Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.