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Prime Slime Tales
#1 · 1986
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Mirage Studios · 1986 · Raw · VF+ 8.5
Prime Slime Tales #1 (Mirage Studios, 1986). Raw copy, condition as stated in the listing: VF+ 8.5.
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Prime Slime Tales #1, published by Mirage Studios in 1986 (Copper Age).
This is a raw book: it has not been graded or sealed by a grading company. The condition stated in the listing is VF+ 8.5; that is the seller's own assessment, not a certified grade.
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Collecting
The TMNT debut is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1, published by Mirage Studios in May 1984, which introduced the four Turtles. Only the first printing, of about 3,000 copies, is the high-value key; later printings look similar but carry the printing in the indicia.
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Characters
Deadpool first appeared in The New Mutants #98, cover-dated February 1991, created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, as a mercenary hired to kill Cable. The same issue introduced Gideon and Domino (revealed later to be the impostor Copycat). It is the most valuable comic of the early 1990s and the standard example of a Modern Age key.
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Collecting
From the late 1970s to around 2013, most Marvel and DC comics were printed in two editions: newsstand copies sold on returnable terms through news outlets, and direct editions sold non-returnable to comic shops. They share the same interior; the difference is on the cover, where newsstand copies carry a UPC barcode and direct editions show a logo, a blank box or a different barcode. Newsstand copies from the 1990s onward are scarcer in high grade and often sell at a premium.
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History
Mirage Studios was the name Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird gave the company they formed to self-publish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 in May 1984 from Dover, New Hampshire — a mirage because there was no studio. The black-and-white comic's success made it the model for the 1980s independent boom, and the licensing that followed built a global franchise. Laird bought out Eastman in 2000 and sold the property to Viacom (Nickelodeon) in 2009.
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