I picked up the DC Comics presents Legion of Super-Heroes 100-Page Spectacular which has the Legion of the Damned storyline which ran is Legionnaires # 79 and 80 and Legion of Super-Heroes # 122 and 123. HOWEVER at the time the two series had stories which crossed back and forth between the two. It appears that the reprint editor was unaware of this so the reprint runs like this: part 2, part 4, part 1 and part 3. I am apparently NOT the only one who noticed this so the book is being recalled and issues with this error are selling for up to $30 already on eBay. Is anyone out there aware if a reprint book has ever become a collector's item prior to this?
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I doubt the issue will be enduringly a collector's item, because I doubt there are all that many people who will feel a need to own it. Is it actually selling on eBay for $30, or just being offered at that price?
Superman #1 was mostly a reprint issue. At Mile High Comics's website Eclipse's Miracleman #1 is currently offered for sale at $18.50 in near mint condition. (Very high notional prices are listed for what seem to be variant editions of the issue that the company doesn't have in stock.) Early Mad paperbacks, in their original editions, apparently command good prices in some quarters.
Don't get your hopes up on the long term resale value John.
I've got a copy of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white omnibus that reprints the first 24 pages or so before getting into the heart of the book.
Sadly, I've also got a copy of the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster Superman prose novel that was reprinted that I cannot read. Instead of being a complete book, it has TWO copies of the first third, followed by the concluding third! So I have never been able to finish reading this novel and have yet to find another copy, let alone a correct edition, to do so with!
Print accidents happen. There are also plenty of stories out in fandom of getting a comic book with two covers, and both not always of the issue you were buying.
I have several comic books printed with an extra cover (including a Dick Tracy from the '50s, a Green Lantern from the '60s and another Green Lantern from the '80s), but I didn't pay any extra for them nor would I expect to get anything more for them should I sell them. Rob clued me (and anyone else who happened to read his post) in in last week's "Comics for April 20" blog so I knew to avoid it. I did inquire about it, though, when I didn't see it on the shelves, and you'll be pleased to know, Dagwan, that my retailer had his allotmet of copies in a cabinet behind the counter slated for destruction. John, if you can get $30 for your copy, go for it. There's one born every minute. Otherwise, if you paid $8 for it, I suggest that you exchange it for a good copy when the replacement copies ship.
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I doubt the issue will be enduringly a collector's item, because I doubt there are all that many people who will feel a need to own it. Is it actually selling on eBay for $30, or just being offered at that price?
Superman #1 was mostly a reprint issue. At Mile High Comics's website Eclipse's Miracleman #1 is currently offered for sale at $18.50 in near mint condition. (Very high notional prices are listed for what seem to be variant editions of the issue that the company doesn't have in stock.) Early Mad paperbacks, in their original editions, apparently command good prices in some quarters.
Don't get your hopes up on the long term resale value John.
I've got a copy of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles black and white omnibus that reprints the first 24 pages or so before getting into the heart of the book.
Sadly, I've also got a copy of the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster Superman prose novel that was reprinted that I cannot read. Instead of being a complete book, it has TWO copies of the first third, followed by the concluding third! So I have never been able to finish reading this novel and have yet to find another copy, let alone a correct edition, to do so with!
Print accidents happen. There are also plenty of stories out in fandom of getting a comic book with two covers, and both not always of the issue you were buying.
DC was aware of the error, and asked retailers to destroy all copies received, after it shipped but before it arrived at any stores.
That several (many?) retailers missed or ignored those instructions makes me sad. That they would put them on eBay at jacked-up prices makes me ill.
I tore mine in half after I pulled it from the box and checked it in.
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Here's the rule of thumb:
Coin Collecting: Misprints are valuable
Comic Book Collecting: Misprints are not valuable
I have several comic books printed with an extra cover (including a Dick Tracy from the '50s, a Green Lantern from the '60s and another Green Lantern from the '80s), but I didn't pay any extra for them nor would I expect to get anything more for them should I sell them. Rob clued me (and anyone else who happened to read his post) in in last week's "Comics for April 20" blog so I knew to avoid it. I did inquire about it, though, when I didn't see it on the shelves, and you'll be pleased to know, Dagwan, that my retailer had his allotmet of copies in a cabinet behind the counter slated for destruction. John, if you can get $30 for your copy, go for it. There's one born every minute. Otherwise, if you paid $8 for it, I suggest that you exchange it for a good copy when the replacement copies ship.