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Condition Profile
ANGEL ENTERTAINMENT · 7/97 · DIRECT EDITION
UNIT ECA-000822
VAMPIRE GIRLS VS. ANGEL GIRL #1
Angel Entertainment's 1997 bad-girl crossover one-shot — regular direct edition.
// Unit specification
| Publisher | Cover date | Era | Variant | Key attribute | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel Entertainment | July 1997 | Modern | Direct Edition | — | AVAILABLE |
// Copies in archive
| Unit | Grade | Variant | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECA-000822 | ~8.0 | Direct Edition | AVAILABLE |
// Condition analysis
Cover retains strong gloss and vibrant color with no fading noted. There is visible corner blunting/wear at the bottom-left corner where the price box sits, and a faint stress line/crease running horizontally near the lower right portion of the cover. No major tears, creases with color-break, or staining are visible in this image. Interior pages and back cover were not assessed, so the grade reflects front-cover condition only.
// Valuation — market reference
| Bracket | Grade | Est. market value | Marker |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOW_RAW | 0.5 – 1.5 | $3 | |
| MID_RAW | 4.0 – 6.0 | $8 | |
| HIGH_CERT | 9.8 SLAB | $90 |
// Archive commentary
Vampire Girls vs. Angel Girl #1 is a 1997 one-shot from Angel Entertainment, a small independent publisher that specialized in adult-oriented 'bad girl' material during the tail end of the mid-90s Vampirella/Lady Death boom. The book pits the publisher's house heroine Angel Girl against its recurring Vampire Girls cast, and like most of the line it was released in a spread of variant covers (regular, deluxe nude, and erotic editions) to appeal to a completist niche. This is the standard direct-market regular cover edition, the most widely distributed of the group and the baseline printing for the series.
Demand for this book is limited and driven almost entirely by niche collectors of late-90s independent bad-girl and good-girl-art titles rather than by mainstream key hunters. There are no first appearances or origin-defining moments that register with the broader hobby, and print runs from publishers of this size were small but not scarce enough to create pressure at the low end. The regular edition is the least sought of the variants — the nude and erotic editions carry the modest premiums within the line — so raw copies routinely sit in dealer bins and want lists at token prices, with only clean high-grade or certified examples generating any meaningful bid.
The collecting outlook is flat and specialist. Buyers are typically completists assembling the Angel Entertainment run or fans of the era's independent cheesecake output, and the title trades hands mostly as raw copies; certified examples are uncommon simply because the economics rarely justify grading. Low and mid grades move for pocket change, while a top-census slab commands a premium purely on the rarity of anyone having bothered to encapsulate one, not on underlying character or story significance.
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