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SPAWN-BATMAN - CGC 9.8 - SIGNED BY FRANK MILLER AND TODD MCFARLANE I've explained this before, but I really took the time to window the books for prime signature placement. I also requested specific ink colors. Things didn't always turn out the way I planned, but many times they did. See how the font on the cover is silver for Miller and gold for Todd? Now notice the signature inks. Also, the placement. Batman was on top...so was Miller's sig. The twin sigs make something special of an otherwise non-spectacular book (sold about a billion copies, very common in high grade).

I thought imaging was now automatically performed on all books. Why the extra 10 day delay?

I'm not certain. My guess is that there was no difference. There were more than enough copies floating around to end up in giveaways, and the VHS was released back in 1992. I seriously doubt there was a special printing. @Lobstrosity Maybe Trent will know?

SPAWN SIMONY - CGC 9.8 English translation of a Spawn story originally written in French. I hear that Spawn is tremendously popular in France.

SPAWN MOVIE PREMIER EDITION - CGC 9.8 A brutally difficult book for many reasons! This is STILL the only universal 9.8 out there. According to the census, there are also two signed copies in that grade. Not many of these out there. Very difficult. Rare "photo" cover. Interior reprints Spawn 61. Compare the photo cover to the cover of Spawn 61...

SPAWN: BOOK OF SOULS - CGC 9.8 Old label goodness! I remember that my copy of Spawn 4 (CGC 9.9) was in an old RED label. I wish I would have kept that one in the old holder. Old school CGC books are starting to achieve their own status as collectibles...at least to some people.

ADVENTURES OF SPAWN 1 - CGC 9.8 - SIGNED BY TODD MCFARLANE

CRUSADE OF COMICS PRESENTS SPAWN 1 - CGC 9.9 Notes from Spawnworld:This mini comic was sold inside "Todd McFarlane" Creates Lotus" video cassette packages. It is smaller than a usual comic at 4" by 7.5" and 12 pages. It recounts the origin story. Finding a 9.9 copy of a mini-comic sold inside of a VHS case...TOUGH. This was and still is the top census copy.

SPAWN FAN EDITION 3 - GOLD FOIL VARIANT - CGC 9.8

SPAWN FAN EDITION 3 - CGC 9.8

It's gotta be a 9.8.

Yeah. That expression was total overkill considering the circumstances. Not a good look at all, and quite off-putting. Handle disputes with facts, otherwise you come across as a middle schooler.

Speaking of Spawn... let me know if you have Spawn 156. I'd appreciate first dibs on "the one that got away."

SPAWN 2 FAN EDITION - PLATINUM VARIANT - CGC 9.8 Try finding one of these in your LCS.

Every single thing about that album was absolutely epic. And we have Freas to thank for the awesome interior gatefold as well. Classic.

The only pulp I own... I wonder if they will get around to grading "bedsheets" one day. Not that it matters until the encapsulation department and quality control gets their together.

SPAWN FAN EDITION 2 - CGC 9.8 Nordic Spawn? Yeah. I'm down with that. Nothing wrong with a little Fimbulvetr.

SPAWN 1 FAN EDITION - GOLD FOIL VARIANT - CGC 9.8 I wanted to say this is a tough one, but there are way more on the census than I thought. There are ten of these now, including this copy.

Hmmm... well...I guess the best answer is... NOT ENOUGH.

Your wish is my command! We will start with the Wizard Fan Editions.

DRUM ROLL! 14 months later and we are finally at the end of the regular series run! I stopped at 275 because I didn't have the juice to keep going until 300, which was the original goal. The variant game killed me. Looking at the registry, I'd say I was fairly prescient. TONS of variants. When do variants cease to be special? When do they become meaningless? WHEN THEY HAPPEN EVERY ISSUE. Take this final book, for example. Trust me when I tell you that I had many ears on the ground and eyes in the sky. I still didn't learn about this con special UNTIL THE CON STARTED, and I was halfway across the country at the time. Thankfully I was able to pull some last minute strings and bagged this copy. We are going out with a Todd McFarlane sig, folks. From this point, you're going to see some very, very interesting and obscure books in the Spawn Universe. I don't know where to begin, so it may seem kind of random from here on out. You never know what you might see... My registry is now publicly obscured, so don't bother looking. SPAWN 275 - AMAZING CON VARIANT - SIGNED BY TODD MCFARLANE - CGC 9.8

Great job in answering exactly 0% of my questions.

SPAWN 275 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 One more variant left in the main title collection! We will wrap up this part of the collection tomorrow before moving on to various odds and ends.

SPAWN 275 - CGC 9.8 Brutally difficult book early on because of a manufacturer flaw. I've blown up the impacted section of the front cover under the handle of the scythe. This is on every single copy that I've ever encountered. I think that the CGC finally wised up to this after seeing it so consistently. Seems like they overlooked it by the time I bought this copy. I had been self-subbing for a while at this point, but I always got 9.6s on this issue. I bought this graded copy several months after the release. Honestly a tough book to submit raw. Just find a graded copy. A cursory glance at the copies on eBay all showed the same flaw. It's not part of the artwork. It's a rub and sometime presents as an rub AND indention. I even saw one eBayer who appeared to have touched up the flaw in Paint or Photoshop. Just be on the lookout folks!

SPAWN 274 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 At last...tomorrow we begin looking at the very last numerical issue along with a few of its variants, and that will be that for the regular run!