ASM #692, Decades Marcos Martin variants ... (Comic Book Forums)

These seem to be gaining steam, especially the '70's (Red cover). That, and the '60's (Yellow cover) seem to be the most popular of the 5. I'm partial to the '60's cover myself.




Edited to add:
Correction. The '80's (Venom) cover is hotter than the '60's cover. The Red cover does seem to still be outpacing all the other covers, though.

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I think the 80's one is sharper than the rest. I like them all though. I have all except the expo cover. Waiting for the right price at the right time. I noticed on previewsworld that there is a 692 2nd print coming out in october. I also noticed the decades variants coming out again in october as well? Is this a typo or a 2nd print set? Anyone know what's up?

I started with the Venom cover, then the next week I bought the Gwen Cover...

a week later I went ahead and bought the rest. I think im gonna do a custom frame job on the decade covers and hang em on the wall in the guest bedroom.

I could be wrong but I believe they're being released as a complete set. I spoke to the owner at my LCS and he indicated he sold out of the decades variants he had but he ordered a couple complete sets. I'm assuming that's what they are referring to.

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In that case, I am thinking the latter. First print re-orders for more $$$$.

if marvel starts doing things like reprinting and still labeling them first prints its going to piss a lot of collectors off. Whats the point in buying originally if a second "first print" is going to be released later....

I will one up you...it will be sealed in a box, shrink wrapped, and come with a special cover only available with the set.

My local shops told me that they had to be ordered in set, but clearly they didn't have to sell then that way.

They also said you had to order a set % higher number of copies than your last ASM order.

Consequently, none of my local shops got ANY of the variant covers.

I ordered mine from midtowncomics.com - they had already sold out of the red on (which is the one I like the best) so I had to ebay that one for 4X the price of the others.

I'm trying to get the FanExpo variant, but I can't see paying more than $40 for it.

Anyone else fed up with all of the variants? I consider myself a collector, so I've never really been concerned with value or appreciation - I just want to complete my collection. I don't even really care that muh about rarity. I think the convention-specific variants are cool, a neat way to reward the attendees, but having one or more variants for every issue of a comic that comes out 3 times a month is getting really annoying (and expensive).

Yep. I got the same way after all the AvX variants for each issue that came out. I think there are at least 6 different variant covers for each one of those and there is a lot of stock still on the shelves for AvX.



Why do I have a feeling that'll be a 1:200 variant at $150.00 or more.

I agree with these variants being unfair. The biggest retailer in Massachusetts didn't even carry these variants. I don't even want to think about whats going to happen with the #700 variants. I found my sets of variants at a local magazine store. Which I suppose wouldn't have a problem ordering a larger % of their previous month's order to get the variants. I lucked out and was able to get two sets of each variant and a few extra venom issues. I just put one set up on e-bay to see how it goes. I'll probably hold on to the others for a while.