The New Megalith Series

[Doug MedicAR]

I am not finding the new "Megalith" series from Bad Idea and am not sure how to enter it.  Let me give the history here.  

I wouldn't give these clowns the time of day except for one thing, Matt Kindt has done a fair amount of work for them and while I'm a huge fan of Matt, I absolutely hate this publisher.  First, comic stores had to be found worthy and anointed to sell Bad Idea books, there wasn't a store within 200 miles of me.  Then those same sellers had to agree not to sell more than a single copy of any book to any particular customer.  Then the secret squirrel stuff started with all sorts of variants, convention specials, and incentives that many collectors only found out about after the fact.  Next, the publisher failed (who didn't see that coming?) and closed its doors.  Except maybe they didn't fail and it was just a marketing gimmick, I am still not sure.  They put a book or two on Kickstarter because they were supposedly broke and had no other way to do it.  The Kickstarter books still haven't seen the light of day but at NYCC 2024 they put out a preview of "Megalith" which was one of those books.  Once again, there's a catch.  They only made 100 copies.  I have seen maybe a dozen so far and have one. 

So is it better to add a single issue with a sample cover or to start adding a new one every time I find a different one? 

[Mark J. Castaneda]

So the preview you have isn't considered the full issue and its limited to 100? Is there an interior indicia (fine credits) page that states the official title name?

[Doug MedicAR]

The indicia reads "Megalith NYCC 100 Edition."  In my original post, I apparently deleted or failed to enter an important tidbit.  Each issue of the 100 copies has a different cover.  Supposedly, no two covers are the same and the covers are printed, not sketched or stamped.  It is a true preview of the potential book in that it has lots of beautiful artwork, apparently completed pages with the exception being that there is no text at all with the aside from the indicia and the credits inside the back cover. 

[Mark J. Castaneda]

so there's 100 variants? All confirmed to actually be released? Ugh.

the safe approach would be to create a Megalith NYCC 100 Edition title then list the all variants (1/A, 1/B, etc.)

[Gregory Hecht]

1 hour ago, Mark J. Castaneda said:

so there's 100 variants? All confirmed to actually be released? Ugh.

the safe approach would be to create a Megalith NYCC 100 Edition title then list the all variants (1/A, 1/B, etc.)

Sounds like it is a little bit like what Blitmap was doing, where no two copies of a particular issue had identical covers.  Is there a way to streamline the listings for this title similar to how you guys approached indexing Blitmap?