East of West #1 DRS:
Diamond Retailer Summit Edition
Image Comics, March 2013.
Rare East of West, written by Jonathan Hickman with art by Nick Dragotta, is a western set in a futuristic dystopian United States where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse want the president dead!
This is the Diamond Retailer Summit variant, mailed out to participating attendees of the pre-C2E2 2013 Diamond Summit in Chicago.
As the variant was mailed out some did not arrive in top condition and this was compounded by problems with ink staining on the back cover. Despite this, CGC have graded the majority (85% in Spring 2014) of these in CGC 9.8 (Near Mint / Mint) but many of the damaged issues may simply have not been sent for grading.
Other variants, such as the Forbidden Planet Edition and Ghost variant are also rare, but the lower print run on the Diamond variant make this the most sought after one.
Prices were high to start with for this variant and will likely steadily increase.
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