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my only Triple Cover.

As you can tell I really like ASM's with Double Covers anyone have any they might sell or trade hear is another one .

I just got hold of a digital camera so I thought I would try it out and post pictures of some of my ungraded Double Covers Comics

Very Nice comics Stronguy are these all Double Covers? And if they are is the Marvel Tales outter cover attached or loose?

I like that Avengers too do you plan to sell ?

Another X-Men #41 Double Cover how rare are these?

Very Cool Triple Cover the more the better I always say Funny thing I have this exact same issue with a Double Cover wish mine was a Triple .

I collect ASM's with Double Covers and I have seen allot of them probably over 100, but I have never seen one of these with a Triple cover or more. Anyone hear ever see an Amazing Spider-Man comic with a Triple cover?

anyone else have any Double Cover Comics Hear is one more I just got it is interesting that the outer cover graded higher than the inner one the outer is 9.4 and the inner is 9.2 and it got a 9.4

Just got this not High grade but nice enough for me

Hear is one of those Square bound books where the 1st cover was never glued on, my first one like this ASM #200

I have a double cover I would like to post if someone would host the image for me?

Cool Hensley300 what Double Cover do you have pm me and I can post it for you or help you do it .

Cool thecollector post it when you get it back hear is another i just got.

Nice comic BEYONDER I would love to see a Yellow label Double Cover Post it if you get it done

I Just wanted to Bump this thread so I could see some more Double Covers and thought I would post my latest ASM one #252

For some reason, that issue is somewhat common (as in more than 5 known copies) in double cover.

This is true I don't know why but some issues seem to come up with Double Covers quite often I have personally seen 4 Amazing Spider-Man #98's with Double Covers so the one on ebay now seems a little high to me too. Other Marvel comics I have seen several of, Avengers #87 I have seen half a dozen of this one even one with a triple cover, also Amazing Spider-Man #100 I have seen 5 of this one.

I was watching that Fantastic Four #112 also it was a nice book I would have loved to have won it also, but I also had another auction I was interested in that took all of my funds .

Congratulation Charles on all those Double Covers great win that is a lot of Double covers to get all at once . You should post some scans for us if you can.

Thanks for posting that article Norinn Radd I always love to read stuff like this and hope I didn't sound sarcastic in my last post sorry if I did.

It would be great to get some discussions on price variants going again .

Just how many 35 cent Western variants do we know of now ?

Anyone keeping track?

I have seen two or more of all of them except KC #218.

noticed the same thing when rebagging some original owner comics that haven't seen the light of day since the mid-70s. Though the polybags were yellow to the point that seeing the comic underneath was hampered by the cloudiness of the bag, the comic appeared as pristine as the day it was bought off the newsstand

I also think the polybags don't affect the comics and if they do it is not very much. I have had most of my collection stored in polybags "I think I got them from Robert Bell back in the late 70's" most of those comics were keeped in those same bags until the late 90's so most of them had been in the same bags for 20+ years when I eventualy put them in new bags they looked brand new like I just bought them and the bags were so yellow that if you stacked a half dozen of them together you couldn't see through them. I wonder how long you could leave them in those bags?

Can't wait to hear DiceX views on the Cover Gloss thing. and when you get time explain how ink is applied to the printing plates if you don't mind.

What I am wondering is whether this superb gloss is something that happens from the polybag interacting with the cover inks as the polybag degrades, or whether the polybag is just preserving the books better.

could the bag be reacting with the cover ink, I have thought about that also, but I recently bought a small lot of 70's Marvel's off ebay about 30 or so and I found that probably a dozen or more of them had exceptional gloss but these books were not in bags and I don't think they had ever been in a bag but I don't really know for sure .

When I was younger I had a subscription to 4 or 5 Marvel comics they would come in these brown paper sleaves and ASM was always my favorite. Well at that time I had never noiticed any comic being all that glossy either from my subscriptions or all the ones I bought new from the spinner racks at my local supermarkets and drug stores, until I got my ASM #225 in the mail one day, it just had incredible Cover Gloss. The big blue guy and all the little Spider-men on that bright yellow cover really stood out and reflected the light. Well while writhing this I decided to get it out to have a look and it has been stored in a plastic bag since I got it new back in late 1981 and it still has unbelievable Gloss and is actually in very nice condition.

So I am thinking it must have something to do with the ink application

Hi agian I back with another Production Question and hopefuly it is not as geeky as my last post hear .

Well I was wondering just how is the ink applied to the printing plates I am especially interested in how the ink is applied to comic book covers hear is why over the years I have been collecting comics I have noiticed that every now and then I would find a comic that had just incredible cover gloss "it is like when you hold it edge ways to the light it just reflects so bright that the different color areas look like they almost glow and they really stand out from one another almost giveing depth to the cover" and then I see other copys of the same issue that look flat with almost no shine at all.

Could this be due to the amount of ink applied to that comics cover?

What got me thinking about this is I just found one of these super glossy comics at a local comic shop and when I got home with it I had another copy of the same comic that was just flat as could be and it doesn't look like it has faded or had much wear so I assume that it looked this way new, the same as most all of my comics looked when I bought them new. I just wonder why their are some that really stand out from the rest?

Hear is the comic I just found you can't really see the cover gloss from the scan or how much better it looks than the other, all you can see is the colors are much richer on the glossy one, in fact spider-man's costume is purple on the glossy one and is very blue on the flat one.

it looks like CGC gave the average of the two grades

Yea it sure looks that way I have to say that is the first one I have ever seen like that and I have seen alot of them. I always thought they just gave the grade for the best cover even if it is the outer cover.

pm sent Frank hope this will help you. I would like to see that comic.

Also congratulation on those X-Men Darth great find I didn't see those. I have been again.

Now why am I posting all these printing errors on 35 cent Marvel price variants well I have always wanted to know if these were printed at the beginning of the print run or at the end.

Well these Printing Errors that I have just posted " the four pages in the Howard the Duck #15 and the Captain America #212 with the missing Marvel Comics Group Logo" seem to suggest that these price variants were printed first and that Marvel corrected the problems before they printed the normal 30 cent print run .

Well now for the other side of the argument, the 30 and 35 cent Marvel variants with the ghost of the original or normal price in the blue ink of the background now DiceX gave a great reason for this and I am sure it is correct.

And I have one more argument that the price variants were printed after the normal print run. We were asking why some comics have two sets of staples a while back and it was explained that if the count of comics needed came up short they would take some from the discarded ones and fix them up to meet their number goal "includeing stapling a cover on one that didn't get a cover by hand" and this happened when the print run was done.

Well I have seen four Comics with this Double staples and they were all price variants, two were 35 cent variants, one was a 30 cent variant that I just got, and the other was a Marvel Direct Market issue with the price in the white diamond.

I now think that based mainly on DiceX explanation of the Ghost price that the Marvel price Variants were printed at the end of their print runs on both the 30 and 35 cent ones but I still not 100% on that and would like to hear anyones ideals on this that have any interest, expecialy DiceX and povertyrow.