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  1. There are none known and there will likely never be. Since MJIs were almost exclusively sold overseas (with the rare exception of some bases on the east coast) the price variant test market and the MJI distro market didn't overlap. I hoped I might find some 30¢ variant MJIs in San Antonio but after looking for over a decade (and buying hundreds for 30¢ers) I never found one.
  2. This is my book and as far as I know, it's the only one ever found. I bought it off eBay from a guy in Canada thinking it was a BOMC edition.
  3. If it's going to Heritage, just let them slab it for you. They still get good ol' boy treatment.
  4. It's now 15% (plus invoice fee and shipping) to grade a $1000 book. Yeah, that's definitely world class service.
  5. FWIW, that book is notorious for having rusty staples. Those without rust are hard to find.
  6. Right, but the damage that removing the CT reveals would have to be enough to knock it out of 7.0. That's a lot of additional color breaks.
  7. These books are all 6.0 and lower. IMO, in those grades there's not a real impact, especially at 5.0 and below.
  8. I've seen images of newsstands where they strung books/magazines up on a piece of string. That was the first thing that came to mind when I saw these (after concluding it was not a bug hole) but I with the paper being slightly pushed out of the front and pulled out back, I think a finishing nail might be a better explanation.
  9. It's definitely too large to be a thumbtack. These are the size of a finishing nail and only in the left corner, thus my thought they might have been some sort of display.
  10. I have a handful of early 50s DC that came from an OO collection. I know the OO purchased them all from the same newsstand up to a certain point. Every book from early 1950 thru mid-1952 has the same nail hole in the upper left corner. Any idea what this would have come from? One theory is these were display copies that were nailed up along the top/side of the newsstand. Thoughts?
  11. That is correct. The professional designation means the materials used can be reversed. In this case, it was likely a paint that can be scraped away.
  12. Unless they have updated their advisory, the problem was specifically with fireproof safes like lock boxes, not gun safes broadly, and it was only anecdotal because they couldn't think of anything else. The theory was, there is a fire retardant chemical in some lock boxes that doesn't play well with comic staples that are in slabs. There doesn't seem to be any problem with other stapled documents stored in them, just slabbed comics. This is true of all corrodible things stored in a gun safe. Always, always, always have a descant in there or moisture could build up.
  13. The only pro of using CCS is, if they miss a spot of CT when they initially remove it, they will have to fix it. If someone else does it, you could still get a PLOD and have to pay to have it reslabbed.
  14. Marvel Feature seems to be the most common. I've seen several double covers of that issues over the years.