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It's a pretty cover, but not so pretty that I wasn't willing to sell it when the movie came out last year and renewed interest in the comics for a short while.

It's a Malibu book from the '90s.

I've submitted about 800 books. I've never gotten a 10, and have gotten 7 9.9s. 4 of the 7 were in one shipment last year, all Bad Idea books, and the production quality on those is high. (One of the books that I got 3 9.9s on has almost as many 9.9s and 10s as 9.8s.) 2 of the other 7 were for Valiant prestige format books; again, high production quality. The last was for the Mortal Kombat Hologram cover, so that's a little thicker as well.

I wasn't making a value judgment so much as suggesting how the new policy might actually result in a new submission being allowed to move forward to the grading stage.

Maybe for Marvel, but I could easily see some small indy publisher, looking to create a new limited edition for a publication that has attracted interest, doing this to raise more money.

As far as we know, they may only be updating it to make it more explicit. I imagine they had terminology in there before that was more general.

I realize you mean this to be a rhetorical question, but if this should actually happen, I imagine that they would treat it the same way they treat the Spider-man #1 Green Polybagged Edition; they onyl note it's the Polybagged edition if they can confirm that the copy was indeed inside the polybag (i.e. if it was submitted that way). Otherwise they assume it wasn't. So if the acetate was removed, they'll treat it as a regular copy with damage.

I wonder if the Deadpool 99 problems Infinite Black edition slabs had the "9.9 Please" label, or perhaps just Deadpool saying "Thanks"

I think there hasn't been a post about it, because no one else was seeing what you were seeing. Rather than the errors being intention in order to make some sort of statement, what seems more likely to me, especially when you look at the wrap as a whole, and the other acetate wraps that they promoted for other books, is that, unlike Marvel comics, which has an editorial team and an art direction team, Infinite Black probably doesn't have a team at the same level as Marvel. So mistakes were missed, and things that are more a matter of choice, such as typography, weren't scrutinized on the acetate wrap as much as they would have been on the portion of the product that Marvel had a say in. For example, in addition to what's been pointed out on the acetate wrap already, I think it's a little awkward to have "IN," "WE," and "INTRUST" in all caps while "God" is mixed case, and the spacing could be better. The layout in general could be a little better at the top of the back cover, with the Infinite Black logo, and the In God copy; looks a little cramped to me.

This post is a better example of satire than the acetate cover would have been, if that's what it was trying to be, which it's not. Conveys a message clearly on its own, while also being an obvious criticism of something that those who are reading the thread are aware of.

This reads like you have 5 minutes left in the exam to write the essay. I think you're seeing a lot that's just not there.

I got a sketch cover done at NYCC one year, when he was still working on Rai. I think I paid less than he's charging now for a rainbow signature. I think his Valiant covers are, for the most part, very good, but his storytelling on interiors could use some work. Covers seems to be where he shines the most (and can do more, if he's not working on interiors).

I would guess that they take less time to grade a Modern book, so even though the cost is less than economy, grading Moderns turns a better profit. I imagine that the trend in submissions is increasingly towards more recent Moderns, since they aren't printing more Golden, Silver, Bronze, etc. books, and as awareness of professional grading grows, the number of older books out there that are ungraded but worth grading dwindles. Unless an older book suddenly spikes from an obscure character getting a revival, sparking demand for an old book, there aren't as many old books to be submitted, unless a collection changes hands from someone not interested in the process.

To be fair, it's not uncommon in style guides to spell out numbers up to ten, and use numerals above that.

Couples cosplay idea for next con: one dresses as a microphone, the other as a camera; run up to people and ask pointed questions.

Why stop there? Do a range of plastic surgery editions where the figure is enhanced in various ways.

It sounds like the rules were created to retrofit the situation. Which is what I was expecting after the previous explanations had more holes poked through them than 2 extra staples cause.

The name of the acetate edition that Black Flag indicated for the Ghost Rider book suggests they might be doing exactly that.

Encapsulate it upside-down?

On the ASM cover, the flag is waving, so there are only 9 *visible* stripes (or perhaps 10, since the next stripe would be white, and it's on a white background). I read the image as if the top stripes are folded back, and hidden from view, due to the flag waving.

Why not just print it on acetate, and staple it to whatever t-shirt you're wearing?

If I was going, I'd cosplay as Matt Murdock, and hand over fake paperwork at the Black Flag booth, and tell them they've been served.

If I had to guess, it's probably more that they realize that they shouldn't have graded these, especially with a universal label, but they need to protect the integrity of their brand, so they're trying to craft a response that does that, but would also be more acceptable to the community than the false starts they offered up earlier in the thread.

And the publisher was directly involved. So it's not really comparable to this situation.

My favorite story of toy litigation involved Marvel's X-Men figure line, in the 90s I think. Dolls are/were taxed differently (higher) than toys that don't represent people, so Marvel's lawyers argued that the X-Men, being mutants, were not human, so they didn't qualify for the higher tax rate. Marvel's lawyers essentially took the position of a lot of the antagonists in the Claremont era.