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Pmacrowley Posts: 1
7/2/2016
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Hey all
New to collecting comics and picked up a the variant copy of Steve Roger-Captain America issue #2 I looked it up on here and on the page that popped up to it said 1 of 25. My question is are there 25 different types of covers art or did I get super lucky and get 1 of only 25 that marvel released? Thanks for your help.
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kds_comics Posts: 652
7/2/2016
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I means for every 25 issues with the regular cover, there is one issue with the alternate cover.
It is a measure of the quantity of issues with that cover compared to regular cover.
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lealew7 Posts: 73
7/7/2016
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YOU WILL NOTICE NOW A DAYS THAT THERE WILL BE NUMEROUS VARIANT COVERS TO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING NOT ALWAYS A GOOD THING IN MY OPINION, BUT IT DOES OFFER PEOPLE THE CHANCE TO COLLECT THE DIFFERENT COVERS. LIKE WITH MY "THE WALKING DEAD ISSUE 100, I HAVE 12 VARIANT COVERS OUT OF THE 15/17 VARIANT COVERS OUT THERE.
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gregbrookins Posts: 132
7/8/2016
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They have been releasing several regular variants, different covers at the same standard release, then they offer retailer incentive covers. The more the retailer orders, the more/better variants they get, and they can price them how they want. 1:10, 1:15, 1:25, 1:50, 1:100, 1:200 etc. Then there are limited retailer covers, like the recent black and white party cover of Civil War II 1. It was released only as 1 issuer per comic shop. The release ratio affects the value naturally, but only really worth what people will pay.
As a go to, you can always search ebay for completed listings to see what a given book is moving at.
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wchever Posts: 44
7/9/2016
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I tend to use Completed Listings on EBay exactly as Greg described. There are also comic shop and comic convention exclusive variants. Take a look at the New 52 Batman image this blogger put together -
-Iñigo
Of course, he's still missing a few. The entire 23-dot villian series, in 2D and 3D motion lenticular.
Bill
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