COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 6 Modern
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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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1201201004
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Owner:
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DocGo
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Label Notes
Jeff Smith cover, story, and art.
*1st appearance of Jonathan Oaks*
Synopsis
Following the rat creature attack on Gran'ma Ben's home, Fone Bone, Thorn, and Gran'ma arrive in Barrelhaven and rejoin Smiley and Phoney. The Great Red Dragon and Granny also have a brief reunion and we finally get a more detailed picture of why Phoney was run out of Boneville. The recap is hilarious!
The Slab
Highest grade! This was the first 9.8 of #6 and was the lone example for many years. It was graded by CGC on August 19, 2014 and purchased from an eBay auction. Still looks great!
Inside The Comic
Twenty two pages of story and two full pages of letters. The inside front cover has an unusually small drawing of Fone Bone riding a cow from page 15 along with the brief prologue and credits: By Jeff Smith at the top and Cover Airbrush by David Reed on the bottom. The back cover has a panel from page 16 with Gran’ma Ben saying “Stop th’ cows” in between Fone Bone and Thorn.
Timing
This issue took awhile to come out. Bone #4 took four months, #5 took three, and #6 took five (#7, however, would only take one). Four issues were released in the second half of 1991 and only four total for all of 1992. As I learned later, Jeff & Vijaya were in the process of moving to California while he was inking this issue. Vijaya took a job in Silicon Valley which meant she wasn’t the full-time president yet. Drawing was probably taking a backseat to all of the administrative stuff that Jeff was going through. The good news is that the quality remained the same which was the most important thing for us fans.
Bone-a-Fides
The Bone-a-Fides had a good mix of regular readers and pros including Bill Wray from The Ren & Stimpy Show, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, and the one & only Charles Vess, who was working on Sandman at the time. While complimenting Jeff for making possums cute, Charles made a memorable comment about how ugly they truly are in the real world…and their kids are even worse!
For the first time, a fan asked him if he had any plans to make an animated feature. Jeff said “An animated feature? I’m just starting to play around with T-shirts and pins!” The reader also asked why he changed the title from Thorn to Bone when transitioning from comic strip to comic book. Jeff admitted that Fone Bone was really the center of the strip.
Ads
The inside back cover has an ad for a signed print titled Spirit of Adventure which was limited to 100 copies and cost $100. There’s also information about ordering a subscription and/or back issues.
Estimated Copies Sold: ????
Back Cover Collectible
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