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Prints Charming – Thirds For Silver Surfer And The Spread, Seconds For Doctor Who, Nemo, Guardians Of The Galaxy And Black Market

Consider this an irregular feature looking at comic books that have gone to second prints or more. Now, it is worth remembering that some publishers plan second prints automatically, whether they are needed or not and will often just run extra first print copies in the initial run, set them aside and put a second print cover on them. It can be a marketing strategy, showing that there is confidence in the performance of the book, get a headline or three and use it to persuade retailers to up their orders of subsequent books. And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story.

But hey ho, away we go. In for a penny…

The cover to Silver Surfer #1, third printing.

The Spread #1 also gets a third printing while The Spread #2 gets a second.

Also getting second prints are Little Nemo: Return To Slumberland #1 and Guardians Of The Galaxy #1.

The first issues of the new Doctor Who comics from Titan also proved to be smaller on the print run than they were on the orders.

And Frank Barbiere's new Boom! comic with Victor Santos, Black Market has also sold out necessitating a second print…

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