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Eldoonmad Posts: 1
5/27/2021
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Hello community,
I'm just going through my collection right now and confirming print numbers and variant editions. I'm looking at my Batman / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vol. 1 no. 1 and I notice the barcode's last five is 00127. I can't seem to find any other listing online with that numbering. Every listing I find with this cover is 00111. I've looked through many images of variants editions and this cover is the main cover. The 2nd print even has a completely different cover. Am I to assume this is a 7th printing with a variant cover? If I understand barcodes correctly, especially on a comic this recent, that is what it is telling me. I find it hard to believe they would have done 7 prints of this issue. I could be completely wrong about everything, so I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what is going on here.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
5/28/2021
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Sometimes this means
00127 -
001 - 1st issue
2 - 2nd print
7 - variant number
If an issue produces a lot of variants there isn't enough room in the upc for the number of variants. So they use the last two spots instead of just the last spot. My best guess is that this is the 26th or 27th variant. I believe there was one 2nd print.
Ron
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