I decided to finish my What If...? Vol 1 set... and then... 1 1

[piper]

34 minutes ago, ThothAmon said:

 Tip of the proverbial What Ifberg. 
 

What a great first issue.

[RhialtoTheMarvellous]

1 hour ago, ThothAmon said:

 Tip of the proverbial What Ifberg. 
 

Whoa, dude. My #1 could use an upgrade if you're inclined and have something mint.

[FoggyNelson]

What If 

fun run to collect an read👍👍😷😷👍👍

[ThothAmon]

19 hours ago, RhialtoTheMarvellous said:

if you're inclined and have something mint.

At that level I like to have CGC confirm my grading before I sell. Eyes aren’t what they once were. Those squarebounds are tricky especially with Printer defects. Here’s a random one. 

 

[FoggyNelson]

Is What If available in the paperback style with the first twenty issues , volumes😷??

[bababooey]

1 hour ago, FoggyNelson said:

Is What If available in the paperback style with the first twenty issues , volumes😷??

For the original series it looks like there's a 4 volume trade paperback set that reprints all but issue 16 (presumably omitted for Fu Manchu copyright)  This MCS Link will show you what they look like.

[FoggyNelson]

7 minutes ago, bababooey said:

For the original series it looks like there's a 4 volume trade paperback set that reprints all but issue 16 (presumably omitted for Fu Manchu copyright)  This MCS Link will show you what they look like.

Thanks ‼️‼️ I will check them out , I always like what if scenarios 👍👍😷

[piper]

I wish they would do an omnibus.

[OtherEric]

On 8/23/2020 at 3:17 PM, bababooey said:

For the original series it looks like there's a 4 volume trade paperback set that reprints all but issue 16 (presumably omitted for Fu Manchu copyright)  This MCS Link will show you what they look like.

Did the story use some element from later Fu Manchu stories?  The first few are in the Public Domain, so the core elements should be safely usable.

[WernerVonDoom]

I just re-read What If #1. What a treasure trove for new readers.

• Introduces the Watcher
• Teases the Avengers, Invaders, Squadron Supreme, Deathlok, and Killraven
• Recaps origin of the Fantastic Four
• Recaps origin of Spider-Man
• Recaps Amazing Spider-Man #1
• Introduces the multi-verse
• Introduces J. Jonah Jameson, Chameleon, and Vulture
• Describes the events in FF #13 (Red Ghost, Blue Area of the Moon, Watcher)
• Describes the events in FF #14 (Sub-Mariner, Puppet Master)
• Describes the worst case of Stockholm Syndrome in comics

[RhialtoTheMarvellous]

On 8/21/2020 at 10:25 AM, ThothAmon said:

At that level I like to have CGC confirm my grading before I sell. Eyes aren’t what they once were. Those squarebounds are tricky especially with Printer defects. Here’s a random one. 

 

I tend to agree. The squarebound books are making me nutso. That What If...? #1 looks pretty damned good overall though. It has common problems that all of them have, but it's still very clean. Funny you mention the eyes, I got myself some reading glasses when I kept inspecting these things and realizing I wasn't able to see everything clearly.

List of squarebound common problems:

• The staples are slightly off center making the book hard to open all the way.
• The staples are showing somewhere through the book, either on the front or the back (IE: you can see metal). You can almost always see indents where the staples are located even if they aren't showing through.
• The spine is rolled one way or another, IE despite being "squarebound" they spine is almost never square.
  • A lot of times the spine itself is solid, but the outer cover is printed or bound off center making the spine labeling appear as if it is rolling over or that it is printed on the front or back of the cover.
• Covers are almost never consistently centered. You can find multiple different variations. The covers can be skewed up, down, left, right or rotated right or left or combinations thereof.
  • Related to the above, covers sometimes have total misses at the edges where there is no color, usually seems to be cut improperly.
• Cover edges are often crinkling due to excess overhang.
• Distributors ink overspray is often present.

This is probably one of my best condition books overall and it has several of the above issues to one degree or another.

Edited August 26, 2020 by RhialtoTheMarvellous

[RhialtoTheMarvellous]

This is my best #1. It has a small corner crunch at the top of the spine and there is chipping along the open side front cover edge that bothers me. Also has some non color breaking creases front and back. 

The chipping on the bottom back cover is another common thing for books of this era, I don't know if you get dinged on grade for it.