Pro tip: A kid in a local shop changed how I look at variant covers

I was in Third Eye Comics in Annapolis last Saturday just flipping through the new arrivals. A teenager maybe 15 or 16 was standing next to me and he picked up a Batman #150 foil variant. He looked at it for a second then put it back and grabbed the standard cover. I asked him why and he said he used to chase variants just for value but realized he never actually read those issues twice. He said he had a whole box of covers he barely remembered the stories from. That hit me different because I have the same problem. I've got like 40 variants sitting in bags that I bought for the art but never cracked open. Now I'm trying to only buy variants if I actually love the art enough to frame it, not just because it's rare. Has anyone else shifted how they collect after realizing something like this?

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rivera.jesse27d ago

I also have a box of variants I call "art I forgot to frame.

olivia_wilson26d ago

Is it really that deep though, it's just a box of cards.

riverowens26d ago

Three years ago I finally built a rotating display wall in my garage with those cheap ikea frames. It totally changed how I look at my collection because now everything gets a turn on the wall instead of sitting in a box.