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Can I get added to this list? My ebay ID is blamblam2003. I've been a member on ebay and buying books there since 1998. I've been selling books for the past year, my feedback is 100%. I have a store, the name is WOW-COMICS all capital letters (it makes a difference). Thanks and cheers, Mark

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I have a question about this phenomena. I have a few books purchased from one dealer that have greases such as this. I do not press books so I have no idea of pressing can cause this issue as well. The books are silver to bronze age Marvels. Most of them are a little too valuable to check the creases to see if they are white underneath. I have tried to sell a few of these on ebay, but have had no luck. I have recently become a member of the forum and now have access to people that know about stuff like this. If this can be caused by pressing, I will need to check the creases on a few of these to see if they are white inside. If I find they have been pressed, I will need to disclose this in any attemps I make to sell them. So the question is: Can pressing cause this type of crease? If so, what does it do to the value of the book? Thanks in advance for any info provided.

Not much to say here other than a Quality Control problem. If the cover is misaligned during binding, it can have have a bad wrap on the book. The trim could run high or low causing additional problems. By "wrap" I mean how the black line dividing the front and back cover not falling perfectly on the spine. Now for something you might not know... This is a problem that is much more common in the Bronze Age than any other age. If you've ever seen a book where the spine line lays perfectly on the spine, but the "Marvel Comics Group" banner runs slightly diagonal compared to the top edge of the book. One possibility is that the trim of the book is skewed (the sides are not a perfect 90 degrees from the others). However, if you see this to be an extremely common flaw on a particular book, it's quite possible the Original Artwork itself is skewed. Example below... The red lines are perfectly parallel, but look at the lines that make up the "King-Sized Annual" banner. This is common on a lot of books from the Bronze Age. Marvel Spotlight #5, and Ghost Rider #1 (Two of my favorites) have this problem. And it all goes back to the original art. I have no idea why some of the covers were built this way, and some were not. I would just add, having been a commercial artist and understanding the old method of paste up and layout, that a lot of the stuff on the covers were pasted on. Common elements of the covers such as the logo were photocopied and pasted to either the original artwrork or a copy of it before the photographic plate making process. This is how the uniform look of the logo is maintained over the course of many years and dozens of issues. So one of a few things can happen to create the crooked appearance of the banners on some covers. First is that the fixative used was the repositionable type which is the case most of the time. This allows for correcting the position of the piece without tearing up the art. So it is possible that the pasted element shifted during transport to the camera, photocopy machine or printer. The second is that a lot of times it would be some office production assistant or other non-artist or someone in a great hurry that would paste these items onto the artwork. In this case, carelessness or lack of experience might cause this issue.

SPIRIT_RADIO=WOW-COMICS Thanks much!