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That`s a good pick! (thumbs u I disagree. The spider-aliens have been replaced by the Vine in the relaunched universe, which I imagine would be more the basis for any live-action stuff they do. Which perhaps means that X-O #1 (2012) is the book you want. Especially when you consider there are less of them. The Vine are basically just the updated, modern version of the spider-aliens. They still have spider faces. And considering the vague name of "spider-alien" is what they went by in old Valiant, who is to say that somebody else wouldn't nickname this Vine race as spider-aliens. I don't think you want to start saying that the reboot books would get top billing over the 1990 stuff. Every Valiant character has had some tweak in their origin which doesn't mean much now when publishers are constantly altering continuity now. The new Valiant is as much of a reimagining as a reboot, since they're missing three pieces that were key to the original universe, and they had an important gap in publishing. Certainly most of the major players are recognizable enough as their original counterparts, but there are a few characters that had a major overhaul (Doctor Mirage and Livewire to name just a couple). I think the Spider-alien/Vine comparison falls into that category. In addition to what's been discussed, they're more humanoid in the current books. Time will tell.

The newsstand versions only seem to fetch a premium when the cover price is different than the Direct Edition. I couldn't tell you why though. Maybe the price variants were more limited, but I doubt it was like the Marvel Bronze age variants where they had a limited distribution to test the market. All of the Newsstand Editions for the vValiant books have the same price.

There are a handful of them. I believe X-O #43 or 44 also had a $2.50 version, the Destroyer #1 also had a $2.50 version. I can't think of the others off-hand. I don't think there are X-O newsstand price variants, but there are a few Bloodshots. My mistake; there is an X-O. From the Valiant Fans price guide (http://www.valiantfan.com/guide): Bloodshot #30 (Direct Edition is $2.25) Bloodshot #31 (Direct Edition is $2.25) Bloodshot #32 (Direct Edition is $2.25) Destroyer #0 (Direct Edition is $2.95) Visitor vs. the Valiant Universe #1 (Direct Edition is $2.95) Visitor vs. the Valiant Universe #2 (Direct Edition is $2.95) X-O Manowar #43 (Direct Edition is $2.25) Besides the premium Gold, Platinum, Red, or mailaway books, there is also a Magnus #57 error variant where some of the pages are bound out of order. It's supposedly more valuable than the regular edition, but whenever I try to grab a regular copy to fill that hole in my collection, it ends up being the error issue.

There are a handful of them. I believe X-O #43 or 44 also had a $2.50 version, the Destroyer #1 also had a $2.50 version. I can't think of the others off-hand. I don't think there are X-O newsstand price variants, but there are a few Bloodshots.

That`s a good pick! (thumbs u I disagree. The spider-aliens have been replaced by the Vine in the relaunched universe, which I imagine would be more the basis for any live-action stuff they do. Which perhaps means that X-O #1 (2012) is the book you want. Especially when you consider there are less of them.

What are you looking for? I'm going to try to get some runs up on eBay this weekend.

I haven't seen Rebels or AVP, but I did get the Fight Club 2 ashcan.

IIRC, some of the coupons are not actually bound in. With that in mind, I was wondering what thoughts were from an ethical perspective on swapping the coupon out of a lower-grade book and inserting it into a higher-grade that had the coupon removed. (Only for those issues where the coupon wasn't actually bound in.)

Depends on the collector. It's been years since I read Rai #0 but even in that issue I don't think it's all that large an appearance.

X-O did not really take off as a read until a bit later when Aric was more involved at Orb Industries. His role in Unity was fun, especially seeing him get chomped on by a T-Rex, and the storyline picked up after he got back. (thumbs u It did get out of control towards the end, though........ Solar #1-11 is a good read, as is the pre-unity Magnus run. The BWS Archer & Armstrong run was a fun read also. The A&A #8/EW #8 three Musketeers flip book is a classic. That's a wraparound cover, not a flipbook.

I just checked my collection list, and it looks something like this: Magnus #5 – 4 copies Solar Man of the Atom #3 – 4 copies Magnus #7 – 1 copy (I don't consider this particularly key, especially as the origin of the new X-O armor is fairly different 1992 Harbinger #1 – 5 copies X-O Manowar #1 – 5 copies X-O Manowar #4 – 3 copies Shadowman #1 – 9 copies Solar #10 – 3 copies (& 4 reprints) Archer & Armstrong #0* – 5 copies Harbinger #10 – 6 copies Eternal Warrior #4 – 7 copies Rai #0 – 7 copies Shadowman #8 – 6 copies 1993 Archer & Armstrong / Eternal Warrior #8 – 23 copies (you can't help but accumulate these as you put together A&A and EW runs by buying lots on eBay) Bloodshot #6 – 11 copies Also of note: Rai #1 – 4 copies Rai #2 – 1 copy Rai #3 – 3 copies Rai #4 – 2 copies Rai #5 – 3 copies

I think that the early Valiants hold us fairly well when compared to other books at the time, although not so well when compared to books of today. I loved them when they came out, but found many problems when doing a re-read of all the pre-Unity when VEI launched. The biggest improvement in the new X-O series was making Aric seem more like a man out of time and less like the caveman that he's presented as in the original X-O.

Estimated at about 3500.

First appearances have been selling much better since the investment news

He means November 20th. Split the baby already . . . November 19th. Is that dog still attempting to hunt, but keeps bringing back plastic flamingos? November 18, 1992: Death of Superman hits the East Coast market. Fact! So it's a Left Coast / Right Coast thingee? Once we went over the details a number of times in that November 18th thread, I finally realized where he was coming from. In his mind, Superman 75 didn't really hit the market until it was released on the West Coast. So I try to qualify any reference to the event by noting it started on the East Coast so there is no misunderstanding. So kinda like this: The New Yorker pretty much hit the nail on the head. I had a friend that lived in the East Village and worked in the financial district that didn't go north of 14th street for a year and a half… and didn't really feel like she was missing out on anything.

Perhaps, just perhaps, there's a "Rule" that describes this - about something you wanted 25 years previously, that you couldn't afford back then, that you can now? You don't say. I think I got ahead of the rule by a bit... because I started buying those books when they were 5 years old. I couldn't afford them when they were 1 and 2. I was lucky enough to have purchased almost all of the pre-Unitys off the shelf. I was lucky enough to have had a couple friends working at my regular comic shop that said "Hey, you've got to check this out"

DeadPool was not a popular character back in the early 90's. I remember the only reason why I picked up a copy was for the first appearance of Domino and to complete the Liefield run between #86 - 100. He was just a cookie cutter villain that was introduced. He was changed into the DeadPool that we all know when he got his own running series with Cable down the road. I'm gonna have to disagree. I may be completely wrong, but where I grew up, he was an instant hit. I remember reading X-Force #2 over and over. Plus, he even got a card (!! haha) in X-Force #1. It's a little from column A, a little from column B. He wasn't a complete dud on arrival, but he wasn't a hit, either. Yes, the first solo series (with Joe Mad art, yo!) was the first time he broke out. True. Remember, when New Mutants #87 came out, it wasn't a sellout, and no one cared about it...for about 6 months. But when Liefeld and Cable really went bazonkers with issue #100, Marvel was in the "hey, our gold reprints are really working...let's see what else these suckers will buy!" phase, and books like NM #87, ASM #101, ASM #265, Captain America #282 (YES!) and, of course, the Marvel Milestone Editions, got pumped out in due course. Are these the only ones that came out a significant amount of time after the first print? I have all of these, and was wondering if there are others. (I know that that one Hulk 3rd print – I can't remember the number right now – also came out years after, but that's not a metallic ink cover.)

Post your Rai #0. Make people really drool.

Harbinger #0 Pink (mailaway coupon) edition. Considering the price of some of the other slabbed Valiants the last few days, there are what could be some very reasonable slabs available on eBay right now: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050430.m570.l1313.TR1.TRC0.A0.H0.Xharbinger+0+pink.TRS0&_nkw=harbinger+0+pink&ghostText=&_sacat=0

In case someone has to have it now regardless of the price?

If those are "real", wouldn't they be worth a ton...? in the description he states "IN excellent shape worth 5,000,000+" Well, it might be, in very mint (VMT/11.0) condition.

I picked up a regular A&A #0, an A&A #0 signed by Jim Shooter, and A&A #0 Gold back in July for about $18.

Turok #1 had something like 1.7 million printed (and was the 5th highest selling book the month it released). Bloodshot #1: about 800,000. There are plenty of other books from 1993–1994 with print runs in the hundreds of thousands, but some of the pre-Unity books are below 40,000. And the various premium books (gold issues, VVSS, and coupon books) are very limited)

I think it makes more sense to call the original Valiant Copper and the new universe Modern. Actually I think comics needs an age between the two as well, as "Modern" is really a few different things mashed together, I think. I'd probably start the in-between age at Heroes Reborn and start Modern around the time of New 52, the launch of VEI, and Marvel Now.

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