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I'll be posting a fairly large list of bronze horror tonight in the marketplace, for those that might be interested. Everything from readers/fillers to some higher grade copies.

What would a 9.4 or 9.6 go for?

Here's what the spray was for... got it from the horse's mouth, in the form of an old girlfried my brother had who worked at the local magazine distrubutor for our area. Comics were delivered weekly, so every week all the comics for that week leaving the distributor were given a shot of the same colour. When the arrived at the newsstands, the vendors could then quickly remove the books from the previous week, which had been sprayed with a different colour. So, for example, all of last week's 'red' books got pulled, and all this week's new 'blue' books got racked. Make sense, as I have many books that I bought off the shelf from the same store in the 80s that exhibit a few different colours of overspray. Man, I wish I could go back in time to that store! Shep This statement is correct. The marks were used so the person in charge of rotating the books could easily identify which comics were to be pulled. This kept them from having to go through and look at the cover dates. They could just look at the stack from the top, and pull all the red comics. (Or whatever color) I don't know what type of ink/paint they used, but from what I understand it was water based, and did not have any tac. Meaning the comics did not stick together. Something else to note is that the marks are still present on newsstand comics (to my knowledge, at least until a few years ago). But the marks are actually printed on the interior pages. This practice started sometime in the '80s. This eleminated the need for the ink spray at the top of the books. Bob, there were also marks put on books that were returned. A little different than the ones used for the newsstand. Our own David Dunbar could possibly be a sorce of more information on this topic. For the record, unless it's a major, major stain...An average distributor ink stain does not bother me at all. I see nothing wrong with Sterling's book. Other than that issue is a [embarrassing lack of self control] to find with a perfect wrap and cut.

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I wan't trying to dig up old bones. Just curious because I remembered the name being tossed around a while back. Stick around a post more. I'd love to see some books from your horror collection. 'Til then...I'll tease you with one from your list.

Not to jump OT, or anything. But wasn't donger accused of shilling and cracking purple label books and selling them as unrestored? Just curious, because I've avoided his auctions for a long time for some reason.

Kudos to Greggy for some sweet, sweet DC's. I must reward him with gifts of frankincense and myrrh.

For anyone that may be interested, I've posted a bunch of Bronze Horror for sale in the marketplace. Link

I suppose you're talking about the 209. The Rosa copy is nice, but the centering kills it for me. I'll take a 9.0 with great centering over a 9.4 with a 1/8" spine any day. Here's my old copy. The centering is a little better than the one I posted earlier.

Excuse me while I turn green with envy.

For those that don't have a copy of this issue...I highly recommend getting one. The cover is so friggin beautiful that a scan can't do it justice.

Finally found a nice copy of this. I'd still like an upgrade.

I found a second copy in nice shape. I so love this book.

Don't feel too bad, I paid out the [#@$%!!!] for it.... ...a whole $12.

You guys are killing me.

Yep. It's in my top 5 favorite covers. Something about it that just gives me the willies.

Great buy! One of my favorite covers.

The VF 8.0 Luke Cage #1 is not "midgrade." "Low Grade"?

I didn't figure anyone...other than the few nerds that read this thread...would be interested in that book. So get the Horror thread back on topic by posting more Wonder Woman covers.

Blow me, troll.