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Official Chromium/Foil age thread. (1990's) Show us your books.

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rjpb

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Terrible... But yet... I'm drawn to it.

 

Is that the one with the jewel glued to the cover? Hideous.

 

I recall all to well this era of comics, but wasn't buying any of these books. Even without all the obnoxious gimmickry, these kinds of comics didn't appeal to me, and was mystified that speculators actually thought that 50,000 fans hoarding 100 copies each of a book was going to have any sort long term value.

 

We all have are own frame of reference, I still think of the early nineties as the era of the porno comics glut, when Eros titles swamped Fantagraphic's more traditional underground type books in the "alternative" section of the LCS.

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Waylander

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Marvel Collectible Classics X-Men #1

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Marvel Collectible Classics X-Men #2

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The first issue is a reprint of X-men #1 .

The second issue is a reprint of X-men #141 & #142

 

DG

 

I have the set of six of these, but unfortunately, they are in storage so cannot show them :sorry:

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DiceX

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Anything with a Chromium cover would sell in the 90's... even this.

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DG

 

That's a couple of...handsome women. :eek:

 

 

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Neeidea

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Thats it, I remember how cool and popular that was.

 

Anyone have the wolverine that had the holo card on the front #75 maybe

 

This one?

 

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I remember getting around 10 of these #85 foil variants in a job lot:

 

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I am sure I still have a few in a box somewhere...

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I remember getting around 10 of these #85 foil variants in a job lot:

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X-Men #316 had that metalic treatment as well, which looked pretty nice.

 

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It is truly The Foil Age.

 

There was Bloodshot, ASM#300, Venom Lethal Protector, DC Millenium editions and a whole load more as well... maybe an alternate name could be...

 

The Embossing Age.

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It is truly The Foil Age.

 

There was Bloodshot, ASM#300, Venom Lethal Protector, DC Millenium editions and a whole load more as well... maybe an alternate name could be...

 

The Embossing Age.

 

And don't forget Turok (1993). :cloud9:

 

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...and Ninjak #1 (1994). :cloud9::cloud9:

 

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...and Geomancer #1 (1994).

 

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I remember buying the cheaper non-foil variants of each of the Phalanx Covenant X-Men books, figuring they'd be a lot rarer and more valuable long-term.

 

That was the same time that I speculated on Continuity's Deathwatch 3000, with the bagged metallic # 0 trying very hard to be Valiant's Unity 0 from the year or two before. It all fell apart, however, when the much-hyped Valeria vs. Spawn Neal Adams/Todd McFarlane book never happened.

 

Don't know if anyone's mentioned it, but one of the cooler variants was the one with the bullethole through each cover. Was it a Malibu book?

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