Broadway Comics: Miracle on Broadway

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:26 pm

http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/b ... 477451%201

Does anyone have this? I didn't even know it existed.

I'd love to get my hands on a copy but how much can it cost by now?

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:16 pm

Is it worth that kind of money??

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 7:47 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/MIRACLE-ON-BROADWAY ... dZViewItem

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:24 pm

*SKREE* that.

I want to read it, lol.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:34 pm

$3,000 is just insane, but when you see who the seller is, it's not too surprising.

justin · Post by **justin** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:04 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:$3,000 is just insane, but when you see who the seller is, it's not too surprising.

Knowing that Shooter had given that copy to Chuck as a gift then to see Chuck hock his wares is pretty bad! But as my signature said in the past,

"Once you start making money from hobby, your hobby ceases to be!"

-j

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:06 am

A couple have been on ebay and the cash has been a few hundred. Thats it. I think I would drop about $200-$250 if I had the money at the time.

justin · Post by **justin** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:08 am

dellamorte wrote:A couple have been on ebay and the cash has been a few hundred. Thats it. I think I would drop about $200-$250 if I had the money at the time.

Give it time. Maybe there is a case of these in an office building in LA awaiting a new home!

-j

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:16 am

Give it time. Maybe there is a case of these in an office building in LA awaiting a new home!

-j

Make sure I get one when you find it.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:08 am

Promises promises...

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:11 am

I want one too

justin · Post by **justin** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:40 am

Count me in as well!

-j

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:07 pm

Me too...

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:18 pm

architect wrote:
Daniel Jackson wrote:$3,000 is just insane, but when you see who the seller is, it's not too surprising.
Knowing that Shooter had given that copy to Chuck as a gift then to see Chuck hock his wares is pretty bad! -j

I was wondering if this was that particular copy or whether Chuck managed to get his hands on another one. If it is the one Jim gave him, that's pretty lame trying to make three grand off of it.

justin · Post by **justin** » Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:24 pm

Some people have to have a dealer mental approach, or they would never grow as a business! I have books I don't want to sell, but if I can sell them, roll the money into other things I believe in, then who is to judge me other than myself. BTW, those books I would sell aren't valiants.

-j

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:29 pm

For those of you who don't know this came up on Defiant1's lamentated site.

It was basically a holiday comic that was put out exclusively for those who worked at Broadway's companies (maybe some of their customers too). It's kind of an inside joke sort of comic just to say happy holidays to the rest of the company. Since so few were produced, it is very rare.

The story was by the usual Broadway group writing session (Shooter, et al) with art by Ernie Colon and inks by Paul Autio. It featured cameos of Cor, the Knights, and Spire. The plot was about a Broadway employee who looses a videotape with the secret to world peace on it.

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:43 pm

Interesting.

From a comics collectors pov I'm more interested in Spire than anything else (though the plot sounds interesting, kindda that issue of a Defiant comic with a guy on a bike that has to save some oranges before they dry up).

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:30 pm

There is also a 'coloring' section within the book. I wonder how many of these 'rare' comics ended up in some kids hands where they belong ?

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:32 pm

Kids who don't know what a photocopier is

It's not the stone age anymore, lol.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:56 am

Knightt wrote:There is also a 'coloring' section within the book. I wonder how many of these 'rare' comics ended up in some kids hands where they belong ?

Shudder.

I hadn't thought about that.

Most "gifts" people get at the office either end up:

a) used and thoroughly trashed

b) lost in the clutter of their home

c) put on display, in storage, or in a pile of keepsakes and forgotten

d) thrown away

That's not very good odds for MoB...

ManofTheAtom · Post by **ManofTheAtom** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 9:33 am

Just buy the original art and print your own versions at Kinkos, heh.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 11:51 am

That sounds like something Depluto would say.

RyanMcLelland · Post by **RyanMcLelland** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 1:05 pm

I think Janet Jackson had said there were still a bunch of these in the offices when they closed down. They are presumably destroyed...so the print run is less.

Jim Shooter had told me the print run was around 3,000. The thing was, though it was a comic, Broadway had sent these out as Christmas Cards. So basically, they went out to friends of the company...non-comic book fans. Lots of entertainment companies who dabble in comics do stuff like this. Alot of these 'Christmas Cards' probably got canned.

How many of these actually exist? Probably not that many. What does that mean? It means this is probably the rarest Shooter comic in existance...

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 4:46 pm

RyanMcLelland wrote:I think Janet Jackson had said there were still a bunch of these in the offices when they closed down. They are presumably destroyed...so the print run is less.

They weren't all destroyed. An individual who works at Broadway Video apparently rescued some copies. He was offering them for sale on Defiant1's message board. Several of us replied, so the seller claimed he was holding off because he wanted to have the books graded. I guess he then changed his mind because he put one on eBay with a starting bid of $300 AND a reserve! I think he saw what Mile High wants for their copy and figured that was what the book was worth. Needless to say, he received no bids. Haven't heard anything from him since. Maybe it will resurface on eBay in the future.

Earl · Post by **Earl** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:22 pm

Shame. If he has a lot he could probably shift them in the $40 to $60 range?