What's the rarest magazine you own?

[JTLarsen]

Okay, according to the UK Comic Book Guide, only 50 of these were made. It was done by Brian Bolland back in the mid '70s. Writing, drawing and self-published. In the recent Art of Brian Bolland book he confirmed that he made only 50 copies of it. Here it is:

 

[batmiesta]

Nice! How did you come by that?

[JTLarsen]

The Bolland? I had a search going for it on ebay FOR.EV.ER and finally one day it pinged. Had a BIG bidding war for it! (Well, big for me!) One of the other bidders posted about it later: http://www.comicspriceguide.com/boards/128780/Suddenly-at-2-O-Clock-in-the-Morning#bm128833

 

Oh, I just realized, I won it from Ewan_UK! He's got the most amazing UK collection.

[rjpb]

Okay, according to the UK Comic Book Guide, only 50 of these were made. It was done by Brian Bolland back in the mid '70s. Writing, drawing and self-published. In the recent Art of Brian Bolland book he confirmed that he made only 50 copies of it. Here it is:

 

 

Very cool. A lot of early fanzine/self-pub books from early in an artist's career aren't visually compelling enough to make them cool on their own merits, but I really like this one. I'm a sucker for retro looking logos as well.

[JTLarsen]

Yeah, it's amazing to see how early his style became what we recognize today. That Art of Brian Bolland book is very cool.

[Eerie Publication]

Probably this one, hard to find in such HG

 

[Brian48]

Don't have that many mags, raw or graded. I guess I'd say this one, although it's not exactly rare. Well, maybe with the grade, but it's definitely not a rare book.

 

[Amazing Spidey]

Don't have that many mags, raw or graded. I guess I'd say this one, although it's not exactly rare. Well, maybe with the grade, but it's definitely not a rare book.

 

 

Awesome book and tough to find in that grade. One of the best Bronze Age mags

[*Bronze age fan*]

Don't have that many mags, raw or graded. I guess I'd say this one, although it's not exactly rare. Well, maybe with the grade, but it's definitely not a rare book.

 

 

Awesome book and tough to find in that grade. One of the best Bronze Age mags

 

 

Yeah! One of the few mags I still need. Great copy!

[RedRaven]

Probably this one, hard to find in such HG

 

 

Assuming that is the HC, you can safely assume there are less than 250 in existence. At least by my estimation. After acquiring mine roughly ten years ago I verified a few of the background stories I had heard regarding the book. Upshot is that the book was printed cheaply in Mexico and upon unboxing at Warren in NY roughly half were junked due to split spines and other defects. I managed to verify this with Bill Dubay. So, start there and then guesstimate how many of those remaining copies have survived in the almost four decades since.

 

[Eerie Publication]

Probably this one, hard to find in such HG

 

 

Assuming that is the HC, you can safely assume there are less than 250 in existence. At least by my estimation. After acquiring mine roughly ten years ago I verified a few of the background stories I had heard regarding the book. Upshot is that the book was printed cheaply in Mexico and upon unboxing at Warren in NY roughly half were junked due to split spines and other defects. I managed to verify this with Bill Dubay. So, start there and then guesstimate how many of those remaining copies have survived in the almost four decades since.

 

yep, it's the HC

[bounty_coder]

Not sure how rare these are, but they are seldom found. Not the most desirable Curtis/Marvel magazine for most

 

 

 

 

 

- bounty

[oakman29]

Not sure how rare these are, but they are seldom found. Not the most desirable Curtis/Marvel magazine for most

 

 

 

 

 

- bounty

Amazing piece.

[Brian48]

From Mar's CL auction.

 

[*Bronze age fan*]

Not sure how rare these are, but they are seldom found. Not the most desirable Curtis/Marvel magazine for most

 

 

 

 

 

- bounty

 

 

Now I have to add this to my Curtis want list. And I thought I had all the mags they published on my list.

 

** Disregard. I do have this in my list....Photo News Features #1. Maybe I do have a complete list after all.

[dupont2005]

Don't want to know what photos are inside

[TheAmazing R.J.S.]

Don't know if these Magazine are rare or not, anybody got any info on them please let me know

 

 

 

 

[divad]

Probably this one, hard to find in such HG

 

 

Assuming that is the HC, you can safely assume there are less than 250 in existence. At least by my estimation. After acquiring mine roughly ten years ago I verified a few of the background stories I had heard regarding the book. Upshot is that the book was printed cheaply in Mexico and upon unboxing at Warren in NY roughly half were junked due to split spines and other defects. I managed to verify this with Bill Dubay. So, start there and then guesstimate how many of those remaining copies have survived in the almost four decades since.

 

yep, it's the HC

 

I actually passed on an HG OO copy of this a few years ago (specifically because it was the HC).

 

Guy later died, and books got passed on to (non-collecting) kids.

[Monster Emporium-migration]

 

Eerie #1 First print, hand signed by Archie Goodwin and Jack Davis.

 

Jim Warren "desk copy".

 

 

[bounty_coder]

 

Eerie #1 First print, hand signed by Archie Goodwin and Jack Davis.

 

Jim Warren "desk copy".

 

 

Well that certainly is cool hot shot