- When the book is nice and pristine on the outside, and you find that the inside you got pages that got printer-pinched or something similar.
Agree with you on the damn bagged comics, but this one right here is the one that probably pisses me off more than anything. And not just from a collection stand-point, but as a damn reader in general for new comics. Any damn issues inside the issues kill me because I am not smart enough to look through my books when they first arrive, so anything that is going on wrong on the inside will not be seen by me for days, possibly weeks after I get the book. That makes it impossible to get credit on a damaged book.
My damn VELVET #1 hit me. I waited about 3 weeks to actually sit down and read it and when I did, almost half the pages were ripped from edge to halfway to staple. Only later did I find out that there were plenty more issues that had the same thing wrong with them.
Still didn't help me when I had to try to find another copy.
But yeah, creased in printing is even worse.
Had it happen to me on more than one occasion for sure. Hell, I had a fantastic issue of MARVEL-TWO-IN-ONE #5 ... or #6 (with Dr. Strange) when I was younger and it had that damn problem. Still pisses me off to this day.
Damn it, Glenn, you got me in a foul mood now thinking about those things.