COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Walking Dead 1 Qualified
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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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2105850015
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Owner:
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StephenWA
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
The Walking Dead Escape Sketch Edition from April 2014 with Juan Jose Ryp cover.
Reprints TWD #1.
CGC census 3/2020: 108. 91 @9.8, none higher.
This is a super-rare comic, as it has been signed by twelve members of the TWD cast:
• Lawrence Gilliam Jr. (Bob Stookey)
• Scott Wilson+ (Hershel Greene, father of Maggie and Beth)
• Noel G./Gugliemi (Felipe of the Vatos gang)
• Jeff Kober (Leader of The Claimers, Joe)
• Andrew J. West (Leader at Terminus, Gareth)
• IronE Singleton (T-Dog / Theodore Douglas)
• Nick Gomez (prisoner Tomas)
• Chad Coleman (Tyreese)
• Anthony Guajardo (Miguel of the Vatos gang)
• Lew Temple (prisoner Axel)
• Daniel Thomas May (Allen)
• Jose Pablo Cantillo (Caesar Ramon Martinez)
This comic is graded at 9.8 Qualified as the signatures were not witnessed by CGC. The autographs were collected by Jonathan Zahos who was a guest host at The Walking Dead Escape events noted below, who sold it directly to me. I sent it to CGC for grading.
Comic summary:
Skybound offered attendees at The Walking Dead Escape a new version of The Walking Dead #1, the 2003 Image comic book by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore that started the multimedia franchise. This tour-specific variant cover was illustrated by Juan Jose Ryp, featuring Rick and Carl Grimes.
The two editions:
The standard (colour) cover was available to the first 1,000 people signed up as either a "Walker" or "Survivor" at each stop on the tour, which started in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on 24/4/2014. For those not in the initial thousand, the comic was also on sale throughout the tour. Those attendees who had purchased VIP tickets received this black-and-white sketch cover variant. It is considered very rare.
The Tour
The tour had eight event stops as below, including the final event at San Diego's Petco Park during Comic-Con International, the original home of the event held two years earlier in 2012.
• Baton Rouge LA, 24 April 2014 at Baton Rouge River Center Arena
• Houston TX, 26 April 2014 at Reliant Stadium
• Miami FL, 3 May 2014 at Sun Life Stadium
• Tampa FL, 10 May 2014 at USF Sun Dome
• Jacksonville FL, 17 May 2014 at EverBank Field
• New Orleans LA, 24 May 2014 at Mercedes-Benz Superdome
• Atlanta GA, 31 May 2014 at Philips Arena
• San Diego CA, 25 and 26 July 2014 at Petco Park (during SDCC 2014)
No cover price is shown.
Robert Kirkman - creator and writer
Tony Moore - co-creator and internal artwork
Juan Jose Ryp - tour-specific sketch cover. (69r+CGC)
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