Valiant signed items, promos, and Cons

jasons-auctions · Post by **jasons-auctions** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:41 pm

Okay I have seen many a thread on here about variant issues some so rare only a few have actually seen them. I was at Wizard World LA this weekend, seemed I asked for Valiants and got a bunch Saturday. At one booth I saw a book that had a signature by Shooter on the inside of the polybag a Harbinger Trade. The signature was on the top right corner of the Harbinger #0 on the back. I know in the 90's promos, giveaways etc were 2nd nature at cons, by Valiant workers to there friends...lots of signatures on books, non VVSS came that way. I wondered if anyone seen a issue like that polybagged and signed before sealed.

Also maybe we as a community should get together and explain in a top post or something where some of the books came from like in the thread below about the red and blue signed unity's getting signed at the 1992 SD comic con. I am sure thats not the only explanation but it does help to lay down appearances and days of Cons where Valiant had booths to get the history on some of these items.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:48 pm

Speaking of which, what else did you find at Wizard World LA? I was volunteering all three days, so I didn't look through bins quite as intensively as I should've (though I did get much of the commons I needed, and the Shadowman V3 #1 regular cover issue... and submitted my X-O 1/2 gold to CGC)

jasons-auctions · Post by **jasons-auctions** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 1:37 pm

I found a dealer from Northern Califonia with a bunch of late issue Valiants. Which I added to my valiant acclaim sale in the Buy/Sell/Trade Thread. I also came upon a dealer who had some cool promo stuff to sell a few VVSS and I hopefully can buy more from. He said he bought out a shop with lots of Valiant Promo items. So hopefully can get him to call me and we can offer these items up to you guys. Note to self I wish I would of kept my last golds and not sold them on eBay. The X-0 #0 gold was a 9.6 or better easy!!!!

I submitted some modern superhero stuff about 20 issues all should be 9.4 with half 9.6 or better if I graded them right!!!!!

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 2:08 pm

The harbinger trade that signed inside the seal by shooter in black in is fairly common. It used to come up on ebay quite often and sell for under $10 if at all. It is still avaliable at lots of online retailers. Not sure where it comes from though

jasons-auctions · Post by **jasons-auctions** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:52 pm

It is obvous this item was prepared as a promotional item as I have seen only the one and had many a Harbinger sealed trades over 4 years. Should items like this but counted as a variant to collect since they were produced this way?

dino wrote:The harbinger trade that signed inside the seal by shooter in black in is fairly common. It used to come up on ebay quite often and sell for under $10 if at all. It is still avaliable at lots of online retailers. Not sure where it comes from though

x-omatic · Post by **x-omatic** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:03 pm

jasons-auctions wrote:It is obvous this item was prepared as a promotional item as I have seen only the one and had many a Harbinger sealed trades over 4 years. Should items like this but counted as a variant to collect since they were produced this way?

dino wrote:The harbinger trade that signed inside the seal by shooter in black in is fairly common. It used to come up on ebay quite often and sell for under $10 if at all. It is still avaliable at lots of online retailers. Not sure where it comes from though

They were resealed. These were done by a comic shop. They were opened and signed then resealed. They were not issued by Valiant. There was a member of the boards who opened one and it was a COA from a comic shop, not Valiant.

jasons-auctions · Post by **jasons-auctions** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:36 pm

x-omatic wrote:
jasons-auctions wrote:It is obvous this item was prepared as a promotional item as I have seen only the one and had many a Harbinger sealed trades over 4 years. Should items like this but counted as a variant to collect since they were produced this way?

dino wrote:The harbinger trade that signed inside the seal by shooter in black in is fairly common. It used to come up on ebay quite often and sell for under $10 if at all. It is still avaliable at lots of online retailers. Not sure where it comes from though
They were resealed. These were done by a comic shop. They were opened and signed then resealed. They were not issued by Valiant. There was a member of the boards who opened one and it was a COA from a comic shop, not Valiant.

Thats a possibility I am sure but the bag looked legit and I did not see any COA with the book unless it was put it on the inside of them. It is weird someone would go through that much trouble to do this. Though I guess maybe they got a premium selling it as something it was not, stupid scammers.

R Daneel · Post by **R Daneel** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 11:33 pm

jasons-auctions wrote:Thats a possibility I am sure but the bag looked legit and I did not see any COA with the book unless it was put it on the inside of them. It is weird someone would go through that much trouble to do this. Though I guess maybe they got a premium selling it as something it was not, stupid scammers.

I can't point you to the exact thread (I dunno if it was on the old boards or on this one) but I remember someone saying they opened theirs and the COA was between the two books. Not a very useful place to put it if you ask me!