Neeidea

Congratulations: fantastic book and looking good in the new new slab also.

Here’s the current list of known Miracleman #1 "Gold" variants. These were from the initial print run, were numbered out of 400 and sold at the San Diego Comic Con in 1985. Each was individually signed by Alan Moore and each came with a certificate of authenticity that included the number and, in some cases, has a comic shop noted on the certificate (some were given out by the shops as prizes at the comic con) - where known, this is noted in within square brackets below: · 002 [blank] · 011 Featured in Comics Buyer's Guide #1535, page 41, sold for $1,500 by Excalibur Books & Comics circa 2003 [blank] · 022 Sold on ebay for $449.99 in May 2016. [blank] · 040 Previously sold by mycomicshop.com [blank] · 055 ÇBCS-VS 9.6 Owned by Tropean, previously PGX 9.8 [blank] · 057 Featured on fourcolorheroes.com [blank] · 090 CGC 9.4 #759595004 Sold for $1080 on mycomicshop.com circa early 2015? [blank] · 113 [blank] · 116 [blank] · 117 CGC 9.6 #0979887001 Sold on ebay Jul 2009 [blank] · 122 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 123 CGC 9.0 #0714931001 For sale on ebay May 2016 $1,200 [American Comics, Daniel Gus 2/14/86] · 124 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 128 CGC 9.8 #1256144001 Owned by jjeanius, was for sale on ebay, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 131 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) circa Jun 2013 [blank] · 134 CGC 9.8 #0198245001 Previously owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 136 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) May 2014 [blank] · 137 Sold on ebay (sagacitynow) circa mid Oct 2014 [blank, James Morrison Franco 8-4-85] · 139 Owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 141 CGC 9.8 #0192301002 Owned by mschmidt [blank] · 149 CGC 9.8 #2380024004 Owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [unknown] · 155 [blank] · 161 CGC s/s Garry Leach 9.8 #1231281006 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) May 2014 [Sunrise Comics] · 162 Owned by mschmidt, purchased from mycomicshop.com [blank] · 163 Sold on ebay (comicopolis) in Mar 2016 for $516.98 [blank] · 169 CGC 9.8 #1332529002 COA CGC #01333121001Owned by kapzilla, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 178 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) Mar 2013 [blank] · 179 [Sunrise Comics] · 181 CGC 9.6 #1006822002 [blank] · 182 CGC 9.6 #1000183001 [unknown] · 184 CGC 9.8 #1006822001 [blank] · 185 CGC 9.8 #1006822005 Sold on ebay Jan 2014 [Sunrise Comics] · 187 CGC 9.8 #0186693003 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank] · 188 Featured on 4colorheroes.com [Sunrise Comics] · 190 Owned by mschmidt [blank] · 191 CGC 9.2 #1006822003 [Sunrise Comics] · 214 Owned by JollyComics, purchase from ebay Jul 2014. Mar 2016 on ebay for $600. Ryan had for sale @ $575. Was CGC 9.2. [blank] · 215 Sold via mycomicshop.com for $330 as VF 8.0 Dec 2015. [Sunrise Comics] · 217 CGC 9.6 #0750997011 [unknown] · 226 CGC 9.8 #1006822004 Sold on ebay for US $1,999.99 Mar 2015 [blank] · 236 Sold on ebay for US $300.00 on Sep 2016 [Sunrise Comics] · 242 CGC 9.4 #1035897001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $968.88 [Sunrise Comics, Leo Bahuaud, Brian Morton] · 251 Sold for £430 on eBay Oct 2014 [Sunrise Comics, the Fortune Bookie, 8-4-85 John Franco] · 252 On sale on ebay UK for £700 [American Comics, Michael Lagrone 9/23] · 261 ÇBCS-VS 9.4 #0001066-AA-001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $875.00 [American Comics 9/23/85 Ray Faeth 9/23/85] · 268 [blank] · 271 [blank] · 288 Sold as a 9.6 raw on eBay for $474 on Apr 2015 [Best of 2 Worlds, Brian Cox 9/6/85] · 298 CGC 9.8 #0278339001 COA CGC #0278339002 NG Ryan selling on ebay in Feb 2016 (previously raw sold by mycomicshop.com for $450) [blank] · 312 CGC 9.6 #0262610008 Sold on ebay for $750 on Nov 2015 [blank] · 315 CGC 9.6 #1056931007 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $2,200 with offers [blank] · 322 CGC 9.4 #0280296005 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $1,200 with offers [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy] · 323 For sale on eBay April 2015 as "VG+" [Sunrise Comics, Douglas ?, 8/10/85] · 335 CGC 9.4 #Unknown Sold on ebay Nov 2008 [unknown] · 336 For sale on eBay Aug 2016 as "VF-" for $351 [Sunrise Comics] · 353 For sale on ebay (UK) Feb 2017 £900 [Sunrise Comics, Mathew A? 8/3/85] · 359 CGC 9.4 #0747447001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $875 (previously owned by woregul.) [Sunrise Comics] · 360 Pictured in Overstreet & Comics Buyer's Guide #1535 [American Comics, Ray Johnson 9/30/85] · 368 CGC 9.8 #0919903002 Pedigree: Don/Maggie Thompson Collection Oct 2014 Sold $1,792.50 Heritage [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy and Sunrise comics; Don Thompson 3 August 1985] · 385 CGC 9.4 #0214635002 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $850 [The Best of Two Worlds, unreadable signature] · 391 CGC 9.8 #1201704001 COA CGC #1257905001 NG For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $4K taking offers [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy] · 394 [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy, Becky Denn 8/3/85] Note: Original list was merged from lists from: Neeidea, MSchmidt and EwanUK Anyone else own one? Any additional information appreciated and pictures!

There's a few on Heritage and the latest is around the same price: $8,663.75 CGC 9.6 (includes Buyer's Premium) - November 2016 $7,767.50 CGC 9.6 (includes Buyer's Premium) - August 2016 $6,273.75 CGC 9.6 (includes Buyer's Premium) - May 2016 A 9.8 sold for $11,352.50 also this month on Heritage.

I bought the originals in the 80's at the time and thought it was a step up from 2000AD and collected them until the end (#26). I always look back thinking someone should fill the gap again with something similar but maybe it didn't sell enough to be viable and late teen interest seemed to migrate to comics like Viz (which sold over 900,000 copies of each issue by the end of the 80's). I only spotted the 1996 special sometime in the early 2000's and got hold of it more out of curiosity. The cover is a reprint from an old Eureka! fanzine from 1971 (Ewan probably has one ) and the comic part of the book (around 20 pages or so) features unpublished material from the 80's. Dez Skinn had been producing Comics International for some time and I guess he just decide to print some of the unused Warrior material as a flip comic to #67 (he always says "Yorkshireman never throw owt away" so I guess he wanted to make use of it but took a decade to do so; he mentioned later that this was also to maintain copyright on Warrior).

Flip

THIS one, yes, tough to find. i'm still looking for mine! $1,000,000 and it's yours but I might take offers ...I also have some Alan Moore scripts from Warrior (some carbon copy, some top copy but all from his typewriter and held together with dinky little staples).....open to ridiculous offers that would allow me to retire early

Warrior "#27" is quite hard to get hold of: a lot of them will have been chucked out me thinks (due to the way it was published).

It's the first "variant". The regular cover is denoted with a '1'. Agreed, the regular is not a variant of anything so 1 is the regular, 2 is the first variant (or second cover) and 3 (if it existed) would be the second variant (or third cover).

Barcode for the Diamond Retailer Summit variant is "00123", which translates as: 001 - First Issue 2 - Second variant cover 3 - Third Printing According to this: I suppose it should say second cover rather than variant as the regular isn't really a first variant (as it's not a variation of anything).

I understand that is when it was distributed but was it actually run off as and intended to be a "third print", or was it printed along with the first print and held back until and then distributed at the summit? -J. If they are following the barcode format it's a second variant of the third printing: 00111 March - First Print 00112 March - Second Print 00113 April - Third Print 00123 April - Diamond Retailer Summit Variant (third print, second variant)

That's really not to my taste, I much prefer this one

OK I'm now a repeat buyer! This time I bought a couple of signed slabs from Boon and, as always, he was great to deal with and the comics arrived next day well packed and in great condition. Many thanks once again! Now I'm an addict! Bought yet another slab off Boon, a nice Saga #1 on CGC 9.8 on Signature Series. As before, Boon is fantastic to deal with; highly recommended.

Most excellent! ...and for sale now on ebay

Congratulations on the top grade and fantastic to see these side by side. On the printing defect/crease, all the "Gold" editions seem to have this and there are 13 known to be graded in cgc 9.8 so it does not seem to affect the grade too much at all. Comic with crease above also graded CGC 9.8.