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I don't have many Golden Age, but I do have these. This is in poor condition. It's complete, but the cover is split all the way down the spine and detached. It only cost me $20, so I'm not complaining. A dealer gave this to me as thanks for hooking him up with a seller who sold him a large golden age collection. DG

Here is the only Aniti-Communism Comic that I know of in my collection. My understanding is that this book is the first published comic with Charles Schultz artwork in it. If I'm wrong, forgive me for my error. I also noticed that mine is slightly different than the other scans I saw. I can't remember if mine is an early printing or later printing. I just snagged it as soon as I saw it. This was bought from Ward Batty who worked for the CSN magazine. He had a short-lived store in the metro Atlanta area. DG

Can't find my larger scans... Hmmm! DG

In the 90's, I know Sullivan in Alabama was printing some of Marvel's comics and at least one issue of Hulk received at my LCS was an Australian version instead of the American version. I guess I need to go through my Hulk comics to see if I actually bought one. DG

Nice. Cyberrad is modeled after the image of Neal's son Jason. DG

I picked up my last raw copy of this for a whopping $1. There is at least one blue label 9.8 out there. I knew a guy that sold one. Nice raw copies were going for about $75 for awhile. DG

And I have 3 nice copies of the Cyberrad #1 newsstand edition and also a nice copy of the #5. They are very tough to find. I had to get the Cyberrad #1 newsstand edition from Neal's son Jason. Although I've seen quite a few Gold foil Valeria listed online, I got that from Jason also. If anyone has a red foil Megalith #0 or a Gold Foil Vol. 2 Cyberrad #1 without hologram, I'd love to see a scan. They were solicited by nealadams.com at one point, but no scans have surfaced online. Jason could not confirm they existed. They may have been listed in error. DG

The silver Cyberrad is probably the second most common on the list above. It's bound into the TPB also. I'm not sure how common the Buck OHare variant is. I just know I discovered it late in the game and I didn't see it around much. DG

I have a some foreign comics, but not many. This is one. DG

Here are some tough to find Continuity Comics A Sliver Foil Cyberrad V2 #1 takes a moderate bit of searching to find... A Gold Foil Cyberrad V2 #1 is a little tough to find... A newsstand version is much tougher, especially in nice shape. A Cyberrad Vol. 1 #5 (non-glow-in-the-dark) is tough. A Diamond Distributor Cyberrad TPB is tough o find.. An Armor #13 newsstand is tough to find A white Valeria the She-Bat is a mederate effort to find. Add Gold Foil and it's tougher.. Add Red Foil, it's the toughest. Only 3 have popped up in collectors hands online. Bucky O'Hare "Special Edition" variant.. There are some others that are a challenge, but these are some of the toughest. DG

By the same token, if you go on to produce s huge hit that turns into a blockbuster movie, that one rare comic could be in extremely high demand. My first published work started in the December 97 issue of The Atlanta Sideshow Magazine. My last cartoon was published in I think 2000. http://sideshow.fateback.com/Atlanta_Sideshow.html Good Luck with finding that. I don't consider it rare because I have a whole bundle of about every issue with my art in it. Some of the other contributors wish they had copies. DG

This is true. I've got a friend that is holding a page I want hostage. He claims it is a favorite page of his also. He will sell it to me, but I'd have to pay 10 times what the artist could have gotten at a convention. It's rare that I "advertise" anything I really want. If I'm telling people what I want, I've pretty much given up on the search. DG Some "friend" you have there. Sure he's a friend. He could refuse to sell it altogether. He's good at buying stuff cheap. I've got a stack of art that only cost me $5 a page. If publishers could get away with paying $5 a page, they be doing pretty good. DG

I like the Overstreet definition. If there are 30(I think?) or less known copies, it's classified as rare. Birth of the Defiant Universe.. not rare. Miracle on Broadway possibly. I lost track but I think around 12 have popped up. Also keep in mind that Rozanski told me he sold his MOB for $1200. The collectors wanting it perceive it as rare. DG

Here's my rule on "rare" comics: If I have it, or if anyone I know has it... it's not rare. (thumbs u That's silly. I've added around 7 different Charlton comics to my collection that the experts and price guides had never listed or seen before. The only scans available online came from me. Only 2 or 3 Red Foil "Valeria the She-Bat" (Continuity) variant comics have been confirmed online. My copy was acquired by a local retailer when he order hundreds upon hundreds of their comics on a reorder after it was pretty much established the market was already over-supplied. "Splatterball" (Defiant) with the missing foil... only one person has claimed to having it. If I went by your definition, absolutely nothing is rare. I used rarity as the focus of my collecting the past 5 years.

I have it. DG

Fill my eyes with double vision... I was wondering how you do the list would look since I own 2 copies. DG

A good friend of mine likes to say it takes 2 of something to be collectible. If you have the only one of something, it eliminates the chance of another person owning it, so essentially everyone else gives up. Obviously printer samples would be the rarest if they do vary from the final product. How many collectors have opportunities to buy samples? Most publishers don't solicit them in any ads, so they aren't really ever available to the general public. It's all about who you know. I was a fan of a small Canadian publisher by the name of "Catfifish Comics". The art in the early issues is tight. The writer is a fan of 60's DC so they have a light-hearted fell to them. Their characters are sexy. They have realistic personalities. There are some fun celebrity cameos scattered about. To me, it was just a fun book. Nothing intense, just fun. With issue #9, the publisher went all out with gimmicks. The intent was to produce a regular non-foil comic and in addition make various foil covers with staggered rarity. The regular version was to be free of a word balloon. The foil version was to make a comedic statement via word balloon. The word balloon was to say "Curses! Foiled again!" A black foil version was intended to be the rarest. It was to be limited to 75 copies. Here's the certificate of authenticity: Here is the comic. The publisher sent the comics to the printer, pleased with his concept. Guess what? The printer printed up some samples and accidentally applied foil to the wrong cover! Here is a scan of the error comic: Now technically there are three "error" comics for this issue number because the printer messed up on the gold foil and red foil versions also. Normally those would not see the light of day for many years. They be filed away as a tragic mistake. The publisher chose a different course of action. He had within his comic an image of a fake publication. He included a small ad for the error versions and sold the three comics as a set limited to 30 copies. As fate would have it, I ordered the variants straight from the publisher not knowing there were any error comics in existence. I had missed the small obscure ad in the comic. My package arrived damaged. I wrote the publisher and explained what had happened. He kindly replaced the damaged books, beefed up the packaging and included the set of error comics in the package. I was pleased to see the package had arrived without damage and I noticed there were two of each foil color instead of one. I flipped them over and one of each color was missing the certificate. I assumed they were extra copies of the same book that he couldn't sell as part of the limited solicitation. Five years later i was going through my boxes and I discovered the difference between the word balloon on some and the ones that didn't have it. That was when I realized he had solicited the comic in a very obscure manner and that I indeed had some rare printer error comics. What I like about this is that the comic was solicited. It was available to the general public and it is still pretty darn rare. The question is.. Does anyone else care? Probably not. Another odd thing about this publisher is that some of their comics feature early work by Pia Guerra. Lois Small Jr. did some work for them. I think a cover was done by Peter and Jimmy Palmiotti (but he doesn't remember working for them). DG

The only one I have is #3 but I do have... Gothic Romances #1 and this.. Okay, the last one isn't very gothic, and it's not a comic. I just like posting my scan of it next to Gothic Romances. DG

I thought SIP was entertaining, but after awhile it all seemed the same. There are more enjoyable items I could buy for $2000. I bought my set of 1-3 for $10 a piece from a guy at a small convention that was just walking around with a box of comics he wanted to sell. I knew there was something to it, so I was willing to overpay to get copies. After I bought them, I asked several of the dealers what they thought the set was actually worth. They all looked at me with an expression of confusion and said "What is it?" A few months later they took off in the press and were in serious demand. I sold the set and capitalized on the popularity. Bondage Fairies was more entertaining. DG

None of the 1st volume SIP's are particularly difficult to find - in 9.8, sure, but if you don't care about condition, they show up on ebay pretty regularly. I was trusting Overstreet's comment of "2,300 printed". That is probably correct. The indicia usually indicated the print run on Antarctic comics from that period and I was thinking in the 3,000 range. I sold my set, but had an extra of #3 that's still in my collection. DG

I don't know if they'd qualify (though I also am not aware of scale of the field we are dealing with). Someone may be aware of some tougher variants that are beyond my knowledge, but the two toughest Broadway books for me have been Miracle on Broadway which was said to have a print run of just over 1k, and the hardcover for Fatale: Inherit the Earth. The last I checked Mile High, they had a copy of the former slabbed for an absurd price, and the last I saw the latter I lost out on in the lower 3 figures on ebay (to, I think, a member of the VALIANT fan boards -- some $200+ or so). The latter was limited (at least according to an advertisement) to 250 numbered copies. Chuck sold his slabbed Miracle on Broadway 9.2 for in the neighborhood of $1200. I have a raw copy in comparable grade. DG

I'm not a Conan fan, but I picked up a copy just to have it.

Small scan, but I have it.

Thanks. I've had this awhile, but recently uploaded the scan.