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I hadn't looked at this book since originally posting the photos, and didn't expect it to be on the pull list when I showed up today. My guy has a strategy when he picks books that's not exclusively based on taking the highest value books first. I have reasonably high grade ASM101 & Dr Strange 169 still waiting in the wings for example. I do know that if I put something Star Wars in the box, it has a better than average chance of being picked

Obviously, this turned out even better than I expected. Hit at the same grade as the SSS39 I had graded. Perhaps showing what an effective prepper can accomplish as well as the limitations of grading by photos alone.

Expecting this one to take a while, check in around 2024

One of the fun things about dealing with a professional that presses & submits for me is that sometimes when I throw something in the box for the sake of amusement or to ask a question, it ends up being the first thing that he jumps on.

Retracted

Off to Steranko signing with a higher grade Nick Fury 4. Even if it comes in "low", his sig books always look sharp.

Wow! This is like the 2nd or 3rd piece of evidence that you own comics! I agree, this is a great cover. I'm a passive DD fan at best, but issue 45 has the similar color characters on a greyscale background. IDK how many more covers are done in this style, but I wonder why it's not the subject of more homage/swipes. They're underrated. Based on comps in my graded collection, I'll say 4.5. In some ways it looks better than my two 4.5s, in other ways mine present better so I think they would grade similarly. I could see a 5.0 on the right day with a Spider-Man stan sitting at the grading table. Since buying a mid-NM to high-grade copy can cost 2-3 times the average monthly mortgage payment, this is a reasonable compromise between cost & presentation IMO. Nice find.

1.0±0.5

distributor ink or printing defect along the top edge? Need more detail

7.0±0.5 the color breaking crease brings you down into the 8s. The stains, albeit small, are going to cap it lower. If they were on the front, I'd expect more like 6.0/6.5.

Never hurts if it's a blue chip book. The graders seem to give those the benefit of the doubt more often

8.0

8.5±0.5. I think the stuff going on with the top right edge has me more in the 8s than getting to NM. Still one of my favorite covers. I might rank this Miller/McLeod collab ahead of Cap 241

9.2 for the top edge wear

6.5±0.5 enough color breaking stress lines & edge wear to hold it down. It *could* get a 7.0 b/c the black makes all the defects just look their worst.

4.0/4.5 here too

6.0±0.5 The handling wear looks like it could be ~7, but the foxing on the back is pretty bad, so it will slip down a bit. Nice to get the one with Thanos in it with the MJs though.

Show a back cover and end-on shot of the top. It kind of looks like distributor ink

around ½-¾". I'm sure CGC would call it color-breaking, but it's on the light end of spectrum.

Been sitting on this one for a while b/c I think it misses the cut of doing anything with it. It might be the first Brother Voodoo/WWBN crossover, and it is where I learned about Marvel's clever workaround for the CCA ban on 'zombie" by using 'zuvembie'. Clearly totally different undead beings. Love the cover & have been looking (unsuccessfully) for an upgrade for a while. Closest I've found is a CGC 9.4 30¢ variant that MCS has an asking price way more than I'm willing to drop. I do not play the 30¢ variant game. Anyhow, the corners are a bit curly, I think that could be flattened out, but there's a tear & a light crease above the O in GROUP. I think the tear is really hard to see in the photo, so I put in an arrow to show where it is. Your eyes may be better than mine