Bloodstrike

[lmehaffey-migration]

What's the deal with the messed up dates on the 1-2 Bloodstrike? Cover date is June, indicia date is July 1993.

[valiantman]

 

No idea, but Image and 1993 usually meant "months behind".

[Hado]

No ones ever opened a Bloodstrike #1 before.

 

 

[lmehaffey-migration]

!! I have -- I am in the process of inventorying a bulk buy from a comic book shop that closed in 2001. Stuff's been in storage - excellent condition, all bagged-and-boarded - but totally random order in the boxes. A pain, in a way, but fun in another -- I'm seeing stuff I never looked at back then.

 

[valiantman]

What's the deal with the messed up dates on the 1-2 Bloodstrike? Cover date is June, indicia date is July 1993.

Just to add to the fun, CGC has #1 as April 1993 and #5 as January 1994.

[the authority]

Bloodstrike vs Brigade vs X-Force vs Youngblood. Who would win in a fight...or a chess match ?

[valiantman]

Bloodstrike vs Brigade vs X-Force vs Youngblood. Who would win in a fight...or a chess match ?

Wetworks. Because they would show up really late and clean up when the rest of them are tired.

[the authority]

[Bird]

Crazy, I got a pretty full run of Bloodstrike the same way this month. I guess this drek sits until you or I buy the whole shebang! Brigade, I have so much Brigade I cannot believe it. But like yours, it is all in excellent condition.

[valiantman]

It hasn't happened yet, and it may never happen, but this drek from 1992-93 Image was sold direct and newsstand (with UPC on the cover), and those newsstands are pretty hard to locate... so, if there's every any value... it will probably be in the newsstands.

[Gatsby77]

Agreed.

 

I don't know if it's any more rare or harder to find, but I'm more proud of my Supreme # 1 (non-foil newsstand) than I am of my several Supreme # 1 Golds.

[valiantman]

Agreed.

 

I don't know if it's any more rare or harder to find, but I'm more proud of my Supreme # 1 (non-foil newsstand) than I am of my several Supreme # 1 Golds.

It's pretty clear that the newsstand Image books are significantly harder to find than the direct editions. I would doubt if any newsstands were printed in lower quantities than the Image gold books... however, the Image newsstand books wouldn't necessarily have been treated all that well... particularly compared to Image gold books that got the bag/board/royal treatment when they were new.

 

If your Supreme #1 non-foil newsstand is in top shape, it definitely might be harder to find (in that shape) than a Supreme #1 Gold.

 

I really like Wildcats #2 newsstand white cover, without the deluxe prism-stuff on the direct edition. It's always a grab for me when I find them in $1 bins. Mainly because you don't have to pull the book all the way out to see that it's a newsstand.

 

 

But getting back on topic, I'll admit that I've never seen a Bloodstrike #1 with the newsstand UPC.

 

[Saint_Doyle]

Bloodstrike #1 and Brigade #1 are the two comics you find in everyone's "old comic collection from when I was a kid."

 

Here's a fun trick: try to read one. You can feel brain cells screaming in pain as they wither and die.

[UltraMaximus]

Bloodstrike vs Brigade vs X-Force vs Youngblood. Who would win in a fight...or a chess match ?

Wetworks. Because they would show up really late and clean up when the rest of them are tired.

 

I just LOL'd