COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 13 1/2 Signature
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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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2719540001
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Owner:
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DocGo
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Label Notes
Jeff Smith story, cover, and art. Wizard mail-away exclusive.
Synopsis
This comic was a mail-away exclusive from the popular 90s comic magazine, Wizard. For the Gold cover, readers had to send in the coupon AND subscribe to one of the Wizard magazines. The cover itself is made of a glossier material than the regular CB & Image issues as are the pages. Story-wise, Smiley attempts to help Lucius fix Gran’Ma’s roof with disastrous results (9 pages long).
The Slab
Highest Signature Series grade for the gold cover variant! My raw book signed by Jeff Smith at the 2022 San Diego Comic-Con. Big thanks to Rich Henn for facilitating! Officially graded by CGC on December 27, 2022.
Inside The Comic
The inside front cover has a color illustration of Fone Bone with a sandwich plate and a glass of water, a table of contents, and a funny letter from Jeff explaining when the story takes place. For the first time, we see a longer list of credits with not just Jeff Smith (Writer, Creator, Illustrator, Founder, and Co-Publisher) and David Reed (Cover Color Airbrush) but also Vijaya Ayer as President and Co-Publisher, Karen Root as Assistant Publisher, and Andries Mulder with Distribution. There’s a list for all of the various contributors at Wizard as well.
Ads
There are six atypical ads included: THB miniseries by Paul Pope, Beanworld by Larry Marder, SRBissette’s Tyrant, Wizard’s InQuest magazine, Collector’s Sportslook, and a Wizard subscription page. The inside back cover has a slew of t-shirts and pins for Bone including the signed Collector Pin Set that were limited to 2500 and priced at $19.99.
Additional Material
Obviously, the Bone-a-Fides are absent but it has a nice getting-to-know-you interview with Jeff where he revealed that his favorite food is a Coney Island hot dog followed closely by pizza. The best part of the book is called Artist’s sketchbook where he shows how he created page 2 of the story. Step One was “Pencils and Lettering” so he knew how much space the dialogue would take. Step Two was “Tighten Pencils, Ink Shingles” where he explained that the acting of the characters begins to take shape. Step Three was “Paste-Up “Hole” Drawings” where he mentioned that he made copies of the inked roof for other panels but doesn’t do the same for characters. He explains “Lucius has to appear alive. He must be drawn and inked by hand every time, so that he will not appear frozen.” Step Four was “Ink Smiley, blend in Roof Drawing” which is largely self-explanatory. The last page was titled “Start to Finish” which showed a couple panels from Bone #2 and how they looked in the sketch and pencil phases. Definitely a very interesting examination at Jeff’s production process.
Certificate of Authenticity
The book also came with a Certificate of Authenticity. Some of the previous 1/2 books from Wizard were worthy of making counterfeit copies perhaps (such as The Maxx 1/2) but this one probably wasn’t.
Estimated Copies Sent Away: ????
Back Cover Collectible
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