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RANDOM QUESTIONS

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Heronext

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Questions keeping me up at night:

 

1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

2. How do you identify a married cover?

 

3. How do you identify a Canadian edition? Of particular interest to me are 40s/50s Standards.

 

4. I thought I read once that Action Comics #1 (the 1938 one) went to presses twice. I can't find the source now. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

Thank you

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DiceX

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1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

A: No. I peed on it.

 

2. How do you identify a married cover?

 

A: It's miserable and can't wait to go to work every day.

 

3. How do you identify a Canadian edition? Of particular interest to me are 40s/50s Standards.

 

A: They smell of beer and pine trees.

 

4. I thought I read once that Action Comics #1 (the 1938 one) went to presses twice. I can't find the source now. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

A: That was Superman #1. Not AC #1.

 

You're welcome.

 

 

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AnastasiasCollect

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1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

A: No. I peed on it.

 

2. How do you identify a married cover?

 

A: It's miserable and can't wait to go to work every day.

 

3. How do you identify a Canadian edition? Of particular interest to me are 40s/50s Standards.

 

A: They smell of beer and pine trees.

 

4. I thought I read once that Action Comics #1 (the 1938 one) went to presses twice. I can't find the source now. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

A: That was Superman #1. Not AC #1.

 

You're welcome.

 

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jimjum12

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Questions keeping me up at night:

 

1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

2. How do you identify a married cover?

 

3. How do you identify a Canadian edition? Of particular interest to me are 40s/50s Standards.

 

4. I thought I read once that Action Comics #1 (the 1938 one) went to presses twice. I can't find the source now. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

Thank you

1....Yellow cover stock on RM books is not typical

2.....The staples are removed and then reinserted. They won't line up with the staple grooves at the centerfold

3.....Canadian prints are sometimes identified as such in the indicia. The ads and/or numbering may be different.

4.....Many early GA issues had second printings(those that sold unusually well)....some marked, some not.

5.....WTTBs

.....GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus) (thumbs u

 

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1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

A: No. I peed on it.

 

2. How do you identify a married cover?

 

A: It's miserable and can't wait to go to work every day.

 

3. How do you identify a Canadian edition? Of particular interest to me are 40s/50s Standards.

 

A: They smell of beer and pine trees.

 

4. I thought I read once that Action Comics #1 (the 1938 one) went to presses twice. I can't find the source now. Does anyone know if this is the case?

 

A: That was Superman #1. Not AC #1.

 

You're welcome.

 

:roflmao:

 

+1

 

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goldust40

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2.....The staples are removed and then reinserted. They won't line up with the staple grooves at the centerfold

 

3.....Canadian prints are sometimes identified as such in the indicia. The ads and/or numbering may be different.

 

2. Also the cover of the book is usually of a much superior quality to the interior of the book (quite often married books have unused covers left over from printers).

 

3. I might add that (at least in the case of E.C.s) Canadian printings used inferior paper stock.

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Questions keeping me up at night:

 

1. I purchased a bronze age Rocky Mountain book recently. It was 9.8/WP but the back cover was pretty badly yellowed. Is this typical of this pedigree?

 

Hows about postin' one of them picture thingies so's we can see what you mean hoss?

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