It's been a good day for comic retailers who managed to secure and sell copies of The Amazing Spider-Man #583, which features a cameo by President-elect Barack Obama.In a very short period of time after opening, only a couple stores in my vicinity had some copies of the regular and variant #583 -- Pulp Fiction comics in Long Beach and Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach. I called Comic Bug and was told they basically sold out by 10 a.m. Amazing Comics in Long Beach only had the regular edition and they sold out by 1 p.m.
I spoke with owner-operator Mike Lerner at Pulp Fiction this afternoon and he said he still had a couple dozen copies of the variant cover by artist Phil Jimenez which has the likeness of the President-elect prominently featured. (Keep in mind that conversation was a couple hours before this post.)
Lerner's price for the variant first printing was about $50 and he was also offering his few remaining copies of the regular edition packaged with the variant for about twenty dollars more.
Bug said they had the variant for around $35 (note: That was the price before they sold out).
On EBay first printing copies of the variant were going from $50 to $150-$200.
Geoffrey's Comics had no copies of either printing available when I called. I was told that customers can prepay and reserve a copy of the second printing which is expected to be available next Wednesday Jan. 21.
Sales associates with Comic Bug, Amazing and Pulp Fiction all said they expect the second printing in stores next week as well.
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