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Sweet! Lots of MM posts today!

Ewan - Thanks for the info on the 500 number on the sketchbook. I may have that previews somewhere in my apartment (that is kind of helpful on one hand, and kinda sad on the other ). I'll look for it.

Did you guys see the Miracleman #25 pages in the Kimota: Miracleman Companion book? They showed the first 5 or 6 pages.

Woohoo! I'm posting on New Year' Eve !

The Overstreet indicates the TMNT#3 variant had a print run of 500 and the comic books were distributed in NYC.

 

Does anyone know where/how they were distributed in NYC (i.e.- in stores, giveaways, at a comic book convention, etc.)?

I think they were given out at a promotional event that Eastman and Laird were at in NYC. I've been looking for one of these for years . If anybody has a pic of it, please post it. Thanks! - Keith

I just joined!

I had heard 500 from your main man EwanUK and I believe him. It would be nice to know from the company, maybe someone can shoot them an e-mail about it.

Still looking for a nice nice nice copy of Warrior #1...someone help a brotha out!

Thanks Jon!

I'm still checking on the Warrior #1's - the guy I know that has a bunch wasn't at the last show I went to. He should be at the Atlanta show on Feb 5 - I'll keep you updated. Thanks! - Keith

I have bought 3 of them in the last 2 weeks on ebay

It does have original MM content and a great Leach MM cover and KM back cover. I bought one from Mile High Signed NM by Leach for $4.50 last week (happy happy joy joy). It seems you can find signed copies by Leach much easier than the unsigned versions.

I got a second copy tonight!! Does anybody know where mention the print run of 500 for the variant came from? Thanks! - Keith

Hey guys,

I was bored tonight, so I made a Miracleman discussion group on Google. The url is http://groups.google.com/group/Miracleman . Sign up if you want - Thanks! - Keith

Kermit,

raw you can get them for less than $10 on ebay - though it depends completely on how the seller markets them - try searching on "A1" (in comics) rather than "Miracleman" - there's some for sale now in the ebay stores

 

a signed one sold here

 

ebay

 

Additionally, Mile High still have some in stock last time I looked at cover price

 

buy now!

 

man i've got to have that comic...it looks gorgeous!!!

it would be a pretty nice adition to my full run...

any pics from the interiors?!

 

regards

If you have seen the variant MM/KM front back cover version, you've seen two of the MM pieces in it. There is another piece that is a tribute to one of the original MM artists, and there is also a page that has the pen and ink version of the U.S. MM #1 cover on it (I don't remember if this was a recreation or if it was the original). The coolest part though, IMHO, is the self portrait of Leach as a lego figure in a quasi-miracleman costume. Its a great surprise of a book.

While we're talking about recent MM publications, has every one here gotten/read a copy of Kimota: The Miracleman Companion? Its great - is not too expensive either ($10 - $20 on eBay). Some great interviews and sketches (and you can see one of the previously unpublished Totleben pieces I own - I had no idea the piece had been published, and then while flipping through the book on the can, I saw it - needless to say I was pretty excited). I've seen about 4 copies in my area in the past year, and I snatched them all up to give to friends/fellow miracleman fans. If anybody needs one, let me know and I'll PM you the next time I see one. Thanks!

man, I hear ya...

sigh at least we still have (drum roll) MAN OF MIRACLES

 

Nice pick up! Gorgeous book isn't it? AND HEAVY!

It is heavy! Its a pretty decent sketchbook too even without the Miracleman content.

I have bought 3 of them in the last 2 weeks on ebay

It does have original MM content and a great Leach MM cover and KM back cover. I bought one from Mile High Signed NM by Leach for $4.50 last week (happy happy joy joy). It seems you can find signed copies by Leach much easier than the unsigned versions.

Woohoo! I just picked up the signed variant for $8 at a store while I was out Christmas shopping!!! I love that cover and back cover. I really wish we had some more new Miracleman stuff!!!!!

Kermit,

raw you can get them for less than $10 on ebay - though it depends completely on how the seller markets them - try searching on "A1" (in comics) rather than "Miracleman" - there's some for sale now in the ebay stores

 

a signed one sold here

 

ebay

 

Additionally, Mile High still have some in stock last time I looked at cover price

 

buy now!

I've gotta get me one of these .

I would say it's so far under the radar it's not being picked up at all. Though my auction proven there's some interest growing. Perhaps I should email CBG or Wizard.

 

Reasons being:

Published by a UK not US publisher; Atomeka - (owned in part by Garry Leach; who was the original MM artist).

Completely un-promoted due to the copyright issues with MM. Was in Previews one month only.

Never advertised as a Miracleman book.

 

It came in two versions, one featuring the Warpsmiths which was limited to 3,333 copies and two, the MM variant which was limited to 500 - all with MM & KM.

 

A1 isn't in the guide either. But an earlier incaranation, "A1 no.1" features a Warpsmith story in the Alan Moore MM continuity.

Is there any Miracleman content in the actual sketchbook or is it just on the variant covers? Thanks! - Keith

3D Special (2D Version) - this was printed by Eclipse at the same time as the 3D version. I have only been able to verify the existance of 1 copy (the MSU Library copy), but more have to be out there. Probably unkown to the owner as it looks exactly the same as the regular edition. There was one on eBay a few years back, so I guess that makes 2 actual known copies.

 

Is there anything at all to help differentitate the 3D version from the 2D version other than the interior? Thanks! - Keith

Are these the ones solicited via Diamond a earlier this year?

I wouldn't worry about it. Sure, a BIN at $249 is not bad, but people were still pulling copies of MM 15 out of dollar boxes (granted - probably not 9.8s) last year. I'm sure you will come across a nice copy.

You know, what's funny is that for two years, I tried every way in the world to get people to take those Miracleman pages off of me in trades and by selling them but no one wanted any of the MM art I had. So, I traded the art and then, everyone started saying "Man, I wish I'd have known." The Starlin MM 4 cover I traded, everyone told me it wasn't worth even the $1000 I paid for it. But, the guy who told me that got more than $3300 for it. The guy I traded the Totleben stuff to said he didn't think he could even get $250 for the page and its eight drawings. But, he ended up selling it for $636. The three Triumphant pages sold for exactly what I knew they were worth and for exactly what Tom Fleming gave me for them. He was the only dealer who was straight up with me on the MM art. THE ONLY ONE. All the rest told me that there wasn't enough of a following for MM and that the art would never sell for what I wanted for it. Heck, what I wanted was only, like, $10-$20 more than what I'd paid for each piece of MM art and that was to cover the cost of shipping and handling I'd paid when I bought them. So, I didn't make anything major off of the sale and trade of the art. The MM 12 preliminary looked almost exactly like the published cover and was probably the nicest of the pieces I had. It was super sweet. It and the Starlin are the only two pieces of MM art I'd like to have back. I know a guy who has a recreation of Olympus's cover. It's beautiful and it took Totleben two years to do it. The guy paid $2000 for it and it looks like it was definitely worth it. And that guy just sold off the remaining MM art he had. He had a Jim Lee MM drawing and a Matt Wagner MM and some other MM pieces of art. He used to have lots of Veitch and lots of Totleben. He had the birth pages from MM 9 and a lot of other, really nice pieces. But, he sold them all off to buy other things.

That's crazy man - here's to you buying that Starlin peice and the MM 12 prelim back someday...

I think part of its just a new generation discovering it. I'm 24, so the last miracleman issue came out when I was 12, and I wouldn't want to know what I would have thought of mm #24 if I had read it then (wow...but that sure probably would have been interesting to see my pre-pubescent reaction ). Also, with the advent of bittorent, almost anybody can download the series in the course of a couple of hours and read it. I think that factor may have been more important in the Miracleman resurgence than anything else.

- Keith

If this ever gets resolved, do you think Gaiman would persue Buckingham to do the "Dark Age"? He does Fables currently.

 

Weird. I had this exact discussion at my LCS yesterday!

I sure hope so!

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Try getting no.23 above 9.4 - you won't!...

 

Maybe YOU won't, but I have 5 raw 9.4's and 2 raw 9.6's that wait silently for the MM explosion that is destined to come

 

Ask October(Andy), he's seen them. SHARP, SHARP, SHARP

 

K

 

I KNEW you were going to chime in when he said that!

 

Yes, I have seen them and yes, they are VERY sharp. I don't remember if I looked at them closely, but I do recall they were all at least NM. Was one of those in the batch you set aside after the pre-screen?

 

As I carefully thumb through my HORDE of FUNNYBOOKS, I sense....yes I can feel it.....1 stunning copy of MM #23 soon to be sent off to CGC and returned to me as the CREME DE LA CREME....THE HIGHEST GRADED...THE TOP CENSUS COPY PUT IT ON THE BOARRRRD......YES!!!!!

 

This cannot be allowed to happen!

 

But how sharp is sharp??? Could you shave with it??? Perhaps you should try!

If they do restart Miracleman (with reprint rights to make trade paperbacks of the previously published issues), what do you think the individual issue prices

will do? I've kinda always thought they would soften a little, since a good amount of people buying these issues are buying them to read first, and collect second. I'm not saying the will soften much, but I would think the demand would decrease a little. What do you guys think.

Have you all heard any more about the Image 10th Anniversary Hardcover that's finally being solicited this month? I heard McFarlane had decided that he could at least put Moran in it. Here is a paragraph about it from Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/index.cgi?column=litg&article=2203) from August 2005:

"The Image Tenth Anniversary Hardcover edition, featuring work on Spawn, Dragon, Cyberforce and Shadowhawk by their original creators, has finally been scheduled again for November, over three years after its original due date.

Originally planned for 2002, the volume was to have featured 100 pages of stories from the remaining Image founders in hardcover for $25. Although Larsen and Valentino were said to have finished their stories in time, both McFarlane and Silvestri had a number of production delays. The Shadowhawk story has already been printed. McFarlane's story is said to feature Marvelman/Miracleman, something Neil Gaiman's lawyers will eye with interest, and the Savage Dragon story features the character's origin. "

That darn McFarlane.

I would too - issue 24 ended on such a strange note. I really would have like to seen where this arc would have gone.

Have Gaiman/Moore/et. al ever discussed what would be the arc after that (other than the obvious title, "Bronze Age"). Wouldn't their rule have to fall at some point? It is truly a shame that we may never (or it may be several years more) until we find out.

Thanks! - Keith

Gaiman did a signing here in town Monday night and someone asked about Mircaleman. Apparently, the court battles aren't over due to a bankruptcy proceding (I don't know of who), and they ordered that nothing could be reprinted, or new product created or anything until its resolved. So this'll probably keep things status quo (and prices strong) for some time to come. Gaiman did say he wanted to write more MM stories, though, so maybe sometime in the second term of the Rodham-Clinton administration we'll see something.

I....HATE....MCFARLANE..

I hope he's having the time of his life in bankruptcy court right now...

Hey Lou,

GPA for this is roughly $350 to $375 for the book in 9.8. Its an ok price at $299, but I'm not sure if I'd do it.

I know this is O/T a little, but does anybody have any Miracleman original art (pages/sketches/prelims, etc.) they want to sell or trade? - Keith

Chris, you know Gary Platt has a Miracleman 15 CGC 9.6... are you interested?

 

Does he? Was this yours? I bought my #15 (raw) from him, maybe I'll trade up in B'more. Any idea what he's asking? Do you know what books he's interested in so's I can make a trade? PM me if you do.

 

There's a MM no.15 in CGC 9.8 on ebay now with a BIN of just $299 - looks like a good seller too. I think that's a very reasonable price and would buy it myself if I hadn't just bought one from someone else (for $450!)

 

MM no.15 CGC 9.8

 

p.s. my mid-grade run of MM 1-24 sold for £112 / $260 - not too bad...

 

Thanks for the head's up, Ewan. No money for that right now though. Saving for art.

I totally agree with you on that. I would rather have the original art. - Keith

I did the bittorrent thing, but now I'm going back and getting the issues. I imagine it would be hard series to read once and sell.

Does anybody remember that crazy rumor that Marvel's Sentry was really Miracleman and they were waiting for the legal stuff to settle before they would reveal it?

That would send us all to the great down under...

I know...and that stain on theat chamber of chills 23 is nasty.