COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark 1 Modern
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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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3694478008
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Owner:
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Qalyar
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
It was the height of EverQuest's glory when this book hit comic stands in late 2001 (notwithstanding its 2002 publication date). The game's then-owner, Sony Online Entertainment, partnered with DC to produce this (very) loosely adaptation of part of the story from the first expansion, which was also titled The Ruins of Kunark. DC (under the Wildstorm imprint) really didn't pull out any stops producing this glossy, squarebound book. Jim Lee was tapped to do most of the work on the book, netting credits for cover (adapting Keith Parkinson's game-box cover art), story, and interior art.
All in all, it's a decent enough book. I'm sure SOE hoped it would convince comic readers to try out their hit MMORPG, but I'm not sure this was the best of all possible advertisements for the game. Most of the buyers were probably already playing. Regardless, Comichron recorded a little under 16,000 copies ordered, good for 125th place that month by volume -- or just short of the top 50 books by dollar value, owing to its heftier cover price. It might not have been a roaring success, but it wasn't a failure, and the rumors were that it was intended to be the first in a line of one-shot adaptations of parts of the EverQuest story. That part didn't quite go as planned.
I purchased this copy from GACollectibles via the CGC boards. These prestige-format books hold up to travel pretty well, so high-grade copies are probably fairly obtainable, but it was nice to skip that process and go directly to a 9.8.
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