My Mom used to buy those three packs for my brother and I at Farmer Jack (defunct grocery store chain in Michigan). They were first prints unless they were character specific. The Star Wars ones were reprints. I had the 4-6 3-pack. The G.I. Joe one that had 3-5 were reprints. They didn't exactly say it, but the back cover ads matched the back covers of comics that came out several months later, ditto the Transformers ones. I also have the Whitman version Star Wars "Treasury" editions.