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MOST VALUABLE MODERN VARIANTS - THE RANKINGS
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Jaydogrules

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6 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

I thought second printings were not allowed on this list?  

Unlike the Saga 1 DRS third printing that was commissioned by Diamond distributors, the Batman 608RRP is a variant of the first printing.  

This is the second printing of the standard 608:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BATMAN-608-2nd-printing-CGC-9-8-SIGNED-BY-JIM-LEE-/253676219683?nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2349624.m43663.l10137&redirect=mobile

-J.

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27 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

A variant that came out weeks later...hm

You may want to double check your facts.

Genuine DC RRP's don't "come out", they are handed out, directly to retailers who attend and participate in DC's occasional Retailer Roundtable Programs ("RRP"), and they are catalogued as first printings. 

-J.

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51 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

They can be catalogued as first printings but they were printed after the initial issue hit stores.  If it had a upc on the cover it would have been handled as so.  

Still a cool book, just techically not a first print.

No one can check the indicia for confirmation because 150% of the reported print run has been CGC'd.   :D

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59 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

They can be catalogued as first printings but they were printed after the initial issue hit stores.  If it had a upc on the cover it would have been handled as so.  

Still a cool book, just techically not a first print.

So you're just making things up now lol ? CGC has checked the indicia, and it is a first printing, that's all that matters.  I already linked the actual second printing to the issue up above, but here it is again:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/BATMAN-608-2nd-printing-CGC-9-8-SIGNED-BY-JIM-LEE-/253676219683?nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2349624.m43663.l10137&redirect=mobile

And again, genuine DC RRP's are printed as variants to the first printing for the purpose of being surprise gratuities at their RRP event for that year and are then simply held by DC until the day of the event where they are given out to a few select invited retailers directly.  Unlike the Saga 1 DRS third printing which was announced  by Diamond as a third printing(who commissioned the reprint much like a retailer commissions a variant cover from a publisher) in advance of their own version of a retailer summit, and was then mailed out to hundreds of retailers with UPC's after the fact.  Many if not most people on Ebay and here improperly call those "RRP" as well.  But they are not. They are Diamond summit books.

-J.

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1 hour ago, Broke as a Joke said:

They can be catalogued as first printings but they were printed after the initial issue hit stores.  If it had a upc on the cover it would have been handled as so.  

Still a cool book, just techically not a first print.

This is completely incorrect. I don't want to argue, but I've been tracking this book since the second it was released. Genuine RRPs are printed as variants for the exact purpose that Jay stated above. Along with this one, there are at least three others that snuck under the radar before these things exploded, All-Star Comics 1 from 1999, Fables 5 from 2003, and Global Frequency 1 from 2003.

 

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3 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

Yes we know how rrp works, but it was printed after the initial printing.  Which makes it a later printing.  I guess it is just context on what you consider a first "print".  Similar to the store variants that come out now, which are released after the initial first printing is released.

Sorry, no. You're still wrong and you will continue to be wrong no matter how many times you say it.  And a genuine RRP is nothing like a store variant (which the Saga DRS reprint actually is).  A genuine RRP is a DC publisher variant, printed similarly as publisher's ratio variants are printed now, except they are not distributed by Diamond, they are withheld from the market until directly distributed by DC executives at their RRP events.

You're just trolling now. 

-J.

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49 minutes ago, Broke as a Joke said:

Yes we know how rrp works, but it was printed after the initial printing.  Which makes it a later printing.  I guess it is just context on what you consider a first "print".  Similar to the store variants that come out now, which are released after the initial first printing is released.

You do not understand a lot of things, based on what you're stating. If you think "store variants" are released after the initial first printing is released, there's no point in having this discussion, since you are just flat wrong.

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