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Heavy Metal #276
Heavy Metal ⋅ 2015
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Heavy Metal #276
 
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Cover art by Jack Kirby featuring concept art for the unmade film, "Lord of Light"

Kirby's art would later be used as a prop in the CIA rescue mission of six Americans who escaped Iran in 1980 by posing as the film crew of a fake movie called "Argo"

Garbage Pail Kids: Comic-Book Puke-Tacular #1
Blank ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2016
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Garbage Pail Kids: Comic-Book Puke-Tacular #1
 
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Key Facts

Blank sketch variant

The Deluxe Edition of the first Garbage Pail Kids comic was polybagged with a GPK trading card/sticker. There are three versions of the Comic Con Ron card: a white border, a black border and the rarest, red border

Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #179
Whitman ⋅ Whitman ⋅ 1980
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Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge #179
 
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Whitman edition

Scarce, distributed in three-packs

Similar covers exist with a colorless moon and star but do not command significant value

Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #1
2nd Print ⋅ Gemstone ⋅ 1970
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Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #1
 
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Second printing

218-page, softcover price guide published in 1970 by Robert M. Overstreet

Print run: 800 copies

Original retail price: $5.00

Daredevil #196
Marvel ⋅ 1983
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Daredevil #196
 
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First meeting and team-up of Daredevil and Wolverine

1st appearance of Lord Dark Wind, a scientist who invented the process of adamantium bonding to bone

There are 5 types of adamantium in the mainstream Marvel universe:

Proto - Captain America's shield is made of this kind

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Primary - the kind that's bonded to Wolverine's skeleton

Secondary - an adamantium/steel alloy

Beta - a version of True adamantium that changes on a molecular level when grafted to bone

Adamantine - an adamantium/gold alloy

Veronica #201
Archie ⋅ 2010
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Veronica #201
 
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Cover art by Dan Parent

Copies ordered by retailers: 6,000

Supreme #67
Image ⋅ 2012
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Supreme #67
 
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Crossover appearance of Omni-Man

Cover art inspired by Superman #276 (1974)

Darkwing Duck #1
1:10 ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2010
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Darkwing Duck #1
 
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Variant cover art by Jake Myler

Treehouse of Horror #11
Bongo ⋅ 2005
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Treehouse of Horror #11
 
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The Simpsons annual anthology of Halloween stories including:

The Sub-Basement of Dracula written by Marv Wolfman, illustrated by Gene Colan

Squish Thing written by Len Wein, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson

Additional writers and artists: Bill Morrison, Angelo Torres, John Severin, Mark Schultz and Al Williamson

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Copies ordered by retailers: 12,266

Tokyo Ghost #1-2
Hardcover ⋅ Image ⋅ 2016
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Tokyo Ghost #1-2
 
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Key Facts

Oversized 11x7 collected edition of Tokyo Ghost #1 and #2

Presented with original inks by Sean Murphy

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