Miracleman #1 "Gold" Club

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Here's my copy that came back 9.8 I was shocked and very pleased. Looks like they take the printing defect/crease on the right front cover into account when grading these. Mine was minor but there. And the confirmed separate slab for the certificate.

 

Congratulations on the top grade and fantastic to see these side by side.

On the printing defect/crease, all the "Gold" editions seem to have this and there are 13 known to be graded in cgc 9.8 so it does not seem to affect the grade too much at all.

Comic with crease above also graded CGC 9.8.

Most excellent! ...and for sale now on ebay

Fantastic to see how much this list has developed and equally amazing how many have come to light since this area of interest was (re)initiated in 2004 (?)

Some lovely recent copies too - great to see CGC are grading the cert as well

Thank you neeidea, I was and am still very pleased with the grade. I cannot speak highly enough about the authenticity and quality of the copies comicopolis has sold on eBay. Seems to be a lot of 9.8's. And yeah, the crease is there on my book but faint, Cgc can be weird with certain printing defects unless they are known to be common on a run.

And I agree with Cgc slabbing the cert. It's a nice touch and a piece that could easily be damaged/lost otherwise and to me has intrinsic value on its own.

I love seeing his thread's resurgence. It was very helpful for me authenticating my book, and to others as well.

Another one on eBay from seller comicopolis : number 163

https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/361510634724

Another one on eBay from seller comicopolis : number 163

 

https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/361510634724

Hopefully someone here got it - I wasn't quite quick enough at the end.

I submitted my 9.6 Miracleman Gold (7/400, Comicopolis) for pressing and after resubmitting to CGC it came back as 9.8

This guy is misrepresenting this listing as MM Gold editions. He states that they are not signed and numbered but are nonetheless Golds. I let him know that if they aren't signed/numbered then they aren't Gold.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152378595416?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Edit: Seller removed all "Gold" references

I submitted my 9.6 Miracleman Gold (7/400, Comicopolis) for pressing and after resubmitting to CGC it came back as 9.8

congrats!

This guy is misrepresenting this listing as MM Gold editions. He states that they are not signed and numbered but are nonetheless Golds. I let him know that if they aren't signed/numbered then they aren't Gold.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/152378595416?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

Edit: Seller removed all "Gold" references

I saw this and noticed that the "Gold variant" reference was in the title only. Made me look. Thanks for contacting him and getting the listing corrected

I got #149 in the mail from CGC today after finally taking the time to send it back in to update the label:

Beautiful book

Here’s the current list of known Miracleman #1 "Gold" variants. These were from the initial print run, were numbered out of 400 and sold at the San Diego Comic Con in 1985. Each was individually signed by Alan Moore and each came with a certificate of authenticity that included the number and, in some cases, has a comic shop noted on the certificate (some were given out by the shops as prizes at the comic con) - where known, this is noted in within square brackets below:

• ·         002 [blank]
• ·         011 Featured in Comics Buyer's Guide #1535, page 41, sold for $1,500 by Excalibur Books & Comics circa 2003 [blank]
• ·         022 Sold on ebay for $449.99 in May 2016. [blank]
• ·         040 Previously sold by mycomicshop.com [blank]
• ·         055 ÇBCS-VS 9.6 Owned by Tropean, previously PGX 9.8 [blank]
• ·         057 Featured on fourcolorheroes.com [blank]
• ·         090 CGC 9.4 #759595004 Sold for $1080 on mycomicshop.com circa early 2015? [blank]
• ·         113 [blank]
• ·         116 [blank]
• ·         117 CGC 9.6 #0979887001 Sold on ebay Jul 2009 [blank]
• ·         122 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         123 CGC 9.0 #0714931001 For sale on ebay May 2016 $1,200 [American Comics, Daniel Gus 2/14/86]
• ·         124 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         128 CGC 9.8 #1256144001 Owned by jjeanius, was for sale on ebay, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         131 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) circa Jun 2013 [blank]
• ·         134 CGC 9.8 #0198245001 Previously owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         136 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) May 2014 [blank]
• ·         137 Sold on ebay (sagacitynow) circa mid Oct 2014 [blank, James Morrison Franco 8-4-85]
• ·         139 Owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         141 CGC 9.8 #0192301002 Owned by mschmidt [blank]
• ·         149 CGC 9.8 #2380024004 Owned by woregul, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [unknown]
• ·         155 [blank]
• ·         161 CGC s/s Garry Leach 9.8 #1231281006 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) May 2014 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         162 Owned by mschmidt, purchased from mycomicshop.com [blank]
• ·         163 Sold on ebay (comicopolis) in Mar 2016 for $516.98 [blank]
• ·         169 CGC 9.8 #1332529002 COA CGC #01333121001Owned by kapzilla, original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         178 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) Mar 2013 [blank]
• ·         179 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         181 CGC 9.6 #1006822002 [blank]
• ·         182 CGC 9.6 #1000183001 [unknown]
• ·         184 CGC 9.8 #1006822001 [blank]
• ·         185 CGC 9.8 #1006822005 Sold on ebay Jan 2014 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         187 CGC 9.8 #0186693003 Original purchase from ebay (comicopolis) [blank]
• ·         188 Featured on 4colorheroes.com [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         190 Owned by mschmidt [blank]
• ·         191 CGC 9.2 #1006822003 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         214 Owned by JollyComics, purchase from ebay Jul 2014.  Mar 2016 on ebay for $600. Ryan had for sale @ $575. Was CGC 9.2. [blank]
• ·         215 Sold via mycomicshop.com for $330 as VF 8.0 Dec 2015. [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         217 CGC 9.6 #0750997011 [unknown]
• ·         226 CGC 9.8 #1006822004 Sold on ebay for US $1,999.99 Mar 2015 [blank]
• ·         236 Sold on ebay for US $300.00 on Sep 2016 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         242 CGC 9.4 #1035897001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $968.88 [Sunrise Comics, Leo Bahuaud, Brian Morton]
• ·         251 Sold for £430 on eBay Oct 2014 [Sunrise Comics, the Fortune Bookie, 8-4-85 John Franco]
• ·         252 On sale on ebay UK for £700 [American Comics, Michael Lagrone 9/23]
• ·         261 ÇBCS-VS 9.4 #0001066-AA-001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $875.00 [American Comics 9/23/85 Ray Faeth 9/23/85]
• ·         268 [blank]
• ·         271 [blank]
• ·         288 Sold as a 9.6 raw on eBay for $474 on Apr 2015 [Best of 2 Worlds, Brian Cox 9/6/85]
• ·         298 CGC 9.8 #0278339001 COA CGC #0278339002 NG Ryan selling on ebay in Feb 2016 (previously raw sold by mycomicshop.com for $450) [blank]
• ·         312 CGC 9.6 #0262610008 Sold on ebay for $750 on Nov 2015 [blank]
• ·         315 CGC 9.6 #1056931007 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $2,200 with offers [blank]
• ·         322 CGC 9.4 #0280296005 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $1,200 with offers [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy]
• ·         323 For sale on eBay April 2015 as "VG+" [Sunrise Comics, Douglas ?, 8/10/85]
• ·         335 CGC 9.4 #Unknown Sold on ebay Nov 2008 [unknown]
• ·         336 For sale on eBay Aug 2016 as "VF-" for $351 [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         353 For sale on ebay (UK) Feb 2017 £900 [Sunrise Comics, Mathew A? 8/3/85]
• ·         359 CGC 9.4 #0747447001 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $875 (previously owned by woregul.) [Sunrise Comics]
• ·         360 Pictured in Overstreet & Comics Buyer's Guide #1535 [American Comics, Ray Johnson 9/30/85]
• ·         368 CGC 9.8 #0919903002 Pedigree: Don/Maggie Thompson Collection Oct 2014 Sold $1,792.50 Heritage [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy and Sunrise comics; Don Thompson 3 August 1985]
• ·         385 CGC 9.4 #0214635002 For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $850 [The Best of Two Worlds, unreadable signature]
• ·         391 CGC 9.8 #1201704001 COA CGC #1257905001 NG For sale on ebay Feb 2017 $4K taking offers [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy]
• ·         394 [Fact, Fiction & Fantasy, Becky Denn 8/3/85]

Note: Original list was merged from lists from: Neeidea, MSchmidt and EwanUK Anyone else own one? Any additional information appreciated and pictures!

On 24/01/2017 at 2:47 AM, woregul said:

I got #149 in the mail from CGC today after finally taking the time to send it back in to update the label:

Congratulations: fantastic book and looking good in the new new slab also.

It is really cool to see that so many of these have come out of the woodwork. When I did the article for Comics Buyer's Guide way back in 2002, I couldn't even get these listed correctly in Overstreet (I think they first listed them as Gold and Silver editions -- and I was an advisor at the time and had a tough time getting them corrected). I had first noticed these in an ad in one of Eclipse's comics when they were first advertised and I wanted one, but the price for these was too high for me to buy at that time (I was just a teen and whatever the cost was at the time was WAY more than I made in a month of cutting grass).

I got into Miracleman collecting and, at one time, owned the Jim Starlin cover art to #4, the John Totleben cover prelim to #12, a Totleben page from #16 and several of the sketches he used to make that page, and a few pages from Miracleman: Triumphant by Mike Deodato (I owned the best of the pages that were available). I had purchased all that from Ricky Wong, who was the Miracleman collector supreme at that time and owned numerous pages of original art. 

I had a very rough time after that article was published and it almost made me wish I had never even written about them -- and was the catalyst for why I ended up letting my copies go.

I had bought my first gold copy from an eBay seller for around $60, paid with a USPS money order, and I scanned my copy of the gold certificate, the cover and the signatures on the inside front page as the photo examples for the CBG article. About a year later (or maybe it was two years), a CBG editor contacts me and tells me I have to give them proof of my purchase of the gold copy and that I also needed to prove I had paid for it because the eBay seller had contacted CBG and said I stole the comic from him. I was crushed! I had never stolen anything in my life (still haven't) and to be accused of something like this was horrible.

Having the money order carbon copy, I had my proof and, heck, as I explained to the CBG editor, the seller would have never sent me the comic had I not paid for it first! And, on top of all that, the seller, in all that time, had never even filed a case against me with eBay and he would have if he hadn't gotten his money. But, the CBG editor was very accusatory and demanded I show where the money order was cashed by the eBay seller, because CBG was threatening to not use any additional articles written by me and to take whatever appropriate action was necessary against me. I don't think the editor who was making the accusations on behalf of the eBay seller even apologized to me after I sent them the proof and cleared my own name. In the end, though, the seller had nothing to base his case upon and I proved my innocence -- and that he was flat-out lying. Here's what I believe happened: After he'd sold the gold to me, he saw that I had done the article about the copy that sold for $1500 and, I will always believe that he was trying to con me out of more money.

At the time, I had two golds and a blue and I was left with such a bad feeling about these that I ended up trading one away to a collector in Seattle and then I sold the other gold and the blue to mycomicshop.com. If I remember correctly, I paid more for the blue copy than for either of the golds.

I know mycomicshop.com got them graded and they graded really high, but I don't recall what their grades were.

But, it is nice to see that so many have surfaced. Back when I first wrote the article, the general belief was that these were so rare only 20 or so copies may still have existed. Many MM collectors didn't even know about them and, those that did believed that the certificates were probably thrown away as many collectors may not have known that they would eventually be worth anything at all.

One last addition to the above information: the gold copy I sold to the Seattle collector was later sold by him on eBay. When it sold for a little more than $600 and didn't reach the $750 I charged him in trade for it, he sent me a note asking me, since it didn't sell for the $750 he'd given me in trade for the MM gold, if I could send him the balance in cash. I politely told him no, that it wasn't my fault it didn't meet that price and that he hadn't set a reserve on his auction.

On 2/10/2017 at 5:04 PM, Michael Browning said:

One last addition to the above information: the gold copy I sold to the Seattle collector was later sold by him on eBay. When it sold for a little more than $600 and didn't reach the $750 I charged him in trade for it, he sent me a note asking me, since it didn't sell for the $750 he'd given me in trade for the MM gold, if I could send him the balance in cash. I politely told him no, that it wasn't my fault it didn't meet that price and that he hadn't set a reserve on his auction.

OMG, you are freaking cursed with this book. Kimota!

Wow. It’s been almost a year since the last post. Well, here’s an update.

#139 was graded by CGC at 9.4. I got the COA slabbed also. However #139 has been sold to another boardie. 

Don't know how interesting this info is to anyone, but I have #93 (ungraded). I'm no longer sure where I got it back in the day, but (being Danish) it was by mail order and most likely from either New England Comics or Mile High Comics. I seem to recall that the gold edition set me back $50, and the blue edition $20 (or at least it was in that ballpark).

I'm surprised that these books have become as collectible as they are.   I believe these were the brainchild of American Comics.  They invested in having all the first copies of Miracle Man shipped over from the UK in time to sell them for SDCC.  From what I remember, a lot of the copies were damaged in shipment and most had that printing defect shown above.  These certainly helped pay for expenses that year.

I believe they were also involved in some of the other great marketing efforts of the 80's - the Limited Adventurers #1 cover (the first retailer incentive cover) and the reprinting of G.I. Joe #2 along with Sunrise Comics (prior to that Marvel didn't reprint specific books).