What is a team variant cover?
DC Comics has, of late, been issuing Team Variant covers for comic stores who cannot afford to go the whole hog and get a 3000 print run on an exclusive variant cover. Instead, DC Comics do a 10,000 print run on each cover and let twenty stores buy a minimum 500 copies each.
How do variant covers work?
Cover variants are standard comics with unique covers drawn by various artists that publishers allow stores to order, depending on how many copies of the standard (version A) they order. The ratio could be anywhere from 1:25 to 1:100. Incentive Variants are actually designed to help comics shops.
How do I get variant covers?
Cover variants are found at your local comic shop and online retailers. Your LCS will give you the cheapest prices as you’ll have to pay shipping if you buy it anywhere online. Also, the key to getting the Cover Variant you want is by requesting it from your shop a month (or more) in advance.
What comic has the most variants?
The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) No. 666 holds the record for the single issue with the most variants at 145 different covers.
Why are variant covers more expensive?
Because some stores will order more books than they need in order to nab a few extra variants, it’s common to find chase variants sold for a lot more than their cover price so the store can recoup its losses.
What is a 1/25 variant cover?
A 1:25 variant means 1 variant is produced for every 25 regular covers printed. Any print run can have any number of ratio variants (1:25, 1:50, 1:500). As the ratio increases, so does the rarity of that variant.
How do you tell if a comic is a variant?
Regular comics always have a “1” assigned to them. Any other number tells you that your comic is a variant. The last digit in my barcode is “1” this tells us that this particular comic is a first print.
Are Virgin comic covers worth more?
Virgin covers are usually priced higher if they’re a ratio that the retailers had to buy X (where X equals the ratio amount) amount to qualify. Now sometimes publishers will do a 1:10 but it’s open order once you qualify.
Why are virgin covers worth more?
What is a trade dress variant comic?
More DC Comics Variants to Have Minimal Trade Dress Marvel Comics has been creating what are known as “virgin variant” covers, in which titles, logos, numbers — anything but the art is removed. And usually selling them as part of a tiered cover, or as a retailer exclusive cover.
Are Virgin variants worth more?
Are the virgin variants always going to price higher than the trade versions? No. It’s always going to vary. There have been virgin covers that were open order alongside the trade dress version.
Are Virgin covers worth more?