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Lest anyone fret, John Romita Sr. is still alive.

I met him 6 or 7 times, and on each occasion he spent all of his time actively bringing joy to everyone around him. I don't know that there is a single other person I've ever met that I could say that about. Rest in Peace, great man, and know that you have been a part of millions of people's best times!!

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I went and looked at the book. It is the same one that sold for $15,000 in 2015. There is not enough magnification to see much detail on the book. The bottom right corner looks very rounded, but I doubt it is. There does look to be spine damage because of color loss around the top staple, but I suspect it is not actually damage, but some kind of artifact from the scan. It does look like a lame 9.6 from the scan. I agree. But I highly doubt that is actually damage. Just a super lame scan for someone trying to clock a 10k profit.

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Karl Liebl butthurt threads are my favorite reads these days. Keep up the good work!!

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You are correct. Even if the poster is located on Big Diomede Island in the middle of the Bering Strait, it is still 100 miles closer to London than Sarasota. Good job!!

Is this guy still stretchy???? All the ones I have seen are all dried up and congealed.

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Obviously, the thing to do is just re-start the thread and re-post the picture. Thanks in advance for doing that.

Pressing is not some magical panacea that makes everything better. Color breaking wear will NEVER cease to be color breaking after pressing no matter what. Your posts come off really negative and the bottom line is that you are paying for pressing where the pressing is not doing much or any good. That SW 9.6 is a gorgeous book, yet the negativity just drips from your posts about it. This 52 is a smashing copy especially with the white pages. The difference between a 9.2 and a sharp 8.0 can rarely be determined with particularity by the untrained eye, yet those intimately familiar with CGC's grading standards (unpublished though they still be) can do it easily. Pressing will only help non-color breaking wear and cleaning only removes certain types of "dirt." You would save yourself a ton of heartburn if you actually learned about the grading and pressing processes instead of bemoaning lost profits that were never there in the first place.

I had almost exactly 2500 slabs at my most expansive. They took up 50-60% of a regular sized bedroom plus about half of another smaller bedroom. You could get 10000 slabs in three good sized (bed)rooms (with nothing else) or most of a regular sized basement.

If you think that is bad, don't ever ask to look at some my OO books from 75-76 - they are BEAT.

This book is fine in a blue holder. The unwitnessed sig is a defect and does not affect the beater nature of the already 2.0 book.

Issue #1 Fantastic Tales (1958 I.W. Reprint) #1 Published 1958 by I.W. Enterprises. Available Stock Add to want list Contents CGC Census Add to cart Very Good $6.00 Reprints "City of the Living Dead" 1 (Avon, 1952). Stories include "City of the Living Dead" (art by A.C. Hollingsworth), "The Glistening Death" (pencils by Norman Nodel, inks by Vince Alascia), "The Witches Come at Midnight!" (art by Nodel/Alascia), and "Death Has Many Tongues" (art by Harry Lazarus). Cover price $0.10.

When I first got into buying CGC books, I bought a ton from Classics, Inc - Matt N's old selling business. I bought an Iron Fist 15 in 9.6. It only had one flaw, a tiny "scratch" of missing color on the spine. I actually thought a hair or something had landed on the book and the color just never hit the book. But what had happened was that the book had one color breaking crease and the pressing had eliminated every trace of the crease except the absence of ink. It was kind of amazing.

Note to self - Never buy run of Witchblade from Jeffro . . .

Oh, I didn't say "one of . . ."

Rex Kwan Do is the best Ash sketch of ALL TIME!!!

You should not get this graded. GPA on a 4.0 is less than $50 and this looks lower than a 4.0 to me. You should not worry about the tape or try to have it removed. This is a very low grade copy of an awesome SA book. You should enjoy it for what it is and not throw any money at it - no pressing, no tape removal, and no slabbing.

No Bronze book exemplifies irrational exuberance (for me) more than this one. When the 1st 9.6 hit the market it went for over 30k. The low this year is $5856. Don't get me wrong, I love GL/GA 76 but it NEVER EVER should have been a 30k 9.6 book.