This listing from a smoke free home is for a professionally graded CGC 9.2 (NM-) with perfect WHITE pages copy of HULK: RAGING THUNDER #1 (Marvel Comics, 8/2008), $4.99 NEWSSTAND EDITION VARIANT VERSION, featuring the 1ST APPEARANCE and ORIGIN of LYRA, aka SHE-HULK II (daughter of HULK and THUNDRA).
As a "one-shot" issue, Marvel did not bother to create a whole new UPC code for the book for newsstands, and instead "borrowed" a UPC code from another title -- coding it under the "Avengers Classic" title (only those newsstand outlets receiving that title would have gotten copies). And perhaps to help compensate for the low expected newsstand distribution, Marvel decided to demand a full $1 more per copy of the book on newsstands -- that's right, something exceptionally cool about this particular issue is that the NEWSSTAND version was also A COVER PRICE VARIANT OF THE ISSUE NUMBER, with newsstand copies having a 4.99 cover price, as compared to regular copies (regular being the prevalent DIRECT EDITIONS sold in comic shops) meanwhile having a 3.99 cover price.
Due to this cover price difference CGC gives newsstand copies of the issue a DISTINCT CENSUS ENTRY, i.e. the 4.99 Newsstand Edition is not a pedigree but a VARIANT at CGC for the issue and thus we can see the distinct census count of newsstand copies: SIX NEWSSTAND COPIES EXIST IN CGC UNIVERSAL GRADE AS OF 4/20/2024.
With fantastic cover by superstar Greg Land, and featuring Lyra's first appearance, this NM- grade w/WHITE PAGES copy is an awesome collectible to add to your SHE-HULK collection, and should also appeal to cover price variant collectors, and any connoisseurs of hard-to-find late-modern NEWSSTAND comics with key first appearances. Don't wait: BID NOW!
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