FS: DEADPOOL #1 VARIANT DOUBLE COVER NM+ PRICE DROP

[Mr.Silvestri]

I've liked all the Deadpool books. Thought the writing was decent in all. Just a fun comic all around. Anyway....off topic....sorry....nice book. (thumbs u

 

Thanks SP ...

[Jeffro.]

No one on this board likes RARE comic books ...

 

Sure do.

Just like them about 50 or 60 years old.

 

Are we still talking about comics, or are we talking girlfriends now?

 

There are some hot 60 year old women these days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr.Silvestri]

No one on this board likes RARE comic books ...

 

Sure do.

Just like them about 50 or 60 years old.

 

Are we still talking about comics, or are we talking girlfriends now?

 

There are some hot 60 year old women these days.

 

:sick:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr.Silvestri]

One & only price drop

[Mr.Silvestri]

this would make a nice Christmas present ...

 

If this doesn't sell I'll keep it & put it away.

[BlowUpTheMoon]

How does the inner cover grade/look?

[divad]

I'll toss my 2 cents into this thread, strictly because I think I'm the only member of the boards that actually works in the PRINT INDUSTRY for a living.

 

Double covers are pulled out of the pockets of the saddle stitcher accidently, it's true...I can't say that the print industry has really caught up with technology in the sense of the bindery, per se.

 

The bindery where all the finishing is done to the books, is pretty much still a straight forward "old school" method...ie, the equipment is probably 20 to 30 years old, depending on where you're at.

 

Our stitchers are about 20 years old, I know of other places that just upgrade or fix the equipment as needed.

 

To understand how the stitching process works, using a comic book as an example, you'd be using only 3 pockets on the stitcher to finish the job.

A 32 page comic book consists of TWO 16-page signatures. A "signature" is the print/publishing term for a folded sheet of paper which holds the printed pages of your book. A signature can be 2 pages, 4 pages, 8 pages, 16 pages or if coming off the web, even 32 pages.

But for this example, I'll say that a sheet of 23x35 sheet of paper will hold 8 images front and back, or SIXTEEN PAGES. Fold that down, you've got what we call a 16-pg sig.

Two of those consist of your average 32 page comic book.

The cover folded in half (ie, your front/back and inside covers=4pgs.) is what we'd call a 4-pg sig or simply "cover" or "cover pocket" (duh).

 

So you take up 3 pockets on the stitcher.

The suction cups that pull that cover down onto the two gathered 16-pg sigs can sometimes pull two covers. It happens.

 

In short, I don't think there's any more or any less double covers on stitched books today then there was 10, 20 or 50 years ago.

It's just a matter of how many made it out in a given print run, and who ended up with them. I'll bet there's probably more of those double cover Deadpool #1's out there, but they're in a distributor box at the shop, or in the back issue bin or someone's collection...but that's not to say there's a bunch of them.

 

It's safe to say that in a print run of 100,000 or 200,000 it's not unreasonable to assume that there's 20 - 50 cps. of a double cover book floating around out there.

 

True, some equipment may have "sensors" to catch the occasional error, but more likely then not, they slide right on through and into the stack of books that get slapped into the box at the printer.

 

I'm actually surprised that more books are NOT eligible for 9.8 moderns considering how they're handled at the printer, shoved into the boxes, and shuffled around from Canada where they're printed to Diamond here in the states.

 

 

(thumbs u Thanks Rich you said FAR BETTER than I did..

 

 

Well . . . night and day, actually

[Mr.Silvestri]

How does the inner cover grade/look?

 

Just as good as the first .. (thumbs u