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stevegreer1 Posts: 41
10/20/2018
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Good day! I recently watched a YouTube video presenting the hosts view on a hot new upcoming antagonist for the new Fantastic Four series (vol 6). He specifically talked about his suggestion to pick up the #1 variant Lucio Parrillo covers (both). Very nice cover art to say the least. I was interested, so I searched on eBay and went here to the price guide to see how closely the prices matched. Upon my search here I counted 65 variant covers for #1, including the 2nd print! 65!!! Now, I'm not sure if that is a record or not, but that is crazy! And some of them were already listed in the $200 to $400 range.
So how many variants for an issue do you feel is too much? And do you like or dislike variant covers?
Me personally, my first experience with variant covers was Image's Gen 13 #1 when it came out back in the 90's. There were 13 variants at the time, and I felt that was kind of silly, but I see where they were going with it. I tried to get them all, but I was but a broke young lad at the time and simply could not afford it as a few of them were a bit pricey. Personally, I don't have a problem with variant covers, but there does seem to be a lot of them lately. It seems to me it would be challenging yet frustrating to collect.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
10/22/2018
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Steve,
This is a good question. 65 variants for a single book isn't a record. Shocking but true.
Action Comics #1000 had 44 total.
Batman #1 from 2016 had 45 total.
Return of Wolverine #1 had 59 total.
Star Wars #1 had 81 total.
Batman #50 (fake wedding book) has 101 total, which I believe is the current record
From our perspective, variants take an enormous amount of time. But I don't see an end in the near future based on the popularity of those books.
To answer your questions, how many is too much? 3
Do I like or dislike variants? Working for the price guide, I hate them. From the collector side, I enjoy some of them.
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
10/30/2018
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Batgirl 31 will have a Stanley Lau variant which I preordered.
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