Daredevil Message Board

[GrinchieDog]

As an old school collector who has recently come back into collecting, I've noticed a lot of the comics have variant issues. Does anyone know the rules or game to the variant effort? Some questions include:

1. How do you know when variants might come out? Does the local comic shop know? Would they get them all?
2. Are they actually worth more? I don't buy to invest but would be interested to know.
3. On EBAY, they reference numbers like 1:25 or 1:20. I assume these aren't numbers relative to size. What do they mean?
4. I'm not saying I'm going to start collecting variant issues (I have enough trouble getting approval from my wife as it is
) but if I did, how can I find out how many and what kind of variants there are, particularly for the Waid run?
5. Does anyone on this board collect them? Why?

How is that for a bunch of questions?

Thanks,
Grinchiedog
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[Kuljit Mithra]

[GrinchieDog]

Thanks Kuljit for the quick response. I went to my local comic shop and asked them if they could reserve a variant copy of DD as one was produced. They said they won't do that out of fairness to all, which makes sense. They also said that they tend to mark up the variants depending on the ratio and ultimate number they receive (as you point out with your response below.).

I then asked how many copies of DD they order a week and they were quick to say they don't reveal that information to the public, which also is understandable. I'm an engineer and love back-calculating to show everyone how smart I am so of course I then asked how many copies of the variant (End of Days #8, $12) they received. They picked up on my extremely sophisticated sly and subtle cleverness and didn't answer.

Fun stuff. I continue to love your site by the way.

Grinchiedog
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