COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 12 Universal
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
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Certification #:
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0039006012
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Owner:
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Rune
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
A very beautiful book with near-perfect cover orientation, which can be observed by the horizontal black bar at the top (across the cover). Many Conan the Barbarian #12 books have severely tilted covers (to the left or right), and although this book is not perfect regarding cover centering, it is one of the best looking high-graded Conan #12 CGC books I have seen. Well, to get perfect cover centering, it seems that the cover should be tilted slightly downward to the right, but that would ruin the cover orientation - so I am guessing that for Conan #12 it will be very hard to find both perfect cover orientation and centering...
Conan the Barbarian #12 has been one of the hardest books for me to find in high grade. Furthermore the book contains the first Conan the Barbarian cover by the famous artist Gil Kane, who already had played a significant role in getting Marvel interested in the Conan stories (see my text to Conan the Barbarian #17 for further information about Gil Kane and early Marvel Conan books).
This book contains the story "The Dweller in the Dark", which also is one of my favorite Conan stories.
This book was originally part of Bill Hughes amazing collection, which still can be seen here:
http://comics.www.collectors-society.com/registry/comics/awards/WinningSetDetail.aspx?AwardSetID=42
I am guessing that the brothers Carlo and Paul (=CarlD) in 2006 or 2007 bought much of Bill Hughes collection and the Conan #12 book stayed in their collection, until Carlo and I, after negotiating for little more than a year ;-), made a transaction securing me this great book.
This book is dedicated to Paul and Carlo, and I shall indeed do my best to keep this book in it's current condition for many years to come.
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/0039006012F.JPG
BACK:
http://www.hardwaretidende.dk/hard/artikelimages/0039006012B.JPG
Currently (July 2017) there are 4 CGC 9.8 books of Conan the Barbarian #12. I know of these 3 books:
1027530010, WP, Suscha News pedigree
0039006012, OW-W
1473010005, OW-W
(WP = White Pages and OW-W = Off-White to White Pages.)
I have photos/scans of 2 books, you can find them here:
http://s1270.photobucket.com/user/runesr2/library/Issue12
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