COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Midnight Nation 1 Modern
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Grade:
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9.4
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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2138810011
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This issue shipped as a 50/50 ratio of two covers. One has an entirely black background, and is generally referred to as Cover A. CGC now considers that the default cover for this issue. The other, with a black-and-red background, is typically considered Cover B. As of early 2021, CGC is slabbing those books as the "Variant Cover".
This book was actually submitted as part of the process of getting CGC to break out the two covers, despite knowing ahead of time that it wasn't coming back as a 9.6/9.8. I do also own this cover in a 9.8 (Certification Number 0715162059). However, it was slabbed before the covers were split out and so cannot be slotted in the Variant Cover slot in the registry. It's also in an old-style slab, and eventually I'll have enough books that need reholders to get it in the new slab and have the label corrected. Regardless, that book is one of my international acquisitions, having been purchased from Mundo Fantasma in Portugal.
Comichron shows 64,244 orders for Midnight Nation #1. It was, in terms of units ordered, the #7 comic book of September 2000 (behind Uncanny X-Men 386, X-Men 106, Wolverine 156, JLA 46, Avengers 34, and Punisher 8). It beat out Batman, Captain America, Iron Man, Spawn, and every Spider-Man title.
Interestingly, that means the individual covers of #1 are rarer than any other non-variant issue in the series; Diamond shipped around 32,000 of each cover of #1, but orders for the later books would never drop below even 37,000!
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