Adventures of Superman #500 Platinum Edition - Print Number? 0

[Bibbo]

Adventures of Superman #500 Platinum Edition - Print Number?

Ok, this is something I've been wondering for a while and for the life of me can't find an official answer via google search. Does anyone know the number of issues that were printed for this particular issue?  I know the Platinum Edition for Superman 75 was 10,000 and the subsequent TPB Platinum Edition print run was 4,500, but have come up dry for an official number on Adventures of Superman #500.

For those who don't know, DC released limited Platinum Editions for both the "death" (Superman 75) and "return" (Adventures 500) of Superman.  1 of each were given to comic shops/dealers as a special incentive for selling said issues, and along with the variant covers/poly-bags lacked a bar code/price. 

Edited May 22, 2017 by Bibbo

[MDR123]

I've been trying to track down these issues myself for a while. Not sure at all on print run but just judging the price folks are asking for them and the scarcity, I'd imagine relatively low print run on Adventures. 

[Bibbo]

I would imagine the print number that adventures 500 received would be less than the 10k Superman 75 had.

[MDR123]

I'd lean towards that as well. Maybe someone else will stumble across this thread and offer some insight. 

[divad]

The Donut or RMA would know. . . 

[valiantman]

I'd be surprised if it is less than 10,000.  Adventures of Superman #500 is basically the highest print run of all time.

(X-Men #1 had various covers, so you could say they are "different"... where the white bag Adv. of Superman #500 were all the same.)

Edited May 23, 2017 by valiantman

[Lazyboy]

41 minutes ago, valiantman said:

I'd be surprised if it is less than 10,000.  Adventures of Superman #500 is basically the highest print run of all time.

(X-Men #1 had various covers, so you could say they are "different"... where the white bag Adv. of Superman #500 were all the same.)

What about the non-enhanced (and non-bagged) AoS 500?

But I would agree that it's not likely to be significantly different than Superman 75.

[F For Fake]

14 hours ago, valiantman said:

I'd be surprised if it is less than 10,000.  Adventures of Superman #500 is basically the highest print run of all time.

(X-Men #1 had various covers, so you could say they are "different"... where the white bag Adv. of Superman #500 were all the same.)

My recollection (strictly anecdotal) was that while Superman 75 was obviously a huge event, retailers were still not entirely prepared for just HOW big it ended up being, so when #500 came up, they overcompensated, big time. So my assumption would be that the 500's would outnumber the 75's considerably. But again, that's just my conjecture.

[CKB]

56 minutes ago, F For Fake said:

My recollection (strictly anecdotal) was that while Superman 75 was obviously a huge event, retailers were still not entirely prepared for just HOW big it ended up being, so when #500 came up, they overcompensated, big time. So my assumption would be that the 500's would outnumber the 75's considerably. But again, that's just my conjecture.

Having lived through it as well, I agree with your recollection.  In my experience, though, I see more platinum 75s than 500s.  I have no explanation for it, just my observations.  It could very well be that the plat 75 catches a -sellers- attention more than the 500. 

[valiantman]

I will admit that my recollection of the Adventures of Superman #500 "white bag" was that it was the highest selling book in the highest selling year (1993), but it looks like it was actually 5th behind the 4 "return of the Supermen" die-cut books.

http://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/1993.html

Turok #1 (Valiant) being 6th on that list, even though Turok #1 is often complained about more than the first 5 books listed.

The Adventures of Superman #500 no-bag edition was 26th in sales for 1993.

[fastballspecial]

Id agree with over 10K easy.

 

[Bibbo]

So the consensus seems to be that AOS 500 Platinum Edition likely received a print count larger than 10K.  Still surprised there isn't an official number floating around out there.  Though, each Superman 75 Platinum Edition was numbered on the back, whereas 500 was not numbered at all. 

Edited May 26, 2017 by Bibbo

[fastballspecial]

It was the huge event Sup 75 was. In fact many were dog dead tired of the whole mess by then.

[valiantman]

I found an old usenet post which says the Adv. of Superman #500 Platinum was

"Handed out at the 1993 Philadelphia Comic Fest Superman Panel Discussion"

[Bill1]

I got one from each of my LCS's at the time. So, two, and the stores only got one. Seems more like something that was one per store? Of course, there were a lot of stores back then....