Please Help - Hardlee Thinn - Checklist? 0

[david20009]

   I am hoping that someone can help me out here as I do not collect Counterpoint Comics or their Hardlee Thinn title.  What I do collect is all action figure covers and Hardlee Thinn had action figures for issue #1.  Thus I am trying to find a complete list of the variants.  There are quite a few of them just for the action figures (and it seems like an endless list of #1 variants for this issue).

I have found:

1)Bespin Gown - Normal cover (out of 30). Have

 

2)Bespin Gown - Normal cover (DF).  No idea what DF means or how limited it is.  Have

3)Bespin Gown - Chrome Cover (out of 10) Have

4)Bespin Gown - Chrome Cover AP (out of 10?) Have

5)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Normal cover (out of 30). Have

6)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Normal cover AP (out of ?).  I do not have but this does not appear to be Chrome from the photo.  Appears to be different than the cover below it.

7)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Chrome AP (out of 10?).  Do not have.  Appears to be different from the above but I am not sure if they are the same)

8)Ace Comic Con - Slave - Chrome (out of 10) Have

 

My questions are:

1) What covers am I missing?  Would there be a DF regular cover for the Ace Comic Con?  If 6 and 7 are indeed different covers is there an AP version of the regular non-Chrome Bespin Gown cover

2) Are slots 6 and 7 different books or are they the same book?

 

[Qalyar]

Wow, this company makes it hard to determine what they've printed. And their website is like 90s-Geocities-level useless.

I think they release AP-numbered versions of anything they release in normally-numbered versions. So, yes, I believe that image #6 and #7 are not the same book. The one image certainly doesn't appear chrome at all.

As for the non-chrome Bespin cover, yeah, I would suspect an AP print exists. Unless they numbered those as DF for some reason? For normal printing companies, "AP" means "artist's proof" (or "author's proof", for non-comic books). These are usually separately numbered issues held back for the use of the artist or author. There's lots of these sorts of things for Stephen King limited editions, for example. On the other hand, Counterpoint seems to print these just so there are more ultra-low-print-run variants. No idea how many there are, either. I'd guess runs of 10, insofar as I haven't found examples of a Counterpoint AP book with a double-digit number. But who knows? And zero clue what that DF version is or means. For everyone else in the comic world, DF is Dynamic Forces. But I don't have any evidence that Dynamic Forces has been involved with these Counterpoint books. So... Yeah.

You might try reaching out to Counterpoint and seeing if they'll actually provide a list of what they've released. I've had mixed luck with that sort of request from other publishers (props to Top Cow, slops to Fantagraphics). But the worst that happens is you're right back where you are now.

[MetalPSI]

DF is Dyanmic Forces

[david20009]

4 hours ago, IkewithMike said:

DF is Dyanmic Forces

No I do not think it is in this case.  I agree with the above poster on that point.  

Counterpoint does make it very confusing