a good friend

[pauls1688]

a really good friend has got me a retail preivew copy of x-o manowar of ebay i got it today and after thanking him very much for it had to take a look on here to see what was what why was it only a print run of 5000 that seem's very low?
any way i just had to tell you all about my mate getting it and making my week which had been not the best but now happy happy happy fan boy.

[Daniel Jackson]

5000 is low, but you have to remember that lot of folks still won't buy the Acclaim books. I've said all along if you're thinking about collecting them, get 'em while they're still cheap.

[Second_Death]

5000 is low, but you have to remember that lot of folks still won't buy the Acclaim books. I've said all along if you're thinking about collecting them, get 'em while they're still cheap.

I agree totally. Better get them now.

[Daniel Jackson]

Does anyone remember seeing these things displayed at your LCS like Acclaim intended the retailers to use them? (Back in the day of course).

[siren3-4]

Does anyone remember seeing these things displayed at your LCS like Acclaim intended the retailers to use them? (Back in the day of course).

what do you mean ???

[Daniel Jackson]

Does anyone remember seeing these things displayed at your LCS like Acclaim intended the retailers to use them? (Back in the day of course).

what do you mean ???

They wanted retailers to poke a hole in the top (they even put a little black dot where the hole goes) and hang them from a chain or string at the check out counter.

[pauls1688]

thanks guys i will be keeping a close eye out for more of them on ebay.
i can understand why people may not have been big into the acclaim reboot at the time but surerly after a couple of years they would see that they were all not that bad right????.....right??

[siren3-4]

Does anyone remember seeing these things displayed at your LCS like Acclaim intended the retailers to use them? (Back in the day of course).

what do you mean ???

They wanted retailers to poke a hole in the top (they even put a little black dot where the hole goes) and hang them from a chain or string at the check out counter.

I didn't know that . .

I wonder if any of them did that ???

Has anyone ever seen a copy with a hole in it ? (other than the story)

[Daniel Jackson]

thanks guys i will be keeping a close eye out for more of them on ebay.
i can understand why people may not have been big into the acclaim reboot at the time but surerly after a couple of years they would see that they were all not that bad right????.....right??

Eh, there's still a lot of Acclaim hatin going on. Some of it's warranted, but they did do a few things right along the way.

[IMJ]

I distinctly remember two comic stores in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago doing the hole punch thing, actually. One of them is out of business now, and the other is a hole in the wall joint that still exists and is run by a guy that we have come to call "The Magic Man"....

[Elveen]

I distinctly remember two comic stores in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago doing the hole punch thing, actually. One of them is out of business now, and the other is a hole in the wall joint that still exists and is run by a guy that we have come to call "The Magic Man"....

really.... a comic book shop.... I thought he only did Movie Theatres

SHOWTIME!

[IMJ]

NNNNnnice.
Nah, we called this guy that because he has this sort of eccentric demeanor and this uncanny habit to go "hmmm LLlllet me check in the back..." for whenever we ask him about the availability for something, and then he seems to miraculously appear with it.

We think he conjures *SQUEE* up in his "back room" or something. I'd love to get a look back there, but I don't know if I'd live to tell the tale.

[Knightt]

Does anyone remember seeing these things displayed at your LCS like Acclaim intended the retailers to use them? (Back in the day of course).

what do you mean ???

They wanted retailers to poke a hole in the top (they even put a little black dot where the hole goes) and hang them from a chain or string at the check out counter.

I didn't know that . .

I wonder if any of them did that ???

Has anyone ever seen a copy with a hole in it ? (other than the story)

I auctioned off one on Ebay last year for the CF fund raiser. First one I had ever seen a whole in.... (other than the story) <------- very good one

[Chiclo]

NNNNnnice.
Nah, we called this guy that because he has this sort of eccentric demeanor and this uncanny habit to go "hmmm LLlllet me check in the back..." for whenever we ask him about the availability for something, and then he seems to miraculously appear with it.

We think he conjures *SQUEE* up in his "back room" or something. I'd love to get a look back there, but I don't know if I'd live to tell the tale.

That back room probably has a time machine and wall-to-wall japanese hentai.

[dellamorte]

The shop I was buying from at the time put them all right into my weekly pile. Great for me, not so great for advertising the books.

[DawgPhan]

a really good friend has got me a retail preivew copy of x-o manowar of ebay i got it today and after thanking him very much for it had to take a look on here to see what was what why was it only a print run of 5000 that seem's very low?
any way i just had to tell you all about my mate getting it and making my week which had been not the best but now happy happy happy fan boy.

5000 is probably enough fir about 5 copies for every person and knows about that book and actually wants one...