BigDaddy1 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 I had just heard of Mark Jeweler variants a few days ago and felt like looking through a few comics I had. I know this one doesn't say Mark Jewelers on it but I thought it was pretty cool to find one similar in the collection. Spyder! and Cpt Kirk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waaaghboss Posted October 22, 2019 Share Posted October 22, 2019 I have a dumb question. I was just flipping through a book I picked up from a quarter bin, and noticed it had a mark jewelers and inside the front cover. It's the funky phantom from 1972. Did mark jewelers not do insets with smaller publishers, or is this a variant and most copies of this book have a different ad on the inside front cover? Cpt Kirk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post First Upgrade Posted October 27, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 27, 2019 DD 131... divad, mec3437, ADAMANTIUM and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post First Upgrade Posted November 28, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted November 28, 2019 Marvel Spotlight 5...National Diamond Sales insert...auction description pleasantly refrained from mentioning the insert. Thank You! ADAMANTIUM, Spyder!, mec3437 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcupine48 Posted November 28, 2019 Share Posted November 28, 2019 22 minutes ago, First Upgrade said: Marvel Spotlight 5...National Diamond Sales insert...auction description pleasantly refrained from mentioning the insert. Thank You! Right on!My first copy has one,but I bought it years before joining up here,didn't know what the heck was going on for a long time MetalPSI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalPSI Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 5 hours ago, First Upgrade said: Marvel Spotlight 5...National Diamond Sales insert...auction description pleasantly refrained from mentioning the insert. Thank You! This is a cool book First Upgrade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divad Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 A couple of nice surprises in recent pick-ups: mec3437, wormboy and David-Lance Roten 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
divad Posted November 29, 2019 Share Posted November 29, 2019 wormboy, Gnasher and mec3437 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kimik Posted December 6, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 6, 2019 This came back a couple of weeks ago: wormboy, mec3437, Cpt Kirk and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mec3437 Posted March 15, 2020 Share Posted March 15, 2020 Cpt Kirk, wormboy, divad and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted March 18, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 18, 2020 (edited) Not my only Mark Jewelers book... but the only one I've got that's remotely noteworthy beyond the MJ ad itself: Edited March 18, 2020 by OtherEric wormboy, Spyder!, ADAMANTIUM and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Hey Kids, Comics! Posted March 22, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2020 Picked this up today. It's a little rough (G/VGish), but I couldn't pass it up! mec3437, ChrispyC66, OtherEric and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 44 minutes ago, Hey Kids, Comics! said: Picked this up today. It's a little rough (G/VGish), but I couldn't pass it up! that's awesome! A mark Jeweler I'll assume it's complete as well? I'd take it too if I had any money ChrispyC66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted March 25, 2020 Share Posted March 25, 2020 Were these inserts included in all Marvel and DC issues? Like assuming they were sold in stores and the stores got the new issues each month or whatever, does that mean the ones near military bases always had these inserts? Or were they spread out through various issues over the years? If the latter is the case, is there a definitive list of such issues? Lotsa questions I know but I am a curious little bear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Mycomicshop answered the above for me. Here is another insert. More or less rare than the MJ one anyone know? I assume it too was distributed near or on military bases... Cpt Kirk, mec3437 and wormboy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCheli Posted May 11, 2020 Share Posted May 11, 2020 (edited) I usually take what most people say on Facebook (whether comics or otherwise) with a grain of salt, because there is just so much misinformation out there. So here it goes... Someone posted in one of the groups I follow a nice group of MJ comics, including some key DCs (Swamp Thing #20 and #21). I see many less DCs than Marvels, so I got excited. Another person pointed out that these MJIs were also sold at Macy's and Woolworths. While I'm certainly not an expert like some of you, in all my years of collecting, I've never heard this before. Is this true? Or was it just another case of a Facebook poster not knowing the truth. Edit: They said that it was to tie in with the Mark Jeweler jewelry that was sold there. Edited May 11, 2020 by RCheli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawnfreak Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 On 5/18/2011 at 11:38 AM, the blob said: Anyway, I think they're a lot more common in areas with a lot of military. For example, I rarely see them up in NYC (where we don't have too many military bases) and you'd think that by now comics should be spread all over the country (especially because at shows I'm buying from a lot of NJ dealers who are closer to bases), but honestly, I probably own 10-15,000 BA books and maybe 25 of them are the MJ inserts. That can't be right, can it? I have maybe 6,000 comics, and have a long box full of MJI, not one dupe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, RCheli said: I usually take what most people say on Facebook (whether comics or otherwise) with a grain of salt, because there is just so much misinformation out there. So here it goes... Someone posted in one of the groups I follow a nice group of MJ comics, including some key DCs (Swamp Thing #20 and #21). I see many less DCs than Marvels, so I got excited. Another person pointed out that these MJIs were also sold at Macy's and Woolworths. While I'm certainly not an expert like some of you, in all my years of collecting, I've never heard this before. Is this true? Or was it just another case of a Facebook poster not knowing the truth. Edit: They said that it was to tie in with the Mark Jeweler jewelry that was sold there. From what I know, Mark Jewelers issues were sold in stores near military bases, although I have never seen hard proof of that. This company was based out of California and it is hard to track down history on the company itself and how large it was. It is possible that some of them were sold at these department stores (again, maybe near areas with military bases). Would help to know the history of this company. Obviously they were large enough because they supplied jewelry across the US (again, I have never heard that these inserts were limited to one specific area). I would politely ask where this person got that info. From what I have read over the years, the documentation of these issues and there existence in certain issues is extensive but the history of how they came to be and what stores they were found in is hard to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicginger1789 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 11 minutes ago, Spawnfreak said: That can't be right, can it? I have maybe 6,000 comics, and have a long box full of MJI, not one dupe. What area are you in? Maybe you hail from a region with many military bases, hence why your collection has so many. They are definitely less common. Not as rare as price variants by any means but definitely not the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spawnfreak Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 10 hours ago, comicginger1789 said: What area are you in? Maybe you hail from a region with many military bases, hence why your collection has so many. They are definitely less common. Not as rare as price variants by any means but definitely not the norm. I live on Cape Cod, in Ma., if you're not familiar with Cape Cod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
