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dannyboi1
02-12-2008, 11:51 AM
An eBay user alerted my attention to an error in one of my listings - X-) Manowar # 0 Gold Variant. Sure enough, after doing some research on Valiantcomics.com I realized they were right. But my dilemma is: what the heck is this then?

I have about 8 of the silver, and then this one, which is gold. Huh?

<img src=http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m106/dans_auctions/A761.jpg> (http://www.comicscorral.com//i102.photobucket.com/albums/m106/dans_auctions/A761.jpg>)
fulltimer56
02-12-2008, 04:52 PM
Hi Dan,

The link ain't working?

Linda
Hoss
02-12-2008, 04:55 PM
Here is the image...


http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m106/dans_auctions/A761.jpg
dhennen
02-12-2008, 09:25 PM
It looks like a printing error to me...

Dave H
fulltimer56
02-13-2008, 02:19 AM
They are showing two different ones on this site:

http://www.comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=8586

Linda
toz1960
02-13-2008, 02:42 AM
comicspriceguide.com is only showing 2 variants,regular(silver) and the gold logo
SolitaireOne
02-13-2008, 06:09 AM
comicspriceguide.com is only showing 2 variants,regular(silver) and the gold logo

... so it's not a retailer promo then? :shock: I recon, it is...?
StlComics
02-15-2008, 05:14 AM
That is the short printed gold variant. It was common practice at the time for Valiant to do a regular and short print variant cover for their #0 and #1 issues. In some cases, there are also platinum, red, and blue variants.

The main difference in the variant here is that the silver (regular) cover had around 800,000 copies printed. The gold (variant) cover had around 5000 copies. It is by far much more rare, and considered one of the toughest X-O issues to find.

http://www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/issue.asp?cn=834

http://www.valiantcomics.com/valiant/issue.asp?cn=1231
Quato
02-19-2008, 11:02 AM
There are also people discovering that the colors are inconsistent on on the logo boxes. Some are bright white, others are clearly an ivory color. When stacked up , the ivory ones look different on the spine. The jury is out on whether 4 versions of this comic exist or whether there are just printing inconsistencies. There is a Gold & non-gold version, but is there an Ivory & White logo version of each also?

Q