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| SITC: Not sure what my "permeated" or "speculated" view of comics has any bearing on a print run? I'm also dissenting on the idea that someone interested in what is inside a funny book differs from what a "serious" collector appreciates. You're post confuzzles me. BLB: I fail to see what is confuzzling especially when there is no previous commentary from you in there here thread. Not that I could visually ascertain upon scroll. |
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| Comichron is a site that reports sales of Direct market comics to North American comic shops. It does not report print runs, especially of any comics published since Diamond became the only distributor of the Direct market. It does not report sales of English-language comics sold outside of North America. It does not report sale of newsstand comic books. It is not possible to know the print runs of any comics, published anywhere, unless the publisher (or, very rarely, the printer) has revealed that information. For nearly every comic published, the exact number printed (or even very accurate estimates +/-.1%) is not known by anyone except the publisher and printer. Reasonable estimates can be ascertained for older books, by using the Statements of Ownership and, where available, Capital City distribution numbers, but they are only estimates, and since most publishers no longer file SOOs, that information is no longer available. The best you can get is "single issue nearest to filing date", which is usually the issue published with a "December" cover date. So, KaptainMyke's statement was correct. There isn't a place where you can find print runs. |
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| So anyone pointing to Comichron as a record of "print run" either doesn't know what they're talking about, or they're trying to sell you something. This is why using sales numbers to estimate print runs for incentive variants is absolute madness. You're asking someone to make an estimate of an estimate, using numbers that have nothing to do with either estimate in any way. |
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| @DocBrown Well, sometimes people are just curious. That being said I am usually very suspicious when someone is wanting to know print run numbers. |
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| There's nothing wrong with curiosity...but there is, in the first seven posts in this thread, a repetition of the same misinformation that leads people to erroneous conclusions. Nothing against these guys, but it certainly appears as if the OP has taken this misinformation and bought it as fact. Comichron clearly states what it is, upfront, but all over the internet, it gets repeated as "print run" information endlessly. Shouldn't we want to promote accurate information? |
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| As much as possible yes. So we should be telling people that there are no true public numbers. Comichron numbers would not be too far off BUT one always has to put the qualifier in there that they are NOT actual print run numbers but North American sales by Diamond. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Oxbladder Didn't know that....thanks Doc! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jerkfro  That's some funny @#$% Lord, crazy Cal |
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| Concerning print runs--and this won't help with Amazing Spider-man #1--but I seem to recall that for quite some time, Comics Buyer's Guide (CBG) published a price guide similar to Overstreet and they published quite a bit of print run info based from various distributors orders, including Capital Distributors. I think it had print runs for books, maybe from the 80s and 90s? | ||
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| CBG Krause was also doing a monthly mag called Comics Retailer which contains a lot of gleaned data. The CBG price guide with what you say was a from time to time a slick paper insert. At one point there were half a dozen or so monthly slick paper comic book price :guides: each full of their gleaned propaganda to entice "investors" to buy their version of the Gilded Path to riches. Are we there yet? | ||
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 I bought a meat grinder on amazon for $60 and it's changed my life.
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Quote:Originally Posted by VillageIdiot Oh! Don't feel left out. You're on my list, too. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by kaptainmyke What an honor. I love being on "lists" kind of makes me unique. Thank you for such a lovely holiday surprise  By the way, I have a bit of bad news for you however. I've have it from good "sources" you unfortunately didn't make it onto Santa's list this year. You've been naughty  Oh, and the Ninja Turtles are lame as all get out! |
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| I'm always naughty, brah. Ask my wife. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by VillageIdiot OMG! WTF! Turtles is teh awesome, "bruh" Donatello ROXXORS!! |
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| All the hip 16 year olds are telling me that "bruh" had surpassed "brah" in usage |
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| +1 on what Doc Brown/RMA has posted. I'll add that the only typeof book you can be sure of print runs,or close to sure, are books like the first few issues of TMNT (volume 1) , wherein the creators (Laird and Eastman) self published the books and have publically disclosed the print runs. Anything else, it is just a best/educated guess because Comichron is not all emcompassing. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by BLBcomicsSITC: Not sure what my "permeated" or "speculated" view of comics has any bearing on a print run? I'm also dissenting on the idea that someone interested in what is inside a funny book differs from what a "serious" collector appreciates. You're post confuzzles me. BLB: I fail to see what is confuzzling especially when there is no previous commentary from you in there here thread. Not that I could visually ascertain upon scroll. Just trying to better understand your post that I quoted in my reply. |
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| @VillageIdiot Guy can't spell Captain. I don't think the list is too comprehensive. Sorry to burst your bubble lol | ||
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