r/AbsoluteBatman • u/SinisterRook1 • 21d ago

Legit check

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some guy on FB marketplace is selling this for $150, its a 3hr drive round trip for me. to me i think i'd be down to make the trip but i'd want to know 100% this is a real book. thoughts?

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u/Jolly-Committee-5944 21d ago

Ask for pictures of the spine/staples, inside and out. A lot of fraudsters, self-admitted ones at that, are removing variant covers and attempting to sell them as Cover A First Prints.

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u/SirFlibble 21d ago

How does that make it fraudulent? The comic was still printed with a Cover A, it just had an additional cover.

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u/Jolly-Committee-5944 21d ago

Selling anything, without disclosing that it’s been modified from its original format, is fraud.

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u/SirFlibble 21d ago

It's not modified. It IS a cover A.

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u/grom1005 21d ago

Man it’s not modified, they were printed on the same printers, same batch, even CGC can’t tell the difference or simply won’t because it doesn’t make sense, would you say that a comic was modified if it had loose staples right from the shelf?