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Primetime

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  1. It’s a 1.0 (Fair) for me since it’s missing a non story page….…..but for cgc it will likely get a .5 Blue or a green 2.5. You used to be able to decline any potential green labels and request blue only (assuming it wasn’t a PLOD)…not sure if you can still request that with cgc today….?
  2. Absolutely possible. It potentially was dependent on the size of the monthly order and distribution for that particular region. Some newsstands received books a bit earlier than most. I have seen a few (June 62 arrival) AF15s, for example, with May 31st arrival dates. I have yet to see an FF 1 (August 61 arrival) with a July arrival date. I have seen a handful of FF2s (October 61) with Sept 61 arrival dates. DD1s typically have Feb 64 arrival dates, but I have seen plenty with January 64 markings. The distribution time difference (from cover to actual release date) seemed to be smaller with golden age books and larger with Silver and Bronze. That probably had something to do with the mass printing for Independent News for Marvel/DC then Goodman switched over to Curtis Circulation Corp (CCC) in 1968-69 to expand the monthly Marvel title distribution (I think it went from 9 titles a month to 15), thus the explosion of Marvel titles in 1968.
  3. 3.5 make sure the Kirby Cap pin up is present.
  4. FF12 and ASM 1 are considered the first x-overs because the references are from SA Marvel characters that had already begun their own titles within the Silver Age (e.g. Hulk into FF12 and FF into Spidey 1) prior to their x-overs. Subby had not been printed since the Atlas title, Young Men (1954), and his rebirth in FF4 (1962) has long been considered his 1st silver age appearance, and not a x-over. Not counting his own comic title (Sub-Mariner Comics) from Timely, Subby’s first titled comic would not come until 1968.
  5. 4.5 cool full date stamp (even if it is one month late from the June, 1962 newsstand release) on the splash.