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Bone 3
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 3 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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0800441001
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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 Gran'ma Ben
*1st issue with the Bone-a-Fides*
Synopsis
Phoney reappears and he's grumpy as hell! Not the best of moods to be in when meeting Gran'ma Ben for the first time. At least Ted the Bug helps him when introduced to the Great Red Dragon. Funniest issue of the entire series and best from cover to cover in my opinion.
The Slab
Highest grade! This was the first copy of #3 that reached 9.8. Submitted by and bought from mschmidt. Officially graded on August 5, 2008.
Inside The Comic
Twenty two pages of story and one & a quarter pages of letters. The inside front cover has a drawing of Fone Bone walking with a bucket from page 4 along with the credits: By Jeff Smith at the top and Cover Airbrush by David Reed on the bottom. The back cover has a panel from page 17 where Thorn and Fone Bone yell about a Phoney-looking missile headed their way.
Bone-a-Fides
First issue with the Bone-a-Fides section which features letters from the readers. Jeff says that someone named Gabe Howard wrote in and suggested the name. The very first letter says “So who are you?” which is perfect. He later asked Jeff if any of his original art for #1 was for sale which I thought was funny. Thank the maker that all of the original covers and pages made it to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum for everyone to enjoy.
All of the letters are highly complimentary of issue 1 for both the art and the comedy. One fan didn’t like that it was black & white but Jeff explained that two of his favorite comic strips, Thimble Theater and Pogo, were both black & white and he enjoyed the aesthetic. He didn’t rule out color though and said “Maybe in some future collection of the books…if we get that far.”
Ads
Three quarters of the last page has an ad for back issues of #1-3. If you bought all three, he’d sign #1 and sketch Fone Bone on the inside cover for just $8.85! The inside back cover has a black & white preview of the cover art for #4.
Estimated Copies Sold: ????
Back Cover Collectible
Bone 20th Anniversary Collector’s Box Set
In honor of one of the first Bone-a-Fides’ letter begging for color, here is the first edition of the complete colorized Bone saga in one volume. The box also includes a 22k gold-plated Phoney coin, pewter figures of the three Bone cousins, a DVD of the documentary Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics, a signed & numbered colored print of Fone Bone in a forest (previously unreleased), and a miniature facsimile of Bone #1.
I got this from the Tuki: Fight For Fire Kickstarter campaign along with my piece of Original Art. I’ve only ever read Bone #1 in color and I've never really had a desire to read the rest. Bone will always be a black & white masterpiece to me and that’s how I choose to remember it. The only time I’ll ever view it in color is when the animated series is finally completed…
There was also an edition of this collection which came with a painted original art illustration of Fone Bone: pencilled and inked by Jeff and watercolored by Steve Hamaker. It was illustrated in the style of the Bone #11 cover and most of them look beautiful. Unfortunately, 2011 was a year that I took off from collecting so I never bought one when it was initially released. There are 50 of them out there so perhaps I’ll find one in the future some day…
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