[Groop]Questions about Groo Issues

[Gary Grossmann]

Hi Jeff & everyone else!

To the best of my knowledge, there is no difference between direct sales
versions and the newsstand versions other than that little box and I believe
Mark has said much the same when this came up before.  Most of the direct
sales versions have a Spiderman head in place of the bar code, that sort of
being a universal Marvel symbol.   NO ONE, not even me, seems to care about
distinguishing between bar codes and Spidey heads. Now if there WERE
actually differences, such as the price, or the layout of the
number/date/etc., well then heck, the maniacal search would be on!!!!!   But
I am 99.99% sure that ain't the case.  My wife is very happy about that.
Take care all -Gary G.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Kozicki (ADESA)" <JKozicki@ADESA.com>
To: <groop@groo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 6:18 AM
Subject: [Groop]Questions about Groo Issues


> Hi all,
> I was re-organizing my collection last night, having decided that putting
> them in order by main cover color made it pretty, but really hard to find
> anything, when I noticed (OK, my wife noticed.  I'm kinda slow (she says))
a
> bunch of titles where the same book has a direct sales version and a
> newstand version.
> I remember a bunch of this from the '80s when direct selling was new.  The
> newstand version had to have the bar code on the cover so we had the
> obnoxious white box.
> The direct sales version didn't have the barcode, but still had the white
> box!  Usually with something obnoxious in it like "Guess what's under the
> white box?"
> Also, the price might be different and the layout of the number/date/etc
> might be different.
>
> My questions (finally are):
> 1.  Are there two versions of the Epic run of Groo?
>
> 2.  If so, Gary, have you found all of them?
>      (If not, oooh a new search!)
>
> P.S.  What did my wife mean by slow?
>
> Jeff "only one version of me" K
> "The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't."
> -- Unknown
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gary Grossmann [mailto:grossfam@olywa.net]
> > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:24 AM
> > To: groop@groo.com
> > Subject: [Groop]Non-Groo Item
> >
> >
> > Hi Folks!
> >
> > Take a look at ebay item:
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=544297336
> >
> > It's another one of those stupid Ral Partha things that only
> > vaguely looks
> > like Groo, but enough so that you can tell it was patterned
> > after him.  And
> > this was has been painted Groo colors!!!!!  I know Mark and Sergio's
> > reaction is a shrug and a "big deal", more or less, but I am seriously
> > considering buying it just so I can destroy it!!!!!   (with
> > much glee and
> > pleasure!!!!)    It's an abomination!!  Of course, in the
> > world of Groo,
> > GROO is considered an abomination.  So if the Ral Partha thing is an
> > abomination of an abomination, does that give you a non-abomination or
> > abomination squared?  Now I've given myself a headache.  Wait
> > 'till I get
> > may hands on that thing!!  Take care -Gary G.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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