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I certainly do... Are they for sale? What grade are they?

By the way, those are some sweet books! Very nice shape, and cool covers! I'll post the one Weird War Tales that I have (#68). Do you have a #64 or #68? If so, interested in selling them?

What is wrong with datazap.net? I get big scans on there all the time. Like this one: Link to trimmed FF#406

No. It is humidity damage.

Kirby and Ditko did that on the cover of Amazing Spider-Man #10, so that sort of thing definitely happened from time to time.

Git on outta here, yew! Git! :::stomps feet::: Okie dokie, JED! (brushes hayseed off self, leaves for higher realms.) Why was that feller covered in hayseed??? Where's my darlin' daughter Petunia?!?!?!?!?!?!?! PETUNIA! You better not have gone and gotten yerself spoiled by another vagabond! I believe you mean "spoilt." Redneck 101 -- t instead of ed.

Hey Donut, I'll give you $1,500 for it. Just kidding Rob.

This thread is every bit as good as I hoped it would be. Thanks DiceX and everyone else who is contributing!

Jerry Weist attributes the chipping to how thin the paper stock was on early Marvels. He says in his new book in reference to AF#15 that Marvel was near bankruptcy and was using super thin paper stock to save money. As a result, the chips came off the edges when the cutting blades went through the paper (instead of a clean cut that you'd get if you used better paper). Steve Borock told me a while back that Marvel chipping and pre-chipping existed when the book was on the rack, although on books with brittle paper (whether early Marvels or not) the chipping could obviously have happened at any time in the lifespan of the book. There is also the theory that chipping occurs from tiny tears that form from the bent overflash that Marvels had back in the day. As the tears get bigger, pieces come off. This likely happens on some books with overflash, but I have seen so many books that don't have overflash that still have chipping, that this can't explain how the chips happened on every book.

Marvel chipping!!!! Miscuts! (Book not cut squarely)

Doug's Manitobas are sweet. I got the Manitoba copy of Twilight Zone #84 (first Frank Miller professional art in comics), along with a few other Manitobas. Doug is the best.

Kudos to Metropolis once again on a beautiful Tales to Astonish #90 CGC 9.4 (Northland). Great service, excellent packaging, and most importantly, gorgeous book! Thanks Metro!

Funny, I just talked to one of the CGC graders about this during WonderCon. He said that CGC does mark down depending on the severity. A book with spine crack that is very, very minor can get a 10.0 (as demonstrated by the Ultimate FF #1 CGC 10.0s we've seen). If it is more than very, very minor, then the more there is, the more the grade is affected.

When you use Naptha, how does one avoid having it leave a tell-tale odor? I have read that when done correctly, there is no residual solvent odor. Are there ways other than odor to detect that a book has been solvent cleaned?

Congrats, Joanna!

The only people who buy his anti-CGC stuff over there are the ones who are anti-CGC anyway because slabbed books cost more (and this, of course, is all your fault, right?). I doubt he's actually "converted" anyone. Besides, on the CGC issue, Bug is the anti-Hammer, so they balance each other out.

Well, he should definitely pay the debt. It's only $50. What was the bet about again?

Please elaborate, if you can.

The irony is killing me. You know nothing of Bug. The insufficiently_thoughtful_person can barely string together three sentences without spurting off with some puerile (often perverse) remark. And that's not even the real problem... the problem comes when he REPEATS the same nonsense over and over and over again. He's a dullard in every sense of the word. But don't get me wrong, a lot of the lowbrow jerkstains around here really seem to get a kick out of that sort of thing. Go figure.

Thank you sir! I look forward to receiving it and will let you know when it arrives. On the Bug issue, I'm not trying to elevate him to some lofty position. I just got a little miffed that Brockley made a comment about him that he obviously can't respond to himself, and that I thought was unfair given how I have seen the CPG discussions to have taken place.

Brock, I haven't gone back and looked, but I'll bet if you checked, you'd see that at least half the name calling in his threads starts with someone else taking a shot at him. I don't know Bugaboo aside from these boards, and sure he can be a pain in the butt if you're arguing with him, but my sense of him is that he usually keeps it on topic and not personal unless someone gets personal with him first. Sure, it gets ugly then, but that's usually because the person he's arguing with isn't as good at slinging the insults as he is. But to blame him for the fight would be akin to punishing only the big kid who won the fight when the little kid came up and tried to cold [!@#%^&^] him during the middle of a regular discussion. most of my modding duties over on CPG are spent babysitting bugaboo, man that is a task in itself. I agree with you on almost everything, it's just that for Bug to get his point across he feels the need to call someone a name or say something in poor taste. If he kept all his replys within the forum rules on personal attacks and name calling, I wouldn't have the slightest problem with him, His steadfast defense of CGC sometimes gets to the point where it's just comical to read. He can be funny sometimes in his frusteration of the "CGC Haters"

Why, because he doesn't back down when people call him names and he gives as good as he gets? Most of the people who argue with him can't string two coherent thoughts together and are nothing more than CGC haters who think that because collectors pay $50 for a modern in CGC 9.8, it is "all CGC's fault" that the entire comic industry will eventually come crashing down. Bug may be controversial, but he's one of the few people over on your board in the two sections I read (General Discussion and Professionally Graded Comics) who has the reasoning power beyond a third grade level. I don't spend as much time arguing with the CGC haters as he does, but I find them just as sophomoric. most of my modding duties over on CPG are spent babysitting bugaboo, man that is a task in itself.

What's a Wizard magazine? and should I allow it near my prized comics?