Image incentives 1990's. Please add to list and pics too :)

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 3:23 pm

hey guys just picked up a copy of Tribe # 1. one of the early Image incentives i never had way back when but found for 10p at a show recently.

Its a lovely copy that probably under much depth would come out at a 9.4 or above is slabbed but for 10p in abox of tat im lucky if it grades over 8.0

As noted by zeph

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Draco wrote:
Image

Tribe 1 Gold embossed with White background 10p
Nice! That's been a very hard book for me to find. I only have 2, I think.

That, and the Shaman's Tears incentive with the sparkly holofoil logo. I have ONE copy, and it's got a bad 1.5" color breaker in the spine...sold to me as "NM/M!"

I have seen many copies of others over the years, but this always eluded me.

What are the top ten?

Well heres a pic to start it off, but im hoping we can make a list and a gallery of all the early ninety incentives.

gallery linky
viewtopic.php?p=481256#481256

cheers Draco

<a href="http://s291.photobucket.com/albums/ll29 ... tribe1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll29 ... tribe1.jpg" border="0" alt="Tribe # 1 gold incentive"></a>

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:36 pm

I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:02 pm

The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"

There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 5:08 pm

Draco wrote:
The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"
There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.

Yeah, I think that might've been it (I do remember the eBay seller being in the UK).

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:35 pm

Draco wrote:
The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"
There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.

200 - Platinum

500 - Gold

You don't think I don't already have these, do ya....?

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:42 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Draco wrote:
The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"
There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.
200 - Platinum

500 - Gold

You don't think I don't already have these, do ya....?

As always im just drawing you out dude.

I hope yuo paid 50p each for these.

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:27 am

Draco wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Draco wrote:
The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"
There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.
200 - Platinum

500 - Gold

You don't think I don't already have these, do ya....?

As always im just drawing you out dude.

I hope yuo paid 50p each for these.

I actually don't have a platinum, and the seller selling them wants to charge me $40 for one (including $20 for US shipping. Ugh.)

I have a gold, but need to upgrade. I paid $20 for mine, but again, that was cause shipping was half that.

If you can get me VF/NM or better copies of both, by all means....let me know.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:12 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Draco wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
Draco wrote:
The Spider wrote:I remember a few years ago I saw a 1963 book with an outer cover over the Mystery Incorporated issue that just said "1963 is Coming!"
There was a guy in the UK that got Gold and Platinum issues made of 1963. They were unfortunately just really bad variants with extra coloured gold and silver card covers added after the initial print run.

Not sure if thats what you mean.

They were limited to 50 and 200 if i recall right.
200 - Platinum

500 - Gold

You don't think I don't already have these, do ya....?

As always im just drawing you out dude.

I hope yuo paid 50p each for these.

I actually don't have a platinum, and the seller selling them wants to charge me $40 for one (including $20 for US shipping. Ugh.)

I have a gold, but need to upgrade. I paid $20 for mine, but again, that was cause shipping was half that.

If you can get me VF/NM or better copies of both, by all means....let me know.

I sold my last lot for £10ish i guess.

if i see any in nice condition i will grab em for you dude.

Any other early incentives you have on your look out list pm me and i wil add them to my ever growing list.

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:54 pm

never heard about these. Since there not official should they count?

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:32 pm

robb77 wrote:never heard about these. Since there not official should they count?

I guess if they exist they that counts.

personally they are the single lowest form of variant i have ever come across ( museums aside

) and would not have them unless they are a joke price.

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 8:48 am

ive always been on a lookout for a shadowhawk vol1 gold variant. I heard these exists but i have never ever seen one.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:06 am

robb77 wrote:ive always been on a lookout for a shadowhawk vol1 gold variant. I heard these exists but i have never ever seen one.

nah

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 3:15 pm

robb77 wrote:ive always been on a lookout for a shadowhawk vol1 gold variant. I heard these exists but i have never ever seen one.

I'm pretty sure they don't exist.

Gen13 vol 2 #1 Gold, however.......

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 6:02 pm

Im slowly picking bits up now, but i only stared to bother about 1 year ago.

I have collected for 30 years but had way too many stops and starts selling my collection to start up 21 years ago and losing a major collection in '94.

I started again in '98 after mainly picking out recent books and selling incoming collections without taking any for myself.

after nearly ten years of solid buying i have still sold 90% of what came in trying to define what i want but it changes so often.

Now i do know that my Valiant stuff is here to stay and all DU's & DFT's too.

I have picke da lot of wird premium books, but they can be sold on or exchanged at any time, its just goo dfun this end so i dont put too much effort into it right now.

I will not pay much for anything outside of my Valiant want to finish of all Volumes.

JohnnyRnR · Post by **JohnnyRnR** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:33 pm

Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold, 10 newsstand (different cover), 17 females on cover (slightly different interior)dragon on other cover, 25 two covers, 27 Wondercon cover (Dragon head), 31 "God is Good" in the Image logo, or nothing there, 40 She-Dragon cover or Dragon cover, 51 pink or yellow logo, 77 Jerry Ordway or Larsen cover, 100 2nd print w/ different cover, 120 Soulstar or Dragon cover, 128 JG Jones or Larsen cover
Savage Dragon Companion 1 normal brick cover, convention exclusive fire cover
Savage Dragon vs Savage Megaton Man gold logo

Shadowhawk II #2 gold foil
Shadowhawk/Vampirella 2 red foil

Spawn #1 regular, newsstand (no difference, but some demand), Best Buy edition, #100 McFarlane, Ross, Ashley Wood, Mignola, Capullo, Miller covers, #150 Jim Lee, Phillip Tan, Capullo, McFarlane covers, #151 Tan or Capullo covers, #166 2nd print has different cover
Curse of the SPawn #1 regular, black and white, signed variant (blue and white cover)
Medieval Spawn/Witchblade #1 regular, ETM gold foil, platinum foil

WildC.A.T.s V1 #1 gold, #2 newsstand nonfoil, #5 regular or yellow variant (ashcan?), #6 regular or gold, #7 regular or silver?, #11 regular or Portacio puzzle, #40 Broome or Charest cover, #47 A-Benes, B-Madureira
WildC.A.T.s Trilogy #1 direct market or newsstand (color differences)
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age #1 regular (Charest), 3-D (Jim Lee cover), or non 3-D Jim Lee cover (same cover)
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age #1 regular (Jim Lee), 3-D, or Neal Adams
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age #1 Paul Smith or Adam Hughes

Youngblood V1 0 pink or purple background, 1 2nd printing gold border, 1 variant cover?, 2 foreground figures green or normal colors, 9 couch cover or Badrock with girls cover
Youngblood V2 #3 Liefeld or Nauck cover
Youngblood V3 (Awesome Ent. not Image), #1 regular, blue foil, gold foil, Peterson, Sprouse, McGuinness, Churchill, Jae Lee, Jae Lee gold foil, Wieringo, Liefeld, Platt
#2 heads cover, bodies cover
Youngblood V4 #1 Liefeld or Donovan, #2 Liefeld or Donovan, #3 Liefeld or Donovan
Youngblood: Bloodsport (Arcade Comics) #1 A-Liefeld, B-Park, C-Quitely, D-Ultimate Marvel style with girl, E-Ultimate style with team WW exclusive, Liefeld bloody Shaft (hehe)
Youngblood: Genesis (Arcade Comics) #1 A-normal, B-Badrock, C-Diehard, D-Knightsabre
Extremely Youngblood 1 human pyramid or battle pose cover

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:17 am

JohnnyRnR wrote:Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold, 10 newsstand (different cover), 17 females on cover (slightly different interior)dragon on other cover, 25 two covers, 27 Wondercon cover (Dragon head), 31 "God is Good" in the Image logo, or nothing there, 40 She-Dragon cover or Dragon cover, 51 pink or yellow logo, 77 Jerry Ordway or Larsen cover, 100 2nd print w/ different cover, 120 Soulstar or Dragon cover, 128 JG Jones or Larsen cover
Savage Dragon Companion 1 normal brick cover, convention exclusive fire cover
Savage Dragon vs Savage Megaton Man gold logo

Shadowhawk II #2 gold foil
Shadowhawk/Vampirella 2 red foil

Spawn #1 regular, newsstand (no difference, but some demand), Best Buy edition, #100 McFarlane, Ross, Ashley Wood, Mignola, Capullo, Miller covers, #150 Jim Lee, Phillip Tan, Capullo, McFarlane covers, #151 Tan or Capullo covers, #166 2nd print has different cover
Curse of the SPawn #1 regular, black and white, signed variant (blue and white cover)
Medieval Spawn/Witchblade #1 regular, ETM gold foil, platinum foil

WildC.A.T.s V1 #1 gold, #2 newsstand nonfoil, #5 regular or yellow variant (ashcan?), #6 regular or gold, #7 regular or silver?, #11 regular or Portacio puzzle, #40 Broome or Charest cover, #47 A-Benes, B-Madureira
WildC.A.T.s Trilogy #1 direct market or newsstand (color differences)
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age #1 regular (Charest), 3-D (Jim Lee cover), or non 3-D Jim Lee cover (same cover)
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age #1 regular (Jim Lee), 3-D, or Neal Adams
WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age #1 Paul Smith or Adam Hughes

Youngblood V1 0 pink or purple background, 1 2nd printing gold border, 1 variant cover?, 2 foreground figures green or normal colors, 9 couch cover or Badrock with girls cover
Youngblood V2 #3 Liefeld or Nauck cover
Youngblood V3 (Awesome Ent. not Image), #1 regular, blue foil, gold foil, Peterson, Sprouse, McGuinness, Churchill, Jae Lee, Jae Lee gold foil, Wieringo, Liefeld, Platt
#2 heads cover, bodies cover
Youngblood V4 #1 Liefeld or Donovan, #2 Liefeld or Donovan, #3 Liefeld or Donovan
Youngblood: Bloodsport (Arcade Comics) #1 A-Liefeld, B-Park, C-Quitely, D-Ultimate Marvel style with girl, E-Ultimate style with team WW exclusive, Liefeld bloody Shaft (hehe)
Youngblood: Genesis (Arcade Comics) #1 A-normal, B-Badrock, C-Diehard, D-Knightsabre
Extremely Youngblood 1 human pyramid or battle pose cover

Hey dude, thats some list you have there, so many thanks indeed.

I will re format it and add it to the main post so we can update it.

I have a few that arent on there and im sure theres a crap load of the Liefeld offspins like Brigade # 1 gold. Oh yeah that was good.

cheers

Draco[/quote]

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:56 am

JohnnyRnR wrote:Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold,

1/2 GOLD....? You sure?

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:21 am

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
JohnnyRnR wrote:Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold,
1/2 GOLD....? You sure?

Never seen it but maybe with gold writing yeah?

IMJ · Post by **IMJ** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:26 am

There have been gold Wizard 1/2 books in the past. Just do an eBay search. There's also another Darker Image book that is relatively scarce compared to the standard gold. It's a platinum, but they may have called it a silver. I post a scan of that one if I ever remember to start scanning this stuff after work...

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:53 am

IMJ wrote:There have been gold Wizard 1/2 books in the past. Just do an eBay search. There's also another Darker Image book that is relatively scarce compared to the standard gold. It's a platinum, but they may have called it a silver. I post a scan of that one if I ever remember to start scanning this stuff after work...

Anyone wanting to scan and add pics to the gallery thread thats wicked.

JohnnyRnR · Post by **JohnnyRnR** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:43 pm

ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
JohnnyRnR wrote:Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold,
1/2 GOLD....? You sure?

No, but in the image here, http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=55360 I assumed that the Special Edition stamp was gold foil that didn't scan well.

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:13 pm

JohnnyRnR wrote:
ZephyrWasHOT!! wrote:
JohnnyRnR wrote:Well, I'd love to see this topic get some love, but I have no idea which are actually desired Image variants. So I'm trying to make a list of all of them, starting with the books that the founding seven starting with (and spinoffs), still need to finish Spawn and Wetworks (which may have been solicitated first, but came out.... eventually.)

Cyberforce V2 10 dark or light backgrounds on cover, 18 Silvestri or Banning/Finch cover, 27 Quesada or Finch cover
Cyberforce V3 1 standard cover, B/W Pat Lee, color Pat Lee, David Finch, V3 2 Pat Lee cover, Silvestri cover, Paradise Comics Toronto Comiccon, V3 3 sketch variant, V3 6 sketch variant
Cyberforce/X-Men Silvestri or Pat Lee cover (Top Cow, not Image)

Savage Dragon mini 1 green, yellow, or white logo
ongoing: 1/2 gold,
1/2 GOLD....? You sure?
No, but in the image here, http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=55360 I assumed that the Special Edition stamp was gold foil that didn't scan well.

Im pretty sure they all have that stamp.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:49 pm

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:32 pm

Knightt wrote:Dude I am a huge Image variant fan (the old school stuff, none of the new crap).

I will try and dig them out and put together some photo references. I am also a huge ashcan fan... love those Cyberforce and WildCATs ashcans.

I have (from what I have been told) a pretty hard to find Iron Man red cover ashcan (V2), whew I love that thang....

But what is going on these days with variant covers ? Man, I am SO loath to pick up a variant cover. I'd need to be pretty turned on by it to actually spend over cover for it. And seeing as how I have been able to get my old Image variants SO cheap, well it spoils you.

[b]Now this ashcan fetish... whooo jeez. I see an ashcan, I just buy it. Does not matter if I like the title or not, I mean just how many Lady Rawhide ashcans does one need ?[/b] LOL

Dude, you have to be sh itting me right?!!?

I have the same ashcan problem, so we need to do some trades.

I have some weird stuff and anytime i see doubles from now on i will pick em up for you.

laters

ZephyrWasHOT!! · Post by **ZephyrWasHOT!!** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:40 pm

IMJ wrote:There have been gold Wizard 1/2 books in the past. Just do an eBay search. There's also another Darker Image book that is relatively scarce compared to the standard gold. It's a platinum, but they may have called it a silver. I post a scan of that one if I ever remember to start scanning this stuff after work...

You misunderstand my question.

There are many Wizard 1/2 golds....I even have a thread in Buy/Sell/Trade selling them.