Only 1,992 of these boxes shall be available, only in retail comic shops on July 19th. What’s inside will be 25 black-polybagged Image comics highlighting 17 new series for 2017, featuring limited edition variant covers available only for available in the “Blind Box.”
Possible variants are:
- 25th anniversary variant cover
- B&W 25th anniversary cover
- Virgin 25th anniversary cover
- Virgin B&W 25th anniversary cover
- Blank wraparound sketch cover
- Extremely rare sketch covers drawn by each series artists—25 copies per series of the 17 selected launches
- Exclusive THE WALKING DEAD: HERE’S NEGAN! #1 limited to 500 copies—the first 24 pages of Negan’s origin story printed in single-issue-format for the first and only time.
Recently, Image comics added some teasers of some pull possibilities..
A Ig Guara ROSE #1 sketch cover.
A rare Geoff Shaw GOD COUNTRY #1 sketch cover.
A rare Leandro Fernandez OLD GUARD #1 sketch cover.
If interested, you should contact your local comic store retailer soon. Cost of the Blind Box is set at $125.00
Personal thoughts:
I love this idea, and hope Image continues with this perhaps as an annual tradition. I also would love to see other comic publishers to push similar blind boxes of the sort. Blind boxes are fun and addicting. But, I would like to see them exclusive to comic book stores and share the excitement with customers. I will be curious about what the variant covers look like, and to what series and artists are involved. The only drawback is the cost, for which I am hesitant in spending that much on variants. I still may get one of these, and share/review it here on strangerworlds.com.
– Orion T
Special thanks to Image Comics for providing access to preview pages. You may follow them for more info and other great books on their official site at www.imagecomics.com.
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