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Bone 5
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 5 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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1019270020
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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 Lucius Down*
Synopsis
The rat creatures attack Gran'ma Ben's home while Phoney finds Smiley at the Barrel Haven pub. Lucius Down, the pub's proprietor, helps Phoney realize that his Boneville legal tender has no value in the valley. Very well drawn action sequences by Mr. Smith in this issue.
The Slab
By far, the hardest issue in the series to get in 9.8. This is the highest grade in the Signature Series category (tied with one other)! Sig & Ted sketch were secured by facilitator Rich Henn at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con who then sold the book on eBay to Jolly Comics. I won it at auction on ComicLink in 2017. The book was graded all the way back on January 5th, 2011.
Inside The Comic
Twenty two pages of story and two full pages of letters. The inside front cover has a drawing of an airborne Fone Bone from page 21 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 5 showing Fone Bone urging Thorn to “GET UP!”
Bone-a-Fides
The Bone-a-Fides are a good mix of fan praise and professional adulation (including one from Scott McCloud, cartoonist and comic author). There were a couple from Europe that I found surprising. Considering that there was no way the stories would have been translated yet, how were they distributed outside of North America so early in Cartoon Books history? There are tons of European fans nowadays and, perhaps, getting there early was one of Jeff’s key strategies. Or a happy accident…
Walt Kelly’s influence continued to be mentioned along with Charles Schulz and Chuck Jones. Another fan brought up the Thorn comic strip from OSU and enjoyed the addition of Smiley to the mix (who did in fact appear in the original strip but only briefly). Warner Bros animator Glen Murakami dropped a short note saying that he liked #1-3 and couldn’t wait for #4.
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The inside back cover has images of all five issues as well as information for ordering back issues and subscribing to the title (#1, 2, and 3 were all on second printings).
Estimated Copies Sold: ????
Back Cover Collectible
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