Were the ones out of print some of the lower print numbers ?
im assuming in the start the first 10 issues were in far less print than say the last 10 resent ones, So by any stretch when people finally knew they were out, by say issue 3 and on they were buying up what already was a small production run based on the sales on the first 3 issues sold and thus the demand versus actual made was already high before they hit the streets.
Or maybe im talking shit and they got lost in a delivery truck and thus less hit the street, or .......... well maybe print numbers where all guesses based/done on a sundial and the amount of cows that could be counted in the next paddock in line with the dial, timed by 2,000 then divided by chickens that layed that day -2.