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What if?????

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OK, so its Friday, its silly season in politics, how about we bring some of that silliness to the boards?

 

WHAT IF __________ Had a lower print run???????

 

List a title, or a single issue, that you think would have been HOTTER THAN *#@*& had it had a very very low print run

 

Lets try be creative with this one... Anyone can list Spider-man #1 or any other common book... But anyways...

 

I nominate Ronin/DC as a viable candidate to start

 

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Can only imagine what New Mutants 98 would be if the print run was a 10th what it was. Crazy money for sure.

 

I would actually think some of the earlier Liefeld books would be up there as well, such as What If (vol 2) #7 or even Hawk/Dove

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Can only imagine what New Mutants 98 would be if the print run was a 10th what it was. Crazy money for sure.

 

With that you could also include BA #12...that would be insane numbers right now!

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It's a controversial topic, but if collectors (in larger numbers) do start differentiating between direct and newsstand editions, a few of the easy books will be much, much tougher in high grade.

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It's a controversial topic, but if collectors (in larger numbers) do start differentiating between direct and newsstand editions, a few of the easy books will be much, much tougher in high grade.

 

But is there a way of calculating that? We already know that newsstands are usually more rare, and usually not is as good of a condition as Direct, but is there anyway to determine how much more rare? Is it possible to find out what the print runs were?

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It's a controversial topic, but if collectors (in larger numbers) do start differentiating between direct and newsstand editions, a few of the easy books will be much, much tougher in high grade.

 

But is there a way of calculating that? We already know that newsstands are usually more rare, and usually not is as good of a condition as Direct, but is there anyway to determine how much more rare? Is it possible to find out what the print runs were?

I don't think print runs are as important as "market availability" decades later (today). Direct and newsstand editions have different attrition rates. What's actually for sale now? I've checked Amazing Spider-man #300 on and off for years, and there's usually about 30 high-grade direct editions (Spidey-head box) for every 1 high-grade newsstand (UPC box) on Ebay. (Right now, there are 38 copies of ASM #300 CGC 9.6 on Ebay... zero are newsstand.) There's not much evidence that the market pays significantly more for newsstand than direct on ASM #300, but the high-grade newsstands for sale are effectively a 1:30 in the terms of today's variant-crazy industry.

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Don't the early newsstands outnumber (or equal) the direct editions, then get rarer (relative to DEs)?

Yep. Newsstands were more common than direct editions until about mid-1980s. Late-1980s to present are more common as direct editions.

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Just imagine if only 10 copies of Action #1 were printed...

The superhero would have been dead on arrival, paving the way for a series of big-budget, 21st-century, epic/blockbuster Katzenjammer Kids movies!!

 

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Just imagine if only 10 copies of Action #1 were printed.

Imagine if there was a chromium variant :idea:

Imagine if the original art still existed. lol

 

Met with Albert de Guzman last year who showed me the original re-makes of Action which he later auctioned at comicconnect

Man I wanted to buy the whole remake book so bad

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