

For the most part, I agree with you. It's the philosophy to take with purchasing variants. There are some exceptions. Ultimate Spider-man #1 White Variant being one of them. It's still pulling some decent bread. Personally, buy it if it's a decent price and you love the cover. Otherwise, forget it.

 

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