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I worked in printing for about 20 years starting in the 90s. My suspicion here is due to the heavy black coverage on this cover, there were two black plates of varying screen percentages. It would be very hard to maintain that heavy black Spidey in the center on a single plate without starving the press of black ink below it (or, alternately, having too much black ink above it). You could do it with a double hit. I suspect one of the black plates did not have the proper knockout. In this image, you can see a little of the white web knockout in the black; if it were a straight black overprint you wouldn't see any of it. So one black plate had the knockout and the other didn't. I also suspect if you look at this area with a loupe, you'd see the dot pattern on that partially covered web knockout.

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I feel like I'm looking through the 'ripened fruit' section of the supermarket but anyway...

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all three coverless Atlas, please

It's not Vertigo, but I always considered Piranha Press as its sister imprint. Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children was top notch!

as per PM

Resurrecting this older thread with some background info for you. Abraxas #1 is actually a reprint of Walt's first comic, which was indeed called The Outsiders. The inside front cover of your magazine is a modified version of the original's back cover, which is where it's identified as The Outsiders. The first issue was published in 1971, the second in 1972. Abraxas #1 was published between the two issues. The original comics are much smaller than Abraxas, something like 6"x9". Source: I have both comics, and I was also friends with the writer, Gerry Boudreau, who also did work for DC, Gold Key, and Warren in the 70s. I also have a mimeographed promotional flyer Rickey Shanklin created for the magazine.

Isn't this exactly what comic dealers do if they accept wantlists? If I send [dealer] my wantlist, and there's a high value book on the list, [dealer] is going to find [owner], mark the price up and offer it to me. If I agree to the price, I pay [dealer], who then pays [owner]. [Owner] ships the book to [dealer], [dealer] ships the book to me. I'm paying [dealer] to do the legwork that I didn't want to or couldn't do myself. There's nothing scummy about that.

Wanted to add a book of mine to the thread. I don't know where I got this, but it must have been a part of a lot. I don't read or collect Blackhawk, so it isn't something I went out of my way to buy. Regardless, I love it!

Got a nice stack of bronze horror from Alex. Spot-on grading and impeccable packaging. Fantastic transaction!

I can't say for certain, but I don't think this book sold for $125. It looks to me like it sold for $22.99 What he's talking about (resetting the price) happens with Best Offers. - If the seller makes an offer to a buyer on a BIN and they accept, the ending price shows as a strikethrough. - If the buyer makes a Best Offer on an auction, and the seller accepts, the auction ends showing the opening bid price. If you want to see the real price, go to https://130point.com/sales/ and search for the auction title. You'll have to scroll through similar results, but that site shows you the actual sale price if it wasn't an auction.

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Lol, of course not. You just spouted whatever you thought would support your opinion and then presented it as if it were the objective, unassailable truth. Some people have a deep-seated need to always be right on the internet, all the time, every time. Truth be told, it's a little tiring.

The averages tell the story the way you want it told. The details tell a different story. Kav's last post in that thread was a year ago. In the first 11 months of the thread (when Kav was an active participant), it exploded to just over 1800 pages. In the year since, it's only grown by a little less than 160 pages. Kav may not have been the only source of nonsense, but it's pretty clear he was the driver of it.

Semicentennial: lol, J/K. I was waiting for those 3xx HOMs!

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