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PGM Fantastic Four #35

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vaillant

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This would be a pretty nice book, but the front cover has a long vertical reading crease close to the spine (not always breaking color, but I think you can see it in the scan). Some spine wear, minimal creases here and there, but is solid.

Also, pretty nice paper (pages are OWW tending to W).

 

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Thanks in advance! (thumbs u

 

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Here’s another copy, which does not have big defects. Most can be seen in the scan, some minor creasing on the back cover. (thumbs u

This one has nice paper as well, but some of the insides are not printed with the same quality of the above (a few pages have off-register color plates) so I am undecided on which one to keep… hm

 

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I agree really nice books and must for FF fans, that can actually be said from about #30 up to the end of the silver age. (thumbs u

BTW I think your other 2 books are going to fall into pretty much the same grade IMO, maybe .5 higher.

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The other books in hand look definitely worse than this one: cover crumpling (here there is very little, aside from the long crease), and general wear. Without that crease this would be easily in the FN++ range.

But thanks! (thumbs u

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The one with the nicer page quality is the first, but there is really very little difference: both are closer to White than to Off-White.

Problem for me is always the inconsistent quality of the printing: the second copy is obvioulsy overall better, but it has a few pages with some off-register plates and this puts me off… :(

That is the same problem that I have with other books, like the #36, of which I kept also a VGFN copy because it‘s printed greatly in the insides.

 

@Fin: Actually the corners are very nice in the second copy and although centering may seem a bit better in the first one, there is some miswrap at an angle: the second is more "in square". :)

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The one with the nicer page quality is the first, but there is really very little difference: both are closer to White than to Off-White.

Problem for me is always the inconsistent quality of the printing: the second copy is obvioulsy overall better, but it has a few pages with some off-register plates and this puts me off… :(

That is the same problem that I have with other books, like the #36, of which I kept also a VGFN copy because it‘s printed greatly in the insides.

 

@Fin: Actually the corners are very nice in the second copy and although centering may seem a bit better in the first one, there is some miswrap at an angle: the second is more "in square". :)

 

Sounds like you have already decided on the second one (thumbs u , hard to tell this close when not in hand.

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