CBCS caught on to this fact and beat CGC to the punch with new labeling, and now denotes the CPVs with “Price Variant” labels. Both versions were published at the same time and on the same manufacturing equipment and physically the only feature that varies is the cover price - making them Cover Price Variants (CPV’s for short) of the issues, not “Canadian Editions” as CGC presently denotes them.
Over in the world of Marvel and D.C., there’s a fascinating circumstance among their 1980’s newsstand comics starting in October of 1982: beginning with issues of that month, and continuing out to 8/1986 for Marvel and out to 9/1988 for D.C., these publishers produced two distinct batches of newsstand copies: a higher cover price batch and a lower cover price batch.
It is beyond time for the Overstreet price guide to follow suit - they too need to be “breaking out” newsstand copies of Spawn keys with their own value listings - and newsstand comics in general (not just Image) need this kind of price guide attention to the separating market values for newsstand vs. direct edition copies (the below as of this writing in November of 2018 - check their site for the most recent updates):ĬPG value listing denotes as Rare Newsstand Variant and ascribes a separate higher valueĪs you can see above, with the “1B” line they separately denote the variants as “ Rare Newsstand Variant” and value such newsstand copies of Spawn #1 at $75 versus just $12 for the prevalent direct editions and for Spawn #9 they value the newsstand copies at $30 versus $12. direct edition copies, and also Spawn #9 newsstand vs. Below for example is their value for Spawn #1 newsstand vs. With values pulling apart like this, price guides like ComicsPriceGuide have started to react by “breaking out” newsstand copies with their own value listings. As you can see from these recent sales examples, newsstand copies in CGC 9.8 can easily fetch 3x the market price of their prevalent direct edition counterparts in CGC 9.8. Hi everyone! Readers of this blog know well the collecting strategy of focusing on the dramatically-more-rare newsstand type - for Image Comics keys where newsstand copies were published, the market premium for newsstand over direct edition can be dramatic: at right, what for readers of this blog may be “the prime example” of this phenomenon, Spawn #1. Spawn #1 Direct Edition Sales Examples in CGC 9.8 sold recently on eBay (2018)
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