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24 May, 2015
Don't add Spawn #9 to your collection until you understand this difference
4 of 5 found this helpful Later revealed to be Thor's lost sister, before heading over to the Marvel universe Angela made her first appearance in Spawn #9 making this issue a modern age key for collectors. But a must-know piece of information for collectors is that CGC treats the newsstand edition as a variant, i.e. it is tracked separately on the census and encapsulated with a special label notation (which reads "newsstand edition" at the left-hand side of the label) to differentiate variant copies from regular copies. Ungraded copies can be told apart by the existence of a UPC code in the bottom left corner of the front cover of the newsstand edition variants.
The reason there were two different print runs (but released simultaneously and both are "first printings"), is because from 1979 to 2013 comics were distributed across two distribution channels: newsstand sales where unsold books were returnable, and direct sales to comic shops which were nonrefundable but in exchange for their commitment the shops were given a large discount to the cover price. [Source for this information: Jim Shooter -- google "Jim Shooter newsstand" for more info]. In the beginning of direct sales in 1979, some comic shops were buying at their huge discount and then returning the books through the newsstand channel and pocketing the difference. So to prevent this, publishers began to print two distinct versions so as to be distinguishable and close the loophole. At first, direct sales copies had a diagonal line though the UPC code, but at Marvel they quickly changed it to a Spider-Man logo in place of the UPC code for direct sold copies to comic shops.
When Image came onto the scene in 1992, Newsstand sales industry-wide were in such decline that over at industry heavyweight Marvel they now represented under 15% of total sales (85% were direct sold to comic shops by 1990). Competing with Superman and Spider-Man, newcomer Image only was able to sell a mere 1% of their total distribution on newsstands, with fully 99% direct sold to comic shops. [Source for this information: industry veteran Chuck Rozanski -- google "Chuck Rozanski newsstand" for more information].
For early Spawn issues, direct sold copies have no UPC code on the front cover, while newsstand copies have a UPC code in the bottom left corner. There are newsstand copies back to issue #1 of Spawn as well, but for that book as is the case for the vast majority of comics, that UPC code is the only manufacturing difference... But certain later issues of Spawn had greater manufacturing differences between the two print runs, as happens to be the case for Spawn #9 (and incidentally as a side note is also the case for Spawn #8 [which cover-swipes Spider-Man #1] and Spawn Batman [written by Frank Miller and illustrated by Todd McFarlane]).
As indicated by the label notes on newsstand copies of Spawn #9, CGC appears to apply the variant treatment for Spawn #9 because the interior pages of newsstand copies are newsprint instead of glossy. As with other Image newsstand books, because of the fact that 99% of Image's distribution was direct sales to comic shops, the newsstand variant has 1-in-100 rarity: as of 5/23/2015, out of the 1226 total CGC graded copies of Spawn #9 on census, a mere 20 or 1.6% are the newsstand edition variant.
My advice: as you seek out this book for your collection, or any issue of Spawn for that matter, keep that newsstand rarity difference in mind and seek out the copies with the UPC code!
Marvel Alpha Flight 13 WOLVERINE 1984, Marvel,Vol.1 Grade 9.8,RARE!
28 Oct, 2016
Rare 75 Cent Variant Is The Best Way To Collect This John Byrne Classic
What a classic John Byrne Wolverine cover! "Okay, sucker, the only way to get to the lady is through ME!"
You've simply got to love it, and for collectible rarity you've simply got to love the tiny batch of 75 cent variants produced by Marvel for newsstands in Canada during a window of time when they printed out two separate newsstand batches (one for the US priced at 60 cents and one for Canada priced at 75 cents).
They later closed this window and began to print one giant batch for all of North America with both prices. But while the window was open, Canada -- whose population was a mere 9.8% of the North American market for comic books -- got two types of copies, one being Direct Edition copies (which have a Spider-Man logo instead of a barcode) which had both US and Canadian prices on them and were direct-sold to specialty comic shops, and the other type being Newsstand copies.
Those newsstand copies, sold to only a PORTION of the Canadian market, carried the 75 cent cover price. So their rarity at time of distribution was a SLICE of the 9.8% of the North American comic book market that Canada's population represented. And the size of that slice can be estimated by dividing up total sales between direct edition and newsstand in some proportion.
By the middle of the 1980's, several people -- book authors and industry insiders -- have all estimated that direct sales at Marvel would surpass newsstand sales. At that 50/50 point around 1985 if we therefore divide the 9.8% starting point by that 50/50 split, it becomes 4.9% newsstand (75 cent variants) to 4.9% direct edition. So by this logic, at time of distribution the rarity of the 75 cent variants may be in that neighborhood of 5% of total copies, plus or minus (for Alpha Flight #13 published in August of 1984, probably a little "plus", being a little before that 50/50 point).
Google "75 cent variants" for more information on these incredibly interesting and highly collectible variants.
30 Jun, 2016
1st Beta Ray Bill -- I Bought The 75 Cent Variant
2 of 2 found this helpful One of the comic book keys that were published by Marvel during a cover price variant window that opened in October 1982 and closed after August of 1986. The Canadian to US dollar exchange rate had moved sharply in the early 1980's and for Direct Edition copies (the kind sold to comic shops) Marvel simply put both prices on them, i.e. the US price on top and the Canadian price smaller underneath. But instead of doing the same for their newsstand copies, Marvel decided to print out two separate batches, one priced at 60 cents and the other priced at 75 cents (for the Canadian dollar). The Canadian newsstand batch was much smaller, because by population Canada was only 9.8% of the North American comic book market, and only the newsstand slice of that market got the 75 cent copies.