Books you just cant find in the Wild 22 22

[the blob]

5 hours ago, valiantman said:

True, but the Marvel and DC (and Image) numbers at the same time were about ten times higher.  So, generally speaking, there's only 1/10th the supply in the first place... and now it's been 25+ years.  If (or should I say, since) the books were high quality, or at least, higher quality relative to the competition at the time, and the supply was 1/10th, then you've got the potential for a multiplier in Pre-Unity Valiant's favor when you look at both supply and demand.

How many had coupons that got ripped out?

[Michael Browning]

I found these in a warehouse lot of comics today that I have never seen and haven't been able to find any information about: Deathmate Prologue White covers, along with one silver, regular edition. There were two unused, white covers without interiors and no staples and two with interiors that aren't the Deathmate Prologue. One white cover had a Nomad #1 inside it and the other had an issue of Shadowhawk as its interiors.

Here are photos:

[Aweandlorder]

No newsstand and no variant. Just one HTF old skool image book

 

[ygogolak]

2 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

I found these in a warehouse lot of comics today that I have never seen and haven't been able to find any information about: Deathmate Prologue White covers, along with one silver, regular edition. There were two unused, white covers without interiors and no staples and two with interiors that aren't the Deathmate Prologue. One white cover had a Nomad #1 inside it and the other had an issue of Shadowhawk as its interiors.

Here are photos:

Send them to PGX for the museum treatment.

[F For Fake]

11 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:

No newsstand and no variant. Just one HTF old skool image book

 

That's interesting, is that the third WildCATS tpb? Something else for my checklist!

[WolverineX]

Picked up these for about 30.  Mainly covers I really like

[Aweandlorder]

4 hours ago, F For Fake said:

That's interesting, is that the third WildCATS tpb? Something else for my checklist!

Yes it is 

[Avi]

17 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:

No newsstand and no variant. Just one HTF old skool image book

 

unfortunate sword placement...

[valiantman]

20 hours ago, Michael Browning said:

I found these in a warehouse lot of comics today that I have never seen and haven't been able to find any information about: Deathmate Prologue White covers, along with one silver, regular edition. There were two unused, white covers without interiors and no staples and two with interiors that aren't the Deathmate Prologue. One white cover had a Nomad #1 inside it and the other had an issue of Shadowhawk as its interiors.

Here are photos:

Adding my two cents... 

I was told the empty white covers without the foil were giveaways during the 1993 Deathmate Tour, since they were probably easy to carry in bulk and they could be signed by creators on the white edges.  I haven't heard of the "random contents" versions with staples, so I would assume they're either "just for fun" or they were some type of production test to make sure the covers would look OK with the correct number of pages inside.  Deathmate was a combined effort of Valiant and Image, so it's possible these primarily came from one "studio" and not the other.

[manetteska]

Second Armory 10 at this location; first full set. And they gave me 30% off for no reason. 

[WolverineX]

38 minutes ago, manetteska said:

Second Armory 10 at this location; first full set. And they gave me 30% off for no reason. 

Just curious why these are rare?  I have come across a few in the past and never thought to pick it up. 

[ADAMANTIUM]

1 hour ago, Wolverinex said:

Just curious why these are rare?  I have come across a few in the past and never thought to pick it up. 

Looks like on ebay that the final issue #10 might be hard to find or at least in low numbers, due to being the final issue and order numbers went down....

[Lazyboy]

4 hours ago, Wolverinex said:

Just curious why these are rare?  I have come across a few in the past and never thought to pick it up. 

They are nowhere near rare and I don't even understand why anybody cares about them. Some books just seem to develop an unearned reputation that sticks, while their equals (or betters) are ignored. But don't be fooled by the image, #1 isn't the real issue  here.

They may be harder to find because it wasn't a regular series with a regular schedule, it had a higher cover prices than the average comic, and the crash was underway when the last issue came out.

[mangbus]

I have not had a chance to really dig through this whole thread but love the idea of it.

MegaCon 2017, a large local retailer had a huge sale going on and it included a bunch of long boxes of comics. I believe it was $1 per issue and 15 for $10. I found a lot of great Batman issues that were upgrades or outright entries into the collection (mostly a few 2nd or 3rd prints around the Knightfall era.) I stumbled upon the below comic in a bunch of random Valiant issues. I was looking for the typical key books from that era and never thought I'd run into the Pink Mail Away Harbinger. I'd imagine this issue would be picked through when receiving a collection and never make it to a sale box. More surprising is that it was a solid NM+. I have since sold it to fund more Batman but it was fun running into it in the wild.

 

[Brock]

3 hours ago, Lazyboy said:

They are nowhere near rare and I don't even understand why anybody cares about them. Some books just seem to develop an unearned reputation that sticks, while their equals (or betters) are ignored. But don't be fooled by the image, #1 isn't the real issue  here.

They may be harder to find because it wasn't a regular series with a regular schedule, it had a higher cover prices than the average comic, and the crash was underway when the last issue came out.

Every number 10 is the equivalent of a freshly-printed $20 bill. If you have such easy access to them, they're a ready sale on ebay.

[Lazyboy]

1 hour ago, Brock said:

Every number 10 is the equivalent of a freshly-printed $20 bill. If you have such easy access to them, they're a ready sale on ebay.

Maybe reread what I wrote. I didn't say I was tripping over them every time I walked out the front door, just that they really aren't rare, but somehow got a reputation that they are exceptionally hard to find. Plus, the issue is literally a zero on the importance/relevance scale, which makes it even more confusing that other books with similar supply are nearly ignored.

Also, I haven't used eBay in years.

[BishopT]

Pretty decent dollar box finds, today... I don't know about the other two DC Universe books, but that Carmen Sandiego seems to be pretty rare. Also, love that Michael Golden Vampirella cover.

Edited April 19, 2018 by BishopT

[manetteska]

[jsilverjanet]

5 hours ago, manetteska said:

Wow

[manetteska]

2 hours ago, jsilverjanet said:

Wow

A person brought in his entire Punisher collection -- including any non-Punsiher titles he appeared in -- to a local store.

I specifically asked the worker if he saw an orange Punisher 100 to give me a call. Didn't hear anything back but eventually found myself in the store again. The guy remembered me and said they didn't have the orange issue but did have the shiny 100 and 101-104 (which I also asked about). I flipped through some other Punisher boxes and came back to the stack of 100+ he pulled for me; the last one in the pile was the orange variant and I was completely confused; when ringing me up he even pointed to it and said that one's a bit more since it's a double-sized issue.