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  1.    HotKey reacted to a post in a topic: ASM 300 Spain Production Error discovered
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    I worked in printing for about 20 years starting in the 90s. My suspicion here is due to the heavy black coverage on this cover, there were two black plates of varying screen percentages. It would be very hard to maintain that heavy black Spidey in the center on a single plate without starving the press of black ink below it (or, alternately, having too much black ink above it). You could do it with a double hit. I suspect one of the black plates did not have the proper knockout. In this image, you can see a little of the white web knockout in the black; if it were a straight black overprint you wouldn't see any of it. So one black plate had the knockout and the other didn't. I also suspect if you look at this area with a loupe, you'd see the dot pattern on that partially covered web knockout.
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    FTFY
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    I feel like I'm looking through the 'ripened fruit' section of the supermarket but anyway...
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    Take
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    all three coverless Atlas, please
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  19.    do-boy99 reacted to a post in a topic: Rob Liefeld is retiring
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    It's not Vertigo, but I always considered Piranha Press as its sister imprint. Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children was top notch!
  22.    PopKulture reacted to a post in a topic: Rob Liefeld is retiring
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    as per PM
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    Resurrecting this older thread with some background info for you. Abraxas #1 is actually a reprint of Walt's first comic, which was indeed called The Outsiders. The inside front cover of your magazine is a modified version of the original's back cover, which is where it's identified as The Outsiders. The first issue was published in 1971, the second in 1972. Abraxas #1 was published between the two issues. The original comics are much smaller than Abraxas, something like 6"x9". Source: I have both comics, and I was also friends with the writer, Gerry Boudreau, who also did work for DC, Gold Key, and Warren in the 70s. I also have a mimeographed promotional flyer Rickey Shanklin created for the magazine.
  26.    stock_rotation reacted to a post in a topic: Bird R.I.P.
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    Isn't this exactly what comic dealers do if they accept wantlists? If I send [dealer] my wantlist, and there's a high value book on the list, [dealer] is going to find [owner], mark the price up and offer it to me. If I agree to the price, I pay [dealer], who then pays [owner]. [Owner] ships the book to [dealer], [dealer] ships the book to me. I'm paying [dealer] to do the legwork that I didn't want to or couldn't do myself. There's nothing scummy about that.