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Before Watchmen:
Jim Lee 1:200 #1 Variants:

DC Comics, August 2012 - January 2013.

Minutemen #1

Before Watchmen Minutemen #1 Jim Lee
Guide: $50 NM
Aug. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Silk Spectre #1

Before Watchmen Silk Spectre #1 Jim Lee
Guide: $100 NM
Aug. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Comedian #1

Before Watchmen Comedian #1 Jim Lee
Guide: $75 NM
Aug. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Nite Owl #1

Before Watchmen Nite Owl #1 Jim Lee 1:200
Guide: $60 NM
Aug. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Ozymandias #1

Before Watchmen Ozymandias #1 Jim Lee 1:200
Guide: $40 NM
Sep. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Rorschach #1

Before Watchmen Rorschach #1 Jim Lee
Guide: $75 NM
Oct. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Dr. Manhattan #1

Before Watchmen Dr Manhattan #1 Jim Lee 1:200
Guide: $75 NM
Oct. 2012
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Moloch #1

Before Watchmen Moloch #1 Jim Lee 1:200
Guide: $70 NM
Jan. 2013
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

Dollar Bill #1

Before Watchmen Dollar Bill #1 Jim Lee 1:200
Guide: $75 NM
Jan. 2013
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3 Star Rating: Rare 101-1,000Rare

 

These are the Jim Lee 1:200 retailer incentive variants of the various Before Watchmen #1's, in shops between June 2012 and January 2013. Below are all the diamond codes and "in shop" dates (published dates are shown above).

ComicCodeIn Shops
Minutemen #1 1:200 APR1201392012-06-06
Silk Spectre #1 1:200 APR1201452012-06-13
Comedian #1 1:200 APR1201512012-06-20
Nite Owl #1 1:200 APR1201572012-06-27
Ozymandias #1 1:200 MAY1201762012-07-04
Rorschach #1 1:200 JUN1201312012-08-15
Dr. Manhattan #1 1:200 JUN1201362012-08-22
Moloch #1 1:200 JUL1281902012-11-07
Dollar Bill #1 1:200 DEC1201602013-01-31

Note that sketch covers were also available but only in France where they were jointly published by Urban Comics with an apparent distribution of 2,500 per sketch cover. Note that each of these collects a number of the Before Watchman issues hence they don't match the US DC issues (there were 7 tomes and the Jim Lee Moloch sketch and Dollar Bill sketch were not re-used).

Before Watchmen French Jim Lee Sketches 2500

At the start of September 2017, the CGC census had between 18 and 55 comics graded for each of the 1:200 variants with Silk Spectre having the largest at 55 (23 at 9.8) and Dollar Bill having the lowest at 18 (9 in 9.8) also Moloch had the lowest number graded at 9.8 at five (20 graded in total at that time). It is worth noting that the North American distribution for the comics was reasonably healthy for those with August published dates but distribution for subsequent issues dropped off significantly and the last comic distributed (Dollar Bill) had well below half the distribution of the August issues. This should in theory make the later 1:200 comics rarer, however, there is no published infomation on exactly how many of each 1:200 variant was printed and it is likely there would be complimentary and other non-distributed copies of each of the variants (in addition to those given out to comic shops).

Before Watchmen Moloch Sketch Jim Lee

Prices are a guide only and sellers, on auction sites such as ebay, can have quite varied prices for the same 1:200 variant in a similar condition (some copies can be twice the price of others!) - always worth checking for any recent realized (sold) prices as a guide.

Before Watchmen: Jim Lee #1 1:200 Variants:
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