DiceX

Nice books. I'm envious of your 3D. I haven't found a nice copy yet.

Wow! I really need to get some Stevens books submitted.

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I have a sub there from June 14th and it still says "Verified." What tier? Modern Still "Verified."

Good info on those other two books. Thanks.

That cover is so fantastic. Does anyone know the story behind it being reused as a cover for Vampirella some years later? To my knowledge, Alberto Pujolar never did any other comic covers. Such a shame. I rank this cover right up there with the greatest ever on a comic mag. I wish he had been hired to do more of them for us.

Your answer is here... Cosmic, I asked DiceX the same question a few months ago. Here is his reply: I received the book today. It looks to me like it was a "hand bound reject". I'll try to explain it... A publisher requires a certain number of books to be produced. During the bindery run, they have enough raw product to produce the run + a percentage predicted by the bindery allowed for waste. Say the run is 100,000 books and the bindery expects 3% waste...They receive 103,000 books worth of raw product. During the run there are books that jam up in the binder, or have odd flaws (untrimmed, unstapled, no cover, etc.). Those books are stacked to the side until the end of the run. When the raw product has been depleated, if the count doesn't add up to what the publisher ordered, they have to find a way to fill the order. They go through the "reject" skid to find any books that can be salvaged. There is usually nothing wrong with them, they just have been produced incorrectly. They take those books and piece together what they can. These books are bound by hand, stitched (stapled) by hand, then hand trimmed on a flatbed cutter. Whatever they have to do on a book by book basis. After "pulling rejects", if the order still has not been filled, they have to go back to press to run enough raw pieces to finish it off. The book you sent looks like it was produced without a cover. The body of the book had already been stapled, so a fresh cover was placed on the book and stitched onto the body. (The second set of staples) The staples are done by hand, so that would explain why they were off centered. There are no other staple holes in the cover, so it was definately a raw cover that was placed on the book. Afterwards it was hand trimmed on a flatbed. No doubt in my mind that the book left the factory this way. I don't know if this book would have passed through CGC without a purple label, because I don't know if they would have been able to tell it was a factory error.

I have a sub there from June 14th and it still says "Verified." What tier? Modern

I have a sub there from June 14th and it still says "Verified."

Modern submission now on day 75 of the 70 day turnaround, and still sitting dead at "Verified."

You would't want women slaying demons with their giant swords to be inhibited by clothing would you?

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