wardevil0 Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 Just got in another great Copper Age AP slab! This is a copy I've had for a while and managed to find Sonny Strait at a convention appearance. There are very few comics credits for Strait; he's best known as an anime voice actor, specifically as the voice of Krillin in Dragon Ball Z. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted May 10 Share Posted May 10 On 5/10/2024 at 9:09 AM, wardevil0 said: Just got in another great Copper Age AP slab! This is a copy I've had for a while and managed to find Sonny Strait at a convention appearance. There are very few comics credits for Strait; he's best known as an anime voice actor, specifically as the voice of Krillin in Dragon Ball Z. interesting! wardevil0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APDallas Posted May 13 Author Share Posted May 13 (edited) Got word from a friend at AP that they had a warehouse find of 6 very high grade copies of SENTAI #2. He told me that they have not seen the light of day since 1994. He told me that they got an offer for $10,000 for all 6. He would not tell me who it was but apparently it was from someone from the music industry. Edited May 13 by APDallas wardevil0, greggy and ADAMANTIUM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 Just unpacked this last night: the impossibly rare NHS 70 subscriber edition! Because of an ordering mistake, too few copies were printed to fulfil all orders so this version was made to be sent to subscribers so they could follow the story (their subscriptions were also extended to make up for it). Copies that were sent out were signed on the back cover, but not this one... Qalyar and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 On 5/23/2024 at 7:16 AM, wardevil0 said: Just unpacked this last night: the impossibly rare NHS 70 subscriber edition! Because of an ordering mistake, too few copies were printed to fulfil all orders so this version was made to be sent to subscribers so they could follow the story (their subscriptions were also extended to make up for it). Copies that were sent out were signed on the back cover, but not this one... That's an amazing copy of a simply impossible book. And it got into the wild unsigned! Do you know if this was a subscriber copy that Ben just didn't initial somehow, or if this was a proof or file copy or something along those lines? ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 On 5/23/2024 at 9:13 AM, Qalyar said: That's an amazing copy of a simply impossible book. And it got into the wild unsigned! Do you know if this was a subscriber copy that Ben just didn't initial somehow, or if this was a proof or file copy or something along those lines? Basically a file copy; I got it from Ben directly a few years ago. It was never sent to a subscriber. Since you specified "initialed," can I assume you're familiar with this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 On 5/23/2024 at 8:28 AM, wardevil0 said: Basically a file copy; I got it from Ben directly a few years ago. It was never sent to a subscriber. Since you specified "initialed," can I assume you're familiar with this one? I don't own a copy myself, but yes. I'm friends with a very passionate NHS fan who owns one of the signed copies. It's not as nice as this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 (edited) On 5/23/2024 at 9:44 AM, Qalyar said: I don't own a copy myself, but yes. I'm friends with a very passionate NHS fan who owns one of the signed copies. It's not as nice as this one! Another NHS fan out there! Excellent. Is he or she interested in possibly buying/selling/trading NHS items? I have another copy of this I picked up online, and it's absolutely wrecked! Chewed corner, stains, creases, but it's a double cover! And yes, it's initialed. Edited May 23 by wardevil0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted May 23 Share Posted May 23 On 5/23/2024 at 8:52 AM, wardevil0 said: Another NHS fan out there! Excellent. Is he or she interested in possibly buying/selling/trading NHS items? I have another copy of this I picked up online, and it's absolutely wrecked! Chewed corner, stains, creases, but it's a double cover! And yes, it's initialed. I'll reach out and let you know! And yeah, her copy is also firmly in "beater" territory. I don't have many data points, but I suspect there aren't very many presentable copies of this! Well ... not that there are many copies in the first place, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APDallas Posted May 26 Author Share Posted May 26 I just got word from an AP insider that they got the payment for $10,000 for six high grade copies of SENTAI #2. That's aboout $1666,67 per copy. Woh! Better check your back issues. wardevil0 and ADAMANTIUM 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted Tuesday at 03:04 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:04 PM First Twilight-X issue on the CGC Census... pmpknface, ADAMANTIUM and Qalyar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted Tuesday at 03:06 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:06 PM Couldn't believe I found this one in such high grade in the wild... the dark, gradient color background shows every flaw. ADAMANTIUM, APDallas and Qalyar 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted Tuesday at 03:22 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:22 PM On 5/28/2024 at 10:06 AM, wardevil0 said: Couldn't believe I found this one in such high grade in the wild... the dark, gradient color background shows every flaw. Nomura's Families of Altered Wars is absolutely ambitious, even if (at least in my opinion) it doesn't always work quite as he'd probably hoped. Still, it would be immensely challenging to put together a high-grade run of the entire story. Heck, it would be moderately difficult to put together any grade run of the entire story. The last five or so issues of the first AP run (which is sort-of-technically volume 2, after the Creative Frontiers run, although that got co-branded Antarctic by the end also, and there's Legacy numbering, and...) are probably in "books you can't find in the wild" territory. There are a couple of copies of #25 currently for sale online in various places for, erm, aggressive asking prices, but to be fair, I can count the number I've seen in person on my elbows. This #17 is real nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wardevil0 Posted Tuesday at 03:53 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 03:53 PM On 5/28/2024 at 11:22 AM, Qalyar said: Nomura's Families of Altered Wars is absolutely ambitious, even if (at least in my opinion) it doesn't always work quite as he'd probably hoped. Still, it would be immensely challenging to put together a high-grade run of the entire story. Heck, it would be moderately difficult to put together any grade run of the entire story. The last five or so issues of the first AP run (which is sort-of-technically volume 2, after the Creative Frontiers run, although that got co-branded Antarctic by the end also, and there's Legacy numbering, and...) are probably in "books you can't find in the wild" territory. There are a couple of copies of #25 currently for sale online in various places for, erm, aggressive asking prices, but to be fair, I can count the number I've seen in person on my elbows. This #17 is real nice. Add in a Ninja High School crossover and I'm there for it... the best I've found of 21 so far: ADAMANTIUM and Qalyar 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APDallas Posted Thursday at 07:03 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 07:03 PM On 5/28/2024 at 10:06 AM, wardevil0 said: Couldn't believe I found this one in such high grade in the wild... the dark, gradient color background shows every flaw. A beauty. TIGERS OF TERRA are hard to find in high grade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
