COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Conan the Barbarian 17 Universal
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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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0095349011
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Owner:
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Rune
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
A great copy on pure white pages that has been close to perfectly centered. I do have another unread copy in similar quality (should be rated at 9.6 or better) waiting to be shipped to CGC. So maybe it was silly of me to purchase #17 in 9.8 WP - but again, better safe than sorry :-)
This book is also quite special, since it was the first Conan the Barbarian book to be drawn by the famous artist Gil Kane (although Kane did draw the cover of Conan the Barbarian #12), who had been interested in Conan for nearly a decade. According to Wikipedia (Marts 2012):
"Sometime in the late 1960s, Kane temporarily acquired the publishing rights to Robert E. Howard's pulp magazine barbarian, Conan, with the intent of reviving the character in a magazine format, à la Savage. However, he was unable to gain financing for the project, and the rights reverted to the Howard estate. When Marvel Comics licensed the character in 1970, writer Roy Thomas initially considered having either Kane or John Buscema draw the comic book, and Kane actively campaigned for the assignment, but editor Lee considered Kane too valuable as the company's premiere cover artist to allow him to devote large amounts of time to a commercially uncertain project. Kane would later provide art for the Conan comic book, which by then was one of Marvel's hits.
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Kane received numerous awards over the years, including the 1971, 1972, and 1975 National Cartoonists Society Awards for Best Story Comic Book, and the group's Story Comic Strip Award for 1977 for Star Hawks. He also received the comic book industry's Shazam Award for Special Recognition in 1971 "for Blackmark, his paperback comics novel". Kane was named to both the Eisner Award Hall of Fame and the Harvey Award Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997."
Currently (July 2017) there are 17 unrestored CGC 9.8 books of Conan the Barbarian #17. I know of these 16 books:
0915533006, WP, Twin Cities pedigree
1003497007, WP, Suscha News pedigree
0042512017, WP
0058414001, WP
0069493018, WP
0095349011, WP
0122109004, WP
0626901009, WP
0916873001, WP
1098640015, WP
1107801015, WP
1129553010, WP
1347086008, WP
0073406015, OW-W
1041672001, WP (Apparent)
1264317002, WP
(WP = White Pages and OW-W = Off-White to White Pages.)
I have photos/scans of 14 books, both 1003497007 and 0095349011 seem to be the most great-looking books with flawless cover centering and orientation. You can see the 14 books here:
http://s1270.photobucket.com/user/runesr2/library/Issue17
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