Please add and link Over the Edge #1 (newsstand)

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Added, thank you for reporting.

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@CLZ_Rowdy ,

This is now listed three times. This is super confusing, and so I understand how/why these duplicates keep popping up.

We have the following:

  • Professor Xavier and the X-Men ran for 18 issues.

  • Over the Edge ran for 10 issues.

  • Marvel Fanfare, Vol. 2 ran for 6 issues.

All of the above were $0.99 as direct editions. The newsstand editions for each series were flipbook combos and were $1.99. So, we have the following newsstand editions:

  • Professor Xavier and the X-Men 1-10 are all “flipped” with Over the Edge 1-10

  • Professor Xavier and the X-Men 11-16 are all “flipped” with Marvel Fanfare, Vol. 2 1-6

I have never seen a “standalone” newsstand edition for any of those issues. So, I believe that every newsstand edition in “Professor Xavier and the X-Men” (so 1C and then every B variant from 2 and above) is a duplicate of the corresponding issue in Professor Xavier and the X-Men (Flipbook).

So now this Over the Edge is triple listed:

  • Over the Edge 1B
  • Professor Xavier and the X-Men 1C
  • Professor Xavier and the X-Men (Flipbook) 1

The same thing happened with a few other series. We have the following newsstand editions:

  • Fantastic Four Unplugged 1-6 were “flipped” with Untold Tales of Spider-Man 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11

  • Avengers Unplugged 1-6 were “flipped” with Untold Tales of Spider-Man 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12

  • Uncanny Origins 1-8 were “flipped” with Untold Tales of Spider-Man 13-20

There is an Untold Tales of Spider-Man (Flipbook) series that indexes all of the flipbooks. Those series currently have no duplicates, so we’re good there.

I get why users are confused. While the separate “Flipbook” series approach is probably the most accurate, that means that the newsstand edition of a comic is currently listed in a completely separate series from the direct edition – because each newsstand edition collects from two completely different series.

Note that the existing Professor Xavier and the X-Men 1B is a legitimate multipack variant and I believe should remain.

Publishers don’t make it easy!

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@Reinharc I see what you’re saying … whenever I can’t locate a book by cover scan and then by issue lookup, I will generally flip it over to see if it’s a flip book. In this case I didn’t because there was a barcode on the cover, and I found that issue on other reference sites.

What I didn’t expect to see upon inspection was that there’s also a barcode on the flip side (both newsstand).

There’s no published decision tree here that says how I should catalog and price these …very confusing.