

Here are the covers for the 45th issue of Sonic the Hedgehog. Covers for IDW Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 45.

Retailer Exclusives (RE) are sold exclusively through certain retail chains.Prices have been known to range from $9 to $70. These editions of the issues are usually more expensive than their standard counterparts due to their limited obtainability, coupled with the fact that retailers are eligable to recieve just one of each, with the price increasing with each required order threshold. Normally there is just one of these covers for each issue, for which a retailer needs order 10 copies to recieve, though some have had three at most, with order requirements of 25 or 100. Issues with these covers, labeled with the initals “RI” followed by its own lettered designation, are distributed to retailers when a certain number of copies (of the standard cover versions) are ordered. Issue 1’s rarest incentive cover, obtained when 100 copies are ordered. Issue 1’s first and most easily obtainable incentive cover, obtained when 10 copies are ordered. The retail prices of copies with these covers are roughly the same as most ordinary comics, averaging at around $3.99.
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Issues of IDW’s Sonic the Hedgehog series typically release multiple covers for each of their issues, with certain disignations being applied to them, usually one or two “standard” covers that are widely available, and additional covers that can only be obtained through special means.Īn example of a standard lettered cover: issue 1’s “Cover B”.Ĭovers that are numbered with letters of the alphabet (Cover A, B, etc.) are considered to be the “standard” covers of an issue, which are printed in vast numbers and are the ones readily available in all comic retailers from the get-go. A Variant Cover, in the comic book industry, refers to the practice of releasing a single issue of a title with one or more alternate cover designs.
