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Most rewarding Valiant Issue Hunt?

Post by FormerReader »

I'm still getting caught up on things Valiant related since Chaos Effect so I'm out of the loop a bit, but I was wondering which issues have been the most fun and/or painful for you to track down?

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Post by Elveen »

The HTF Acclaim books have been the hardest to find for me.

As for the Valiant books, I have lifted about 200ish Eternal Warrior #27s out of a long box looking for a signature. The same with the price variants (but I have found some of them).

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Post by depluto »

My favorite was Turok 47 ... it was the last book I needed to hit 100 percent on regular issues. Bought it from our own Sonic Dan.

I waited years to get a copy of Unity Red at a decent price. I even saw a couple of really cheap BINs, hit the button just to find out someone beat me to it.

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Post by geocarr »

Most painful continues to be the Acclaim Turok: Empty Souls and Turok: Tales of the Lost Land no price variants. I started my completist journey in 2007 and have only seen them for sale once and they were out of my price range.

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Bloodshot 0 Platinum. Looking through a bunch of Bloodshot 0s paid off.

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Shadowman Vol 2 1 full size and Valiant Heroes Special Preview Edition were the 2 toughest hunts to find so far.Took years to find them.The HTF Acclaims are fun to find because they dont come up very frequently.

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Deathmate Yellow - thought I would never find one.

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Post by iggy101us »

comicsyte95 wrote:Shadowman Vol 2 1 full size and Valiant Heroes Special Preview Edition were the 2 toughest hunts to find so far.Took years to find them.The HTF Acclaims are fun to find because they dont come up very frequently.
Agree about the HTF Acclaims. Shadowman special edition - ashcan and full-size, Turok Evolution EB Games, Shadowman 16 glow, Armorines 4.

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Post by Elveen »

iggy101us wrote:
comicsyte95 wrote:Shadowman Vol 2 1 full size and Valiant Heroes Special Preview Edition were the 2 toughest hunts to find so far.Took years to find them.The HTF Acclaims are fun to find because they dont come up very frequently.
Agree about the HTF Acclaims. Shadowman special edition - ashcan and full-size, Turok Evolution EB Games, Shadowman 16 glow, Armorines 4.
Don't forget the Valiant Heroes and the GBU. I would put both of them above Armorines #4. And SH vol. 3 #6 needs some mention also.

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Post by dbngaa »

I would like to distinguish between rarely seen for sale and rarely seen for sale at decent prices.
Some are always seemingly available but at such high prices that I can't justify buying them.
Now granted, the only outlets I have available for purchasing comics are online, so that may skew my impressions.
That being said, and to answer the OP, any time I find a good deal on an issue or issues I need it's rewarding.

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Post by jridd28 »

It will be hard for anyone to top this........I once found a Turok #1 at a Flea Market! One of rarest comics EVER and I found it at a Flea Market! Nuff Said!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Post by Elveen »

Maybe the best Valiant related comic finding moments I had was pull out 2 Bernard Chang signed CEARS out of a bin. there was one, and right behind it was another.

I also pulled a SM GLOW out of a box and paid $4 for it.

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Post by Dr. Solar »

My most satisfying find ever was Solar #2.

Back when I was 13 or so, and super in to Valiant, I liked Solar best, and right around when Unity started, before prices went through the roof, I bought all the back issues of Solar from the comic shop. I was able to get them all for between $4 and $8, so this was really before things blew up.

Except they didn’t have issue #2.

I had the whole run of books, except issue 2.

Finally, my friends dad took us to a comic convention somewhere down in L.A. I couldn’t afford the Harby 1s for $80, or the A&A and Eternal Warrior golds for $125 (though I did have an A&A gold already), but I did finally find a Solar #2.

Paid $20 for it, which at the time was the most I had ever paid for a comic, by far.

I’ve found some other cool stuff since then, Turok EB Games in a dollar bin, Rai 21 VVSS in a 50-cent bin, etc., but I have never been as excited about any of those as I was about finally getting a copy of Solar #2.

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Post by iggy101us »

Elveen wrote:Maybe the best Valiant related comic finding moments I had was pull out 2 Bernard Chang signed CEARS out of a bin. there was one, and right behind it was another.

I also pulled a SM GLOW out of a box and paid $4 for it.
Those are awesome. I haven't had that much luck with pulling HTF Valiants from bins. The best bin pulls I've had so far were Bloodshot #30 and #32 newsstand price variants.

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jridd28 wrote:It will be hard for anyone to top this........I once found a Turok #1 at a Flea Market! One of rarest comics EVER and I found it at a Flea Market! Nuff Said!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Turok 12 is more important. I read somewhere it is the first appearance of Turok!

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iggy101us wrote:
Elveen wrote:Maybe the best Valiant related comic finding moments I had was pull out 2 Bernard Chang signed CEARS out of a bin. there was one, and right behind it was another.

I also pulled a SM GLOW out of a box and paid $4 for it.
Those are awesome. I haven't had that much luck with pulling HTF Valiants from bins. The best bin pulls I've had so far were Bloodshot #30 and #32 newsstand price variants.
VERY nice finds. The thing that I sorta hate about the price variants and newsstand books in that now I have to check out so many other books when I am looking through bins.

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Since the majority of my collection has been purchased from the wonderful folks on this website (and many also give to me...thank you so much, gents!), my greatest personal find was a copy of Acclaim "Shadowman Vol. 3 #1 No Price Variant" for $0.50 at an LCS a year or so ago.

While I was not looking for it, I bought it intending to give it away to someone on this site, which I ended up doing :) That also made it feel so much more special!!! (though I don't recall who I gave it to now?)

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Post by FormerReader »

I was pretty damn excited when I found Rai #3 & #4. It's hard to believe these are no longer considered hard to find.

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found 10 psi lords gold for 50c each in a old store in 2son

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Post by terreth »

What a great thread idea :thumb:

One of most rewarding issue hunt was when I stumbled across the Magnus, Rai, and Solar tpbs. I had none of the earlier Valiants, neither would I ever at the time the tpbs came out because of their costs (something I could remedy later thankfully). I loved reading those stories; I was so jazzed just to read them.

I guess my rewarding hunt came by accident having given up on the hunt. :)

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dhudson1 wrote:
jridd28 wrote:It will be hard for anyone to top this........I once found a Turok #1 at a Flea Market! One of rarest comics EVER and I found it at a Flea Market! Nuff Said!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Turok 12 is more important. I read somewhere it is the first appearance of Turok!
Another convert!

My story is similar to Doc Solar's although mine was Solar #4. I could not find that book anywhere. At the time I was trying to get everything up till Chaos Effect only and it was the last book I needed. Searching for it on E-bay is what lead me to this site!

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Post by Chiclo »

Unity 0 Red and 8 other books for about $8 shipped.

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Chiclo wrote:Unity 0 Red and 8 other books for about $8 shipped.
NICE :wink: !

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400yrs wrote:Bloodshot 0 Platinum. Looking through a bunch of Bloodshot 0s paid off.
I would gladly spend the time looking through every issue ever printed to find just one BS #0 Plat :drool: .

I don't even wanna' know how little you paid for it :roll: ...


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