Broadway b&w Previews
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Here is a classic example...Knightt wrote:I get this from a few Ebay auctions where they had an issue of Malibu Sun that had an ad for Spawn in it saying it was the 'first appearance'.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Malibu-Sun-13-Spawn ... dZViewItem
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Interesting thread here!Knightt wrote:Where we draw the line ? What should command more, the first appearance of a character in a comic book or the first appearance in an advertisement ? These are preview copies, not actual comic books.
Would you actually pay more for a preview book than an actual comic book appearance ? Now, historically preview books 'in general' command more in price but I would say for the fact that they are preview books and not 'first appearances'.
Here's my take, and it may be a chicken's way out. I look back to the dawn of time (in comic terms anyway
) to Marvel Comics #1. It's the first newsstand appearance of Sub-Mariner. There's Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 that originally had the exact same Subby story and is credited as the first printed Sub-Mariner. MPFW #1 was intended to be given away at theaters but likely never made it there outside of one possible theater in Boston. So you wind up with the first printed appearance and the first newsstand appearance. The former was given away (like MPFW was intended) and the latter sold (like MC #1 actually was).
How's that for going a long way to say nothing?
