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CARTER-COMICS Posts: 7
4/1/2023
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I do not believe a signed book should be a variant. The cover dictates a variant in most cases. CPG has a location for if your cover is signed...variant or not. (example) -> The Electric Black #1 2nd print in a variant...but now CPG has the same book listed twice...once as 2nd print variant and once as signed variant. If that is the case...I can go get The Amazing Spider-Man #1 variants and have them signed by different people and quadruple the amount of variants...(like we need that...lol)!
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glorkar Posts: 689
4/1/2023
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It's not all signed books.
Dynamic Forces sort of gets grandfathered in for some reason.
But I agree, the cover is the cover. Shouldn't matter if a shop (even one as reputable as DF) is certifying a signed copy.
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
4/1/2023
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CARTER-COMICS wrote:
I do not believe a signed book should be a variant. The cover dictates a variant in most cases. CPG has a location for if your cover is signed...variant or not. (example) -> The Electric Black #1 2nd print in a variant...but now CPG has the same book listed twice...once as 2nd print variant and once as signed variant. If that is the case...I can go get The Amazing Spider-Man #1 variants and have them signed by different people and quadruple the amount of variants...(like we need that...lol)!
if you haven't, read this post that's at the top of this forum: https://comicspriceguide.com/forum/topic9-signed-and-remarked-comics.aspx
it notes "Dynamic Forces VARIANT COVERS (signed or unsigned), along with all other variant covers like Catch A Star will be included in the regular database." This only applies for comics signed by those 2 companies (well, usually, but there seems to more exceptions made and signed comics listed all the time these days, if done by companies), so no, you couldn't go get the Spidey variants, have them signed, and get them in the CPG database as variants, as point #2 in that posts says. Then there would be 10 million more listings for all signed comics in the database. The MEMBER collections can add all the signed versions they want to their collection list of course.
and I expect the reasoning for the signed issue being labeled as a variant too is because the 2nd print is a variant cover of #1, therefore the signed version is the same variant, but signed, and listed separately since it's a DF version. Ronbatman can tell you more specifics tho.
and note to admins, the referred to post still says " COA's (certificate of authenticity) will not be mentioned", yet they mention it on this issue, so maybe that post needs another update 
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cartercontrols Posts: 7
4/5/2023
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I find the same cover on here twice...one DF version and the same DF version signed...both have different variant issue names. The cover is the cover...signed should not be a different cover variant....signed is denoted in your personal collection. I would like to see a section specifically for COA/who issued/COA number...not a big deal because I use the note section for that, but would be a nice little feature like the signed and by who.
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
4/5/2023
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cartercontrols wrote:
I find the same cover on here twice...one DF version and the same DF version signed...both have different variant issue names. The cover is the cover...signed should not be a different cover variant....signed is denoted in your personal collection. I would like to see a section specifically for COA/who issued/COA number...not a big deal because I use the note section for that, but would be a nice little feature like the signed and by who.
This is just how they do it for Dynamic Forces signed editions, whether the cover is a variant exclusive or not. Sometimes the 'variant' part is that it's signed, not that the cover is different, for Dynamic Forces editions. If you look at the list of DF comics, https://comicspriceguide.com/exclusives/dynamic-forces/uo , you'll find all kinds of regular 'A' covers with signed DF edition 'variants' listed separately (makes it easier for people to add to their collections), plus DF cover variants that are both signed and unsigned, like Electric Black. Takes some scrolling down the list, but that's just how CPG handles DF stuff. Not really worth complaining about, there's very few of these 'both covers are the same but 1 is signed' listings, so it's not like there thousands. CPG currently has 400+ DF 'exclusives' on that result, and way less signed variants (I was surprised at the low number of signed ones), so not like they clutter up the titles.
Ron can state the official CPG reasoning, I'm going by what I see.
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CARTER-COMICS Posts: 7
4/14/2023
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I guess you're right....no use in questioning it anymore....
Thanks for the answers!
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