Hunting down the variant covers for Mad Cave Studios Phantom issue 1
- Jermayn Parker
- Oct 13
- 2 min read
We have received messages and seen phans asking about the various variant covers for the new Mad Cave Studios Phantom series. Hopefully this will help those phans identify the comics and how to buy them. Please use the below gallery as a starting point.
The first seven covers can all be ordered through your local comic shop (including Australian comic shops). The eighth is a 1:10 retailer incentive: The 1:10 ratio is a retailer incentive used by publishers to encourage comic shops to place larger orders for a new title. The higher the ratio (e.g., 1:25, 1:100, 1:500), the more regular copies a retailer must order to get the variant, making it even rarer.
The Mad Cave Studios web exclusive cover can only be purchased via their website. It is worth mentioning that there have also been exclusive 50x holofoil and 25x metal variants of this variant that were on sale at High Horse Comics in LA. The NYCC variant cover can also now be found on their website after they released it at the convention. You can also get their regular and ratio comics from their website.
At this stage we have found three store exclusives. One has not yet been released but will be released by Harrison's Comic Store drawn by Richard Maurizio. We have included the original art in the gallery but have no dates when the comic will be available.
The other is by Boom Tube Comics, drawn by past Daily newspaper artist Keith Williams. This cover by Keith is also released as a virgin variant (minus the trade dress) and limited holofoil and metal variants. If your interested in the comics by Boom Tube Comics, we suggest you email them at requests@boomtubecomics.com.
Details of the variant covers
Cover A regular: By Freddie WIlliams II (Instagram)
Cover B regular: By Canaan White (Instagram)
Cover C regular: By Russell Mark Olson (Instagram)
Cover D regular: By Dan Brereton (Instagram)
Cover E regular: By Freddie WIlliams II (B&W)
Cover F regular: Blank sketch cover
Cover G 1:10: By Natacha Bustos (Instagram)
Mad Cave Studios NYCC variant: By Marco Santucci (Instagram)
Boom Tube Comics Store exclusive 2: By Keith Williams (Instagram)
Harrison's Comics Store exclusive 3: By Richard Maurizio (Instagram)
If you find any other details on store exclusives please let us know at ChronicleChamber@gmail.com.
Chronicle Chamber's review of Mad Cave Studios Phantom series #1
For those who are yet to decide to pick up the series, we would suggest you watch the preview of issue one by Jermayn Parker and Scott Waldyn below.
