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Cover gallery. (thumbs u

It depends on the error and severity of it. If it's a major error, they'll put it in a green slab. More common errors like roller marks, bindery tears, dog ears, siamese pages, are probably counted towards the grade.

Dracula Has Risen From the Grave - Christopher Lee That's been bugging me for a while and I finally remembered the name of the movie.

Adrienne Barbeau Adrienne Barbeau was a double cover on a completely different level.

I went to the LCS and picked up #75 and 76. When I got to the halfway point of #75, my eyebrow raised. I read a couple more pages then frantically flipped to the front page to check to see if Joe Quesada had become the new editor of Image. After I finished #75, I immediately opened 76 to make sure whatever just happened had gone away. If I had only picked up #75 I would have called the shop and told them to stop pulling TWD for me. It was only because I had #76 in hand that the series was saved for me.

Yes. Very possible. It's stapled before it gets trimmed. The staples are done by machine but can vary in the event of a miss-feed. Also could vary if the machine was worked on during the production and the position of the staples was moved on accident.

Cool collection photo! So a few questions -- did you consciously decide not to collect Mads #1 through #43? Too expensive? Just curious. I had a similar plan early on, but then I found a great Craigslist lot deal on the early issues and couldn't pass it up. That's great you have the first Britain and Quebec issue. I hadn't seen the Quebec one before. By the way, anybody here can look up the foreign issues at a site called http://collectmad.com/. I just found out about it the other day and love it! Some of the foreign Mad covers are really cool, with alternative-reality Alfred E. Neuman paintings. 1-43 are next. That's the expensive stuff.

How about this? An unauthorized game made by Transogram in 1960. EC sued Transogram and won. They changed the box to cover up the toothless mouth of the Alfred looking guy. Still a cool game.

Also, I have a handful of dupes if anyone wants to work out some trades for books I need. I'll probably end up letting go of all the foreign issues as I'd rather just focus on the US stuff. If anyone has any interest in those, I'm sure we can work out some trades. I have a seriously impressive chunk of foreign issues.

My regular issue run goes from #44 to present and I'm only missing 3 books in the middle. The run is otherwise complete in that I have every alternate or variant copy of every issue. My Super Specials are complete from 1 through 57 and I'm only missing a handful through present. I also have a lot of foreign issues including the first British issue and first Quebec issue. I also have a very large run of the Australian issues. Additionally I have almost full runs of all the offshot titles, including More Trash, Follies, Wost From, Collector Classics, Gross Outs, XL, etc, etc, etc. Also a lot of the big books. I'd like to end up with full runs of everything, and I have a pretty good jump on it. (thumbs u

Sequel?

Why? This actually reminds me of a time when this was a close-knit community of actual collectors, most of which have unfortunately drifted away over the years, rather than the crop of malcontent speculators and investors that took their place. I'm still here.

JC meltdown in 3...2...1...

He never left.

Once you do your inventory, let me know if you need any of the specials. I have dupes of some of them. (thumbs u I made it through the Super Specials but left my list at home. I know the only one missing the insert was #25, and that will complete the run through around #60. Most of what's missing is above #100, but there's several in the 60-100 range as well. Thanks for the note. I'll send you a list of what's missing when I get home tonight.

Psycho had some sweet, sweet covers.

My goal is to put together a full set of everything ever published and marketed by Mad Magazine. I found a guy on Craigslist that was selling his collection of Mad, and this afternoon I went to check them out. He had a full run of the regular series from issue #40 to present, about 3/4 of the Super Specials/More Trash/etc., a lot of the larger books, and about 3/4 of a mag box full of foreign issues including a #1 from the UK (I think). Needless to say, they're now in my living room. I just started going through them before I came to work. There's a lot of stuff and will probably take me a week to get it all organized.

*** You are also ignoring this user *** You really should learn more social skills

I have enjoyed my 6 years here, I take the good with the bad with the best of them. I plan to stick around for awhile, an those that don't like it can go blow a horse! Any idea how many "Should Wally leave the boards?" FDQ threads there are? Roughly would do, I don't need an exact count.

Absolutely nobody on these boards has the ability to bury the hatchet.

In my experience the UPC Gold is less abundant than the Platinum. The CGC census shows about 750 total Platinums and about 175 UPC Gold that have been submitted.

Didn't I just say that....? Sorry. It was late and I was about to fall over asleep.

The main reason it's hard to find n 9.8 is because, unlike the regular run, the cover was printed on a very thick card stock that was easily damaged during production.