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I'm am going to say a reluctant, "yes". We are considering newsstand issues to be a variant. The amount of work that that simple statement caused is unbelievable.

I disagree that they sell quite often more than direct. Most collectors just want the book, be it direct or newsstand. I will say there are more wanting to collect newsstand than before but not a huge amount care if it’s direct or newsstand.

Newsstand & Whitman are more difficult to find in nice shape, so there doesn't have to be a huge amount of people who care.


This myth that collectors don't care was started by Overstreet so they wouldn't have to double their number of listings in their price guide.

It's perpetuated by lazy price guide admins so they don't have to increase their workload to track it.

The lack of effort to track the price differences ultimately results in the suppression of those price differences.

Collectors do care.


Mile High Comics saw the opportunity to cater to the public demand for Newsstand versions. They price Newsstand versions more accordingly.


I strongly disagree with your assertion, so we are in full agreement to disagree.

I also enjoyed Earl’s thread back in the day. Earl did a lot of things for the site that was beneficial for us. He did a bunch of scans of books and I remember the site kept count of scans people did for site for all to see and he had over 1,000 done, maybe way more. Think Coffeeman had the most scans done.
One thing Earl did if I remember right was he collected all books published in his birth year. I thought that was a great idea. Made me look at my birth month, a year is too crazy. Earl is or was a top notch collector.

We had some problems when someone wanted to buy an individual book and the seller wanted to sell sets or runs.

Ron