Valiant Production Error - Deathmate Red white error

We've already seen a few Deathmate white error editions - Deathmate Epilogue white error and Deathmate Blue white error - and now we have the Deathmate Red white error edition.

You often see production errors on books with large print runs so it's understandable that the Deathmate books which had print runs in the millions of copies would have production errors. What's interesting is that they all seem to have the same type of error - the White Variant error. This happens when the foil part of the cover runs out in the printing press and the glossy card-stock paper cover shows through. As part of the promotion for the Deathmate crossover series, Image and Valiant gave out card-stock covers (with no interiors) for Deathmate Prologue at conventions for fans to get signed. To differentiate this giveaway they purposely had the silver foil left out, creating the first white variant Deathmate book. Some collectors have attempted to complete a set of all six Deathmate white variants even though many dispute that white variants even exist for every issue.

And now, some proof of the existence of the white variant Deathmate Red:

Valiant Production Error - Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #1

When you're as popular as Valiant is you print a lot of books (especially in the early 90s!), and when you print a lot of books a few production errors sneak out. A few even look pretty cool.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter #1 had a print run of almost 2 million (one of the largest in history) so you'd imagine a few errors would sneak by. Check out this copy with the red foil misprinted on the Valiant logo and title logo:

The weird lines on the chromium card are not an error, they appear on the scan only.

For comparison, here is the printed version.

Valiant Production Error - Deathmate Epilogue white error

Less than 24 hours after posting about the Deathmate Blue white error and how rare the white Deathmate books are, a CGC 9.8 copy of Deathmate Epilogue white error pops up on eBay! Well, to reiterate you often see production errors on books with large print runs so it's understandable that the Deathmate books which had print runs in the millions of copies would have production errors. What's interesting is that they all seem to have the same type of error - the White Variant error. This happens when the foil part of the cover runs out in the printing press and the glossy card-stock paper cover shows through. As part of the promotion for the Deathmate crossover series, Image and Valiant gave out card-stock covers (with no interiors) for Deathmate Prologue at conventions for fans to get signed. To differentiate this giveaway they purposely had the silver foil left out, creating the first white variant Deathmate book. Some collectors have attempted to complete a set of all six Deathmate white variants even though many dispute that white variants even exist for every issue.

And now, some proof of the existence of the white variant Deathmate Epilogue:

CGC, the most widely accepted grading authority in the industry, graded this book with a green "qualified" label. The green label is used when there is writing on the comic, parts are missing (such as coupons that have been cut out), or collectible production errors are present. Here they remarked on the green label that the book was "Manufactured without silver foil on the cover".

UPDATE: I hate talking about eBay but I thought it would be interesting to some to know that this bad boy ended up selling for a cool $100 plus shipping.

Valiant Production Error - Deathmate Blue white error

Here's the second in my series of cool Valiant production errors (The first was Archer & Armstrong #0). You often see production errors on books with large print runs so it's understandable that the Deathmate books which had print runs in the millions of copies would have production errors. What's interesting is that they all seem to have the same type of error - the White Variant error. This happens when the foil part of the cover runs out in the printing press and the glossy card-stock paper cover shows through. Check out this scan of the rare Deathmate Blue white error edition next to a regular copy of Deathmate Blue :

As part of the promotion for the Deathmate crossover series, Image and Valiant gave out card-stock covers (with no interiors) for Deathmate Prologue at conventions for fans to get signed. To differentiate this giveaway they purposely had the silver foil left out, creating the first white variant Deathmate book. Some collectors have attempted to complete a set of all six Deathmate white variants even though many dispute that white variants even exist for every issue. At least we now have proof of a white variant Deathmate Blue.

Valiant Production Error - Archer & Armstrong #0

When you're as popular as Valiant is you print a lot of books (especially in the early 90s!), and when you print a lot of books a few production errors sneak out. A few even look pretty cool. I'm creating a series of posts entitled "Valiant Production Error" to showcase some of these crazy errors. The most famous example of the Valiant production error is of course the Harbinger blank coupon. They were so rare that until recently many people believed they didn't exist. Well today we're not talking about them.

Today we are starting off with a basic ink misprint (and kind of a lame error to kick this series off...oh well, I'm committed already) on the cover of Archer & Armstrong #0. Check it out: