Valiant Uniques

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:41 am

Misembossed, Uncut, half platinum/half gold, foriegn editions, variants, dealer letters, polybagged with pubes etc.
Who's got the one and only's as far as board members go?

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 2:44 am

To get things rolling here's one. We've all seen the Deathmate Prologue White Variant Cardstock cover but a few months ago I picked up a Deathmate Red White Variant on ebay. Unlike the Prologue, this has the whole book inside. I'm not sure if this was done on purpose or if it's a printing error. I've never seen another one like it or another Deathmate book that has a white variant.

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:17 am

I've got a Deathmate Prologue White thing, but it's not cardstock, it's somewhere in between the weight of interior pages and and a cover. It's a preview that aparently was given out at pre-release signings. It's got several autographs on it and the interior is nothing but ads for the series.

I also picked up a letter to retailers with some xeroxes of covers and some interior art from Shadowman and a letter thanking the retailer for their continued support.

Odd, but cool!

Doug

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:28 pm

How about this then:

dino · Post by **dino** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:38 pm

MagnusRF wrote:I've got a Deathmate Prologue White thing, but it's not cardstock, it's somewhere in between the weight of interior pages and and a cover. It's a preview that aparently was given out at pre-release signings. It's got several autographs on it and the interior is nothing but ads for the series.

I also picked up a letter to retailers with some xeroxes of covers and some interior art from Shadowman and a letter thanking the retailer for their continued support.

Odd, but cool!

Doug

I remember you winning the retailer pack on ebay, it's a nice set. Where did you get the deathmate from? I've never seen one.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:55 pm

I wrote a letter to Valiant when they started their gold comic thing, saying it was a bad idea catering to speculating retailers, blah, blah.

A week later I got a letter on Voyager letterhead from Paul Fairchild telling me that gold books were actually pretty cool. And to prove it they included an Archer and Armstrong 0.

Which was pretty cool.

Sorry about the crappy pic.

depluto · Post by **depluto** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:02 pm

I also had a CGCed Solar 1 that Don Perlin did a Solar sketch and signed on the case in black marker. But I dropped the damn thing and the case is thoroughly cracked.

dino · Post by **dino** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:22 pm

That letter is pretty cool, do you have a better scan where the text is readable?

The cgc solar sounds great, do you happen to have a scan?

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:39 pm

The Deathmate came from an auction (real life, not online) where I picked up a box load of goodies. I didn't even know it was there, I was just getting a stack of commons to fill in holes.

I'll get a scan up as soon as I can, but that may be another day or so....

Best,
Doug

myron · Post by **myron** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 10:50 am

dammit, where is my solar white when I want it...

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:11 pm

myron wrote:dammit, where is my solar white when I want it...

Heh heh heh...

Shakespeare · Post by **Shakespeare** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 5:26 pm

Don't make me bring up my Photoshop pics!!!

S

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:11 pm

Only two months late....but here it is!!! I finally can post pictures and stuff!!!

YAY ME!!!

Now if only I could get my scanner to do a better job and get rid of all those little dots....

bamaphilosopher · Post by **bamaphilosopher** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:10 pm

I hope I still have it...it's packed up somewhere. But I wrote in one time during Shooter's tenure about submitting stories. The secretary wrote back (was it Debbie Fix? Can't remember...) and gave me a really nice letter with a full copy of one of the scripts they had used.

I can't even remember which one it was, but I thought it was really cool at the time. I think it was the script to Magnus #1. I will dig through my stuff...I hope I still have it! I'll never forget how cool their response was. I hope I find it, and one day get a chance to have Shooter autograph it.

I ended up submitting a story, but it was a pretty crappy one and I never heard back, so I never submitted again. I wish I had been as good a writer then as I am now...if it had occurred these days, I would submit several things that would be much better. Since they were looking for writers at the time, who knows? They found some good ones in Tony Bedard and others...

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:37 pm

BUMP

This thread is too cool to let it go.....

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:21 pm

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:36 pm

That's IT? Just a bump?

Doesn't anybody have some oddball item to tell us about???????

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:41 pm

MagnusRF wrote:That's IT? Just a bump? Doesn't anybody have some oddball item to tell us about???????

Lots of collectors on the site have great oddball valiant items but I think most are afriad others will get jelaous if they post pics. Or maybe they're just lazy. Anyway, at the risk of showing off, here's another one of mine:

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:56 pm

Dang, that's sweet! Now I have add this to the list too....

Shadowman Good-Bad-Ugly Variant
Miracle on Broadway
Birth of the Defiant Universe
VcVVSS books
and now Chinese X-O!!!!

Will it ever end??

dino · Post by **dino** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:58 pm

MagnusRF wrote:

Dang, that's sweet! Now I have add this to the list too....

Shadowman Good-Bad-Ugly Variant
Miracle on Broadway
Birth of the Defiant Universe
VcVVSS books
and now Chinese X-O!!!!

Will it ever end??

Thankfully no, it wont

Thats a nice list and I hate to do this to you but have you heard of a certain platinum bloodshot book......?

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:04 pm

Birth of the Defiant Universe?

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:07 pm

Bloodshot Platinum? Big deal, I've got three of those.....

You kids are soooooo cute!

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:10 pm

jedimarley wrote:Birth of the Defiant Universe?

Yipper! Here's a scan, the first I've ever seen!

http://www.valiantfans.com/forum/viewto ... sc&start=0

Scroll down about half way, it's SWEET!

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:15 pm

Echo

<chuckle...someone's watching the boards.

>

MedicAR · Post by **MedicAR** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:17 pm

I'm stuck at work with nothing to do. This is the best entertainment I've got!