Books you just cant find in the Wild 22 22

[littledoom]

Not easy to find. Found the JL digging in $1 longboxes at a con early on then went back at closing time for a more comprehensive search and found the Firestorm. Amazed it was still there after all those hungry diggers!

Edited November 3, 2021 by littledoom

[WolverineX]

On 11/3/2021 at 1:25 AM, littledoom said:

Not easy to find. Found the JL digging in $1 longboxes at a con early on then went back at closing time for a more comprehensive search and found the Firestorm. Amazed it was still there after all those hungry diggers!

Nice job, whats special about these books?  

[valiantman]

On 11/3/2021 at 4:07 PM, Wolverinex said:

Nice job, whats special about these books?  

https://recalledcomics.com/JusticeLeague3LogoVariant.php

[Tnexus]

Took me almost five years to find one in the wild, so I guess it counts here.

S.H.I.E.L.D. 1 Partial Sketch variant. Probably the rarest (though definitely not the most valuable) in the partial sketch series. I can only find perhaps 4 sales in the past 10 years graded or not.

Edited November 24, 2021 by Tnexus

[fastballspecial]

Just found some books I dont see very often all post a few then some later. 

I have seen the 125 once or twice never seen the 150. Print runs are under
10K so while low printed I should see them more then I do.

[jsilverjanet]

On 8/17/2021 at 10:23 PM, littledoom said:

Dollar books I found while on the hunt. HTF last issues and promos. I’ve found GR 93 for $1 a couple times b4 but never in clean high grade shape like this one

the iron man promo is 1st Donny Cates marvel work

[fastballspecial]

Never seen these before bought them immediately. Similar to late issue of
Kid N Play.

 

[Qalyar]

On 11/24/2021 at 9:02 AM, fastballspecial said:

Never seen these before bought them immediately. Similar to late issue of
Kid N Play.

 

Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book goes to 12, but the last three are all pretty elusive. As a bonus, nice newsstand printings. I don't think they're much rarer than the DM copies on this one, but they're definitely tough in presentable condition.

Fun fact. Bill & Ted have been published as comics by four different major publishers: DC (1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure one-shot), Marvel (1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey one-shot, Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book 12-issue series), Boom (2016 Bill and Ted Go to Hell 4-issue mini), and Dark Horse (2020 Bill & Ted Are Doomed 4-issue mini).

[fastballspecial]

My brother found these last night at my parents. Apparently my dad
picked these up in a yard sale years ago.

@onlyweaknesskryptonite
@Wolverinex

[fastballspecial]

On 11/24/2021 at 11:36 AM, Qalyar said:

Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book goes to 12, but the last three are all pretty elusive. As a bonus, nice newsstand printings. I don't think they're much rarer than the DM copies on this one, but they're definitely tough in presentable condition.

Fun fact. Bill & Ted have been published as comics by four different major publishers: DC (1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure one-shot), Marvel (1991 Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey one-shot, Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book 12-issue series), Boom (2016 Bill and Ted Go to Hell 4-issue mini), and Dark Horse (2020 Bill & Ted Are Doomed 4-issue mini).

Never seen issue 12 in person anywhere.

 

 

[Qalyar]

On 11/26/2021 at 10:22 AM, fastballspecial said:

Never seen issue 12 in person anywhere.

 

 

Yeah, it's a ghost of a book. Great example of the "last issue effect".

[WolverineX]

On 11/26/2021 at 10:03 AM, fastballspecial said:

My brother found these last night at my parents. Apparently my dad
picked these up in a yard sale years ago.

@onlyweaknesskryptonite
@Wolverinex

Incredible.  I"m so jealous.  This book prices keep on increasing.  I disagreed with the reviews; the show freaking rocks.

[inconceivable]

On 11/26/2021 at 7:17 PM, Wolverinex said:

Incredible.  I"m so jealous.  This book prices keep on increasing.  I disagreed with the reviews; the show freaking rocks.

Having a dad who picks up comics at the garage sales is the best.

Dan

[littledoom]

On 11/29/2021 at 9:49 PM, inconceivable said:

Having a dad who picks up comics at the garage sales is the best.

Dan

"I'm buying these for my son" Lol

[fastballspecial]

Found this one last week. Only 2nd copy I have ever found. Really tough find.
2 versions exist as well. 

 

[musicmeta]

On 12/6/2021 at 5:32 PM, fastballspecial said:

Found this one last week. Only 2nd copy I have ever found. Really tough find.
2 versions exist as well. 

 

Interesting as I have all the Spawn issues in the 70's except this #77.  Thought I could get it anytime..Looks like the hunt is on.

[fastballspecial]

On 12/6/2021 at 8:00 PM, musicmeta said:

Interesting as I have all the Spawn issues in the 70's except this #77.  Thought I could get it anytime..Looks like the hunt is on.

Its very difficult to find just the normal issue. The newsstand like I said I have only seen twice. Funny thing it was in the same
area about 2 weeks apart.

 

[fastballspecial]

This one surprised me as well. My Dad bought this at a yard sale years
ago in a pile comics with some DC newsstands.

Very difficult issue to find from the TNMT character Ninjara.  I am TNMT dumb, but
I knew the character and knew the issue was really hard to find never thought I 
would find one.

 

[Qalyar]

On 12/6/2021 at 11:46 PM, fastballspecial said:

This one surprised me as well. My Dad bought this at a yard sale years
ago in a pile comics with some DC newsstands.

Very difficult issue to find from the TNMT character Ninjara.  I am TNMT dumb, but
I knew the character and knew the issue was really hard to find never thought I 
would find one.

 

A lot of Antarctic Press's niche publications are essentially ghost books. On the other hand, they're also mostly still really niche pieces that don't have a lot of mainstream collector appeal. The few times that isn't the case, though...

Antarctic's furry fandom books were really low print runs after awhile. Furrlough struggled -- and often failed -- to stay in the top 300 books ordered via Diamond, which means quite a few of these books were in the 1200-1500 range for orders placed (and not likely any higher total print runs; Antarctic's foreign distribution was a joke, and these clearly weren't going through newsstands!). Their target audience wasn't necessarily traditional comic collectors, which is probably some of which these are tough in high grades, too. Of course, rare doesn't mean anyone cares... except, for example, Furrlough 47-48  with the Ninjara story for TMNT-verse completionists.

These aren't even close to the hardest Antarctic books though!

Edited December 7, 2021 by Qalyar

[F For Fake]

I worked at a comic shop about 25 years ago, and we had a guy that would call the shop, that we eventually dubbed "The Furry Guy". He'd ask if we had "any furry books" (and this was before I really knew what that meant). He'd ask us if we had Shanda the Panda or Gold Digger or whatever, which was fine, but then he'd ask us to describe the covers to him and then he'd...start breathing heavily. We eventually learned to recognize the voice so if he called we'd just cut him off and say "We have lots of books, come into the shop and take a look!" So, when I think of any of these books, or furry fans, I think of this guy. Anyway, yeah, there are some, uh, devoted fans out there.

(And hey, no kink-shaming here. I just think it's funny.)