Dumb Luck

[Hepgwyn]

For once I ended up with the variant

 

I was always more focused on the super hero comics and usually felt out of my depth whenever I took a gamble on one of the weirder line of comics. Sometimes I think I only bought the Vertigo books to look more cool to the older guys that ran the comics store. A few years before I started regularly buying Sandman, Hellblazer and Preacher, I was given a promotional copy of Sandman #8 on one of my many trips to my LCS. I'm pretty sure I never did get around to reading it or the editorial on the front cover. Nevertheless it made into a bag and a box. Many years later when doing an inventory to decide which books to put in storage, I noticed mention of an editorial variant of Sandman #8 in the Overstreet guide. Usually whenever I would see mention of a variant in the guide I always would have the more common type. So I went and cracked open my copy and you guessed it a Karen Berger editorial variant. Sadly the comic had been in one of those promotional displays in the store and had picked up a few minor creases, perhaps they might some day be pressed out. I graded it at a 9.2, so I was happy with what I got.

 

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[Ronnylama]

What makes this a variant? It must be notes inside the book. I must check mine

[Jeffro.]

What makes this a variant? It must be notes inside the book. I must check mine

 

http://www.recalledcomics.com/Sandman8KarenBergerEditorial.php

 

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.arts.comics/NthxFz-4MzY

[Hepgwyn]

Thanks for posting those links. I didn't realize that it was isolated to just two stores. Comix Experience in SF was my LCS at the time and I did attend a Neil Gaiman signing. Thanks for helping explain why I ended up with one of these.