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Mr.Grimm
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- Posted: November 29, 2016 10:55:25 pm
- Very interesting to see those percentages from 2000 until Marvel dropped out of the newsstand market completely.
As a Spidey completist, I started picking up all newsstand issues as they were released since the early 2000s and am so glad I did as finding them now is very hard. The more current a newsstand is, the more impossible it is to find. Heck, even getting them when they came out I still had to hit several bookstores to find issues sometimes, or to find them in nice condition.
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- Posted: November 30, 2016 7:52:45 am
af15 said:
Very interesting to see those percentages from 2000 until Marvel dropped out of the newsstand market completely.
As a Spidey completist, I started picking up all newsstand issues as they were released since the early 2000s and am so glad I did as finding them now is very hard. The more current a newsstand is, the more impossible it is to find. Heck, even getting them when they came out I still had to hit several bookstores to find issues sometimes, or to find them in nice condition.
I think you have some rare issues then, like a 1:100, when printed. Then you start factoring in that probably 66%-75% (2/3-3/4) would have been thrown out, the issue in questionbecomes a whole lot rarer than 1:100, (like 1::200 or scarcer)
***Also note that people who worked at the grocery store or the local tobacco shop, handled the comics with little care and consideration. People from comic shops treated their comic books like gold.
You did well then, because almost noone did that.. 
Its still one of the best kept secrets  lol
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- Posted: November 30, 2016 10:09:12 am
- Also as an aside, just like DC...towards the end of Marvel's newsstand run, there were a number of price differences between their newsstand and direct editions. Marvel's newsstand issues were typically a $1 higher than the direct market.
Beyond the newsstand scarcity (which most collectors don't want to see a difference between newsstand and direct), there are a lot of price variants too. Someday those will come to light and might become a collectible thing (albeit to a lesser degree than 30/35 cent variants or Canadian price variants).
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- Posted: December 31, 2016 5:04:29 am
- I wanted to put some accurate light on this subject
Very accurate and informative and its by, Benjamin Nobel
this is his blog
Newsstands will become the new chase for comic collectors, in the near future. if you want to increase your collections value, start buying before they are double in price.
go to the link below.
https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/newsstand-vs-direct-edition-comics/
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