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Were they offered as "get your copy now, because there's only 10!" Or , was it just give out as many as are ordered?

Knew there was black ones, didn't know about a white one.... Only 1, and they're not talking. http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?articleID=45355

Might be the same person who's hiding the white Venom error book.

10 made on purpose, or 10 assumed? Was it a promotion, or something along those lines? Just wanting to learn.

Love it! Rare book?

Not long ago I bought a pack of '78 topps baseball for a shot at the Molitor, Murphy, or Murray cards, and ate the gum. It was white. Didn't taste like much. Crumbled like sawdust. Got commons in the pack.

Sweet gift!

No US1?

Do you inform CGC of the cracked book? I wonder if the current stats on the CGC database are updated. I do. But I charge $5 for the service. Maybe the census would be more accurate if CGC offered a few bucks off re-grading each book?

Not sure if it was brought up, but I'm sure there are unscrupulous people out there who buy cheap PLOD's in order to crack them, and sell them as raw unrestored books. Pure evil.

The first printings are known to have a similar mis-wrap. -J. Most copies I see have some kind of mis-wrap and small edge cuts on the bottom edge of the back. Good centered copies should have a premium. If they already do not?

There has to be a second printing out there somewhere. It makes absolutely no sense to skip from first to third.

This is one of the rare instances that the first prints seem more desirable than the second. I've noticed this on raws, as well as graded:

Wow that's crazy! I went from booth to booth looking to pick up copies and a few of the dealers threw out $90 at me. I haggled and got about 4-5 copies in VF-VF+ for about $35/40 ea. Watch out for the copies with the "printer defect" small tears at the bottom. And yes, the book continues to rise even as the weeks go by. What kind of grade drop will these tears cause? If a book looks like it would otherwise grade 9.8 but has these tears, what will it grade? They don't drop the grade. Look up graded 9.8s on eBay, you can find several copies with several tears along the bottom edge. I can confirm this. My friend got 3x 9.8s back that all had this. Me too. Have had several 9.8's, and they all had at least a small cut in the red part of the bottom edge. Now a 9.9?

An alpha Lotus. That's pretty much your Action 1 of Magic. Maybe a Beta. The first few sets, up until Legends, are BIG money. Don't sell until you really get some good advice from people you trust. Otherwise you'll probably get fleeced. I had an Alpha set I sold in 1999, for several thousand. That was 15 years ago. I'm not sure what prices are now, but last time I looked a few years ago, they were off the charts.

I was collecting a full set of 9.8 GIjoes and sort of stumbled onto the boards around the time they started. I ended up anonymous for whatever reason.

The only Zeck piece I'd ever consider superior would be Cap Annual #8. Otherwise, this is the king. Right on.

Weird.... Thanks for getting us started! Did you ever get your #21 in 9.8??? You know, of all people, I never did. Looking at the census, I don't think it would be difficult at this point.

I remember that big argument about black covers being rare in high grade. That implies that people just went aggressive on black covers whenever they saw one. Babied other lighter covered books. As said, a cover like 300 just shows flaws that seem to light up like a Christmas tree. I think CGC goes easy on this book despite this.

Wow, how does that even happen? It's that tiny dark cloud that follows me everywhere.

OT: who is Stacker? I started this thread almost 9 years ago, and it says he started this thread, even though he wasn't a member until 2008? Odd. Please continue...

Had.

Not anytime soon. And if the movie is good, forget it. If you really want a nice copy, buy now, or in 5 years.

Pictures... or it never happened. Oh, wttb.