Marvel Movie Showcase Featuring Star Wars #1 Cgc 9.0 Rare Newsstand 925010
Here's lots on info on Newsstands! CGC Now recognizes the Value of the Newsstand versions by adding "NEWSSTAND" onto the labels! The Much Harder to find Newsstand edition! Note the picture of what retailers did for store credit to newsstand comic books. They would cut the tops of the covers to then throw the book out or whatever!
Newsstands (books with the UPC on cover) in the era of direct books have a truly interesting history in comic book lore that must be appreciated! You ask Why are newsstand comic books so much more expensive than direct. Newsstand books went through the wars, epic battles! Books were Destroyed, Executed, by the dreaded Spinner Rack Spine Bend (SRSB)! Imagine snotty kids, even adults too! At the 7-11 comic book spinner rack.With sticky fingers uncaringly grabbing a stack of comic books, bending them forward, creating color breaks/tears/corner creases, to get to the books in the back! Yes, now you understand, and now appreciate, Why that newsstand commands such a greater price! Those comic books that lived through all that to come out in high grade deserve combat medals! Comics were treated like perishable produce that had a one month shelf life before the next issue came.
