Question for SERIOUS Metallica collectors

I've been looking into getting the first Japanese press of Master of Puppets on CD and I came across 2 versions which seem to be the "first" one.

Catalog numbers:

32DP 448 and 25DP 5234

Would anyone here happen to know which one is the first press and what's the difference between them? They seem to be both released on the same year but I could be wrong.

I always believed that that 25DP 5234 was the first press, but who knows.

It's amazing what you can do when you stop being lazy and take the time to look for it on Google for example.

"32DP 448" is the first press and it's from 1986 while 25DP 5234 is a second press from 1988. Apparently most copies of the first press came with a different kind of OBI that couldn't be easily folded like the normal OBIs, which caused many people to rip them, because of that, it should be even harder to find one complete (with OBI).

Anyway, thanks for the reply Locky.

Velvet Creation wrote:

It's amazing what you can do when you stop being lazy and take the time to look for it on Google for example.

"32DP 448" is the first press and it's from 1986 while 25DP 5234 is a second press from 1988. Apparently most copies of the first press came with a different kind of OBI that couldn't be easily folded like the normal OBIs, which caused many people to rip them, because of that, it should be even harder to find one complete (with OBI).

Anyway, thanks for the reply Locky.

You legend. Sometimes google isn't always required, just a collection