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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1 Retailer Variant Cover – It's Not Kamiyama

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imageLast week, Diamond Comic Distributors told retailers that they would be getting a special free surprise variant cover to Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1, one per store, by Kariyama.

The only comic artist by that name that Bleeding Cool could identify was an artist who drew a few pages for Earth 2. And Marvel Comics reps didn't even  know the name.

Turns out that was a mistake from the solicits from Diamond Comic Distributors. And that the variant cover is a B&W version of the main cover by Kamome Shirahama, seen to the right.

Though Diamond call him Karmome Shirahama in their correction. But I'm the last person to quibble over typos. There's probably three in this article alone.

With advance sales of the cover clocking up $200 – all labeled the "Kamiyama variant" – even before people knew what it looked like or who it was by, they wanted it.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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