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The only pulp I own... I wonder if they will get around to grading "bedsheets" one day. Not that it matters until the encapsulation department and quality control gets their together.

SPAWN FAN EDITION 2 - CGC 9.8 Nordic Spawn? Yeah. I'm down with that. Nothing wrong with a little Fimbulvetr.

SPAWN 1 FAN EDITION - GOLD FOIL VARIANT - CGC 9.8 I wanted to say this is a tough one, but there are way more on the census than I thought. There are ten of these now, including this copy.

Hmmm... well...I guess the best answer is... NOT ENOUGH.

Your wish is my command! We will start with the Wizard Fan Editions.

DRUM ROLL! 14 months later and we are finally at the end of the regular series run! I stopped at 275 because I didn't have the juice to keep going until 300, which was the original goal. The variant game killed me. Looking at the registry, I'd say I was fairly prescient. TONS of variants. When do variants cease to be special? When do they become meaningless? WHEN THEY HAPPEN EVERY ISSUE. Take this final book, for example. Trust me when I tell you that I had many ears on the ground and eyes in the sky. I still didn't learn about this con special UNTIL THE CON STARTED, and I was halfway across the country at the time. Thankfully I was able to pull some last minute strings and bagged this copy. We are going out with a Todd McFarlane sig, folks. From this point, you're going to see some very, very interesting and obscure books in the Spawn Universe. I don't know where to begin, so it may seem kind of random from here on out. You never know what you might see... My registry is now publicly obscured, so don't bother looking. SPAWN 275 - AMAZING CON VARIANT - SIGNED BY TODD MCFARLANE - CGC 9.8

Great job in answering exactly 0% of my questions.

SPAWN 275 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 One more variant left in the main title collection! We will wrap up this part of the collection tomorrow before moving on to various odds and ends.

SPAWN 275 - CGC 9.8 Brutally difficult book early on because of a manufacturer flaw. I've blown up the impacted section of the front cover under the handle of the scythe. This is on every single copy that I've ever encountered. I think that the CGC finally wised up to this after seeing it so consistently. Seems like they overlooked it by the time I bought this copy. I had been self-subbing for a while at this point, but I always got 9.6s on this issue. I bought this graded copy several months after the release. Honestly a tough book to submit raw. Just find a graded copy. A cursory glance at the copies on eBay all showed the same flaw. It's not part of the artwork. It's a rub and sometime presents as an rub AND indention. I even saw one eBayer who appeared to have touched up the flaw in Paint or Photoshop. Just be on the lookout folks!

SPAWN 274 VARIANT - CGC 9.8 At last...tomorrow we begin looking at the very last numerical issue along with a few of its variants, and that will be that for the regular run!

SPAWN 274 - CGC 9.8

SPAWN 273 VARIANT - CGC 9.8

1. Those offices look neater than the ones in Sarasota. 2. Needs less ties. More neckbeards.

SPAWN 273 - CGC 9.8 Yep. Another cover artist with whom I'm unfamiliar. Ramon Nunez. Nice work! Again, keeping with the vibe.

How, exactly, does this happen? Looks more like a manufacturing defect than handling. I mean, it seems like the CGC never had this many issues with encapsulation in the past. They have apparently hired a crew of drunken chimpanzees to encapsulate our books - one of the most critical and important steps in the entire grading process. I have totally lost faith in submitting now. Too many horror stories dealing with encapsulation.

Not all keys, but certainly in demand. Consider Frank Frazetta or Matt Baker. I mean, I would consider their first works to be "important" but that's just me. There will always be contention about what makes a key and what does not. If we really want to get silly, let's talk about "semi-keys."

ASTONISHING copy!

SPAWN 272 VARIANT - CGC 9.8

Sweet! This is the first RC Ped. that I've ever seen.

SPAWN 272 - CGC 9.8 First appearance of The Soul Crusher. Really dig this cover.

I used the word "popular" only once in my original post, to describe the Walking Dead and why many consider it a key. Would you disagree if I revised the statement to "important" and if so, on what grounds? The book is a key on multiple levels. Do you disagree?

I suppose we speak different languages, then. Or perhaps you're being unnecessarily stubborn? You provided me with a dictionary definition: essential; central; important: I gave you several scenarios in which a comic would meet that definition. You also posted an image that more or less outlined the same scenarios. I consider our current discourse quite bewildering. At this point, you can count me out. I believe I've made my point clear. As for you? Not so much.

SPAWN 271 VARIANT - CGC 9.8

SPAWN 271 - CGC 9.8 Ashley Wood back in the house! Nice to see some proper atmosphere after a few years of poorly drawn Saturday morning cartoons.

I gave my definition for keys. What is yours?