Walking Dead #129 Manifest Destiny #8 SDCC retailer sketch covers

From Patrick H., our man at SDCC, and friend from Google + Comic Book Speculation and Investment Board. Patrick can be found here on eBay

In my endless search for new information from publishers, I uncovered a hidden gem in SDCC. One of the more popular exclusives from Image this year are the Walking Dead #129 and the Manifest Destiny #8 with interlocking covers and it seems that Skybound had a secret weapon: Sketch variants for each!
I found out about the sketch covers last night from our own +Donn Lapid through the CGC boards. After doing some research on ebay, there was one copy of MD #8 SDCC sketch sold on ebay which sold for $24!!!!
Today I did some real digging for info, I hit up the Image booth and spoke to a few of my sources there, I also spoke to a few key people in the Skybound camp, AND I spoke to the creators. Here is the gist of what I found out:
The SDCC 2014 sketch variants were made for the Skybound Retailer Breakfast today where they dropped new info on upcoming books (write up coming soon) to all of the retailers attending the con. Image printed 500 copies and are NOT releasing it to the public after today’s breakfast, they were very secretive about the print run and the books themselves. I spoke to several employees who didn’t know what I was talking about..
After feeling that I had finished most of my shopping I realized that a new mission came my way: Speak to every retailer in SDCC exhibit floor and buy those copies from them. For the next few hours I spent combing the convention floor looking for these retailers but as I mentioned in my last con report, most retailers are carrying Silver and Bronze Age high end items so some didn’t attend because they don’t sell modern books. Other retailers didn’t know about it and some just didn’t have the time to attend. In the end I spoke to all dealers and only three attended that I found and I bought up what I could, the third set was sold before I got back to the booth. I was still really psyched for my find but wanted to gather more info so I went back to the Slybound booth and spoke to higher up whom ended up giving me a set! I was floored, wait I’m actually still floored.
There has to be under ten copies in the wild and I’m being generous with this amount.

10 thoughts on “Walking Dead #129 Manifest Destiny #8 SDCC retailer sketch covers”

  1. I just bought the manifest destiny #8 sketch from a British retailer who listed it on ebay. He had two copies do the Walkimg Dead sketch but both are already gone. I need the other one to complete my set!

      1. £50 which is about $80 US
        We’ll see whether or not that was too much, but I waited a while to get the #1 LBCC sketch variant and that was costly. Don’t want to talk about how much that one ran.
        This is my favorite comic series right now. Personally I can’t wait to find out what other weapons and equipment they have in the ship’s hold. Vampire stakes, Greek fire and…..

  2. Like you mention, the boards just discovered it existed a couple of days ago and a lot of people want a copy, so I’d say the demand is there. Hopefully my comic arrives in good shape. It’s probably on the way from Cali to England at the moment only to turn back around for the US east coast. If it’s in the 9’s I think I’m sending it to CGC.

  3. As one of the retailers from the breakfast…there couldn’t have been more than a dozen and a half of us present. Not many of these floating around to my knowledge.

  4. The shop I frequent had a set, but they wanted $175 for The Walking Dead and $75 for Manifest Destiny.

    1. They are going crazy on ebay. One set over 300, the other over 200 with 1 day to go.

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