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Since you guys are posting Ghosts, I thought I'd share a few. This one has a double cover.

Stunning copy, Banner! And it's good to see that it has a happy ending.

This is one sick book. Best line from it... "His head. My shotgun! No contest!"

If you have something like this, make sure it has factory staples in it. You can compare it to the other staples at the center of the book. I've seen books where the cover pulled through the staples, and it was stapled back on by the owner.

I wonder what a #2 in 9.6 would sell for.

That's the one. Thanks, David.

1) Comics that were distributed a few weeks apart could certainly have been printed at the same time. 2) There are probably other copies. I doubt it's an "isolated incident". 3) Whatever someone will pay for it. (I don't have a clue.)

A long line to see Byrne? Seriously...Tell him the truth.

No sigs?

My first double cover.

That error was made at the start of the press run.

Keep in mind that a lot has changed since the old Letter Press days. Now the plates are large and fit completely around the cylinder. All the pages for that side of the paper are on the single plate. There are still 4 plates for the individual colors, but all the pages are on one large plate.

The press prints on a long roll of paper. The paper goes through the first press unit. The press unit has two big cylinders with multiple single page plates on them. The paper passes between the two big cylinders where the first color is printed on the front and back of the paper. The paper continues to the next unit. It's the same as the first except it has a different color ink in it with the plates that have the image that will be printed in that ink. Then it goes through the next two units the same way. This will give it four colors of ink on both sides of the paper. The paper runs through a long dryer to set the ink. For the body pages, at the end of the press, each section that makes up the book will be folded and stacked onto a skid to be put into the binder. For the cover, it delivers in a large sheet along with the cover to multiple other titles on the same sheet. The sheets are cut up on a large cutter to seperate the individual covers. The cover and body pages are stuck into a binder, where it puts the cover on the body pages, staples them together, and trims the three outside edges. Does that make a little more sense?

Your comic would definately not be the only one. I couldn't guess at how many there would be. But I doubt any production defect would be "one of a kind". However, some may be rarer than others. For the comics that were printed on a "Letter Press", there was a single plate for each individual page, and each individual color. Meaning there were 4 plates for the front cover. A black, a magenta, a cyan, and a yellow. The same for each page of the book. So a book with 32 pages and a 4 page cover would have a total of 144 individual plates. 36 black plates, 36 magenta plates, 36 cyan plates, and 36 yellow plates. One plate per color, per page.

The magenta and yellow plates were switched on press. When they were hanging plates, the pressman hung the plate with the yellow images on the magenta ink cylinder, and the magenta plate on the yellow cylinder. Looks like they noticed it after they started printing, and shut down the press to switch the plates to the correct ink units.

Let's see you buy 75 comics at once and not expect a deal! Let's see YOU buy 75 comics at once! I'd like to know *who* had 75 comics that met greggy's standards.

Lucky bastich.

Great looking copy, greggy. I saw 2 or 3 nice copies of this book in Dallas, but they all had ridiculous prices on them. I think this issue will be filed in the "Books I should have bought a year ago" section.

The only slabbed book I bought in Dallas.

I think Sid's copy has mine beat. Here it is to compare.

This cover gives me the creeps, in more ways than one.