COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 10
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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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1191698009
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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. Gran'Ma Ben wins the Great Cow Race
Synopsis
Featuring the start and finish of the Great Cow Race, issue #10 follows Phoney's Mystery Cow as he struggles to keep up with the speedy Gran'Ma Ben (after Lucius slyly bets his bar on Gran’ma to win). Interference by a pack of rat creatures certainly don’t help his cause as the Mystery Cow finishes well behind the defending champ. This is a great action-packed issue written and drawn to perfection by Mr. Smith.
The Slab
Highest grade! My raw comic signed by Jeff at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con. Graded by CGC on September 16, 2013. Thanks to Menace for facilitating!
Inside The Comic
Twenty two pages of story and two full pages of letters. The inside front cover has a drawing of Fone Bone being chased by a rat creature from page 8 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 13 showing Fone Bone hanging off of a rat creature who’s clutching a teetering tree over a cliff.
Bone-a-Fides
The Bone-a-Fides had some interesting letters from professionals including the late-great George Perez and DC Comics editor Bob Kahan. Beyond his praise for the book, Bob thanked Jeff for doing a Death piece for the upcoming Death Gallery issue (a very cool image with Death wearing a Fone Bone earring in one ear and a Phoney earring in the other). Political and underground cartoonist R.L. Crabb also weighed in with his love for Bone and a shameless plug for Adventures on the Fringe ;-)
In response to a fan and budding comic artist who asked about his lettering, Jeff said that some of it was done by hand and some with a typeface that he created on a computer, which I thought was interesting. He also apologized to his friends on the Prodigy computer network where he attempted to create a second on-line bulletin board but apparently failed. Thankfully, he could still be found on Compuserve (address was still 71732,1342). Those were the days…
Ads
The inside back cover has the very first advertisement for something that’s not Bone-related: Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. Hilariously, the top quarter of the page has Fone Bone and Phoney commenting on both the presence of a non-Bone ad and the book itself (Scott had previously written a fan letter in Bone #5 which I mention in that issue’s description). There is no information about ordering back issues or subscriptions in this issue.
Estimated Copies Sold: ????
Back Cover Collectible
Jeff Smith’s Bone: The Great Cow Race Artist’s Edition by IDW
In honor of the climactic moment of The Great Cow Race, I thought I’d let you know about the very best way to read the entire chapter. This book, put together by the fine folks at IDW, is utterly spectacular. The pages are the same size as the original art (around 11” by 17”) and scanned directly from those original pages (currently housed at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum). As Jeff explains in the introduction, you can see all the minute changes he made to the art as well as much of the blue pencilling underneath the final inks. Seeing the original cover to Bone #8 is truly a site to behold. The pages include issues #7-11 along with their covers, #13 1/2, The Powers The Be story that was originally published in Disney Adventures magazine, a few of the Image reprint covers (#7, 8, & 10), the illustration given to the winner of the Name the Cub contest, the cover to the second printing of The One Volume Edition, and a two page story called Possum Interlude.
There are two versions of this book: the regular hardcover with the Image #10 cover and the slipcased edition that was signed and numbered by Jeff Smith (limited to 125). Please go out and buy one of these editions. You won’t regret it!
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