14.2 - I Should Have Checked the Inside Cover

Let this be a lesson for any one reading this. When you are collecting comics, always check the edition of the book. The difference between first printing and second can be very very drastic for a collector. I bring this up because recently I bought, at what I thought was a steal of a price, issue 2 of TMNT the original Mirage run. It was the over size book with the indie looking cover I had seen on the early editions of TMNT, then the dude told me 20 bucks and its yours. I said 15 and he agreed. One week later I'm looking into it and I find that this book is actually a second print and I paid VF prices. Not the worse purchase I have ever made, luckily, but I thought I really had something.