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What did the werid comic reader or owner do their comic book?

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JollyComics

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Recently acquired first volume of Dr. Strange collection, I found #1 has two tapes over the staples. Checked if the cover was detached. No, the cover is still attached. Flipped through pages. I was so puzzled by the Marvel Stamp was taped around it then the tapes went on to the edge of the page. The MVS is fully intact and is never cut. :screwy:

 

The collection has nearly every issue with direct, newsstand and UK edition.

 

I find this person was so quirk to this collection. Do you have the strange experience with your recent purchases or acquired collections?

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fiendish

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I found a collection of Cherry Poptarts had the pages glued together. Guess it was to keep the comic from creasing? (shrug)

 

After decades, I'll confess that I went through a brief period of mutilating my comic books.

 

As a kid in the mid-70s, what annoyed me about reading Marvels was you'd get two facing pages of story and artwork (yay!) followed by two facing pages of ads (boo!). So I took a bottle of rubber cement and GLUED THE AD PAGES TOGETHER, so that I only had beautiful story pages to look at when I flipped through the book. This became laborious over time, so I stopped. I haven't yet found any of these poor glued books as I've been combing through and selling off this year. When I do, I'll post a photo, because awful.

 

My DCs were worse. DC at the time, iirc, had their ads stitched into the story, so that you'd HAVE to look at the ads while you read the content. (In retrospect, they were obviously training us for web sites.) But in order to do this, the ads wound up being printed on the same sheet of paper: front and back straddling the centerfold. So I would carefully loosen the staple, lift out all but the cover and first interior pages, then pull out all the sheets with the ads. I'd then put the remaining content pages back in the book, re-bend the staple in place, and voila!: a thinner, but ad-free book. (In retrospect, I should have a patent on ad-blocking.) As a result, whenever I list any mid-70s DCs, I have to make extra careful it's not one of my OO books that I mutilated.

 

Thanks for reading. My soul seems lighter now.

 

 

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HouseofComics.Com

HouseofComics.Com

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Had an issue of Donald Duck Learns About Kites where someone had used yarn to repair the spine, really nicely. Or reinforce the spine, in sort of an art project, book-mending sort of way.

 

Have an issue of Batman 181 where, during the height of Bat-Mania, a kid had taken a giant Batman sticker and what better place for it than sticking it on an ad page in his Batman comic. Takes up almost the full page but man, stickers don't age well, It mostly disintegrated into a yellow mess and got all over the facing ad page too. Gives the whole book a heavy, messed up feeling.

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Prince Namor

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I found a collection of Cherry Poptarts had the pages glued together. Guess it was to keep the comic from creasing? (shrug)

 

After decades, I'll confess that I went through a brief period of mutilating my comic books.

 

As a kid in the mid-70s, what annoyed me about reading Marvels was you'd get two facing pages of story and artwork (yay!) followed by two facing pages of ads (boo!). So I took a bottle of rubber cement and GLUED THE AD PAGES TOGETHER, so that I only had beautiful story pages to look at when I flipped through the book. This became laborious over time, so I stopped. I haven't yet found any of these poor glued books as I've been combing through and selling off this year. When I do, I'll post a photo, because awful.

 

My DCs were worse. DC at the time, iirc, had their ads stitched into the story, so that you'd HAVE to look at the ads while you read the content. (In retrospect, they were obviously training us for web sites.) But in order to do this, the ads wound up being printed on the same sheet of paper: front and back straddling the centerfold. So I would carefully loosen the staple, lift out all but the cover and first interior pages, then pull out all the sheets with the ads. I'd then put the remaining content pages back in the book, re-bend the staple in place, and voila!: a thinner, but ad-free book. (In retrospect, I should have a patent on ad-blocking.) As a result, whenever I list any mid-70s DCs, I have to make extra careful it's not one of my OO books that I mutilated.

 

Thanks for reading. My soul seems lighter now.

 

 

This scares me.

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Ken Aldred

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I bought a copy of Marvel Presents, one of the GOTG issues, which had a pupa and hatched insect inside it. Should've checked the book for defects while I was in the shop.

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