Does your x men 266 look trimmed?

[Santos208]

I took my copy out the mylite and to my surprise it lookd really out of line when i flipped it over. The back cover looks curvy, at first i was sure it was trimmed, but im seeing the same thing on other copies listed on ebay, does your copy look funny as well? Is this common?

[eagleone-migration]

Mine is misaligned almost to the point that the Y in "uncanny" is about to be cut off. I thought it was trimmed but I've seen others like this. Gotta remember these things are manufactured quickly and were never meant to be worth what they are.

[CheeseFrog]

Have a pic?

[H0RR0RSH0W]

Since you guys mention it my Uncanny X-Men #266 is really badly aligned. I will have to dig it out.

[H0RR0RSH0W]

Found.

 

 

I guess I can take back the "badly" part of misaligned, but it would be nice to gain some insight as to whats going on with this books cover. You can see the red strip long the top edge of the cover. I have seen a few other like this.

 

Anybody else know whats going on? I can put up a bigger scan if anyone's got a comment.

[HarrisonJohn]

The cut of the cover artwork is off (UPC box so close to the bottom) so you are getting something else showing at the top that was cut the same time as this cover. I think there was once a thread here about what cover artwork pieces were showing on peoples badly cut books.

[H0RR0RSH0W]

I had not noticed that. It looks like a similar color tone to the clay/mud along the bottom so maybe its the bottom of another cover? It's just weird looking at it because if you look along the spine its pretty squarely wrapped.

 

It's almost as if the cover was printed a little crooked then bound slightly crooked in the other direction. Not that the printer had any control over it.

 

I think its an ugly book though. Probably why I only paid around $80 for it. I say it would grade around a 6.0.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

[Boboset]

This book is commonly seen with very poor vertical alignment. Check out Worldwide Comics inventory for a great selection of the differences that can be seen.

[HarrisonJohn]

This book was out at the same time with an all red bottom.

 

 

[HarrisonJohn]

Looking at the wwcomics examples, it looks like a thin red line and then white, so it wouldn't be the artwork from another cover, I guess.

 

http://images.wwcomics.com/images/large/X_266_95z.jpg

[H0RR0RSH0W]

Larger scan.

 

 

Interestingly it matches very closely the scan on one of the WWcomics shown.

[The Kaptain]

Looks fine to me. I have seen other Marvel books from the same era with much worse alignment and centering. It's a normal production defect.

[peakoilhater]

Here's mine. Never noticed but it looks a little cut off on the upper right.

 

Does this look in pretty good shape otherwise?

[peakoilhater]

sorry, here it is

[Santos208]

Yes that cut off is common with this book, I've seen a few where part of the title is cut in half, "THE UNCANNY" portion.

 

 

I was talking more about the back cover though, check this out.

This is not my book nor photo, pulled a random one from the bay.

 

 

 

 

 

See how the center of it looks like it is missing a big chunk?

 

I guess is common if CGC gaved it a 9.8

Had me worried though, think death strokes 1st app also has this problem.

[peakoilhater]

Just took at look at that and don't really see how the center is missing on the back cover.

 

Anyway, I was looking at the cgc census and see there are only 13 9.9s and 1153 9.8s.

 

Do you think I should slab this? Would be awesome to get a 9.8 or 9.9

[Santos208]

If is a potential 9.8 get it slabbed, more money to be made compares to selling as a raw NM/NM+ last i checked even gradee 9.2s were selling for more than NM raw copies, havent checkes recently though.

[fastballspecial]

Ive seen a lot of ugly cut copies of this book. Yours is much better then some I have seen.

 

[Couchy81]

Ive seen a lot of ugly cut copies of this book. Yours is much better then some I have seen.

 

Yea when I finally grabbed my copy I looked for one that was centered and well cut. If anything it will differentiate the book from the thousands of poorly cut copies out there. (not that cgc counts that in their grading. just on pure eye appeal)