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[IbukiLord]

My LCS just got this one in. I was going to buy it raw but by the time I went to pick it up they had sent it to CGC guess it's value has gone up haha

 

Edited June 27, 2021 by IbukiLord

[ADAMANTIUM]

7 minutes ago, IbukiLord said:

My LCS just got this one in. I was going to biy it raw but by the time I went to pick it up they had sent it to CGC guess it's value has gone up haha

 

Yes indeed and the 3rd print is like a black and white version

Picked it up for under cover, it is a cool cover regardless of having all 3 main characters or the introduction

Win win

 

[IbukiLord]

[followtheleader]

12 hours ago, IbukiLord said:

The Titans is a 2nd print, right? Sweet. 

Patrick

[IbukiLord]

3 hours ago, followtheleader said:

The Titans is a 2nd print, right? Sweet. 

Patrick

Yup, and at cover price there was no way I'd leave it behind.

[Timeless icons]

Grabbed this one this week. Took a while to find one. 

Edited July 1, 2021 by Timeless icons

[onlyweaknesskryptonite]

Todays pick ups.  

and one of the Superman Wedding RRP. 

[Jasonmorris1000000]

[Jesse-Lee]

Picked up a few recent books in the last couple of weeks, here are some of the more interesting ones.

Really digging Bunny Mask, and I got these two at retail for (relatively) cheap:

 

Heard these are going to the moon... /sarcasm

 

Got this 5-pack for $16 on eBay - I was the lone bidder. Not sure if that's great or bad...

 

These were the last two sitting on the shelf at my LCS so I grabbed them:

 

Love these Neal Adams homages to... himself...

[followtheleader]

8 hours ago, Jesse-Lee said:

Picked up a few recent books in the last couple of weeks, here are some of the more interesting ones.

Really digging Bunny Mask, and I got these two at retail for (relatively) cheap:

 

Heard these are going to the moon... /sarcasm

 

Got this 5-pack for $16 on eBay - I was the lone bidder. Not sure if that's great or bad...

 

These were the last two sitting on the shelf at my LCS so I grabbed them:

 

Love these Neal Adams homages to... himself...

Bunny Mask was awesome, all kinds of wrong.  Very pumped to see where #2 goes.  One of the few times I bought based on a store recommendation. 

I really enjoy Geiger also.  I can't speak to the price.  I didn't see it selling like hot cakes, but I'm guessing quite a few were ordered based on the creative team. 

Patrick 

[Jesse-Lee]

2 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Bunny Mask was awesome, all kinds of wrong.  Very pumped to see where #2 goes.  One of the few times I bought based on a store recommendation. 

I really enjoy Geiger also.  I can't speak to the price.  I didn't see it selling like hot cakes, but I'm guessing quite a few were ordered based on the creative team. 

Patrick 

As soon as I read Bunny Mask I ordered the next issue and put it on my pull list - it was so crazy! Did the same with The Nice House on the Lake.

[ADAMANTIUM]

Not bad for 54 cents

Beat to all heck but 

[Parabellum]

I thought the German PKTMU was pretty cool.  I lost the initial auction by a couple dollars.  The seller contacted me later and said he had a second copy and would sell it for my max bid.  Needless to say I took him up on the offer.  I’m a fan of Steve Dillion’s rendition of the Punisher.

[Parabellum]

11 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Not bad for 54 cents

Beat to all heck but 

“Beat to all heck”=the book has character.😉. I dig it.

Edited July 6, 2021 by Parabellum

[IbukiLord]

Cover price less 20%

[kairos70]

On 6/27/2021 at 1:47 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

It's a 1st appearance too of someone called Rein, which in subsequent printings is advertised as wolverines daughter....

I picked up a 3rd print for under cover a month or so ago , and didn't know how it would grade out

So I had some spare raws that I took to a LCS , those raws and $10 investment got me this 9.4 for $53 total (priced at $90), so it's a decent enough books and maybe worth a flip though.

 

Actually her name is Rien which is her last name. Full name Reine du Rien.

[ADAMANTIUM]

$3 a piece and the blue hologram is the 2nd to last that I needed to complete the set! some Newsstands and 2nd judge dredd?

[AJLewandoski]

Could use a clean but other than that no glaring defects, for the price it was a no brainer 

[Qalyar]

Some folks may have noticed this from my PGM post for this book, but thanks to the power of this forum, I'm now a proud owner of EverQuest Online Adventures: The Quest for Darkpaw (2002). This is a really odd, really obscure book. It was a promotional giveaway associated with EverQuest Online Adventures, the relatively short-lived PS2 exclusive spinoff of the EverQuest franchise. Contrary to expectations, this book wasn't included with the game. In fact, it's quite unclear exactly how this was distributed. There's definitely no indication that it was sent in bulk to game stores to be given out with game copies (as many later DC video game promotionals were, including Aion and DC Universe Online). It's also fairly well-established that it wasn't a comic book convention giveaway (like End of Nations or the extremely rare panel giveaway Teeny Titans). The publication timing might suggest it was a pre-order bonus for the game, but ... it wasn't that, either.

My best guess is that it may have been part of a press kit or something along those lines.

Rarity is tough to judge because demand has been pretty low, but there are not many of these in circulation. Two copies were in a collection sold to a comic store in Utah a number of years ago. However, that trail is cold; they no longer have the books, and suspect they disposed of them to a third party who bought a large amount of their bulk backstock. I was able to contact him, but he wasn't familiar with this title. So those two are likely languishing in storage... A third copy has been owned by another member of these boards, but they have not been active in awhile. I hope they are well. In any case, that copy doubtless remains with their collection. This book, from North Carolina, is unlikely to be any of those three, and so is the fourth confirmed copy. I suspect there are actually a lot more of these out there. Somewhere.

I think what surprises me most about this book is the caliber of talent DC/Wildstorm hired for a book that was never put through any sort of regular distribution. Lan Medina did the art here, years and years before his Eisner Award-winning contribution to Fables. Writer Scott Ciencin, who unfortunately passed away in 2014, is probably best known to the comic book community for his work on IDW's Silent Hill line (although he did work for Crossgen, DC, and Marvel as well). However, he was also a prolific novelist, especially for adaptations of franchise work, from Dinotopia to Godzilla to Jurassic Park and the Buffyverse. All for a book that was never sold, and that almost no one has ever seen.

[MetalPSI]