DIME PRESS #4 1st HELLBOY Uncirculated Warehouse Copy HIGH GRADE!

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THIS LISTING IS FOR ONE COPY ONLY ! For Sale 1 copy of DIME PRESS #4 , with the 1st Appearance of Hellboy. This is an uncirculated, warehouse copy and is Minty Fresh! SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! If you are interested in other HELLB OY items I have on eBay !! Check it out ! Five of the pictures show 4 of the actual books that I am selling. The books are identified in the photos with PINK letters A, B, C or D. 1st buyer gets to choos e which of the se 4 books they want . 1st Come , including payment, 1st to choose. (This is in response to a couple of emails asking for pictures of the actual books being sold.) Any of these should get grades above 9.2 , but I'm not a big fan of CGC and their gra ding consistency or lack there of. A few years ago I was lucky enough to be contacted by somebody in Italy that found a case of Dime Press #4 and offered them to me as a case lot. Almost every copy was NEAR MINT to MINT . I am selling the best of the best of my copies. Once again, SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED! I've included a picture of a stack of my Dime Press #4 which also shows a CGC slabbed copy. That photo is for display purposes only. Dime Press #4 Printed May 1993, Hellboy is turning 20 this year!!! "Dime Press" is an independent Italian comic book publisher: it produced a series of 22 comics on various Italian characters (Dylan Dog, Tex, Nathan Never….). It's a very rare Italian fanzine that featured for the first time in the world Hellboy. In DIME PRESS #4 of this fanzine protagonists are a famous Italian character (Nathan Never) and, for the first time in his first illustration, Hellboy; cover was designed by Nicola Mari and the great Mike Mignola. Dime press #4 has an estimated print of only 2,000 copies and was only available in Italy!!! It’s very rare to find it . . . an opportunity for true comics collectors!!! Imagine its value when you cannot find a copy! I remind you that only 2000 copies are available (really even fewer because many copies have been lost or destroyed). Take this opportunity to own one of the hardest to find Hellboy books, before it’s too late! A short time ago it was thought that,the first appearance of Hellboy was dated December 1993 (Next Men #21 ). In an interview Mike Mignola declared that the true first appearance of this hero was May 1993 in the very rare Dime Press #4!!! Here's the interview: "The Dime Press, if it's the Italian Fanzine that I'm thinking of, is the first drawing of the Hellboy that more or less exists today (stone hand, etc)... The '91 drawing is the first time I used the name Hellboy, but hadn't yet thought of creating an actual series about the character...the character from '91 bears little resemblance to the modern version of Hellboy. Mike." Order of appearance: May 1993 FIRST Appearance of Hellboy: Dime Press #4 (the most rare of the fanzine)!!! Cover designed by Nicola Mari and Mike Mignola which shows Nathan Never and the first Hellboy. August 1993: SAN DIEGO COMIC CON # 2, first Hellboy American appearance and story. December 1993, appearance of Hellboy in a nationally released Comic Next Men #21 and the first color appearance of Hellboy in a nationally released comic. A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY HELLBOY FAN / COLLECTOR. A GREAT INVESTMENT AND ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION! SATISFACTION GUARANTEE: If unsatisfied you will receive a full refund of the purchase price once the item is returned in the same condition as shipped. PLEASE NOTE: I have had people buy NM copies of a comic then return a different copy expecting a refund. You must return the same copy that was shipped and yes, I will know if it is a different copy. NO SUCH THING AS FREE SHIPPING! The fallacy of ‘Free Shipping’, according to ImaPaqRat: If the seller provides ‘Free Shipping’ it means they have already factored in the full cost of shipping into their pricing. If you happen to buy 10 items from that seller, you are paying full shipping on 10 items even though they may sh... read more

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