Dark Horse Presents # 36 Alternate Cover?

[ArwingAssultX]

I was looking around during the Fan Expo Convention in Toronto This summer and found DHP # 36 along with several others I was missing. Then after I got back home I visited a local Flea Market and found        DHP# 36 but with a different Cover, anyone know anything about it? Is it rare? was it a special AVP thing?

Thanks

[Mr. Domino]

Dark Horse Presents # 36 is the first 'actual' AVP story, even though it is the third part of a story that began in issue # 34 (the first part just featured the Aliens, whereas the second part featured the Predators. It is in issue # 36 that they meet). The issue shipped with two different covers, cover A featuring art by Dave Dorman, and cover B (the 'variant', as it were) having art by Chris Warner. Each cover featured a larger, uncropped version of the art from the other cover on its back cover.

[ArwingAssultX]

ok, thanks I own the ones before it, again thanks for the quck answer.

[shazam]

DHP36 Cover A:
http://www.aliensonline.hu/spgm/gal/Kepregeny_Boritok/AVP_-_Short_Stories/avp_dhp36a.jpg

The original Dave Dorman art:
http://www.aliensonline.hu/spgm/gal/Kepregeny_Boritok/AVP_-_Short_Stories/avp_dhp36a_original.jpg

DHP36 Cover B:
http://www.aliensonline.hu/spgm/gal/Kepregeny_Boritok/AVP_-_Short_Stories/avp_dhp36b.jpg

And here's a unique hungarian "variant" art of the DD painting, for a bootleg AvP novel "The Trap" (Kelepce) (what is a variant of the original AvP Prey novel!)
http://www.aliensonline.hu/kepek/konyvek/avp_akelepce.jpg
http://www.aliensonline.hu/spgm/gal/Galeriak/Boros_Szikszai/boros-szikszai-1.jpg
Made by the famous fantasy artists Boros and Szikszai ( http://www.boros-szikszai.com/ )

[vikingspawn]

A 9.8 graded DHP #36 is currently at $125 on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/DARK-HORSE-36-CGC-MT-9-8-1ST-ALIENS-PREDATOR-VARIANT_W0QQitemZ220530281168QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3358a10ad0

[ArwingAssultX]

I cant belive that, seen it a million times for 10 bucks or less got a mint copy for 5 bucks and the Alternate for cheaper. Seriously people who would buy that!

[XenoVC]

First I've ever heard of those bootleg avp novels.

[Rambo]

I thought I remembered reading about a full size poster going on sale of Dorman's cover, but that might just have been for his AVP issue #1 cover (I know that one did get a poster version, for something like $80). Or am I just crazy.

[ArwingAssultX]

Dont remember that, that doesent make you crazy, lol

[SM]

First I've ever heard of those bootleg avp novels.

I've known about them for years - though wouldn't have the faintest idea as to their content or quality.

[shazam]

First I've ever heard of those bootleg avp novels.

I've known about them for years - though wouldn't have the faintest idea as to their content or quality.

Three Aliens, two Predator, and two AVP bootleg novels have been written by Hungarian authors. All of them are (almost) terrible...

[ArwingAssultX]

Never saw any bootleg before, must have to get 'em in a back alley. Joking.

[Xeno]

A 9.8 graded DHP #36 is currently at $125 on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/DARK-HORSE-36-CGC-MT-9-8-1ST-ALIENS-PREDATOR-VARIANT_W0QQitemZ220530281168QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3358a10ad0

Purchased a copy on eBay for $3,95. Frontcover signed by Chris Warner and Backcover by Dave Dorman. 

[Mr. Domino]

Ah, that's cool. My copies aren't signed by Warner, I've never met him.

[Proj2501]

I'm surprised to see how much they are selling for. I had ALL the original Aliens and Pred comics (single issues too) and my dad accidently threw them away on me! (Man i was PISSED, but tragedies occur occasionally.)

I have a hardcover of Aliens: Tribes signed by Dorman and Bisset that somehow survived all these years.

I'm very happy we have the OMNIBUS collections. Better to have something than nothing.