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Post by shaxper on Jun 9, 2016 7:49:08 GMT -5
I've never given all that much thought to double covers. I know they are highly collectible to some, but they were never really on my radar one way or another until I was reading a run this week and discovered that I had TWO of them:   So I thought it was time to open up a discussion about double covers. I'd like to hear from people who collect them, people who just happen to have some, and people who have some insight as to how they happened. For example, it seems odd to me that I have purchased and owned over 10,000 comics over the years, and yet the first two double covers I've ever encountered were part of the same run. I bought a run of D.P.7 from the same collection (published at the same time by the same publisher), and none of those had double covers. So could double covers occur more frequently for specific runs, specific publishers, specifics eras, etc -- or is it just a roll of the die fluke? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 7:54:06 GMT -5
Shax, this is the first time that I ever heard of Double Covers and I haven't seen one yet and yet you provided two examples of them and I was shocked to see them.
I guess they are quite rare these days.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jun 9, 2016 8:28:20 GMT -5
I can snap a shot of it when I get home, but I have an issue of AvP: War that has two covers like that. It's the only one I've ran into 20+ years.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 9, 2016 12:49:20 GMT -5
A quick google search reveals at least one more double cover copy of Psi-Force #1, but not for any of the other New Universe imprint Marvel comics published during this time. So maybe this really was somehow a phenomenon specific to a single title. I realize there are MANY other examples of double covers in comic book history; I just mean that it would appear, based upon the little evidence I have to go on, that double covers were unusually more frequent with this title. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 9, 2016 13:10:32 GMT -5
I have a double-covered Iron Man #155. Here's hoping that a market develops for these things!!!
A weirder thing I once got was a comic with the wrong cover. I have a book with the cover of Conan the adventurer #2 and the inside of Classic Conan #2.
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Post by shaxper on Jun 9, 2016 13:13:33 GMT -5
There is a slight market for these. Some collectors do hunt them down and pay a premium for them, but it's a marginal number of people. A weirder thing I once got was a comic with the wrong cover. I have a book with the cover of Conan the adventurer #2 and the inside of Classic Conan #2. I wonder if that was someone tampering with the book post-publication. Maybe the original cover was damaged so they figured the substitute was good enough. It's not hard to bend back the staples and then bend them back into place. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 13:34:03 GMT -5
There is a slight market for these. Some collectors do hunt them down and pay a premium for them, but it's a marginal number of people. A weirder thing I once got was a comic with the wrong cover. I have a book with the cover of Conan the adventurer #2 and the inside of Classic Conan #2. I wonder if that was someone tampering with the book post-publication. Maybe the original cover was damaged so they figured the substitute was good enough. It's not hard to bend back the staples and then bend them back into place. No it was a printing error, more than half the initial print run of Conan the Adventurer had the wrong interiors (i.e. the press/factory that printed the bulk of the print run used the wrong interiors, a secondary press at another site had the correct interiors). Took me forever to find a copy that actually had Conan the Adventurer #2 inside the Conan the Adventurer cover. I remember buying it off the racks the first time as the series was coming out, and it had the wrong interiors, went back to the shop, their entire shipment had the wrong interiors as did about 3 other shops within driving distance. Never got a correct copy then. About a year ago, when I was filling in Conan back issues, I ordered a copy from Lonestar, it had the wrong interiors, as did the 4-5 copies I found at Half Price books. I didn't actually find a copy with the correct interiors until late last year-so the harder one to find is #2 with the correct interiors, not the wrong book. It was a pain to keep asking to open up the bag and check the interiors when buying it, but every time I didn't do so, I would up with a copy of Classics #2 on the inside. -M PS there is a former member who was big into collecting double covers, but she is no longer active on the site. |
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Post by MDG on Jun 9, 2016 14:00:40 GMT -5
The only double cover I have is on an issue of Cloak & Dagger (which I got out of a quarter bin due to water damage.)
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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jun 9, 2016 14:09:25 GMT -5
The copy of Kamandi #1 I bought off the newstand had a double cover. I had another comic with a double cover at one time but I forget what it was.
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Post by daverodriguez on Jun 9, 2016 14:12:38 GMT -5
I hope it's not taboo to mention this here, but there's a long, ongoing thread on another comic forum that has all kinds of examples of not just double covers, but triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc etc. Lots of graded examples are shown too, which is very interesting since each cover receives its own individual grade.
Would you guys like me to post a link?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2016 14:48:16 GMT -5
I hope it's not taboo to mention this here, but there's a long, ongoing thread on another comic forum that has all kinds of examples of not just double covers, but triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc etc. Lots of graded examples are shown too, which is very interesting since each cover receives its own individual grade. Would you guys like me to post a link? I would be very interested in seeing that ... please do! |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jun 9, 2016 14:56:21 GMT -5
I hope it's not taboo to mention this here, but there's a long, ongoing thread on another comic forum that has all kinds of examples of not just double covers, but triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc etc. Lots of graded examples are shown too, which is very interesting since each cover receives its own individual grade. Would you guys like me to post a link? More information is always a good thing. And welcome to the forum, daverodriguez! |
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Post by daverodriguez on Jun 9, 2016 15:02:21 GMT -5
I hope it's not taboo to mention this here, but there's a long, ongoing thread on another comic forum that has all kinds of examples of not just double covers, but triple, quadruple, quintuple, etc etc. Lots of graded examples are shown too, which is very interesting since each cover receives its own individual grade. Would you guys like me to post a link? More information is always a good thing. And welcome to the forum, daverodriguez! Thanks for the welcome! I actually joined CCF back on day one when the CBR boards got blitzed. I'm usually just lurking  The thread I was referring to is on the CGC forums, which appear to be down at the moment. I'll post the link as soon as the boards are back up. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 9, 2016 15:44:12 GMT -5
Yeah, there's an infamous comic over there on the CGC forums which is an copy of ASM #361 I think - first Carnage - that has 8 covers.  I've got a couple double covers somewhere, I'll see what I can dig up in terms of photos. |
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 9, 2016 15:47:37 GMT -5
A quick google search reveals at least one more double cover copy of Psi-Force #1, but not for any of the other New Universe imprint Marvel comics published during this time. So maybe this really was somehow a phenomenon specific to a single title. I realize there are MANY other examples of double covers in comic book history; I just mean that it would appear, based upon the little evidence I have to go on, that double covers were unusually more frequent with this title. It's possible that double covers could have been more frequent on specific titles due to how or where they were being printed. It happens when the collating machine grips multiple sheets instead of one and they get attached to the book. This would more likely happen with older presses, or possibly later in print runs? Just guessing on the latter, but I know for example that Silver Age issues of Strange Tales are notorious for having jagged edges instead of cleanly cut pages because it was the last book to come off the presses, and the cutter was dull by the time it was printed. The same kind of thing could theoretically be happening in some way or another with double covers. |
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