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Can anyone out there tell me why the top half of my rarest oldest batman book has been sliced off? No really Why are some golden age batman books missing the upper logo?
here is a sample of a book I found on ebay . I to have the same book missing this same piece .
they have made a nice photo copy to occupy the missing piece but what is the reason for this? Excuse my ignorance please
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| It's probably a newsstand return. Comics were distributed to newsstands on a sale or return basis. This may have been a way of indicating the comic had not sold rather than returning the full comic for pupling. Earl.
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Back then stores didn't actually "buy" the comics, and magazines, they were selling. Just the ones they "sold". The distributor didn't want the unsold comics back so stores would cut the top/logo off and return those with payment for full copies sold. Many stores would then write 5c on the remaining cover and try to get a nickel.
Very common to find GA books this way!
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| Interestingly enough...those store owners were under contract to destroy the remains...in return for sending the less expensive-to-ship cover parts... If you've ever visited a "jobber" or news agency warehouse...in the age of barcodes...the jobber would only have to scan the book and then it would go on a conveyour belt into an industrial shredding machine... When I managed for Waldenbooks...our comics came from a local jobber and we sent back whole copies (because they just picked up returns when they dropped off the new batch)...our magazines that did not come from the jobber, came from a national distributor who only required we rip off the cover and return those for credit. Most publishing houses work the same way with all sizes of paperbacks, also...Anything you got credit for was contractually required to be destroyed beyond recognition...
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The practice of jobbing or stripping still exists not so much for comics any more as specialty stores actually buy the books and resell them but most magazines and paperbacks that go unsold or become too damaged for to sell (or the odd recall). Get stripped. Most bookstores handle it themselves ... in fact I used to do it for paperbacks when I worked at a bookstore.
Likely the Mile High 2 collection and many other "warehouse" finds were just books that never made it to the stand or got destroyed.
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| because batman is dead...
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again?
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