This is absolutely just a reading copy - heavily tattered around the edges, the cover is just barely attached at the bottom staple and detached at the top staple, there's staining from previous amateur tape repair, etc, but the book is complete, and hey, it's Avengers #1!  With more movies on the horizon, I suspect that now is the time to buy this book.  But to be perfectly frank, I hope you don't... it's Avengers #1 fer chrissake.  

I have to be honest and say that I have wanted to own this comic since I was a kid flipping through one of the early Overstreet guides at our local library back in the 1970s (thinking it was a catalog that I could buy from and planning out my lawn mowing schedule to be able to buy the books I lusted after), so I am not in a hurry to see this one go.  I've priced it fairly compared to what other low-grade copies have recently sold for on eBay, but still... don't buy this book.  

I'll be polite if you do, but really, it'll just make me cranky, and my wife will fuss at me for being cranky, my kids will wonder why Dad is cranky, and our whole household will be plunged into turmoil, and what good is that?  It's not cheap, and you should really just wait for a nicer copy I think, something investment grade.  

We will also soon be listing reader copies of AF 15, JLA 1, Hulk 1, etc.  But don't buy those either.

Nuff said!