COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 2 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0015782007
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Owner:
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Rune
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This is a extremely beautiful book with very vivid cover colors, near-perfect centering and orientation, and pure white pages.
This book contains the story "Lair of the Beast Men" which was nominated by the Academy of Comic Book Arts Awards in 1970 for the Best Individual Story.
The book was bought by the brothers Carlo and Paul (=CarlD) in August 2004 and stayed in their collection, until Carlo and I, after negotiating for little more than a year ;-), made a transaction securing me this magnificent book. So this book is indeed dedicated to Paul and Carlo, and I shall do my best to keep all pages white as snow for many years to come (is this not the greatest thing about such books? - You know you have them, but you cannot read them (due to the encapsulation), you cannot see them (the horror of UV light!) and you end up getting quite worried, should there be significant temperature or humidity fluctuations - well, I guess this is just the joy of being a parent for a book :-)
In the spring of 2012 Collectors' Society changed how pictures were shown and uploaded, which reduced the quality of book pictures significantly - compared to the quality I usually could provide within the old 200kb limit. So I have uploaded more high-res pictures on a different server (paste the URL into your browser to see the images):
FRONT:
http://www.hardwaretidende.dk/hard/artikelimages/0015782007F.JPG
BACK:
http://www.hardwaretidende.dk/hard/artikelimages/0015782007B.JPG
Current status of 13 Conan the Barbarian #2 CGC 9.8 and 9.9 books (out of 17 books in July 2017, only 1 book in 9.9):
9.9
0047871003, WP
9.8
1013922001, WP, Rocky Mountain pedigree
0015782007, WP
0016841001, WP
0050748011, WP
0749572002, WP
0220051023, WP
1041669001, WP
1198478009, WP
1203070002, WP
1338632002, WP
0112133002, OW-W
1421043002, OW-W
(WP = White Pages and OW-W = Off-White to White Pages.)
So nearly all have WP, one is 9.9 and one has pedigree status. I do miss pictures of 4 of the 17 Conan #2 9.8 books, but of the 13 9.8 and 9.9 books I have seen, 0015782007 probably has the best combination of near-perfect cover centering and orientation. You can see the 13 books here:
http://s1270.photobucket.com/user/runesr2/library/Issue02
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