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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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Bone 5 Signature
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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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1019270020
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Owner:
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DocGo
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Label Notes
Jeff Smith cover, story, and art.
*1st appearance of Lucius Down*
Synopsis
The rat creatures attack Gran'ma Ben's home while Phoney finds Smiley at the Barrel Haven pub. Lucius Down, the pub's proprietor, helps Phoney realize that his Boneville legal tender has no value in the valley. Very well drawn action sequences by Mr. Smith in this issue.
The Slab
By far, the hardest issue in the series to get in 9.8. This is the highest grade in the Signature Series category (tied with one other)! Sig & Ted sketch were secured by facilitator Rich Henn at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con who then sold the book on eBay to Jolly Comics. I won it at auction on ComicLink in 2017. The book was graded all the way back on January 5th, 2011.
Inside The Comic
Twenty two pages of story and two full pages of letters. The inside front cover has a drawing of an airborne Fone Bone from page 21 with the brief prologue and credits: By Jeff Smith at the top and Cover Airbrush by David Reed” on the bottom. The back cover has a panel from page 5 showing Fone Bone urging Thorn to “GET UP!”
Bone-a-Fides
The Bone-a-Fides are a good mix of fan praise and professional adulation (including one from Scott McCloud, cartoonist and comic author). There were a couple from Europe that I found surprising. Considering that there was no way the stories would have been translated yet, how were they distributed outside of North America so early in Cartoon Books history? There are tons of European fans nowadays and, perhaps, getting there early was one of Jeff’s key strategies. Or a happy accident…
Walt Kelly’s influence continued to be mentioned along with Charles Schulz and Chuck Jones. Another fan brought up the Thorn comic strip from OSU and enjoyed the addition of Smiley to the mix (who did in fact appear in the original strip but only briefly). Warner Bros animator Glen Murakami dropped a short note saying that he liked #1-3 and couldn’t wait for #4.
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The inside back cover has images of all five issues as well as information for ordering back issues and subscribing (#1, 2, and 3 were all on second printings).
Estimated Copies Sold: ????
Back Cover Collectible
Cartoon Books Silver Anniversary Twenty-Five Gazillion Dollar Bills
For the 25th Anniversary celebration of Bone #1 at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, Cartoon Books posted an image of Twenty-Five Gazillion Dollar bills that would be given away at their booth. They released Bone Coda at the same event so I’m sure plenty of people got their hands on these when they made their purchases.
What I was interested in were the sealed packs shown on a post from Boneville.com. I thought they looked cool sealed in plastic and they reminded me of the ubiquitous stacks of $100 dollar bills in Hollywood heist movies. I contacted Kathleen Glosan after SDCC and we made a deal for two of the packs in exchange for a donation to the CBLDF. Jeff even signed them but they got inevitably smudged during shipping (this type of plastic isn’t forgiving to Sharpie signatures). They still look good to me and I thank Kathleen & Jeff for letting these go!
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