We were talking yesterday about condition issues of the #1 Phantom and Third Eye throwing up some NM/M copies that someone said may be a new printing...
I got an email from Steve @ Third Eye to confirm these 'new' books are not an additional print run of the Revival #1 Phantoms.
From Steve:
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Hey Ryan,
I really need to make a CGC board account, I just don't get on there enough and know I'd lose track of a thread!
I was browsing the Revival thread, and saw some posts about whether or not the REVIVALS we have up are new printings or not. If you want to relay this to the guys, that's cool.
These are NOT new printings, and the book will not be reprinted by us, or AwesomeCons.
The copies we do have up are ones that we found in a box that was mislabeled over the Summer during the initial rush. We were preparing stock for our Mike Norton signing, and found a box of about 50-60 REVIVAL Third Eyes, which we had thought were all shipping/packing damages from Image.
Half of these were actually flawless, and we gave out 20 to the first 20 in line at the signing; then put 10 of those on eBay to clear them out.
There's about 20-30 others that have a corner ding from the way they were shrink-wrapped; it's very minor, but it's enough to where the grade of the book drops from NM to VF. We did list 15 of those up as well, with a clear description of the issue.
These are the last of the Third Eye covers that we have in our possession though.
We appreciate all of you guys and your support and enthusiasm! I apologize if there was any confusion about the availability of the book with these new copies popping up; this was literally just a stroke of luck on our end.
If you ever have any questions about our variants, or anything else like that, please feel free to e-mail me direct. I can get a much faster response out via here than eBay.
Thanks again!
steve
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Just FYI.
Also, I will say that I have bought from Steve and Third Eye several times and they have always taken care of me (others can vouch for that as well).
Hope this clears the air with regards to our previous discuss and thanks guys!
(Thumbs u
R