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I know from personal experience that Marvel "stole" ideas from letter writers/character submitters all the time. Tom DeFalco has even admitted to this during his run on Amazing Spider-Man. For my ( very small ) part, when I was 11 I sent in a very crude drawing of a character with Spider-Man's costume and spider legs coming out of his sides, I called him "Spider-Kid". A few months later... Where's my check, Marvel???

2...so I guess it's not as long as that run...

This book came out a few days before I was born so it was on the stands as I entered this realm! Yeah I know, born in 1972 so I'm...

Newest double cover! From 2012(Checked GPA and found one that has been certified, so I'm sure it's legit). First Nightwing double(favorite DC character other than Batman and the Joker).

For you and me? No. For your average collector however, it seems pretty shiny colors are all they care about.

Send it to CGC...Restored C-1 "Small amount of color touch on cover."

Getting a bit impatient in my old age, I guess. Still, dropping a line would have been nice. I usually get two types of auction winners: The ones who pay immediately, and the one or two who don't pay at all. It's rare that they wait until eBay's deadline to pay so I may have put his books back in stock, .

"Areas"(plural). I'd be afraid if you remove that one spot, there would be more you didn't see so all that would happen is the grade goes down with still a purple label. And that bottom right corner looks pretty crinkled, I doubt it gets any higher, just possibly blue instead of purple labeled. Nice looking book, I'd leave it alone if it were me.

Curious, I block auction winners who don't pay but would you consider blocking a buyer who wins an auction, is completely radio silent for 3 Days, 23 hours and 59 min then pays just in the nick of time? Not even a semi-courteous "will pay Tuesday for a hamburger today"? Oh and then after waiting all that time with nary a message, they request that you ship it a certain way...

Older case, so grader notes may not have been as extensive? Or it's just that "small amount" encompasses way too wide a range of color touch magnitude. Either way, I really wish CGC would adopt light and dark purple labels to differentiate between what I mentioned above. Light purple(maybe even more blue than red in the color?) to classify a book as having light amateur to moderate professional and dark(deep? ) purple to classify a book as having moderate amateur to extensive professional resto. Because when it really comes down to it, in life we want the cool colors...

That's an older case, so I'm not sure what CGC's somewhat fluid standards were then, but I'm certain there's more than just that spot. If that's the only spot, it probably would have gotten the "Very small amount of color touch on cover" notation. Because "small amount" is kind of like the "Good" grade...not so good and not a small amount. Unless they decided to factor in the smudge that probably happened when they tried to touch up the spine on the first appearance of Thor...oops! (*cringes*)

I've been thinking about this and we only have ourselves to blame by reacting this way to blue and 100% yellow labels: And by reacting in this manner to purple and green labels: Rather than actually looking at why they received the labels, we just make the immediate assumption the books are ruined. There is a huge difference between a carefully placed(and possibly professional) aesthetic improvement... And some kid who went crazy with Crayola markers.

I need this...

The letter "C" is the quality, the number "2" is how extensive(or amount). Even the chart you uploaded states this.

This industry is all about how beautiful something looks...unless that beauty has been restored in some way, then they'd rather have it ugly? If a comic has been touched up, it's still as close to its original condition as it will ever be. If you cut that all off, you're not accomplishing anything other than making it even further from its original condition than it ever was, in my opinion.

Beyond any shadow of doubt. I've seen some that state "small amount of color touch" then get a moderate C-2 resto tag. Wouldn't that indicate a moderate amount of color touch?

That makes all of my mistakes in life completely connected!

Got another one! Took advantage of Hip Comic's cash back and bought this from Quality...

Double cover and the color was printed off register. Do y'all think they are two separate errors, or are they somehow connected? If they're not connected then I don't want to calculate the odds of both happening on the same book cuz...

Two more recent pick ups... ASM Double #34! One of my favorite issues! Wall crawler vs wall crawler! Plus a reprint of the 1st Spider-Mobile! I got this to complete my first 5 original Spidey titles for double covers, I have a double for Amazing, Spectacular, Super Stories, Marvel Team-Up(which turned into Web) and now Marvel Tales! Without the reprint series, I would have never experienced the first Ditko issues as if reading them when they were originally published(MT #137-177)!

I just read through the Miller run. I love how he completely owned the character during his run and even did the What If? issues. Most of the time, you'd get some new(and lesser quality) team on a character in a What If tale, but with the DD What Ifs you got the A-team of Miller/Janson!

On my eBay personal ID, I had someone attempt to "school" me on Mark Jewelers after he thought he had purchased a "double insert" from me. I advertised a NDS on auction with Mark Jewelers in the title so it would be seen in search results by more people(yeah, yeah sue me). He won it under the assumption that it had both inserts even though I did not say so in the description or showed it in the pictures I provided. I informed him that a book with both NDS and MJI inserts is quite impossible, to which he dropped his knowledge that MJIs have been around since "1968" and that double NDS/MJI inserts, while rare, occurred. Then once he got the book, he informed me that it was indeed a "double insert" like he thought. Then a few hours later he proceeds to file a return with eBay stating "I do not believe this is a Mark Jewelers".

33rd ASM Double Cover! This is in excellent condition. Origin of Carnage(this is the story the bit of the symbiote drips onto Kasady's hand)!

Of course, I search "double cover" all the time on eBay, sure there are many minor annoyances in the results like the Double Action por-NO comics, Marvel Double Feature, etc. But my biggest pet peeve is this: Obviously they just copied the ad, but failed to realize the title had features their copy doesn't and now they are falsely advertising their copy as a double cover. They also often price their copy according to the ad they copied, which results is a mis-advertised and overpriced item. Happens all the time with Mark Jewelers as well. Ugh! This is almost as much an eBay pet peeve for me as when buyers ONLY read the title before bidding. C'mon people!