Savage Dragon Variant Covers

Stefan · **Posted:** Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:12 am

The covers shown here are either real variants or reprints with alternate covers. The miniseries and the ongoing series of Savage Dragon up to issue 30 (at least) also had newsstand versions that were printed on newsprint and show the UPC on the cover. Those newsstand books didn´t have any of the posters included. Issues 10 and 31 of the newsstand editions are real variants as they have exclusive variant covers. I´ve also included the newsstand version of issue #1 as an example of what the newsstand books usually looked like (but left out all the other newsstand issues).

Issue #1/2 - Variant "Special Wizard Edition" cover
Version A could be ordered with a coupon from Wizard #69 (?) and came with a COA. Version B came without COA and was available to those who subscribed to Wizard

Issue #1 - Variant covers with different cover fonts (different posters inside)
The newsstand version didn´t have a poster

Issue #10 - Variant newstand cover

Issue #17 - Variant cover (different content - nudity scene)

Issue #25 - Variant cover by Jeff Matsuda

Issue #27 - Variant "Wondercon Exclusive" cover
There seems to be a version of the variant that came with a COA limited to 500 copies

Issue #30 - Variant "As Seen On TV" newsstand cover

Issue #31 - Variant "God is Good" cover (different content - god cursing)

Issue #40 - Variant "She-Dragon" cover

Issue #51 - Variant cover (colored by Larsen)

Issue #77 - Variant "WildStar" cover by Jerry Ordway

Issue #100 - Variant "2nd Printing" cover

Issue #120 - Variant "SoulStar" cover

Issue #128 - Variant "Wanted" cover by J.G. Jones

Issue #137 - Variant Obama cover (1st to 4th printing)

Issue #145 - Variant "Fist Bump" cover / Variant con exclusive "Obama vs. Osama" cover

Issue #148 - Variant "Free Comic Book Day" cover

Issue #149 - Variant "Old-School Marvel Cover Dress" cover (2nd printing)

Issue #150 - Variant "Old-School DC Cover Dress" cover

Issue #156 - Variant "Hulk Homage" cover by Herb Trimpe

Issue #165 - Variant "Captain Four Colors" cover

Issue #183 - Variant "20th Anniversary Tribute" cover by Chris Giarrusso

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Savage Dragon Companion - Variant "2nd printing" cover (?)

Savage Dragon vs. Savage Megaton Man - Variant gold foil edition

Craig O. · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:42 pm

Glad to see this post back. I love how Erik doesn't go overboard with variants, so when they are done they are usually pretty darn cool. I also love knowing that I own them all 8-)

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Craig O. · **Posted:** Sun Jul 31, 2011 3:45 pm

Also, to get technical, the "old school" 149 cover is more of a second printing cover than a variant.

djk300 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:03 pm **Posts:** 263

Stefan

Thanks for bringing this back. Craig O. congrats on having all! Im just missing Yellow #137.

still searching.

Craig O. · **Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:44 am

djk300 wrote:

Stefan

Thanks for bringing this back. Craig O. congrats on having all! Im just missing Yellow #137.

still searching.

Are these still hard to come by or have the prices dropped back down?

djk300 · **Joined:** Sat Jul 23, 2011 9:03 pm **Posts:** 263

hard to come by and the price still high. Id trade for one. :mrgreen:

Again though I still search. I am a avid fan of Erik. Been on the bus since issue #1

Stefan · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2011 2:27 am

Craig O. wrote:

Also, to get technical, the "old school" 149 cover is more of a second printing cover than a variant.

Didn´t know it was a second printing. Are you sure?

Craig O. · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2011 5:03 am

Stefan wrote:

Craig O. wrote:

Also, to get technical, the "old school" 149 cover is more of a second printing cover than a variant.

Didn´t know it was a second printing. Are you sure?

http://www.imagecomics.com/comics/2054/ ... 49-2nd-Ptg

Stefan · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:24 am

Thanks. I updated the first post accordingly.

Stefan · **Posted:** Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:56 am

Small edit to the first post with an image of the newsstand version of issue #1

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