2nd printing Gold Covers

whetteon · Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 8:52 am Post subject: 2nd printing Gold Covers

Listing all the second print gold covers from the early 90's that WERE second prints and not variants:

Fantastic Four #347 Gold
Fantastic Four #348 Gold
Ghost Rider #5 Gold
Ghost Rider #15 Gold
Hulk #377 Gold
New Mutants #87 Gold
New Mutants #95 Gold
New Mutants #100 Gold
New Warriors #1 Gold
Spectacular Spider-Man #189 Gold
Spider-Man #1 Gold
Stryfe's Strike File #1 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #248 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #270 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #275 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #282 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #303 Gold
Uncanny X-Men #307 Gold
Web of Spider-Man #90 Gold
Wolverine #41 Gold
Wolverine #42 Gold
X-Factor #60 Gold
X-Factor #71 Gold
X-Force #1 Gold

Rai-fan · Posted: Fri May 24, 2013 4:07 pm Post subject:

Gambit # 1 gold was a limited variant, not 2nd print.

I'd add:

New Warriors 1 Gold
Hulk 377 Gold
Youngblood # 1 Gold
New Mutants 95 Gold
Uncanny X-Men # 248 Gold
Uncanny X-Men 275 Gold
Spectacular Spider-Man 189 Gold
Web of Spider-Man 90 Gold
X-Factor 71 Gold

Apparently there was also Amazing Spider-Man # 390, but that's late enough that I wasn't collecting, and I didn't know it was "key" enough to warrant a reprint (like the others on this list).

whetteon · Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 2:01 pm Post subject:

I've updated the list. And I want to stick on this because honestly, and this maybe the nostalgia talking, but these are cool books to own in some sort of CGC collection. Some of these were more classic than others but as a whole, how cool would it be to own all of them in 9.8? Very Happy

Rai-fan · Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject:

That's true. It'd be a cool quest, kind of like getting all the 25th Anniversary Marvel covers (the 1987 issues with the portraits). Word is the Star Comics issues are the hardest of those...

whetteon · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:38 am Post subject:

Star Comics are what? and they had 2nd print that were gold?

whetteon · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:41 am Post subject:

Is this a legit gold 2nd print?

whetteon · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 8:45 am Post subject:

Also found New Mutants 95 Gold Cover 2nd print and X-Factor 60 2nd print Gold Cover. They seem less epic but were out in the same period.

Rai-fan · Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:52 am Post subject:

Yeah--the Ghost Rider 5 was the first gold 2nd print to take off and actually be worth more than the first print for awhile ($10-$15 vs. $6-$8 for the first).

Star Comics weren't 2nd prints. I meant they're the hardest to find of the "25th Anniversary Marvel" covers from 1987. All the Marvel titles that month had a portrait of the main character, surrounded by a border of all the major Marvel superheroes.

whetteon · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:33 am Post subject:

Here's a question I'm trying to answer while digging through all this... When do we decide the era of 2nd gold cover prints ends? I mean at some point 2nd prints done in gold covers stopped being second prints and became the "variants". I'm not sure when that happened. And also, some of these 2nd gold prints sort of sucked towards the end. They were so obviously cash grabs that they lost any sort of luster.

There was just this very small period sometime in the 90-92 period where comics legitimately had 2nd printings because the first print sold out and and Marvel distinguished them from 1st prints by making the cover gold.

whetteon · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 10:37 am Post subject:

Lobo · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:13 am Post subject:

ASM #375 was released as a gold foil cover in the first printing. I'm unaware of any second printing, I don't think there was one. The gold foil is not the same the gold ink you are identifying with the other 2nd print covers in your list.

Lobo · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 12:16 am Post subject:

And what about the silver ink 2nd printings from Marvel? ASM 265, 362, and 363 off the top of my head.

Actually ASM 265 has the silver ink but I don't know if it can be called a true 2nd printing because it was released over 5 years later as a reprint after the original printing (1st Silver Sable).

Rai-fan · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 7:10 am Post subject:

Good call! I remember that one (ASM 265) well.

That was the summer that anyone cared about Silver Sable. Frustrated

whetteon · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:19 am Post subject:

whetteon · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:20 am Post subject: