Classics Incorporated will be auctioning off over 100 issues of the Marvel 30 cent variants the end of January. These variant issues were recently discovered in an original owner collection assembled in San Antonio, TX with issues averaging in the CGC certified 9.0 to 9.4 range. These variants are notoriously scarce in nice condition with several of the issues being the highest graded copy on the CGC Census.

Marvel 30-cent variants were the test price versions of all the regular 25-cent titles that Marvel published from April to August 1976. Marvel raised the price of all their titles in six test markets to see what the resistance to a 5-cent price increase would be. All of the other regular Marvel titles have 30-cent variants, for a total of 186 possible variants. These variants were only distributed in six markets, and apparently not all outlets in those markets received all the variants. San Antonio was one of those price variant test markets.

For more information, visit Classics Incorporated for a complete listing of available books, scans, their ranking on the CGC Census, and a background on collecting variants. The comics will be listed in two groups on eBay starting the end of January. Please email any inquiries to Matt Nelson at comics@classicsincorporated.com.

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