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[jcjames]

3 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

 I forgot to check the mail haha

Hope a 9.2 rings true  

Campbell's first Spidey-cover. Cool.

 

[littledoom]

13 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

 I forgot to check the mail haha

Hope a 9.2 rings true  

I’ve owned a couple of those and I think I sold both for $50

[ADAMANTIUM]

41 minutes ago, littledoom said:

I’ve owned a couple of those and I think I sold both for $50

What grade were they? Raw I assume but an estimated grade that you sold for $50?

[littledoom]

8 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

What grade were they? Raw I assume but an estimated grade that you sold for $50?

NM, both were raw. 

[Lazyboy]

10 hours ago, mrwoogieman said:

If I recall correctly, when CGC first opened Modern tier was 1980 and was moved back to 1975 at a later date.

 

 

Wasn't it originally 1975, then changed for a little while, then changed back?

[mr_highgrade]

12 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

Wasn't it originally 1975, then changed for a little while, then changed back?

Yes, When CBCS opened for business it had Moderns starting at 1975. So CGC had no other choice but to revert back to 1975.

[Corona smith]

[Corona smith]

[andyborehol]

This is awesome! I signed up for this board a few years ago but hadn't really been inspired to participate until I stumbled across this thread...it's cool to see how many passionate newsstand collectors there are out there. About 5 or 6 years ago I realized that I had collected a copy of just about every US Wolverine and X-Men-related comic that had ever been printed. This actually made me quite sad..I felt like I no longer had anything to "hunt" for. One day shortly thereafter I was flipping through a dollar bin at my local Half Price Books and found high-grade newsstand copies of Wolverine #154 & 155. I already owned the direct editions but knowing that those issues can fetch a few bucks I scooped them up, thinking that I would sell or trade them. When I got them home it dawned on me -- newsies give me a reason to rebuild my entire collection from scratch! Since then I have acquired complete newsstand runs of Wolverine vol. 1 (1982) & vol. 2 (1988), a near complete run of vol. 3 (2003) [I'm fairly certain that issue #74 from this run was not printed for the newsstand market], and I'm just missing a handful of issues from vol. 4 (2010) and vol. 5 (2013). Also have complete newsstand runs of Wolverine: Origins, Wolverine: Weapon X, all of the issues of Marvel Comics Presents that feature the ol' Canucklehead plus a bunch of other minis & one-shots. I'm currently working on Uncanny X-Men (roughly 80% complete) and some other titles where Wolvie features heavily like New Avengers and Uncanny X-Force. In all I have over 1,400 books that I could share in this thread, but I'll limit myself to just some of the more unusual/interesting ones for now:

Iron Fist/Wolverine: The Return of K'un Lun #1-3 - For some bizarre reason, Marvel decided to re-brand these issues for the newsstand market as "Avengers Universe" #4-6. This is certainly not the only example of Marvel doing newsstand re-branding (I'm sure that the Daredevil, vol. 2 "Marvel Universe" variants are pretty well known to those of you interested in this topic) but it strikes me as particularly odd in this case when you consider that neither Iron Fist nor Wolverine had ever been an Avenger at this point. I also suspect that the general public would have been more eager to buy a "Wolverine" comic than an "Avengers" comic in the year 2000...maybe the Marvel marketing department was trying to test that theory? In any case, there is a 4th issue in this series but I have never seen a newsstand copy (a.k.a. Avengers Universe #7) -- if it exists and you've got one I would love to see it here.

 

Wolverine/Punisher: Revelation #1-4 - This mini-series is unique because it's the only example I'm aware of where Marvel did 2nd newsstand printings. The series originally came out in 1999 and was released in both the direct and newsstand markets, then in spring 2001 they did a 2nd printing for the newsstand market ONLY. The 2nd printings are easily identifiable because they don't have the issue numbers on the cover (yet another strange choice by Marvel) and also the UPCs have a 3-to-4 letter month code on the side, whereas the first printings do not.

 

Wolverine: Origins #6 -  The newsstand edition of this issue actually says "Direct Edition"...likely just an oversight during printing. The only way to tell them apart is the shape of the UPC itself.

 

Wolverine: Origins #9 - The first 10 issues of this series had "50/50" variants in the direct market, meaning that there are variant covers with approximately the same print run as the "standard" cover. For just this one issue Marvel used what had been labeled as the "variant" cover for the newsstand market and even left the words "Variant Edition" in the corner!

 

Wolverine Saga (2009) and All-New Wolverine Saga - In the direct market, these were both free giveaways to promote some newly rebooted Wolverine-related titles. When they went on the newsstands, Marvel charged $3.99 for them. Part of me wants to say that newsstand customers were treated like suckers, but then I remembered that several years after the fact I probably paid more than $3.99 each to acquire these...so I ask you, who's the real sucker here? 

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Today I went to a small LCS I had never been in and went box diving through about 20 long boxes. Found some CVP, Pence, Whitmans,MJI, DC Universe, and these. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

wow @onlyweaknesskryptonite I had never seen that king size she-hulk before  any of these newsstand price editions? meaning different price than their direct counter parts?  

still quite the haul, sometimes I've ignored issues that weren't priced editions, but that is the fun of the hunt  these look in decent shape too!

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

2 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

wow @onlyweaknesskryptonite I had never seen that king size she-hulk before  any of these newsstand price editions? meaning different price than their direct counter parts?  

still quite the haul, sometimes I've ignored issues that weren't priced editions, but that is the fun of the hunt  these look in decent shape too!

To be honest I do not know if they are or not. I was just trying to make it through all of their boxes before they  closed for the night. I originally went just to get some bags and boards as I ran out getting a submission ready to send in. Ended up buying a short box full of books, 4 BCW plastic bins( they sold me some for $10 each) and the supplies I originally intended.  Most of them were in decent shape. Thank you!

[ADAMANTIUM]

[andyborehol]

3 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

To be honest I do not know if they are or not. I was just trying to make it through all of their boxes before they  closed for the night. I originally went just to get some bags and boards as I ran out getting a submission ready to send in. Ended up buying a short box full of books, 4 BCW plastic bins( they sold me some for $10 each) and the supplies I originally intended.  Most of them were in decent shape. Thank you!

Don't know about the others, but I can verify that King-Size Hulk is a price variant (and probably the only time I've ever seen something with $6.99 cover price, newsstand or otherwise - just seems like an odd number). I think it's an undervalued book in general as it includes full reprints of IH 180 & 181. Nice find!

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

38 minutes ago, andyborehol said:

Don't know about the others, but I can verify that King-Size Hulk is a price variant (and probably the only time I've ever seen something with $6.99 cover price, newsstand or otherwise - just seems like an odd number). I think it's an undervalued book in general as it includes full reprints of IH 180 & 181. Nice find!

That is awesome.  Thank you for the information I appreciate it. 

[Corona smith]

I know that most of the direct editions of that particular hulk issue have double covers as well. 

[Corona smith]

It had two open order covers one by Art Adams the other by Frank Cho. Any I’ve run across have both covers in different orders. That’s also the first newsstand I’ve seen of it. 

[littledoom]

17 minutes ago, Corona smith said:

It had two open order covers one by Art Adams the other by Frank Cho. Any I’ve run across have both covers in different orders. That’s also the first newsstand I’ve seen of it. 

That’s how it came. Bought both covers (which were double covers) when they hit the LCS shelf! 

[Corona smith]

3 minutes ago, littledoom said:

That’s how it came. Bought both covers (which were double covers) when they hit the LCS shelf! 

It’s not how they were supposed to be though. 

[jcjames]

5 hours ago, andyborehol said:

Don't know about the others, but I can verify that King-Size Hulk is a price variant (and probably the only time I've ever seen something with $6.99 cover price, newsstand or otherwise - just seems like an odd number). I think it's an undervalued book in general as it includes full reprints of IH 180 & 181. Nice find!

Cool!

IIRC, only the direct editions are double covers. Is that right? The newsstands should all be single covers.