WoWitHurts

Good point. No injury intended.

I was going to throw out a demolished 181 I had in 2009. I pulled it out of the trash and threw it on ebay starting at .99 and it sold for$318. I was surprised. I assumed someone really wanted the value stamp but don't really know.

Awesome looking book. GRATZ!

If you treat the paper with paper conservation best practices in mind there is no crease or imprint. There are several ways to achieve the same goal without hurting the paper.

This is a good point. I wonder at what point of overhang they will reject it. Anyone know?

There is a lot of information out there about paper conservation. There are many ways in which to straighten out a comic cover. It may not be the way some people do it but it isn't necessarily the wrong way. And I am not mad at all I just find it humorous how secretive people are about it.

I knew he would come in here with an unconstructive and not helpful comment. It's cool its his business.

Oh yeah? What way is that?

Pressing can fix this. A comic board or equivalent will be placed between the cover and page one to give it the support it needs to be corrected.

I will read one occasionally. I started my 12 year old on a TPB of Michelinie/McFarlane ASM Venom stories. I also have a narrow collecting interest. I also use it as a alternative investment strategy as I am maxed out on what I want to put in the Stock Market and its fun hunting for and acquiring high grade books. A nicely represented collection is nice to look and can be appreciated whether it is beanie babies or comics. OK maybe not beanie babies.

ME WANT!

Awesome! GRATZ. Nice pick up.

Those are pretty cool.

I do not. At some point I might put it up there. A lot of My IM are raw but very HG but I don't know if I will get them all encased. Maybe 1-100.

Getting closer to my HG run on IM.

I have been once and it was pretty nice albeit a little crowded.

I looked and I only had one copy that was pristine the rest had color breaks. I did find a couple of other things though while I was looking. I have a stack of DS Annual #$ that I worked on and was given to me while visiting the marvel offices. I also came across some color keys (proofs) of DS #60. The annuals are perfect shape too. Worthless but perfect lol.

No, not really how cool.

Yes full coloring. We had a small studio and 4 of us worked on this book although two of us did the bulk of it, myself and one other.

I don't know if I have any flawless books. They were all handled and that black varnish wasn't very forgiving. This was the first professional coloring I did for Marvel and incidentally it is the first monthly Marvel book colored in Photoshop. Fabian NIcieza and Evan Skolnick didn't even tell Tom Defalco about it until after it was printed to show him that this kind of computer coloring would work. I will look to see what I have though.

This.

I almost buy exclusively books with white pages. Some books are just impossible to get in White and sometimes for me if I get a great deal on the book I will buy a lesser PQ. I accidently bought a cream to off-white once and am still irritated at it.

Awesome, thanks for the heads up!

I guess whatever they are doing works for them or they would find another vehicle for their investments.

The model works until it doesn't. When it doesn't work they go out of business. If they make 30-40% profit per piece then they can sell fewer pieces but they would need deep pockets for cash flow I would think. It is frustrating for a collector when you come up against unreasonable pricing. However, unreasonable is subjective to the buyer. Myself , I am patient and wait for books I want that meet my criteria to come to auction where price is closest to market. For one of a kind OA I imagine it would be even harder to be patient for a piece to come to market.