Chicago Boy Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 51 minutes ago, woowoo said: Ok send me your Tec 27 and I make time payments Your Tec 27 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 5, 2019 33 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said: Your Tec 27 I really really want another copy. I had a coverless copy years ago and a coverless Batman 1 and a vg missing back cover. I had to trade the coverless Tec 27 and my coverless Bat 1 along with the VG Bat 1 missing back cover just to get more books I had a Superman 1 missing back cover VG shape all these book's I was told Not worth restoring. The only book that No one wanted was my Action 13 missing piece back cover I still got the book thru it on the bottom of a pile Golden age beat books that no one wanted. AJD, szucchini, Primetime and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedude Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 2 hours ago, woowoo said: That's what I said read above IMO i would say its a lot rarer and I would prefer a copy without the Dot So to me Ya Next time I will have to give you a DOT I was agreeing with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 1 minute ago, thedude said: I was agreeing with you! O had a few sorry mr Obadiah Stane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluechip Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said: Ok forgive my ignorance, but if I’m understanding you correctly, these early images of the upcoming issue are called “house ads”? And in the case of Bat 1, the advance advertising (house ads) on other books showed the Batman 1 cover with a colored dot/period. i guess if Timely can drop Stalin, it’s easy for DC to drop or alter a period. thank you for your patience Yes, they were called House Ads. And they often had small differences, due to the production process. Dropping Stalin was a choice, not an accident. The ad shown has the Bat 1 cover with blue text at the top, which was not used on any printings I know of, so it's either a mistake, or it was thrown together with elements that weren't final, or they might originally intended it to be blue. There's no way of knowing. But there's no scenario that makes sense which has the printer's looking at the copies coming off with a dot (for "No." meaning "number") and then deciding, late in the print run, to remove the dot for the few remaining copies. I understand that the majority of people who have copies with a dot would prefer it that way, hence the rather concerted efforts to work backward from that conclusion. But it makes no more sense than to say the November copies of Marvel I came first or that the Superman 1 printings with the ads showing later dated books came first. I don't care much about whether the earliest printings are considered to be worth more, but I do feel there's a danger that if folks from outside the hobby hear of such counter-intuitive arguments, they may conclude that we are a silly people. Edited January 5, 2019 by bluechip GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) I got this add that is wrong from the printed copy. From house add in More Fun 16 Edited January 5, 2019 by woowoo GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) @GreatCaesarsGhost Now you have something new to collect ( House adds ) Look at this beauty from Detective 15 and Action 12 @GreatCaesarsGhost I give you something to do today what's this house add from ? Edited January 5, 2019 by woowoo GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhcomics Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 This is one of 2 pages I have in my collection. szucchini and GreatCaesarsGhost 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 8 minutes ago, lhcomics said: This is one of 2 pages I have in my collection. You got the 1st app of Batman That's a keeper lhcomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr bla bla Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 16 hours ago, woowoo said: All I got. The dot was there already in the pre-production phase. And was subsequently removed at some point during production/ printing. At least that seems the more plausible scenario. But I suspect we'll never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Boy Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, lhcomics said: This is one of 2 pages I have in my collection. Action 12. Tec 27. Same back cover. Learned that from Wayne - Tec Edited January 5, 2019 by Chicago Boy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 3 hours ago, woowoo said: @GreatCaesarsGhost Now you have something new to collect ( House adds ) Look at this beauty from Detective 15 and Action 12 @GreatCaesarsGhost I give you something to do today what's this house add from ? WooWoo thanks for doing all this. I’m away from the house today, but I would go look in Overstreet Guide at early Actions. My guess is this house ad was in one of them, and that Overstreet notated it. am I close? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 21 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said: WooWoo thanks for doing all this. I’m away from the house today, but I would go look in Overstreet Guide at early Actions. My guess is this house ad was in one of them, and that Overstreet notated it. am I close? Yup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 27 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said: Action 12. Tec 27. Same back cover. Learned that from Wayne - Tec Action 12 is May 1939 from my copy Chicago Boy, Ltpink2002 and lhcomics 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluechip Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) 3 hours ago, Mr bla bla said: The dot was there already in the pre-production phase. And was subsequently removed at some point during production/ printing. At least that seems the more plausible scenario. But I suspect we'll never know. This ad is not necessarily from the "pre-production" process of the actual cover; it could have been created after the cover was printed or prior to it. Or at the same time. Sometimes after Tec 37 went to press they went into high gear shifting stories around so they could create Batman 1 from the Tec inventory and a lot of things ended up inconsistent. The story teased in Tec 37 for the next issue was wrong, and the story ended up in Batman 1. As did the story intended for Tec 40. They moved that story but neglected to change the cover, which was was clearly intended for the Joker story. There clearly was chaos, as there often is, thus we have many examples of covers existing in various states in house ads. In this ad, all of the blue text is different, so the version in this ad was never actually used in any printing that I know of (until a "blue number" copy appears). But in all the books I've seen with various states, I've never heard of someone doing something like removing a dot late in a print run, making the cover text more confusing. I don't suspect I ever will hear of it because it would defy logic. Any presumption to that effect, without a logical and plausible reason, is violating Occam's razor and working backward from a desired conclusion. At least that's what Spock said when he sold me his copy Edited January 5, 2019 by bluechip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicdonna Posted January 5, 2019 Share Posted January 5, 2019 The dot was in the wrong spot. I believe that has something to do with there being 2 versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Boy Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 2 hours ago, comicdonna said: The dot was in the wrong spot. I believe that has something to do with there being 2 versions. Only the Worlds Greatest Detective could figure this out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 23 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said: Only the Worlds Greatest Detective could figure this out Charlie Chan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woowoo Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 9 minutes ago, GreatCaesarsGhost said: Charlie Chan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicdonna Posted January 6, 2019 Share Posted January 6, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, woowoo said: @GreatCaesarsGhost I give you something to do today what's this house add from ? I bought a coverless copy of this book to read. Edited January 6, 2019 by comicdonna GreatCaesarsGhost 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...