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I still like Magnus 12

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Rai #3 --- in my experience, most copies are miscut at the top, with no blue showing above the RAI logo.

 

I've always considered the "well-centered" cover more desirable, because it looks more like Rai #1-#5 at the top.

Well-centered copies aren't as common as the miscut.

 

 

GACK!

 

2002 FLASHBACKS!!!!

 

Next thing you know, someone will flash back to 1992.

 

Whoops... too late...

 

 

 

 

Now this brings back memories!!! What was this in Wizard? I want to see some more top ten lists with Valiant books. Folks share pretty please

[valiantman]

Now this brings back memories!!! What was this in Wizard? I want to see some more top ten lists with Valiant books. Folks share pretty please

Wizard #16 - December 1992

 

Funny how #6 ASM #361 is also on fire lately.

 

Same issue of Wizard:

 

[CKB]

Rule of 25. TM Donut.

 

[valiantman]

Rule of 25. TM Donut.

... and not a single Valiant universe comic book is 25... yet.

[valiantman]

I thought this was interesting... the final pre-Unity Valiant book was Archer & Armstrong #0.

 

It is known for having a "higher print run" than the other pre-Unity books.

 

Check out where it falls in the print runs of the day...

 

 

#64 in the Top 100, just below What If? #38

 

Other Valiant books that month didn't even make the Top 100... lower print than Justice League Quarterly #7 and L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 #40.

[Johnny U]

MOAR Wizard lists! Please

Edited March 19, 2015 by Johnny U

[valiantman]

So... the last pre-Unity book with the highest print run was #64 on the Top 100... all other Valiant issues were below the Top 100 that month.

 

The very next month... the first set of Unity books had all 9 in the Top 100... with 3 books in the Top 50.

 

Valiant shot to #3 on publishers in the Top 100... basically overnight.

 

And... for collectors... the idea of "Pre-Unity Valiant" was born.

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MOAR Wizard list! Please

 

+1 Yes please

 

Love see the order list two. So funny reading some of the books on there. A&A barely beat out Sleepwalker 13....really sleepwalker 13

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oh to go back in time would be fun

[UltraMaximus]

Magnus 5 BIN sold out, and new BIN have a $20 jump in price.

 

Well, if Sleepwalker #1 will get $30.00, I guess it isn't that crazy to see this happening.

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Magnus 5 BIN sold out, and new BIN have a $20 jump in price.

 

Well, if Sleepwalker #1 will get $30.00, I guess it isn't that crazy to see this happening.

 

So very true!

[Broke as a Joke]

Interesting to see Iron Man 282 so low on the print run list, considering it is an actual important book compared to almost everything else on the list that month.

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Interesting to see Iron Man 282 so low on the print run list, considering it is an actual important book compared to almost everything else on the list that month.

 

I noticed that too. Makes me want to hang on to mine now.

[FormerReader]

I have far too many of those issues from May 1992.

[Vikingreed]

I recently found all of my old Wizards (the ones I kept anyway).

I know some people hate it for they "contributed" to the downfall of 90's comics, but man, I have nothing but fond memories...

It would go to the top of my read pile every month.

[kimik]

So... the last pre-Unity book with the highest print run was #64 on the Top 100... all other Valiant issues were below the Top 100 that month.

 

The very next month... the first set of Unity books had all 9 in the Top 100... with 3 books in the Top 50.

 

Valiant shot to #3 on publishers in the Top 100... basically overnight.

 

And... for collectors... the idea of "Pre-Unity Valiant" was born.

 

The funniest part of this page is the May 1991 list - X-Force #2 was the top book. Buying books now based on 20+ year old Wizard lists might not be a bad idea.......

[Vikingreed]

And IG #1!

[kimik]

And IG #1!

 

Last fall one of the LCS owners broke out a case of IG #1s for the local big show and I scooped up five for $5. He had another case that he pulled out and started piecemealing into short boxes of 90s spec books (there are some good books but a ton of bad) for $100 per short box. I asked him if he had more cases and he said he thought he had another one or two in the back.

[valiantman]

Here's the month with Rai #0 --- which they had a typo and put Rai #30 at position #40.

 

So... to answer the question... how common is Rai #0?

 

Less common than Legends of the Dark Knight #38 and about the same as Guy Gardner #1.

 

Eternal Warrior #4 comes it at #96... just behind Justice League America #67.

 

 

Valiant may have been part of the "problem" with the overprinted books of the 1990s... but this particular month, the top 20 comics are all Marvel and Image.