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one of the hardest to find marvel collectibles

Set Type: Marvel 30 Cent Price Variants (1976)
Owner: Andrew Rathbun
Last Modified: 8/12/2022
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Rank:	26
Score:	293
Leading by:	33
Points to Higher Rank:	11

Set Description:

MARVEL 30 CENT PRICE VARIANTS ARE TEST PRICE VERSIONS OF ALL 25 CENT TITLES THAT MARVEL PRODUCED FROM APRIL TO AUGUST 1976. MARVEL RAISED THE PRICE OF ALL TITLES IN 6 TEST MARKETS TO SEE WHAT THE RESISTANCE WOULD BE TO A 5 PERCENT PRICE INCREASE. THESE VARIANTS WERE ONLY DISTRIBUTED IN 6 MARKETS AND APPARENTLY NOT ALL THE OUTLETS IN THOSE MARKETS RECEIVED ALL THE VARIANTS. THE 6 TEST MARKETS WERE- 1. GRAND RAPIDS,MICHIGAN 2. BALTIMORE ,MARYLAND 3. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 4. SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 5. ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 6. SOMEWHERE IN MASSACHUSETTS SPRINGFIELD MASSACHUSETTS. IT IS BELIEVE THAT ABOUT SEVERAL HUNDRED COPIES ONLY EXIST OF EACH ISSUE.

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Slot:	Kid Colt Outlaw 208 30 Cent Price Variant
Item:	Kid Colt Outlaw 208 Modern
Grade:	CGC
Cert #:	1990922004

Owner Comments
Thought of as one of the hardest western cover variants to find. Way back in 2003... When the searching began this was quoted by the super collector researchers after a few years... as hands down one of the toughest 30 Cent price variants... to find. After 20 Years of research... this is still thought as one of the toughest 30 cent price variants to find ever. Hard to find in any grade complete... rare to find in nicer grade. Only a small number of these have been found. Possibly...? no more then 15 copies thought to exist of this book in any grade? This book was one of the late send in's of this issue. Around 2019 this issue was sent in, a late send in of this issue compared to all the other copies sent in, the cgc 9.0 was sent in around 2004 and the cgc 9.2 around 2009 believed the karns copy(Michigan). It is believed by myself that 99% percent of most western 30 Cent cover variants have been sent in of most collections as well as the karns loose collection. With the karns collection known as some of the nicest loose copies of 30 cent variants ever sent in. This book was found in San Antonio,Texas from a original owner collector. Somewhere In San Antonio Texas in 1976. I'll call this the San Antonio,Texas pedigree. These westerns just weren't found in higher grades, like many 1940's books. This could be called the alien worlds store owner original copy.

Slot:	Marvel Double Feature 15 30 Cent Price Variant
Item:	Marvel Double Feature 15 Modern
Grade:	CGC
Cert #:	0143416002

Owner Comments
One of the less collected titles of 30 Cent variants. Only a couple copies of this issue have ever achieved the lofty grade of a cgc NM 9.4, unusual in nicer grade, not exactly easy in any grade. Grades vg to fine most of the time. One of the reprint titles.

Slot:	Marvel Tales 66 30 Cent Price Variant
Item:	Marvel Tales 66 Modern
Grade:	CGC
Cert #:	3870532009

Owner Comments
This is a very underrated book as this book does not show up all the time on the internet and not in a nicer grade at all when it does. Only 2 cgc 8.5's have been graded to date. Most of the best possible graded condition copies have been thought to have been sent in, one of the few 30 Cent variants to ever get a grade of vf+.