ITEM DESCRIPTION:: ---- magazine is flat, tight and complete with clean pages..... No cutouts, no pages or coupons are missing and everything is attached at the staples....I bought these mags new, carefully read them once and put them in a storage cabinet...This particular magazine was one of the best put out that was related to older comic books...They contain a lot of in depth information and glossy pictures...Most pages are black and white, with 8 pages of color in this issue, not counting covers....This mag is from the period that Gemstone  published with Russ Cochran as editor (new editor started with this issue, after Cary Carter resigned or was forced out??)..

---This particular issue features a lot of bronze age work of Steve Ditko... issue contains 84 pages counting covers, as it should..

---This mag was obtained via the mail when issued...Company mailed them out in unprotected envelopes....Has spine stress, corner bends and impact hits...This copy also has something that happened at the printer or in the postal system--has two heavy folds or bends that run from top to bottom---affects entire mag.........

---Economy shipping of 4.50 is media mail--good for one mag only...No combining..