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What is this 'YMMV' of which you speak?

Nice looking book, the kind that I used to get from mail order companies in the UK who graded anything like this as NM. For me, the significant spine tick is enough to drop it to a 7.0. That's what I would put it at on ebay. Any higher and the recipient would see the spine ding and may feel cheated. Shame. The amount of books I bought in the early days as NM that turned out to have one defect that dropped them is the stuff of nightmares.

Yes, the police could never make that public indecency charge stick.....

It's just occurred to me that I may have moved this thread a little away from it's original theme with my last few posts. So; "Marvel is rubbish at making comics and no one wants to buy them anymore" There. Back on track.

Ah, simple pleasures, ruined by Photon. You can't beat it Now, on a separate note, how is it that you can say bollocks without manual manipulation but I can't say Dick unless I use sleight of hand? Ken, you seem like a very reasonable, nuanced man. As such, you may wish to avail yourself of the content of my Change Request here: As a man of taste and deportment I feel sure that you will pick up the baton and join me in my crusade to correct the inexplicable suppression of Dicks from these boards. Join me in the fight Ken, join me!

Sorry FB. I wanted to show my appreciation of your post using the designated new boards appreciation tool but, even though in England I've just got up and it's my 'first of the day', computer says 'no':

I have, but I'm afraid I can only condone one of those key life components

Squeeze?Really?That's some argybargy.. Sorry, I can't continue this conversation Spike. Mummy said never take Sweets From A Stranger

Same here Spike. It took hard work and dedication to build up my 100+ Squeeze singles. Especially the imports. Now, they're all over ebay in multiples. Ebay has killed 'proper' collecting. FU ebay! ?

I miss all that Ken. Everything is so easy today. One click on ebay and it's done. I remember catalogues. Comics, books, records. Posting off your list, enclosing a cheque or postal order. Long waits, then they arrive. What a thrill. This will sound silly now, but I remember struggling to get ASM 179 for the longest time. Then, all of a sudden, I got it from a catalogue. It arrived pristine. Heaven. Now, I could buy 100 copies in the next hour without getting out of my chair. Not much is actually rare or hard to get anymore. Simple pleasures have been lost on so many fronts. And there is no striving. No hunting. No recording. Just click, buy, receive. It's a soulless age and I for one lament the passing of that world I loved. That's why I persist with the London Fair. It died some time back, but is still the only thing I can go to that is in any way close to my old collecting life. Things change, but rarely I feel for the better. New comics aren't great for the most part. Variants are killing the collectors. Old comics are becoming prohibitively expensive. It's difficult to feel positive about anything. Bang! ?

You've confused John Morlar with Harold Pelham @kav ! Play properly! ?

Also nice.....and I read it thrice.....

Nice.....

Do you need a lodger?

Ah ha ha ha haaa ?

Well get stuffed then. Ah ha ha ha haaa. ?

Two! Two people get the hand model thing, ah ha ha ha haaa. ?

Hold fire gunner @kav. Ditko and me have got previous and I know already that his response will be something along the lines of "put it up your pipe".

Not sure, but I heard there's a big log in #2 @Foley?

Oh yes

Better not, they make me fart Jim.