Is this a real comic?

[Red Oak Kid]

On another thread, LR mentioned in passing, X-Men 135. I wasn't familiar with this issue, so I went to the GCD to look at it.

Here is a link to their scan of this cover.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=34555&zoom=4

Is this an actual cover, like a variant, or Whitman edition or maybe a British edition? Or has the scan been modified with photoshop or something?

[scratchie]

On another thread, LR mentioned in passing, X-Men 135. I wasn't familiar with this issue, so I went to the GCD to look at it.

Here is a link to their scan of this cover.

http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=34555&zoom=4

Is this an actual cover, like a variant, or Whitman edition or maybe a British edition? Or has the scan been modified with photoshop or something?That's the real cover. Are you referring to the fact that the price is missing? I would guess it's some sort of non-standard-distribution version.

[MichikoS]

That's the real cover. Are you referring to the fact that the price is missing? I would guess it's some sort of non-standard-distribution version.scratchie, it's more than just the price that's missing. The barcode box is completely blacked out, and, most importantly, the MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner across the top of the cover is missing! It's a doctored cover, but I don't know its source.

Michi

[InfoBroker]

Ah Hah! I see you were curious about Kat's line of demarcation for Jean Grey's bodily proportions as well...

I too was suspicous of what this was a scan of when I saw it last night.

My conclusions is that somebody (yet again) scanned in the cover from the Marvel Masterworks reprint instead of from the originally printed comic.

Observations:

The entire drawn cover is present, nothing is being cropped from the side or top and bottom. The printed comics, when trimmed would have dropped about an 1/8th of an inch or so.

This is a touchup of the newstand edition with the 40 cent price tage removed at the top and the bar code blacked out. It is not a touch up of the direct sales versions. Those had a diamond black border around the price and the barcode was replaced with a Spidey head and shoulder icon.

The coloring mixing of the background doesn't quite give with the green to yellowish-green gradation of the printed copies either.

Might be that it is one of the comics that came in the J.C. Penny X-men package that was distributed in their stores circa 1994. But those still would have had some trimming done on them as well.

-jb the (greatly prefers the original comic being scanned and stored on GDC) ib-

[InfoBroker]

And now that I think about it, I am scratching the notion that it might be one of the JC Penny comics. The silver-age batches I bought for my sons included the orginal cover prices. Unless they did something different for the X-men batches.

Maybe this thing sold with one of the many Toy Biz action figures of the last ten years or so.

-jb the postulating ib-

[scratchie]

the MARVEL COMICS GROUP banner across the top of the cover is missing! Oh, that old thing! :rolleyes:

[Jolly Mon]

And now that I think about it, I am scratching the notion that it might be one of the JC Penny comics. The silver-age batches I bought for my sons included the orginal cover prices. Unless they did something different for the X-men batches.

Maybe this thing sold with one of the many Toy Biz action figures of the last ten years or so.

-jb the postulating ib-
I don't think it came with any of the Marvel Legends. I have most of the X-Men figures, and it didn't come with any of them. Plus the only one it logically would have come with was Phoenix (since the central figure on the cover was Dark Phoenix), and that came with X-Men # 101.

[Red Oak Kid]

Ah Hah! I see you were curious about Kat's line of demarcation for Jean Grey's bodily proportions as well...
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This gives me an idea for a new thread:

What would Kat think of These?

Then people could post scans of Image comics covers.:evilsmile

[InfoBroker]

I don't think it came with any of the Marvel Legends...

Yea I had a feeling that was a stretch. Thanks for confirming.

-jb the (still leaning towards it being a Masterworks scan) ib-

[InfoBroker]

This gives me an idea for a new thread:

What would Kat think of These?

I've been trying to keep a low profile with Kat after my review of this comical book. (http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showpost.php?p=1795571&postcount=707)

But your comments have me twitchy to search out another issue of Collector's Confidential Diary Maybe one with a story featuring my evil twin (hey Mike!).

'Course it would mean having to slog through another installment of "Silver-Age Secrets" Not sure I can stomach anymore of that doctor's writings.

-jb the (so how are those nose plugs holding out?) ib-

[Rob Allen]

I've emailed gcd-errors about the cover. They'll probably mark it for replacement.

[Rob Allen]

Just got a reply from a member of the GCD error squad. He deleted the cover. The time stamp on his message was exactly 23 minutes after I sent my message. That's pretty good response time!

Note - the link in ROK's post still works, but if you look up that issue's credits or look at the cover gallery, the cover no longer shows up.

Also note - I don't have any special pull. Anybody can send an email to gcd-errors@lists.comics.org to report something like this.

[Red Oak Kid]

I've also emailed them about errors and gotten amazingly fast responses.