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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation 1 ComicsPRO Edition |
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1568833013
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Owner Comments
Cover by David Petersen.
ComicsPRO is the trade organization for direct-market comic retailers. They have an annual retailer meeting / trade show that has become a traditional source of quite a few exclusive cover variants, as the publishers attempt to show some support for the retail side of the industry.
I love this cover, with the series' iconic barn owl.
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation 1 Sienkiewicz Variant Cover |
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
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1259606006
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Owner Comments
Cover by Bill Sienkiewicz.
This book was offered as a 1:50 retailer incentive. That ratio is no big deal for books over in DC or Marvel, but here, it resulted in a starkly limited distribution. Comichron reports right around 18.5k orders for Labyrinth: Coronation #1. That puts an upper limit on distribution of this book around 350, but I doubt those orders were evenly distributed; a great many stores were unlikely to buy into 50 copies of any Boom book. I suspect real-world distribution of this variant was closer to the 200-250 range.
Personally, I feel it's a pretty neat cover from an artistic point of view, but I also feel it's one of the least subjectively Labyrinth-y of the Coronation 1 covers.
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade 1 |
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
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3772874007
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Owner Comments
Cover by Jenny Frison.
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade 1 Variant Cover |
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Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
3814158009
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Owner Comments
Cover by Evan Cagle.
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Labyrinth: The Movie 1 |
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Labyrinth: The Movie #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
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2062005003
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Owner Comments
Direct market edition.
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Labyrinth: The Movie 2 |
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Labyrinth: The Movie #2 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
2100502009
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Owner Comments
Direct market edition.
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Labyrinth: The Movie 3 |
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Labyrinth: The Movie #3 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
2131346018
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Owner Comments
This copy is from the direct market edition. CGC doesn't recognize the direct market and newsstand printings as distinct entities, although I do. I also own book #3717435001, a 9.8 copy of this book in newsstand.
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special 1 Baltimore Comic-Con Edition |
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
3847395015
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Owner Comments
Cover by Eric Powell (best known as creator of The Goon).
Although Boom! never announced print runs for these books, this Baltimore Comic-Con exclusive is considerable more difficult to find than the SDCC variant of the same issue.
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special 1 Convention Edition |
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special #1 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1446590025
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Owner Comments
Cover by Mark Schneider.
CGC describes this as the "Convention Edition", but more precisely, this was the San Diego Comic-Con exclusive. The cover features a punch-out die-cut masquerade mask (in the front cover) and similar punch-out horns (in the back cover). I doubt very many were ever punched out...
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special 1 Fried Pie Edition |
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special #1 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
3847395016
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Owner Comments
Cover by Joëlle Jones. This "coloring book" variant cover is one of my personal favorites of all of Boom!'s Labyrinth books. It's a shame that it's one of the rarest of the 30th Anniversary Special variants because, let's be honest, this really would make a fantastic coloring book page.
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special 1 Unlocked Retailer Edition |
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special #1 Universal |
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CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
1462978039
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Owner Comments
Cover by Dave McKean.
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special 1 Variant Cover |
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Labyrinth 30th Anniversary Special #1 Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
0962353040
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Owner Comments
Cover by Michael and Laura Allred.
This was actually a 1:10 retailer exclusive. Comichron reports a bit under 10k orders for the 30th Anniversary Special in general, so my best guess is probably around 750-800 copies of this variant were distributed.
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Legends of the Dark Crystal/Return to Labyrinth (2007) #nn |
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Legends of the Dark Crystal/Return to Labyrinth #nn Universal |
| Grade: |
CGC 9.8 |
| Cert #: |
3717436022
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Owner Comments
This is one of the weirdest things I've ever had slabbed. Tokyopop published manga-style, graphic-novel format continuations to the Dark Crystal and Labyrinth franchises. They also printed 16-page mini-comic flipbooks as previews / advertisements for those properties. Read from one side, the books preview Legends of the Dark Crystal; from the other, Return to Labyrinth.
This is the second of two such flipbooks. Both were distributed as pack-ins with the three-film DVD box set of Dark Crystal / Labyrinth / Mirrormask. This version was released with later runs of the box set, and previews volume 2 of Return to Labyrinth. I actually discovered this copy in an unopened box set in my DVD collection; I suspect that it may be the less common of the two, but in general, collector awareness of these books is extremely limited.
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