Comprehensive List of DC Universe Logo UPC Variants 18 18

[David Buck]

Actually after initially thinking it was way too expensive to take a punt on - I have now bought it since the Wonder Woman #90 is gaining value and I think I stopped buying that run in the 40's so I won't have any version of it.

I will post info when it turns up if no-one else has a copy to check

 

Edited February 19, 2017 by David Buck

[LikeEmScanned]

I have a copy of Best of '94 - I'll have to check this when I have access to it again this weekend

[LikeEmScanned]

On 2/19/2017 at 3:07 PM, David Buck said:

I've just seen the Best of DC 1994 set on ebay - does anyone have this to check? it needs to be established if the Batman adventures #21 DCU on the back is genuine or is it a mock up and the issue included is really just the same bat-logo version found in the June 1994 20 pack 

ebay listiing

I opened it up and checked.  The back is a mock up.  The BA #21 actually has a bat symbol logo in the UPC box.

[LikeEmScanned]

Got a Robin 12.  Add it to the list?

 

 

[revat]

14 hours ago, LikeEmScanned said:

Got a Robin 12.  Add it to the list?

 

 

that's very boss. I will add to the list

[revat]

Updated 3/22/17

 

Added: Robin 12

 

Action Comics 684 3rd print, 686 2nd print, 695-710 (2 versions of 700), 712-715, 718, 722-726

 

Adventures Superman 498 4th print, 499 3rd print, 508-520, 522, 524-530, 532, 535-540, Annual 8

 

Animaniacs 1, 2, 4-7, 9-10, 15, 16, 18, Christmas 1

 

Aquaman 1, 3, 5-8, 21-24

 

Aquaman: Time & Tide 1-3

 

Azrael 15, 16, 19, 20, 22

 

Batman 503-512, 514-524 (515 has two versions), 526-527, 529, 531 (2 versions)-535,

 

Batman Annual 13, 20

 

Batman Adventures 17, 18, 33, 35-36

 

Batman Chronicles # 4

 

Batman & Robin Adventures 1, 3, 4, 7, 8

 

Batman Legends Dark Knight 62-63

 

Batman: Shadow of the Bat 25, 29, 30, 35, 38 ,48, 49, 52-57

 

Catwoman 5-7, 9, 11-13, 15, 17-19, 31, 32, 36, Annual 2

 

Damage 0

 

DC vs Marvel #1, 4

 

Detective Comics 670-691 (675 and 682 have 2 versions), 694-704,

 

Detective Comics Annual 8-9

 

Flash 86-102, 104, 109-110, 114-115, 117

 

Final night 1-4

 

Green Lantern # 36, 47-56 (51 has 1st and 2nd print), 58, 59, 61, 63-68, 70, 75-77, 79-81 (2 versions of 81),

 

Green Arrow 110-111

 

Guy Gardner 15-17

 

Impulse 3, 10, 14-16

 

Justice League International 60-63, 67

 

Justice League of America 69 4th print 84-93, 95, 97-99, 107-108, 112

 

Justice League Task Force 7, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 32

 

Legionnaires 10, 12, 16, 19, 21-22, 25-26, 29, 33

 

Looney Tunes 2-6, 8, 12-15

 

Nightwing 1, 2

 

Pinky & Brain 1

 

Parallax: Emerald Night # 1

 

Power of Shazam 2-4, 12, 16-17, 19

 

Robin 3-9, 11-22 (2 versions of 14), 25, 27-28, 31-35

 

Robin Annual 4-5

 

Showcase '94 1-10

 

Steel 1-9, 11-15, 17, 23, 24, 28-29, 31

 

Superboy 1-9, 11-16, 20, 23-24, 29-30, 32, Annual 3

Superboy and the Ravers 1-2

 

Supergirl (1994) #1-4

Supergirl (1996) #2-4

 

Superman 74 4th print, 77 3rd print, 85-96, 98-106, 108-109, 114-118

 

Superman Annual 6, 8

 

Superman Man Steel 18 5th print, 19 3rd print, 20 2nd print, 29-38, 40-49, 52-53, 57-60, Annual 3

 

Superman: The Man Of Tomorrow # 1, 5

 

Superman Doomsday: Hunter/Prey 1-3

 

Superman Wedding 1 (2 versions)

 

Superman Toyman 1

 

Sovereign Seven # 1

 

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? #1

 

Wonder Woman 82, 84-93, 95-98, 101, 106

[revat]

for some reason I can't edit the 1st post anymore, not sure if we've reached a max number of edits or too much time has elapsed....

[mysterio]

1 hour ago, revat said:

for some reason I can't edit the 1st post anymore, not sure if we've reached a max number of edits or too much time has elapsed....

It is a side effect of the switch to the new board. I've run into this in event threads that I maintain. Even when the post should still be editable it is not.

[mysterio]

15 hours ago, LikeEmScanned said:

Got a Robin 12.  Add it to the list?

 

 

Great find!

[LikeEmScanned]

On 3/22/2017 at 1:29 PM, mysterio said:

Great find!

Thanks!  I was just trying to find the ones that I'm looking for, wasn't trying to find anything new but stumbled across it.

BTW, I badly need to get rid of just about all of my dups and triplicates, so I put them up for sale here:

 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 2/17/2017 at 8:46 PM, Hey Kids, Comics! said:

I think these are cool, but I rarely look for them as it takes too long (for me) to pull up every book to check the box. However, I was buying the Batman Adventures 36 (as I always do) and noticed it was the DC Universe variant. luckily, the 30 books around it were all variants so i obviously purchased them all. I don't remember how much I paid, but they were 50 cents or less. I read several pages and never saw the discussion as to what the hardest to find/most valuable are. Any help?

 

To answer your questions of which ones might be most valuable and/or hardest to find:   After years of searching and watching want lists from my friends, here is a listing of ones that I think are hard to find.   By no means is this list complete, but if you find any of these, you can consider yourself to be fairly lucky!    To get some of these, I've paid bounties of $100 and up.   If anyone finds an Action 705/706, Adv of Superman 530, Superman 95/117, or Superman MOS 49, please let me know as I still have outstanding bounties out for those variants.   I know for sure that Action 705 and 706 exist.

 

Action Comics 686 2nd print, 705, 706, 715, 718

Adventures of Superman 499 3rd print, 518-519, 524, 530 (might not exist), 531-532

Batman 516, 517, 524

Batman Adventures 18

Batman & Robin Adventures 1 

Batman: Shadow of the Bat 38

Detective Comics 680, 682 (regular copy with orange background), 685, 691

Flash 117

Impulse 10

Justice League America 86, 107

Legionnaires 25

Robin 4, 14

Showcase '94 3

Steel 17, 23

Superboy 2, 30, 32

Superman 77 3rd print, 95 (might not exist), 96, 98, 117 (might not exist)

Superman Man Steel 42, 49 (49 might not exist)

Wonder Woman 92, 106  

 

Have fun looking!

Cpt Kirk

 

[gradejunky]

Found a Batman Adventures #33 today.  Was pretty stoked.

[LikeEmScanned]

I found this last night at a con and bought it just as a curiosity piece.  I can see under the label that the DC Universe logo was originally printed on the cover and this sticker was placed over it.  Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to convert a comic that was in a Green Lantern Collector's Set to a direct purchase version.  They must have done it for multiple copies.  Anyone ever see one like this before?

 

 

[ft88]

Here's 2 backing boards that were part of the package the comics came in.

FYI the Batman Zero Hour was part of a two pack with a DC Universe logo.

[Venom80]

I know this is off topic but I couldn't find any other info on it anywhere else. Well, anywhere else I would know to look. Are there second printings of each of the Dark Knight Over Metropolis series: Action Comics #654, Adventures of Superman #467 and Superman #44? I have a second print of Superman #44 but was not sure about the other two issues in the story. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[Cpt Kirk]

On 4/8/2017 at 3:49 PM, LikeEmScanned said:

I found this last night at a con and bought it just as a curiosity piece.  I can see under the label that the DC Universe logo was originally printed on the cover and this sticker was placed over it.  Seems like a lot of trouble to go through to convert a comic that was in a Green Lantern Collector's Set to a direct purchase version.  They must have done it for multiple copies.  Anyone ever see one like this before?

 

 

now that is odd.  I've seen hundreds of DCU's, thousands of newsstands, and I've paid close attention to anything that had a sticker on it.  I've never seen anything like this before.   

 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 4/9/2017 at 6:12 AM, Venom80 said:

I know this is off topic but I couldn't find any other info on it anywhere else. Well, anywhere else I would know to look. Are there second printings of each of the Dark Knight Over Metropolis series: Action Comics #654, Adventures of Superman #467 and Superman #44? I have a second print of Superman #44 but was not sure about the other two issues in the story. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

You could probably start a new thread about this topic and call it "Second Printings that Look Like First Printings"

So yes, there is an 2nd printing of Action 654 and Superman 44.    They each have a Lynx ad on the back cover instead of the Capcom Viper ad, and the fine print at the bottom of the indicia will usually say something like "Second Printing".   If I had more time, I could post some photos to show the differences.

As near as I can tell, these 2nd printings came out in 3 packs in the early 1990s  and were sold at stores like Kaybee Toys and Toys R Us.   The covers of the 1st and 2nd printings are usually identical, so you can only find them by looking at the back covers and the indicia.   The date of the reprint can be figured out by looking at the ad on the back covers (for example, Superman 44, Action 654, and Adv of Superman 467 all came out in June 1990 originally, but the 2nd printings all have Lynx ads on the back cover, which is the same Lynx ad that came out on the back covers of all DC comics dated Aug 1991.     Other examples of these 2nd printings include Superman 463, Action 660, Superman 51, Superman 52, Justice League 36, 37, 45 and Justice League Europe 6 and `10.    

 

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[Venom80]

On 4/11/2017 at 1:34 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

You could probably start a new thread about this topic and call it "Second Printings that Look Like First Printings"

So yes, there is an 2nd printing of Action 654 and Superman 44.    They each have a Lynx ad on the back cover instead of the Capcom Viper ad, and the fine print at the bottom of the indicia will usually say something like "Second Printing".   If I had more time, I could post some photos to show the differences.

As near as I can tell, these 2nd printings came out in 3 packs in the early 1990s  and were sold at stores like Kaybee Toys and Toys R Us.   The covers of the 1st and 2nd printings are usually identical, so you can only find them by looking at the back covers and the indicia.   The date of the reprint can be figured out by looking at the ad on the back covers (for example, Superman 44, Action 654, and Adv of Superman 467 all came out in June 1990 originally, but the 2nd printings all have Lynx ads on the back cover, which is the same Lynx ad that came out on the back covers of all DC comics dated Aug 1991.     Other examples of these 2nd printings include Superman 463, Action 660, Superman 51, Superman 52, Justice League 36, 37, 45 and Justice League Europe 6 and `10.    

 

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Thanks for the help!

[F For Fake]

Found this guy at a 50 cent sale this weekend. It's a little rougher than what I normally collect, but I figured at that price I couldn't beat it. Would love to get all of the Bat-related variants for my collection at some point.

 

[mysterio]

Felt fortunate to find this one this weekend.