"Two different covers for a five month old book?" Topic
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| camelphract | 17 Mar 2008 7:54 a.m. PST |
Checking out the Will Eisner website,Isaw there are 2 different pictures on Darwyn Cooke`s hard cover "The Spirit book one"[not the dust jacket-but the hard cover itself]. I just recently sent for it and have no idea which cover I`ll receive.AS this book was just released last October,why 2 different covers when it`s the exact same contents inside?I also noticed there are 2 different isbn #. Any info will be greatly appreciated. |
| Stronty Girl | 17 Mar 2008 8:03 a.m. PST |
To screw as much money as possible out of the collectors market??? That's the traditional reason for "variant covers" on comics. However if there are 2 different ISBNs then maybe one is the US territories edition and one is the UK territories edition (or some such). They would be re-typeset to alter the spelling of 'color' to 'colour' and other such vagaries of the English language. |
| Tom Reed | 17 Mar 2008 8:20 a.m. PST |
i've noticed that comic books now ship with two covers a lot of the time. The regular cover the reader gets. And for every 10 issues the dealer orders he gets one issue with the variant cover. |
 mmitchell  | 17 Mar 2008 10:12 a.m. PST |
Can you provide links to the two different covers? I'm a fan of the Spirit and am curious about this, myself. |
| camelphract | 17 Mar 2008 12:48 p.m. PST |
Sure thing mmitchell.Go to willeisner.com.on the left side a little way down is buy will eisner`s books,it`s the last one there.Enlarge it & the Spirit is on a Pier.Now,go back to homepage & again on the left side click on The Spirit.Go down,very far down, you`ll seeThe Spirit #14-it`s right after that:Darwyn Cooke`s The Spirit vol.1.;it`s the second or third picture down.The Spirit is getting out of a manhole----completely different cover!I`m curious to see what you think. |
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