And parallels with the Comic Book Bust.

MV Coins struck a nerve when he mentioned the proliferation of different labels that are being produced for various editions of the SAE. i was heavily into comic book collecting from the early 90's until around 2005 and I recall the craziness that ensued when all the companies started producing variant covers for their products. Content was the same in every case but the covers HAD to be collected or your set was not complete.

One book in particular, GEN 13 did a comic book with, numerous different covers. They even boxed the set and had the three primary creative folks, Jim Lee, Alex garner, and Brandon Choi, sign their respective box. So theoretically you had to have all the variant covers and each of the three boxed sets (since the boxed sets had its own unique extra issue) to be complete.

That's what SAE collecting sometimes looks like to me. Beware the label, for they are just for profiteers and speculators.

Later,

Malcolm