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Detective 1000 - 80 different variant covers!?!
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Best covers:

1. Francesco Martina - Both covers

2. Mike Mayhew (those colors!)

3. Alex Ross #27 Homage

4. Scott Williams/Jim Lee

5. Mico Suayan (would be higher if Batman's leg muscles were realistic)

6. Dan Jurgens

Among the rest, a few are okay. Most are boring poses, or women in completely unrealistic poses and body types.

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3 hours ago, Hawkman said:

It's actually really easy. You only buy the covers you like.

Or just whatever one is at the top of the stack at the LCS, which is what I always did whenever a comic I collected had regular variants

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4 hours ago, Hawkman said:

It's actually really easy. You only buy the covers you like.

Back when I was an avid collector of new comics, we wanted a complete title.

You may not understand that mentality, but it was the norm.  It was very very healthy for comic collecting.  

We live in a different world now.

The publishers killed off collecting as I knew it.

Get off of my lawn.

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I can’t even bring myself to care about variants on my favorite series where there’s one variant cover. I have almost everything Deadworld, but maybe 3-4 doubles from the first run after they started doing variants. I didn’t seek a single one out, just didn’t ditch them after buying them in bulk purchases. 

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8 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

Those 80 variant covers would make a great sociological study of today's comic collecting community.

Less than 10 (mainly the decades covers) really seem like homages to the Detective Comics title, the kind of thing that collectors used to want back when I started collecting.  Remember these?:

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It used to be anniversary covers were a homage to the covers and characters published in the title in the past.  (That Action 1000 poster was a continuation of that idea.)

Instead, the overall impression I get from these variants is that comics readership is really trending old.  Why?  Because of the vast number of cheesecake covers.  GGA seems like a form of nostalgia that appeals most to collectors who are 50+, given that kids today can just pull up porn on their phones.  

 

I have them both. Great covers and they actually had great interiors too! 

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As an Adams fan I'm interested in his three covers. However as exclusives they only seem to be available on nealadams.com .... for $300 altogether!  It's not that I can't afford it, but somehow I feel ripped-off and taken advantage of.  I might just pass, and see if over time can them pick them up on eBay.

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I'm somewhat glad I got the Alex Ross homage cover before it went crazy and also disappointed. I payed 50 for the book. I tried to get on his site but alas the scalpers were alive and well. and it looks like it is paying off for them after release. I bought mine the same day people were listing their pre orders on ebay. I found out it's recycled art. I would of thought alex would of done something different but its still cool anyway. The homage image is from the 1996 fleer skybox kingdom come DC trading cards. He did one for Action comics the detective comics and wonder woman. I thought it looked familiar. oh well, im excited to get it anyway.

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On 3/28/2019 at 9:20 PM, sfcityduck said:

Back when I was an avid collector of new comics, we wanted a complete title.

Collectors wanting complete titles and buying one copy a month isn't going to keep the publishers in business. There aren't enough collectors left to do that.

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26 minutes ago, SBRobin said:

Collectors wanting complete titles and buying one copy a month isn't going to keep the publishers in business. There aren't enough collectors left to do that.

Back in the day, we collected far more than one title a month.  I can see why someone today would be limited to one.  

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On 3/30/2019 at 4:36 PM, SuperZar said:

As an Adams fan I'm interested in his three covers. However as exclusives they only seem to be available on nealadams.com .... for $300 altogether!  It's not that I can't afford it, but somehow I feel ripped-off and taken advantage of.  I might just pass, and see if over time can them pick them up on eBay.

I'm just not wowed by Adams covers for this. Surprising to me, I was really hoping for a real great throwback to his glory days on Bats/Tec. Welp, at least not liking his covers saves me money!

 

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I'm a huge fan of Neal Adams' bronze and silver age work but his drawings over the last couple of decades is very uninspiring to me.  Unfortunately, he has chosen to follow the herd and draw in that Jim Lee style of Mr. Universe looking characters with muscles protruding from every inch of their bodies.  Not a fan of Jim Lee nor the wave of copycats that he seemed to have inspired.

 

 

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8 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

Back in the day, we collected far more than one title a month.  I can see why someone today would be limited to one.  

Sorry, I meant one issue of a title a month. Or two if it was a popular title like spidey or xmen

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