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[Sweet Lou 14]

On 9/27/2023 at 8:39 PM, Ghost Town said:

Another upgrade, because, well, you know, I'm crazy.

Please tell me you will also upgrade your Conan #12 and #14 to 9.8, and that you have 9.6 WPs of those two to sell me.  

Finding those two in 9.6 has been pretty much impossible.

[namisgr]

They are out there if you're willing to accept page quality that isn't white.

    

[namisgr]

  

  

Edited November 2, 2023 by namisgr

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 11/2/2023 at 7:39 PM, namisgr said:

They are out there if you're willing to accept page quality that isn't white.

    

I would generally avoid 9.6 OW but I buy 9.6 OW/W copies as placeholders all the time.  I haven't seen either of these two issues in 9.6 period, and I'm very thorough.

I assume these were your copies?

[namisgr]

On 11/2/2023 at 11:36 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I would generally avoid 9.6 OW but I buy 9.6 OW/W copies as placeholders all the time.  I haven't seen either of these two issues in 9.6 period, and I'm very thorough.

I assume these were your copies?

Yes, they were sold in 2020.  

[batmiesta]

On 11/3/2023 at 3:36 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I would generally avoid 9.6 OW but I buy 9.6 OW/W copies as placeholders all the time.  I haven't seen either of these two issues in 9.6 period, and I'm very thorough.

I assume these were your copies?

Understatement of the year. 

[namisgr]

Doctor Strange returns to the Bronze Age in his own solo series.  Barry Windsor-Smith (#s 3,4) and Mike Ploog (#5) cover art.

    

[Straw-Man]

my pursuit of books related to my having fallen in love with the wwbn flick continues!

Edited December 10, 2023 by Straw-Man

[batmiesta]

Coming up in the next Clink auction. 9.6, with that corner crease? 

[mr_highgrade]

On 11/13/2023 at 10:07 AM, batmiesta said:

Coming up in the next Clink auction. 9.6, with that corner crease? 

[namisgr]

On the other hand, the next CLink auction has this copy, too, which looks sweet for the assigned grade:

[Black_Adam]

On 11/13/2023 at 7:07 AM, batmiesta said:

Coming up in the next Clink auction. 9.6, with that corner crease? 

The spine also looks like it's been crushed by a press. I prefer my squarebounds square, like the 9.0 above. 

[namisgr]

On 11/14/2023 at 6:00 PM, Black_Adam said:

The spine also looks like it's been crushed by a press. I prefer my squarebounds square, like the 9.0 above. 

I think the spine text is visible because the cover is mis-wrapped back-to-front.  Notice that the copy has a right edge much closer to the Comics Code stamp and is missing some art along that edge compared to the 9.0 copy, suggesting it was likely cut that way at the time of production.

That's not to say that the 9.6 wasn't pressed, but if it was it's unlikely to have shifted the cover by that much.

Edited November 15, 2023 by namisgr

[namisgr]

Ant-Man returns to the Bronze Age in a series of solo stories.  Cover/interior art by Herb Trimpe.

    

[Warlord]

A few sweet recent additions!

[Ghost Town]

On 12/4/2023 at 3:29 PM, Warlord said:

few sweet recent additions!

Very sweet!

[batmiesta]

Latest Clink win. 

 

[ThothAmon]

[namisgr]

For the first time and for a couple issues, the Inhumans get their own solo book.  On the left is one of the few Marvels with November 1971 cover date that isn't a 25 cent giant-size ish.

   

Edited December 10, 2023 by namisgr

[Sweet Lou 14]

On 12/9/2023 at 7:02 PM, namisgr said:

For the first time and for a couple issues, the Inhumans get their own solo book.  On the left is one of the few Marvels with November 1971 cover date that isn't a 25 cent giant-size ish.

   

These are both extremely hard to find in high grade.  I finally got #10 in my target grade of 9.6 WP, and for #9 I bought a raw copy which later came back 9.4 OW/W.  I believe only two 9.6s exist in the census.