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Excuse me gents, but that describes a major flaw . . .

Cave - divadrabnud = divadrabnud

A Merry Christmas to all my friends on the board - you know who you are! And particularly to those in the Bay Area that I have had the opportunity to meet in person: FFB, Jimm94 & JeffreyKli A fine bunch of collectors and aficionados all! Kudos to FFB for his advice and support, to Jimm for that color-soaked FF #75, and to Jeff for a great deal on a slabbed Amazing Adventures (1961) #1 It was nice to unwittingly kick-off the Holidays at the last CGD (ComicGeekDinner)

Sorry...have never had another copy better than VF/NM or so. greggy has one of the other 9.4's that he picked up in a Vault Auction, and the 3rd 9.4 copy sold on ebay several years ago for a paltry $450 or so (as I recall). There is a bit of a story behind this book however, and hopefully I won't get bonked over the head for telling it . This copy was listed on ebay as a "NM", but had the typical teeny ebay-size scan. The seller had a few comics listed, as well as numerous pieces of original art from Mad magazine. I emailed him asking for a better scan and learned that the seller was an artist who used to draw for Mad. So he sends me a scan and since the book looks great, I make him an offer-he-can't-refuse, he pulls the auction, and a few days later I'm a happy camper! This was in the pre-CGC days, at a time when sellers like loisandclark, hogations, and nochips were offering quite a bit of NM DC bronze, and the good stuff (the 100 pagers, Super DC Giants, etc.,.) was going for WAY over guide. There were a couple alleged NM copies offered around that time, and just before I picked this up there was another copy that got pulled early, so I learned you either join 'em, or you get left behind. Yup! Unless it's you or I, of course!

DB - Got any other copies?

Dude, that was 1963 -- Spider-Man was probably on issue #8 or #9. You totally ripped that kid off. BB, meant 1963, many people refer to the Winters of the following year, as they don't start until December 21. p.s. I was still eight

On my 8th birthday Friggin' Mario!

Before June 2002, I never paid more than cover price for a single comic book - just never looked at the hobby that way - never sold a book either. Then the wife says, "We've got to redo Chloe's (my daughter) bedroom - why don't you start selling some of those damn comic books in the basement!" So, I pull up the boxes, do a little research, and list my first book on eBay - one of my Hulk #181's from the tomato boxes. The book's as fine a copy as you have ever seen - I list it raw with an $1800 reserve. It sells for $1850 (the guy bid $2,200). We take the coin over to Ikea and buy my daughter a new bedroom set, rug, curtains - you name it. One book - one sale. If only they could all be like that The only downside, was that the book was an easy 9.6 and would have brought in about $4,500 if I had had it slabbed.

I didn't think Americans knew that phrase. They don't!

Tough crowd!

Ok, subject to amendment by other, ahem, more enlightened board members: A Qualified grade is generally given to high grade book ( VF - NM) which has ONE specific glaring defect, e.g., a 2" tear to the back cover, cover detached at the top staple only, coupon cut out, name written on cover in ink, etc., which prevents it from obtaining that high grade. A Q grade recognizes that without that one defect, the book is a beauty. Although, there are exceptions to every rule as we have seen Qualified grades given to books as low as 3.5 (see Hulk #181 census - presumedly for a missing Marvel Value Stamp)

Just yoking - Welcome to da boards!

Feathers inside the book!

Cosmic, I asked DiceX the same question a few months ago. Here is his reply: I received the book today. It looks to me like it was a "hand bound reject". I'll try to explain it... A publisher requires a certain number of books to be produced. During the bindery run, they have enough raw product to produce the run + a percentage predicted by the bindery allowed for waste. Say the run is 100,000 books and the bindery expects 3% waste...They receive 103,000 books worth of raw product. During the run there are books that jam up in the binder, or have odd flaws (untrimmed, unstapled, no cover, etc.). Those books are stacked to the side until the end of the run. When the raw product has been depleated, if the count doesn't add up to what the publisher ordered, they have to find a way to fill the order. They go through the "reject" skid to find any books that can be salvaged. There is usually nothing wrong with them, they just have been produced incorrectly. They take those books and piece together what they can. These books are bound by hand, stitched (stapled) by hand, then hand trimmed on a flatbed cutter. Whatever they have to do on a book by book basis. After "pulling rejects", if the order still has not been filled, they have to go back to press to run enough raw pieces to finish it off. The book you sent looks like it was produced without a cover. The body of the book had already been stapled, so a fresh cover was placed on the book and stitched onto the body. (The second set of staples) The staples are done by hand, so that would explain why they were off centered. There are no other staple holes in the cover, so it was definately a raw cover that was placed on the book. Afterwards it was hand trimmed on a flatbed. No doubt in my mind that the book left the factory this way. I don't know if this book would have passed through CGC without a purple label, because I don't know if they would have been able to tell it was a factory error.

I love Bernie's take on this one:

Wow! I better read this thread again

Only on yours.

kudos right back at you flink - even without the costume! Er, ahem . . . I mean . . . oops!

Thanks to Nick Flaming Telepath for some really sweet S.A. books!!! You're a straight-up seller, with great scans, and even better descriptions.

Great story-boarding cover! I love it! "Gorilla cover"

Here's another one from my boxes:

When did this become the marketplace thread???

Here's another one of my favorites: