Some Alpha Flight appearances

[Phil]

$4.99 price point not very good, Marvel. Usually #0 issues go for $0.99, right?

They don't tend to.

Infinity had the free FCBD prologue (which was reprinted in #1 anyway(?) with #1 being $4.99)
Age Of Ultron had the free FCBD #0.1 (which was a reprint of Avengers #12.1 which was $2.99)
Avengers Vs X-Men #0 was $3.99
Fear Itself had Book Of The Skull which was $3.99
Siege had Siege:The Cabal which was $3.99

[rplass]

They don't tend to.

Infinity had the free FCBD prologue (which was reprinted in #1 anyway(?) with #1 being $4.99)
Age Of Ultron had the free FCBD #0.1 (which was a reprint of Avengers #12.1 which was $2.99)
Avengers Vs X-Men #0 was $3.99
Fear Itself had Book Of The Skull which was $3.99
Siege had Siege:The Cabal which was $3.99

I was referring to other publishers. I recall Greg Pak's Battlestar Galactica #0 selling for $0.25 (Dynamite Entertainment) and StarCraft #0 given away for free (Wildstorm) and Dungeons&Dragons #0 selling for $1 or free at NYCC2010 (IDW). The concept is that you give a promo comic to tease in new readers for a low price. Makes more sense to me than starting over at #1 every 8 issues. I wish I could remember more examples of this situation.

[Phil]

The concept is that you give a promo comic to tease in new readers for a low price. Makes more sense to me than starting over at #1 every 8 issues. I wish I could remember more examples of this situation.

I can see what you're saying, and Marvel have done similar with Origins Of Siege and the 25c issues they did in the earlt 2000's, but OS #0 is more of a prologue than a promo-tease.
I've pretty much accepted $3.99 as the standard price point nowadays so I won't be surprised when everything goes up to $4.99 in a few years...

[Chris]

I haven't seen DC or Marvel publish 99 cent comic books for a looooong time (unless they are digital first books). Today's Justice League United #0 was $3.99. At least Original Sin #0 was 33 pages long for $4.99. It was basically a double sized issue of Nova. Any current Sam Alexander Nova fans will enjoy this Original Sin "prologue." I did.

Now after I typed this, I remember Marvel republishing the first issue of Strikeforce Morituri for 99 cents back in 2012. And other comic companies have published first issues for a $1.00. Aspen Comics had a 10 for 10 initiative last year where the first issues for books like Fathom and Jirni were only $1.00

[Le Messor]

Any current Sam Alexander Nova fans will enjoy this Original Sin "prologue." I did.

That gets me interested! (Moreso, I'm sorry, than a 'small cameo from The Master, Puck and Guardian'; is that a flashback anyway?)
I might pick it up, if I remember.

~ Le Messor

[Flightpath07]

Yeah, that cheap cover price got me to buy the first few issues of Jirni.

It's a great gimmick, and it works.

[Flightpath07]

The Master, Puck, and Guardian are Flashback? Now I'm confused...

[Chris]

The Master, Puck, and Guardian are Flashback? Now I'm confused...

No actual Flashback aka Gardner Monroe in issue. The Master, Guardian, and Puck scene is just one of many flashback, future, and alternate reality scenes.

The only times I remember Guardian and Puck fighting the Master together were AF 130 v1 and AF 8 vol 4 but they were never together in same fight scene with the Master. So maybe this is an alternate reality scene? The closest scene I can recall would be Puck and synth Mac fighting a synth Master in AF 2 v2. Now I'm being nitpicky.

[Le Messor]

I'm gonna figure they just thought 'Alpha fought the Master, let's put two Alphans against the Master'.

[Chris]

That makes more sense Rob. If Marvel was not giving away a free new Guardians of the Galaxy book and also a new Rocket Raccoon book next weekend for FCBD, maybe they would have given away Original Sin 0 instead???

[Le Messor]

I'm actually pretty used to $4.99 books already.

Of course, I don't pay a huge amount of attention to the US cover price, since it's more of a guideline in Australia.
(I keep automatically typing 'here in Australia', but I'm in Colorado right now. Hunh.)

~ Le Messor

[Phil]

Now... this is a strange one...

I've recently been catching up on a lot of New Warriors and in Volume 3 #3 I discovered something that's... possibly... an appearance.

Now, back when Alpha Flight Volume 3 was running Skottie Young was hired to draw two covers for the Dave Ross fill-in issues. Only one of these saw print; his Sasquatch cover to #8.
The Marvel Previews magazine with the solicit to #7 showed work in progress of his cover that never actually graced the issue in the end. (I've been searching up & down my house for the issue [which actually led me to find some other stuff I'll post elsewhere] and can't find it and I think the scan of it was either lost to the sands of time when we moved the site to this format, or stuck on an ancient hard-drive in my loft somewhere; but for reference the cover was


I believe that Skottie may have included it in one of his convention artbooks at the time and sold prints of it, but it never actually saw publication other than that.

Until (I've just discovered) the aforementioned NW #3:



So tenuous but does it count...?

[rplass]

It counts. Nice find!

I think I have that Previews magazine too. I'll try to dig it out also.

EDIT: I found it! Issue 11 from July 2004, soliciting September 2004.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/...rticleID=11712

[Phil]

I think I have that Previews magazine too. I'll try to dig it out also.

EDIT: I found it! Issue 11 from July 2004, soliciting September 2004.

http://www.previewsworld.com/Home/1/...rticleID=11712

Can you grab a scan of the 'in progress' solicit?

[Flightpath07]

Phil That's an AWESOME find! A poster of an unpublished Alpha Flight cover, on the wall of a superhero in another comic!?! Are you KIDDING me!?!!! That is SO cool!