buttock

Yeah, @mstrange are the staples tight? i.e. there's no room for the edge of the cover to slide in?

I'm digging your wall display...

nauseated.

@CGC Mike This is becoming a common enough complaint to justify looking into.

Yeah, I usually think that if someone is asking about trimming then there's a 99.9% chance it's not trimmed. But in this case it sure doesn't seem right. The wear isn't consistent with the rest of the book and the edge is particularly clean.

It would be safe to say you're speculating about that.

No you weren't. It sold more recently.

It's almost certainly NOT trimmed. There's a lot of telltale features pointing away from trimming.

You should see the stuff some crazy dude says about More Fun 73!

It's not coming through the cover, it's likely from when the covers were printed and placed in stacks while the ink was fresh.

Easy 9.9 on a resub.

Got anything for sale?

Ace Comics 11 from Feb '38 was the first Phantom in comics.

Let's just say Roy finally got a new blackberry.

I don't know, by "new books" I meant recently graded.

I've got 14 boxes of CGC graded gold/atom age, mostly all high grade. CGC is waaaaay tougher on new books than they were in the old label days. Not even close. I would also venture to say that they are more consistent on mid-grade stuff than they were until 2013-14 or so (IIRC). Given the choice sight unseen I would pick a newly graded book 10 times out of 10 over an old label if I wanted the grade to be accurate.

Mods notified.

Mods notified

Poor guy.

With such an alliterative name he can't stay underground. Oleg the oligarch.

Too bad you couldn't find a nicer copy!

I've always wondered why they drew it that way.

Roy sold it to a Saudi prince who traded it for crypto and stolen art to a Russian oligarch. Then it was traded to a Canadian for poutine and Tim Horton's donuts.

I'd offer $10k.