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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.

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.

If it's going to Heritage, just let them slab it for you. They still get good ol' boy treatment.

Pepperidge Farm remembers (ca. 2000)...

It's now 15% (plus invoice fee and shipping) to grade a $1000 book. Yeah, that's definitely world class service.

FWIW, that book is notorious for having rusty staples. Those without rust are hard to find.

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.

These books are all 6.0 and lower. IMO, in those grades there's not a real impact, especially at 5.0 and below.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Marvel Feature seems to be the most common. I've seen several double covers of that issues over the years.

I bought it within the past year on eBay out of Canada. That's all I know about it. I have several BOMC copies and this is the oddball.

Then there is the 4th print that looks like the BOMC edition (no text on the back cover) but it doesn't say BOMC in the indicia. There is only 1 know copy of this one... and it's all mine! Bwhahahahahaha!

It was a running joke with some of the OG board members. The stat fell off before they shot the plate so it's kind of like Mad Libs. Just insert whatever random exclamation you want.

That was just me jacking around with the levels in Photoshop. It works great for finding contrast differences.

That book looks great. I'd definitely send it back in for another look. Given some of the SNAFUs in the recent past, they could have been looking at notes from a completely different book. It's a spoon shoot out there right now.

Replaced staples used to get you an automatic green label and a note. There was no changing it to blue for a lower grade... I know, I asked. But that was before the Conserved label. Jump ahead several years and I submitted a Batman 5 that I had replaced a staple on (it was a rusty mess and I wanted to prevent any further damage). It got a Conserved label with a note. Since this was slabbed back in 2017, it might be worth seeing if they will give it a Conserved label.

Maybe here?

Depending on the grade of the book otherwise, you might not get a green label at all. If the book is lower grade, say 4.0, they will give it the blue label and deduct for the missing stamp. You can also request a blue label to be given rather than a green. With the stamp missing you can still get a 2.0.

A lot of time the stains are not entirely visible on the outside cover but really show up on the inside where the acid from the pages could have made it worse.

No, it would say something like "light writing on back cover"/