COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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EverQuest Online Adventures: The Quest for Darkpaw nn Modern
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Grade:
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8.5
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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3946774004
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This is a somewhat mysterious promotional comic for the PlayStation 2 spinoff game EverQuest Online Adventures. There have been longstanding rumors that it was a mail-away, perhaps even through an offer in the same Tips & Tricks magazine best known for hosting the contest that distributed the famous Twisted Metal 2 promotional comic. However, increasing evidence suggests this was a pre-order promotional, exclusive to customers who pre-ordered the PS2 game via Sony's online PlayStation Store. That was CovrPrice's determination, and is also compatible with the information I received from an original owner (albeit not of this copy).
Regardless of how it was distributed, this is an extremely rare item. I'm aware of about a half-dozen copies with recorded sales on the secondary market in the 2000s, and two of those copies are almost certainly lost, having eventually been included in a sale of bulk comics to a warehouser who is then believed to have destroyed unsold material. Regardless, interest in this title was traditionally very low... until an April 2022 EBay auction of a very nice raw copy which had an utterly unexpected hammer price of $1690 amidst furious bidding. Was this sale a fluke? The underbid in that auction was still over $1500, so there was clearly more than one person interested in this title at that price point! At the time, I believed that copy might grade out at a 9.0 or 9.2; however, as of early 2024, there are now three graded copies (almost certainly including teh $1690 book)... and all three are 8.5s!
As for the book itself, it's actually not a bad read for one of these thin promo books. And, like most of the EverQuest spinoff media, the names associated with this title aren't nobodies. Writer Scott Ciencin did some other comic work, but is better known as a novelist, perhaps best known for the first two books in the Forgotten Realms Avatar Series (Shadowdale and Tantras, both originally published under the pen-name Richard Awlinson). Meanwhile, the artist, Lan Medina, is best known for his work on Fables.
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