Amazing Adventures #11 - Manufactured without top staple 0

[CGC ASM]

[theCapraAegagrus]

Cease through front cover?

[CGC ASM]

No crease at all

[James J Johnson]

1 hour ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

Cease through front cover?

If you mean the upturn, (slight roll) just to the right of the spine mostly evident at the top, that makes this a great pressing candidate as it will press right out. But the type of color-breaking fractures at the spine, the transverse stressing won't be mitigated by pressing. 

[Deadpoolica]

8.0

[theCapraAegagrus]

14 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

If you mean the upturn, (slight roll) just to the right of the spine mostly evident at the top, that makes this a great pressing candidate as it will press right out. But the type of color-breaking fractures at the spine, the transverse stressing won't be mitigated by pressing. 

No, there's some straight-line feature going thru the "A" in Beast and seemingly down the entire cover.

[James J Johnson]

5 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

No, there's some straight-line feature going thru the "A" in Beast and seemingly down the entire cover.

Down the body of the A and another line to the left of it, in between the E and A.   Print lines. This book is infamous for them and printing ink-smudges..

Edited August 20, 2020 by James J Johnson

[theCapraAegagrus]

7.5 IMO.

[mysterymachine]

7.5

[James J Johnson]

On 8/19/2020 at 9:46 AM, CGC ASM said:

 

 

 

I'll tell you, there's something very interesting about this book, and I think it has something to do with the absence of the staple! I've never seen an AA 11 that didn't have a gray smudge band soemwhere in the Beast's right hand finger area (sere the image below). This is the first time that I can say I've seen an 11 that was completely clean in that area, dark black, cleanly delineated by gray and white and yellow in that area without the usual smudge! 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Adventures-11-Marvel-Comics-1971-1st-app-New-Beast/173845212956?hash=item2879fb6f1c:g:vtAAAOSwA4dWH-iP

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Adventures-1972-11-F-VF-1st-appearance-of-Beast/174290319942?hash=item2894833a46:g:kuUAAOSw3wZext~x

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Amazing-Adventures-11-1972-marvel-First-furry-beast-x-men/174394238669?hash=item289ab4e6cd:g:1J0AAOSw6flfG43i  

 

etc., etc.   

All of the AA 11s that I can search on ebay have the smudge/streak on or around the same place, and seemingly always to the right of the staple, positioned at the same latitude! I've got to think that the absence of the staple is why this is the first one I ever recall seeing without the gray streak/smudge. 

 

 

[James J Johnson]

Absolutely. If they have the top staple, normally placed in production, that stapling process is what causes the smudges on all AA 11s: 

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Amazing+adventures+11&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&_udlo=&_udhi=&_ftrt=901&_ftrv=1&_sabdlo=&_sabdhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=11758-6572&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=1&_sop=1&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1