Qalyar Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 (edited) Because, really, I needed to be able to string more letters together in the subject line. Anyway, this is EverQuest Online Adventures: The Quest for Darkpaw, an obscure promo comic that I've been hunting for awhile, and finally was able to locate via another forum member. The quality of the team that worked on this is surprising for what was essentially just a one-shot advertising giveaway. Lan Medina's art is probably best known from Fables, and Scott Ciencin was a writer for a huge number of novels set in various franchises (Forgotten Realms, Dinotopia, WildC.A.T.S, Jurassic Park, and so forth) plus a handful of comic miniseries for DC, Marvel, Crossgen, and IDW. This copy is not without faults. There are a couple of slight creases along the spine, mostly near the top staple. The most significant is visible in the FC UL closeup. The others are effectively impossible to see against the marbled background. There's a little bit of corner blunting/softness, especially at FC LR, plus a corner-tip crease at BC LL. The most significant defect is color-breaking impact creasing along the back cover spine. I'm inclined to think this book won't get much out of a press, either. The hairline creases near the top staple are non-color-breaking, but a press can't correct that impact defect to the back cover or the corner tip crease, and I think those are what's going to define the grade here. But I'm happy to hear others' thoughts. Edited June 7, 2022 by Qalyar Galen130 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpoolica Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 8.5 Qalyar and grendelbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 1 hour ago, Deadpoolica said: 8.5 Ditto. Neat book. Thanks for sharing. Qalyar and Deadpoolica 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 8.0 Qalyar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funnybooks Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/8/2021 at 2:03 PM, Deadpoolica said: 8.5 On 7/8/2021 at 3:24 PM, grendelbo said: Ditto. Neat book. Thanks for sharing. leaning 8.5 Deadpoolica and Qalyar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadpoolica Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/19/2021 at 3:07 PM, Funnybooks said: leaning 8.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funnybooks Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 I'm out of emojis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galen130 Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/19/2021 at 1:39 PM, Funnybooks said: I'm out of emojis *sad* emoji Funnybooks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted June 7, 2022 Author Share Posted June 7, 2022 8.5 estimates were right on the dot. Pretty happy about this one, since there was a very unexpected raw sale on ebay recently that went for over $1600 (and no, not to me!). I think that copy might be a 9.0/9.2 based on the limited scans available, but needless to say, I'll take the 8.5 in hand. grendelbo, Galen130 and Funnybooks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 On 6/7/2022 at 2:43 PM, Qalyar said: 8.5 estimates were right on the dot. Funnybooks and Qalyar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
