The other problem here is most retailers/speculators who got their hands on them early on will jack up the price. So unless you can snag at cover or well below the average premium that most 1:100 go for… stick with Cover A… if you were willing to invest $200 in 1 ratio variant… spend that $200 on cover A’s and you’ll likely match or beat the potential the variant had or has. 
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I snagged one at 40% off ratio
True, but won’t it be a 2nd print and people who missed the 1st now will be going for the 2nd as well. May turn out being not that rare, but already have one ordered.
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1st cover would be Venom #25 2nd print
Codex
1st cameo appearance - Venom #25
1st cover appearance - Venom #25 2nd print
1st full appearance - Venom #27
Agreed, the main cover does not have Codex either and the 1:100 will be 100x more scarce. Grabbed one at 40% off ratio a while back including 20 main covers and 15 variants.
I know but people want the 1st full appearance also on the cover that’s why 2nd prints are hot
1st full appearance - Venom #27 + Codex on Cover is my bet
Nice so almost double ratio, the sketch one is fire. Looks fantastic.
Yeah, I ordered a few copies, it is a good bet that he will be on the cover.
The cutoff order date for the 2nd print is before the 1st print even releases that’s why it will be low ordered.
2nd print FOC cutoff 8/8, 1st print Venom #27 releases 8/12
Now it won’t… I’m gonna pre-order a million copies…
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Good news, bad news. I was able to get my copy of Venom 25 1st print (first cameo of Codex, yes?) today from the LCS. The bad news is that they only had 1 copy and I got it. The 2 spine corners are a little jacked up, like paper is peeling a bit. This is a big book and I know that tends to happen but kind of a bummer.
Looking forward to snagging Venom 27 onward for first full appearance of Codex!
Venom 27 2nd print - get it. If you can find it.
Get the 1:25 2nd print we still don’t know the cover but we gambling Codex
If FOC is 8/8, why is it so hard to “find”…for those of you who have power, that is.
It isn’t I know where they are pre foc for $39
Probably another “sketch” cover…
Gonna be another normal Venom cover with a super long tongue… that wraps around the cover 4 times…
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The 1:25 is a sketch of the 2nd print I believe.
I believe the point Monopoly was making was that when a store does a store variant, that store then qualified for all the ratio variants for that issue. If a store does 2 covers for that marvel store variant, then that is a minimum of 4000 copies (3000 for 1st cover, 1000 for 2nd cover, minimum). That store then qualified for 40x 1:100, 80x 1:50, 160x 1:25. So, for every store doing a store variant for the same issue, each store will have a lot of those ratio variants, including the 1:100.
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