I have been thinkng about Kiss holy Grails of Vinyl & the first that comes to mind is the Japanese Box set.

KISS The Originals 1974-1979 (1998 Japanese-only Limited Collector's Edition Box, it contains 9 releases.’Kiss’,’Hotter than hell’,’Dressed to kill’,’Alive’,’Destroyer’,’Rock and roll over’,’Love gun’,’Alive 2‘and ‘Dynasty’.9LP’s and ‘Alive’ and ’alive 2’ is double LP’s. 11 different coloured vinyl LP's. Also, a cool sheet of glossy colour stickers representing KISS singles released in Japan. Next are 6 picture infomation cards identical to the cards in the 1st Originals, & a 34-page 12" x 12" lyric booklet. This is all housed in a glossy Black Box. There also exists a duplicate set in a red box (1999) which is extremely harder to find. A mint Black box will run about $500-$600 before shipping & a mint red box will cost about twice that.

This is a nice set. The vinyl is a high quality pressing & the sound is excellent. All of the inserts are First Class making this a very desireable addition to any KISS collection.

One more vital KISS link: http://www.kissfaq.com/

KISS Faq has been invaluable in my collecting of KISS vinyl & is probably the one of the best factual sources on KISS info on the web.

I am going to look over my holy grails & hopefully this info was helpful!

Eric