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bnobel Posts: 7
2/13/2017
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Title: Amazing Spider-Man
Missing Issues: #606 [$3.99 Cover Price Variant], #607 [$3.99 Cover Price Variant]
Country: USA
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publication Year: 2009
Cover Price: $3.99 instead of the expected $2.99; broken out by CGC on their census as "$3.99 Newsstand Edition"
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Amazing Spider-Man #606 has a CGC-recognized cover price variant at $3.99 versus the regular $2.99 cover price found on Direct Editions. CGC denotes these higher cover price variants as "$3.99 Newsstand Edition" on census (they were exclusively found on newsstands). These variants were distributed under the "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man" UPC code for issue #606 and as late as 2015 CGC was instead denoting them "Newsstand Variant" for this reason (but CGC changed in 2016 to use the "$3.99 Newsstand Edition" notation for this and similar issues -- more info on that treatment can be found here: https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/2016/08/31/newsstand-variants-3-99-newsstand-editions-and-the-doc-collection/ ).
Because the "expected" Amazing Spider-Man UPC code was not used for issue #606, it is believed the distribution was lower than the surrounding issues with the "correct" code, because the distribution followed the ordering by title (i.e. a newsstand outlet would have had to order Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and not just Amazing Spider-Man, to get the $3.99 cover priced copies of issue #606).
Recent market price: an 8.5 copy of the ASM #606 variant has just sold at auction for $91.00 [ http://www.ebay.com/itm/132082521885 ]
Amazing Spider-Man #607 has a similar phenomenon, but for that one the $3.99 cover priced copies were distributed on newsstands under the "Sensational Spider-Man" UPC code (instead of "Amazing Spider-Man") which is believed to have had even lower distribution than the #606 example (far fewer variant copies appear on the CGC census of the "$3.99 Newsstand Edition" variant for #607, as compared to #606, which likely reflects this lower distribution for Sensational).
Recent market price: sorry, I've yet to see a single CGC graded copy for sale.
Other $3.99 / $4.99 copies that are confirmed to exist on the CGC census can be found here (do a find-in-page in your browser on "$3.99"): https://rarecomics.wordpress.com/list-of-cgc-recognized-newsstand-variants/
edited by bnobel on 2/14/2017
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