Captain Marvel #20 2nd print
Man, those are some lame additional printing covers…
My opinion, for anyone that cares, unless it is NEW art on the cover I think 99% of reprints are lame.
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I like the Venom 26 cover the most. Then the Thor eye close up. New art would have been better for these covers. I bought em all though. Got a customer in Mercari pays $10 a pop cuz his shop charges $20 a pop for reprints.
My first thought is that they’re not even trying anymore…
And yet another wussy Dylan cover…
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Seriously. We are on 4th and 5th printings. If Marvel doesnt start using new artwork, the whole issues will be covered by the 9th printing…lol
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Why would a shop charge $20 for any reprint they get for the price of any other comic?
And does this person not know about 5e internet and pre orders?
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Maybe its Marvels way of trying to move on… Crappy covers in hopes everyone will focus on the new issues coming out. 
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Yeah idk what he knows. Sold him the strange academy and the first venom 25 2nd print. We exchanged numbers and he jus hits me direct.
Someone throwing cold water on the current extra printing mania.
Cosmic Ghost Rider: A Case Study in Ignoring Later Printings
That’s funny since go collect has put out a half dozen later printings list
“If Comic Book #8 is released in August 2020 and the second printing is released in September 2020, the second printing is by definition NOT the first appearance of the character. “
I get what he is saying, but it’s still the story of the first appearance. With the publishers pumping out new characters left and right now, no one is caught off guard. The market isn’t as Traditional as it was in caring about “True” first appearances anymore. They want the story of the first appearance with the character on the cover and the most scarce print run. Triple threat.
Simple as that. You can poo poo on it, but it is what it is. The people buying these and driving the prices up know what they’re buying…they’re not being duped. Maybe it’ll change back to what it was some day, but I think books like 3rd prints of Venom 3 and Thanos 13 will always outsell their open order first prints in value.
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His argument is completely baseless. Since the dawn of man second, third, fourth prints, etc., have always been viewed as true First Appearances.
All the hobby cares about is if it’s the same issue. We could care less when it was released.
They are reprintings of a 1st appearance not a 1st appearance big difference that won’t transcend to other collectable hobbies. You don’t see people collecting reprints of Michael Jordan rookies and asking more than the original and you never will, you don’t see people paying the same amount for a statue from a 2nd run or recast as they do for the original limited first run and you never will, an original painting will always be worth more than it’s giclee.
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I get your point Alana, and agree, if the reprint is essentially the same thing.
I don’t look at modern Marvel second and third prints, etc., as reprints. They have a different art for the covers.
I 100% agree with Drogio on this, I’d much rather have the triple threat than the first printing.
Believe me I collect them all and buy a few from @D-Rog myself that I don’t have. I understand just because I don’t fully believe in them that there is still a market for them of collectors that do. I learned this with Captain Marvel #17 way back when only big one I’ve missed since is Sleeper, and that’s because Unknown comics cancelled those on me.
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A common theme I hear.
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That’s where collector’s are so funny. If temporal separation was not an issue, then reprints and facsimiles would undergo the same criteria.
I wish I could love this twice. It’s 100% true in every collectible market. Comics used to be the same as well. This change was more recent. I still collect the later prints for the new covers, but give me the first print every time.
Marvel Tales are reprints with different covers. Same book inside. They are worth a fraction of ASM first prints.
It wasn’t until recent that later prints really became a thing of value over the first.