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O'Barr's "The Crow" love
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I loved his character in Boardwalk.

 

That article states the Crow was released in 1986.

I'm old, but not that old.....

 

1988 (November): Deadworld #10 contains a full back cover preview advertisement of The Crow.

1989 (January to May): Caliber Presents #1 and Crow #1-4.

1994: The Crow first movie.

 

If the article says 1986, then the writer was confused.

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What's the going rate on a 8.5-9.0 raw of #1?

 

$125.00-$150.00.

 

Great buys in this guy's humble opinion.

 

Really? Even for a "low" grade considering it's somewhat modern?

 

hm

 

Thanks for the info; hard to track sales on eBay. Figured I'd ask the experts. :thumbsup:

 

Now where to find out about Solar 10 and Harbinger 1....

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What's the going rate on a 8.5-9.0 raw of #1?

 

$125.00-$150.00.

 

Great buys in this guy's humble opinion.

 

Really? Even for a "low" grade considering it's somewhat modern?

 

hm

 

Thanks for the info; hard to track sales on eBay. Figured I'd ask the experts. :thumbsup:

 

Now where to find out about Solar 10 and Harbinger 1....

 

It's pretty easy to pick up a VF/NM copy of #1 for less than $100.

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What's the going rate on a 8.5-9.0 raw of #1?

 

$125.00-$150.00.

 

Great buys in this guy's humble opinion.

 

Really? Even for a "low" grade considering it's somewhat modern?

 

hm

 

Thanks for the info; hard to track sales on eBay. Figured I'd ask the experts. :thumbsup:

 

Now where to find out about Solar 10 and Harbinger 1....

 

It's pretty easy to pick up a VF/NM copy of #1 for less than $100.

 

I was going by GPA.

Not a whole lot of sales to go by, but the range goes from $95.00-$150.00 for those grades, and I am of the belief that they will just go up.

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What's the going rate on a 8.5-9.0 raw of #1?

 

$125.00-$150.00.

 

Great buys in this guy's humble opinion.

 

Really? Even for a "low" grade considering it's somewhat modern?

 

hm

 

Thanks for the info; hard to track sales on eBay. Figured I'd ask the experts. :thumbsup:

 

Now where to find out about Solar 10 and Harbinger 1....

 

It's pretty easy to pick up a VF/NM copy of #1 for less than $100.

 

I was going by GPA.

Not a whole lot of sales to go by, but the range goes from $95.00-$150.00 for those grades, and I am of the belief that they will just go up.

 

He asked about raw prices :shrug:

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well, I hate to break it to everyone, but the back cover to Deadworld #10 is NOT the very first printed appearance of The Crow.

 

It may be the first appearance on a comic, but not the first printed appearance ever.

 

Caliber printed an advertisement circular that they distributed to local comic shops in the Michigan area called Caliber Rounds. I used to get them from Gary Reed directly when I would visit the Caliber offices to turn in my inks for The Realm.

 

This is actually the very first printed appearance of The Crow.

 

These advertisement papers were published in July or August of 1988.

Higher resolution scans are available if anyone wants them.

 

I don't think many people have any copies of these at all and if they do, they don't show them off lol. I have never seen any other copies of these anywhere and I talked with Gary Reed (publisher of Caliber Press) just this past weekend and he told me that he doesn't even have any copies of these for his archives, so I loaned them to him to scan.

 

Even though this is not the actual comic, wouldn't this still be considered the actual first printed appearance of The Crow?

 

These wouldn't hold any value because they aren't printed in "comic form"?

 

Just curious about this as I found these after digging through boxes of old stuff in preparation for a trade paperback collection of a Arrow Comics project of mine.

 

Looking forward to hearing thoughts on this!

 

Best,

Jason Moore

 

 

 

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So, is everyone still considering the very first appearance of the Crow in print to be the back cover of Deadworld #10?

There was a Jason Moore that worked on two of the Caliber Presents books.

 

Ink Machine Productions

 

Is this you?

 

Yep, it's me.

 

I also inked The Realm for Caliber starting with issue #16.

 

I was around during the formation of Caliber and the very first meetings at Gary Reeds comic shop with Gary, Vince Locke, Guy Davis, Mark Bloodworth, Jim O'Barr and Randy Zimmerman.

 

We would all meet once or twice a month and bring our current artwork to show off to each other. It was an amazing inspiration to see the beginnings of The Crow before anyone else had ever seen them it at all. The beginning of the wonderful series Baker Street vy Guy Davis who wanted so desperately to be separated from his pencilling work on The Realm. Just so much talent in one single room for 5 or 6 hours at a time...talking shop, discussing artwork techniques etc....an unbelievable and inspirational time for me back when I was a tiny little 16 or 17 years old.

 

Ah...the good ol' days =)

 

Thanks for remembering me though! That actually meant a lot to me. I really appreciate it =)

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