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Am I being too OCD? Are corners like this common on older issues or would this prevent you guys from buying a book? Mainly referring to how it is blunted and a small piece seems to have flaked off. These rounded corners seem pretty common on older books but wanted to get your thoughts

My favorite DC hero but I only own 2 keys edit: just realized my other one is graded by….not CGC so had to remove the picture

I don't know how I missed this thread. My favorite silver age book!

Ever? That is hard. I will go by runs over title. Maybe Ultimate Spider-Man's first 100 issues. I think it was the perfect run by Bendis and Bagley. Also right there, and more recently, has been Fantastic Four by Hickman and House and Powers of X by Hickman. I think they were both incredible. Oh and Silver Surfer Black.

If I am paying $1k+ I go slabbed to ensure no resto. I do prefer raw overall but most of my big $ books are slabbed

Not an action figure, but I collect quite a bit of Dragonball stuff. This was my latest statue, Super Master Stars Manga Dimensions Goku

Thanks! Yeah I wasn’t sure what most consider since the bottom is blunted

Notes just say creasing on the corner that break color but wanted to see what others thought. Seems like it’s blunted which I see on quite a few books of this age?

Thank you!

My FF5 upgrade arrived today and I love it

Upgrade came in today!

Thanks! I’m pretty sad that I sold it but the 5.0 I bought looks really nice.

Just sold my FF5 4.0 White Pages for $16,350 😳 My 5.0 is on the way 🕺🏻

Moving this to The Comic Network FB group.

I’ll be moving this to consignment in 24 hours or so. Will take $150 off the price for the next day.

Great info! From the other thread you had mentioned this July 1962 stamp was likely a return date stamp, which makes sense. So would some retailers mark the return date on the book, instead of the arrival date, when they actually received it so they knew what the shelf life would be? I am assuming that is how return stamps worked, this is my first time actually seeing one

Price: $16,100

An opportunity has come up to upgrade this, so here we are. Rules: No one from probation list or hall of shame. Payment will need to be wire transfer (I have a few references on here and have sold through The Comic Network Facebook group and through Instagrailz) No returns on slabs Shipping will be fully insured and shipped USPS, double boxed. Shipping included in price. Will not ship internationally.

Yep I think so too. Which makes this a pretty unique stamp I think! At least from what I’ve seen. I love how these add stories to books

Definitely seems reasonable. Another board member mentioned it is probably a ‘return date’ stamp that was sent back to the distributor as an unsold copy. Which makes sense since only the month and year are on there

Oh interesting, so did Marvel (or the distributor) stamp it with the return date or did the newsstand stamp it and then send it back?

Random question: what determined when a store or newsstand would receive a shipment of the books in the 60s-70s (say FF books for the sake of this thread)? For example, on the FF5 I grabbed it has a date stamp of July 1962, but I have seen several copies with April stamps. Was this kind of thing based on geographical location as to when they get books? this is an intensely nerdy question I realize….

Yeah I imagine it’s something like that, or they send out more copies they have sitting around later on 🤷🏻‍♂️