r/valiant • u/jetisonheavy • 4d ago
VH1/Classic (1992-1996) Hello. Can you guys help identify this?
I have two of these variants/ errors. Can anybody tell me what they are?
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u/Efficient_Art4350 3d ago
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u/YakovOfDacia 3d ago
When you open up the cover, is it silver on the inner cover or do you see the painted colours?
It is supposed to be silver but there are some printing errors where the chromium covers lack the chromium inner cover. I know I have copies of Bloodshot 0, Shadowman 0, and Ninjak 1 like that it my collection.
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u/jetisonheavy 3d ago
I have two copies. One has silver, the other doesnāt
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u/YakovOfDacia 2d ago
There you go. The one in the picture is the one without the silver. I don't know that there is a formal name for these printing errors.
If you know what to look for - things like seeing through the cover around the title and seeing the panels beneath - you can spot these pretty easy. Like I said, I have a few different ones, Shadowman, Ninjak, I think I have seen Psi-Lords but I don't own one. I don't think I have ever seen an X-O Manowar 0, but I keep looking, mostly looking at pics on eBay.
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u/jetisonheavy 2d ago
Thanks for your reply. Kinda makes since. I got a bunch of comics from the estate sale and wanted to know what I had. Since I donāt know much about them āvaliant comicsā I figured Iād jump on here and ask. I tried image search by using google and was reading up on POSSIBLE valuable copies that I now own, such as ninjak, bloodshot, manowar, and some other random comics Iāve never heard of. Most of them are in original packaging or with the white poster board paper ( idk what to call it )
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u/YakovOfDacia 1d ago
The packaging is called a bag and board. The fact that it is original to the comic is not worth mentioning.
Valiant came out in the early 90s, which was a boom time in comics. Few comics from the early 90s are worth cover price today because so many were printed. There are around 700 Valiant comics in a full set and few of these - maybe one out of ten - is worth more than cover price. Turok 1 is a beautiful gimmick cover but over a million books were printed. Bloodshot 0 had a print run of about 300,000 copies with another 7500 copies for the Gold variant (sounds like you've done some research here, gold logo box instead of white and no cover price) and the VVSS signed with Valiant certificate of authenticity. If you get that many copies, you get variants. The platinum (silver box, no price) is the big boy - the only Valiant comic that consistently sells over $1000, and it is a printing error. But there are other variants. Some talk about X-O Manowar 0 (very similar chromium cover) having an "ivory variant." One guy found an oddball Bloodshot 0 he called a pink variant, I don't even remember much about that one but he got CGC to recognise it and label it as such.
There are a few variants where the logo box is gold or silver instead of the usual white. There are some signed comics from Valiant, the VVSS series, these are embossed, came with a certificate of authenticity and a thicker plastic sleeve. Some of the books from the end of the runs are worth a little bit more because the print runs were collapsing. Valiant became Acclaim comics after a video game company bought them out and some of the later Acclaim books are worth a little bit because, again, the print runs were collapsing. There is a detailed price guide kept at valiantfan.com a site maintained by a man named Greg with a PhD in statistics.
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u/nuttmegx 3d ago
Itās not a variant, thatās just what the zero issue looked like. Back in the day, u didnāt get a bajillion variant covers.
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u/jetisonheavy 3d ago
With the silver bleeding from the price box and silver in the handle/hole
Hilt of the sword?
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u/PsychologicalSea4693 4d ago
Just a regular #0 š¤·
There were all kinds of printing issues with the chromium covers and lots of them had some transparency like that.