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I think this is a good result. Thanks to @Hoarder for restarting the debate and to the CGC higher ups for listening to and acting on the views of all the subsequent contributors. Perhaps this principle could be adopted for all books with identifiable variations in future.

Does CGC have a “why?” Thanks for the effort and time in getting us the answer so far! Thanks Mike. @CGC Mike The Duck beat me to it but, as he says, it's pretty clear we're looking for the 'why' here. Could you get us the why?

A favourite cover of a favourite title

Understood, if I may respond, but things evolve buttock If you were presented with an opportunity to buy a copy for a rich client, and were shown two slabbed copies with broadly similar grade, eye appeal and pricing, but one was noted as a 'Now On Sale' copy, the other an 'On Sale June 2nd', which would you choose for your client? And why?

Agreed. @CGC Mike Mike, could you ask the team what the official CGC position is on this please? If Superman #1 is one of the most important comics in the hobby, and it is clear that there are different printings of the guts at least (with two versions identifiable by the advert for Action #14 - see below) should that difference not be noted on the label? Maybe Matt would be the one to ask. Cheers, Steve

Indeed. From what I've read so far we only have pictorial evidence of two different versions of the guts. The covers were printed separately of course, so it would be cool if there was an identifiable difference between them too. Indeed again. That may be for reasons other than general laxity though. This is one of the most important comics in the hobby, so salient differences should be noted. But if noting those differences effectively renders one version as a subsequent printing, I can see how that might ruffle a few feathers among the elite group that actually own a copy.

Excellent, nice to see the two versions at last.

I found this on YouTube which shows the Action #14 back page (on sale June 2nd): I wonder if anyone has ever managed to do a page by page comparison of the two alleged inside back page copy versions (I say alleged because I've yet to see a picture showing the 'on sale now' version)? I do a lot of this kind of thing, comparing variations side by side, but generally on much cheaper books!

The Good... The Bad.... And the Ugly!

Still got my tree

The Duck from sfcity seems quite clued up on old variations and printings: I can find the same info in words everywhere, but pictures seem hard to come by.

Every Andru page is a wondrous page, but I'm not too keen on the Spidey nose profile in the second and third panels The back page doodle looks like something you'd see on a Ditko Charlton horror cover

FOR OUR AMERICAN CONTINGENT, THAT'S DIXON OF DOCK GREEN

Yes, the 'd' word fell foul of the profanity filter, much to the amusement of dark haired girl admirers board-wide. The Profanity Filter could actually be a PKD title as it goes... Let us know what the GN is like.

PKD!

No, what's going on there Eric?

Found it!

Do you remember years back when you couldn't type the word rover? The board software converted it to something like irishaffliatesnotallowed, something like that.

Christ, my double vision's back

Indeed. He knew what he was doing in a way that few have done before or since.

Here, changing the subject, see how long you can look at my latest off-register Voodoo before you go cross eyed... I was telling Kev and Neil how much I've always liked this one. That's an outrageous load of white space at the top, isn't it. Neil likes the 'Adult Comic' wording. He's into adult things... @nmtg9