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Cover Art to Harbinger 0

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comix4fun

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I figured that cover would sell for a lot. It's a nice cover by two great artists and it's the ultimate grail for a Valiant collector.

 

 

It is certainly a nice cover, but I can think of at least a half dozen other pre-unity valiant covers (including a couple by BWS) that were more important to the Valiant Universe and its collectors than this one. Not that there is anything wrong with the #0 cover, but I don't know if I agree that it is the "ultimate grail" for a valiant collector. As one of those myself, it doesn't crack my top ten. sleeping.gif

 

Magnus #1 for example would be far ahead of this one. The 1st Valiant cover and perhaps the most iconic.

 

Chris Caira

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I figured that cover would sell for a lot. It's a nice cover by two great artists and it's the ultimate grail for a Valiant collector.

 

 

It is certainly a nice cover, but I can think of at least a half dozen other pre-unity valiant covers (including a couple by BWS) that were more important to the Valiant Universe and its collectors than this one. Not that there is anything wrong with the #0 cover, but I don't know if I agree that it is the "ultimate grail" for a valiant collector. As one of those myself, it doesn't crack my top ten. sleeping.gif

 

Magnus #1 for example would be far ahead of this one. The 1st Valiant cover and perhaps the most iconic.

 

Chris Caira

www.hulk-smash.com

 

I'd consider quite of few of the Magnus covers and even a couple of the Solar/X-O covers better than the Harby #0. It is a great piece though.

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matewan1990

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Yeah, I was wrong when I said it was the ultimate grail for Valiant collectors. But, I'm sure it's up there.

I believe Jim Shooter still has the cover art to Harbinger 1 and several others. I've spoken to the guy who has the cover art to Rai 3 via phone. He wanted to sell it to me several years ago for way more money than I could come up with at the time. He also had Rai 1, 2 and 4 and some other Valiant covers, like Secret Weapons 1. But, he wanted more for Secret Weapons 1 than he did for Rai 3. Man, I should've bought that Rai 3 cover... seems cheap now...

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COMICKINGS

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Yeah, I was wrong when I said it was the ultimate grail for Valiant collectors. But, I'm sure it's up there.

I believe Jim Shooter still has the cover art to Harbinger 1 and several others. I've spoken to the guy who has the cover art to Rai 3 via phone. He wanted to sell it to me several years ago for way more money than I could come up with at the time. He also had Rai 1, 2 and 4 and some other Valiant covers, like Secret Weapons 1. But, he wanted more for Secret Weapons 1 than he did for Rai 3. Man, I should've bought that Rai 3 cover... seems cheap now...

 

I picked up the cover to Secret Weapons #1 last year from a guy in Chicago.I don't know if he's the same guy,but he didn't have any of the Rai covers then.Maybe he was holding out!

 

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Yeah, I was wrong when I said it was the ultimate grail for Valiant collectors. But, I'm sure it's up there.

I believe Jim Shooter still has the cover art to Harbinger 1 and several others. I've spoken to the guy who has the cover art to Rai 3 via phone. He wanted to sell it to me several years ago for way more money than I could come up with at the time. He also had Rai 1, 2 and 4 and some other Valiant covers, like Secret Weapons 1. But, he wanted more for Secret Weapons 1 than he did for Rai 3. Man, I should've bought that Rai 3 cover... seems cheap now...

 

Inks are safe for Valiant, but for color covers, beware of the

official "reproductions" that were needed to create the

trading card sets in 1993-94.

 

Both types of colors are hand-painted and appear to be the original cover colors,

but one is truly original, and the other was created a year or so afterwards.

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Solar

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It's interesting to me how Valiant collectors have formed a separate and somewhat strong market for color guides. Most publishers' guides go for next to nothing (see the post where I picked up the entire first issue of Y the Last Man's for $180 - under $5 each).

 

Didn't the color guide for Magnus 0 sell for $800 or am I remembering incorrectly?

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