Having at least 5 issues of Secret Wars labelled "of 8" and the rest labelled "of 9" is the kind of thing that is going to wreak havoc on the minds of that specific obsessive compulsive drive that a lot of comic book collectors possess that fuels our hobby. It will bug us forever.
That’s the way it goes. And the fact that the first PUNISHER series vacillated back and forth through the series between being “of 4″ and “of 5″ isn’t really hurting anyone today.