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Hi. Please give your opinion another copy of this Superman comic Last photo is to highlight the staples rustiness.

Hi. Please give your opinion about this Superman comic.

It seems we are three Yorick:

Camera Comics n°1 Full spine split, books was partly glued in the inner pages. Some stains in the back cover. 1.8, perhaps 2.0 Price: $150.

Gay Comics n°21 Lower right corner was ripped off and reactached with tape. A little staining on the back cover. From Good+ to Good/Very Good Price: $110.

Joker N°1. A lot of dirt on the back cover and a color breaking fold mark in the upper left corner on the back cover. A very, very small one in the lower right corner (cover). Minor wear in the corners. Around 5.0 Price: $35

Mystery in Space n°6. Multiple little pieces missing in the corners and edges. Around Very Good - Price: $45

Strange Adventures n°180 Book suffered full spine split. Covers were glued back. Small missing piece in the upper right corner, smaller in the lower left corner. Some creases, foxing and color breaking creases in the lower right corner (on both covers) So, I grade it around 1.8 Price: $55

The six books in the thread's title are available for sale. I will do a single post for each. Shipping: Depends a lot on chosen options. Cheaper option costs $7-$10 for one, two, perhaps three books. More expensive options goes from slight less than $40 to slight more than $50, depending on the total cost of the books. Inquire me for more details. Shipping from Brazil. Payment: Pay-pal, Xoom, Western Union, Wire Transfer. I might be open to more options. Returns: I do accept returns in up to seven days, if the shipping options includes full tracking for the delivery place.

Apparently, full spine split. A closer inspections gives me the impression that both cover were glued in the inner pages

Please, gibe your opinion about the grade on this stained Joker n°1:

Please, lend me a hand in grading this copy of House of Mystery n°6 with many missing chunks:

Please, give your guess about he grade on this Strange Adventures 180, with heavy spine splitting:

Vast majority of Disney stories were produced outside US (especially from middle 60`s and up) and very few were ever published there.

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The front cover's back face shows a long folding mark and two rips (one very small), as photos n° 3 & 4 shows. Staining in the first inner page. Also present in the other pages, each time less, until they shows only next the page margins

Tape on the lower right corner, as photo n °3 shows:

I am not sure what to think about this one. It's detached from both staples, yet, cover is still attached to the inner pages. Logic says "glue". Nonetheless, I cannot say any sign of it...

Some acquisitions from the last months: Chilean. Excellent print quality Argentinean/Chilean edition, printed on Argentina Australian/Singapore/Malaysia/Brunei editions. Printed in Australia. VERY similar to Netherlands editions of the same period. Except for one thing: It has no staples. First staple less, non square spine comics that I hold in my hands, also my first comic books printed in Australia Inner 354 page: Argentinean books, apparently distributed on Uruguay: Upgrade: Cover for Bark's Flying Dutchman:

Back after some time away. And today is a special day, a celebration day, a happy day! :) Today is the Birthday is the Birthday of Brazil's most important comic book released in the 50's. 82° Birthday! While it was not Abril's first Comic Book, it was undoubtedly the most important. Bellow one can see Luis Destuet's cover. 82.370 of these were printed, a decent amount for a number one. As the first twenty and one issues, it was a monthly publication, with Magazine size (20x28cm). It would soon became weekly with a reduced format (and with a likely, vastly increased printing numbers). The first few and the last pages were in full color, while the ther pages were B&W. That scheme would continue until late 50's. These colorful pages were dedicated to Barks long stories. As it was too few pages for these long stories, they would be split through three consecutive Pato Donald. The first Abril's Disney publication is also first Uncle Scrooge appearance in Brazil, with the classic "Old Secret Castle" story It would be followed by Mickey's title two years latter, then by Scrooge and Zé Carioca titles in the 60's. In the late 50's, the first Disney story totally made in Brazil was published, the first of more than 4000 that would be produced in the following decades, mainly between late 60's to early 90's. In the 70's, Abril would start to seize control of the Brazilian industry, through the expansion of the DIsney line, the introduction of Turma da Monica titles, and latter, Hanna Barbera, Star Trek, Marge's. A few months before the 80's, it would get partial publication rights of Marvel titles. Jumping a few years in the future, in the 80's. Abril was completely dominant, starting a media empire that would encompass countless publications outside comic world, a vhs publishing company and a dominion in the comic world that Ebal and Rge probably never dreamed to be possible. With more than 8 million Disney comics published each month, not mentioning the other titles, this was likely one the greatest dominions ever seen in worldwide comic book story :P The shock waves of such control would start to spread outside Brazil since late 60's, early 70's, when the stories produced commenced to be exported. It would be followed by Abril's own Disney publications. These shock waves would spread through Latin America and continental Europe. Brazil's flagship Disney title, Disney Especial, would have local version in three other countries (Colombia,Spain and Portugal). The Disneylandia Magazine, in Germany and Netherland. A Happy day, a celebration day :)

It certainly looks like a fac simile to me. The cover seems glossy, instead of using some variation of newsprint, the colors are a bit different, especially the one on the floor. That's typically because digital images does not uses the same primary colors as a traditional printing process. The book looks too perfect, staples too silver and shining. I would also give a look and see if the inner pages are indeed made of newsprint and not something similar. On a fac simile, there would be some minor flaws due to the process used to duplicate the content. If made from digitized images, there would be small imperfections on the lines, popularly know as "jaggies" , though sometimes the original printing process produces similar imperfections, if not using a high quality printing process. It would require a par of trained eyes to distinguish, especially if the images were digitized from a high quality scanner.

Sorry for the delay. I finally managed to find a copy with postcard. I am waiting for the answer of multiple sellers that have a copy if theirs contains the postcard. But I am not very optimistic. Of over twenty editions, this will probably be the only one.

It's still better than a quarter million for a Marvel Spotlight 5 or over $300.000 for that Tec with the first Riddler IMHO. They could have used the correct colors for Mario though.