What an awesomely cool cover on an awesomely cool digest magazine. I'd love to get a copy of this, but I imagine it's pretty rare, as I've never seen one for sale at any conventions, comic shops, or anywhere else.
According to the Overstreet Price Guide, this mag only lasted two issues, and seeing as how second issues almost invariably have smaller print runs than first issues, I'd wager issue two might be even rarer than this one.
Well, it did get bad distribution but is hardly rare (although I'm sure some greedy person selling one will claim such). For some it took a bit of newsstand checking way back when to procur one, and I re-acquired a copy recently at low cost. Too bad the excellent cover by Gray was not reproduced in a larger format.
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What an awesomely cool cover on an awesomely cool digest magazine. I'd love to get a copy of this, but I imagine it's pretty rare, as I've never seen one for sale at any conventions, comic shops, or anywhere else.
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Well, it did get bad distribution but is hardly rare (although I'm sure some greedy person selling one will claim such). For some it took a bit of newsstand checking way back when to procur one, and I re-acquired a copy recently at low cost. Too bad the excellent cover by Gray was not reproduced in a larger format.
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