Arrrgh. I was out of the country and missed this one. Kid Colt 218!!!!!!

I went to China for a week and completely missed this one.  One of the best variant hunters found a zero feedback seller listing a lot consisting of several issues of bronze age dreckage.  He smartly noticed that the seller was in Toledo, Ohio which we think is one of the test areas for selling 35 cent variants and that despite the sketchy pictures, this lot was worth the $50 bucks that the seller was asking.  Why would this normally ignored box of bronze age beaters be worth $50, you ask?  Well check the scan and look closely in the middle.

The variant hunter received the books and correctly listed the Kid Colt 218 as the super rare Kid Colt 218 35 cent price variant and the auction closed at $540.  Yes, $540 in VG, and I can assure you that the buyer was ecstatic.  If I had seen the auction, the book would have gone higher, but still it wasn't a bad return for the seller.  In my opinion,  sometimes 3 day auctions get missed, I think that a 7 day or 10 day auction would have achieved even better results for this book.

Ohh, and by the way, the lot also contained an even more beat-up Kid Colt 219.  We will see how that one does.

Kid Colt 206 on ebay

A decent copy of Kid Colt 206 was listed on ebay and sold as a Buy-It-Now for $255.  For several years now, the secret has been out that western price variants are actively collected and bring the bucks.  A regular edition of this book in this condition would be lucky to fetch a buck.

A Neat Little Kid Colt 218 Western story

Kid Colt 218 is one of the keys to the series. Until earlier this year, there were only two copies of this book known. Terry Hall, who is the only person to complete the 35 cent variant set has one. Harry Miller, who only lacks two books to complete the set and will be the next person to complete the set has one.

And then a noted hunter of hidden variant comics on ebay who I call Sherlock Holmes found an auction lot titled KID COLT OUTLAW COMIC BOOK (BRONZE AGE) 9 ISSUES accompanied by the above picture. If you look closely, right in the middle of the picture, is the third known copy of Kid Colt 218. And Sherlock paid $12 bucks for the lot.

After receiving the books from the original seller, Sherlock listed the book correctly on ebay and not surprisingly the auction results were much different for the Kid Colt 218. The hammer price was $408.28 for this correctly listed book. I have not seen the book in hand, but the grade can probably be best described as "beater".

The remaining question is what is the cover price on the Kid Colt 220 in the top picture? And who says that searching for price variants isn't fun?