For sale today is the rare and out-of-print (oop) Marvel Comics trade paperback (tpb)/graphic novel X-Force (Volume 3): Ends/Means by Simon Spurrier and Tan Eng, published in 2015. It's from the Marvel NOW! run.
  • Collects X-Force (2014 4th Series) #11-15. Written by Simon Spurrier. Art by Tan Eng and Rock-He Kim. Fantomex's compulsion to be The Best has caused him to turn on his former teammates! Can a squad of killers hope to escape science's perfect living weapon? Fantomex begins a murderous rampage, taking out each and every one of the world's secret intelligence agencies, working his way closer to X-Force. Knowing the confrontation is inevitable, Cable and his team ready themselves for the fight of their lives. And as X-Force learns the true identity of the villain they have been pursuing for months, Cable hatches one last scheme - and the fate of Hope Summers is revealed! In the final showdown with Fantomex, X-Force will give everything they have to defeat their power-mad teammate-turned-adversary. And in the end, not everyone will emerge unscathed!


I am not an official comics grader, but I try to be as thorough as possible when assessing books for any flaws. I don't believe in using a number grade system - to me they are mostly utilized as a method to be ambiguous about exact condition and/or individual imperfections - but I do attempt to describe anything other than minor cover shelf-scuffing/scratching in detail. If a certain flaw discussed below does not mention that it affects inside pages, then it does not.


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This copy is in good overall condition but decent externally, with a solid spine and very good inside pages (photo#12 example). It does have numerous signs of external wear, although most of the flaws are lighter in severity and mainly affect its externals.


**Photo#4: 
-Upper spine corner: Light indent around it, small peel/scuff where it meets back cover.
-Lower spine corner: Moderate peeling around it, leading to small tears where it meets each cover - front's also causes an adjacent ~1.5" diagonal crease (photo#9 w/illumination), back's has a lighter ~1/2" one. Nearby retailer's remainder ink mark on external page edge.

**Photo#5: 
-Front cover top edge: Some lighter scuffing along most of the edge, with an adjacent light ~1/2" cover crease/depression nearby the middle.
-Outer corner: Moderate but small crease/scuff/bend, goes thru 3 pages as a corner fold, and all as an indent/bend.

**Photo#6:
-Front cover bottom edge: 2 small scuffs/indents towards spine corner, otherwise light levels of shelf-scuffing along it. 
-Outer corner: Light ~1/2" indent around corner. Small crease/scuff/bend at extreme corner, goes thru ~1/5 pages as a light indent, and thru ~3/4 as a light bend. 

**Photo#7: 
-Back cover top edge: Two ~1/2" scuffs/indents towards spine corner. ~1" scuff near outer corner that causes adjacent light ~1" cover crease, shows on 1 page.
-Outer corner: ~1" indent around corner from front cover's crease.

**Photo#8:
-Back cover bottom edge: Small scuff/adjacent light ~1/2" cover indent near edge's middle, with otherwise light shelf-scuffing if any.
-Outer corner: Nearby light ~1/2" crease. Corner itself has a small crease/scuff/bend, goes thru ~1/4 pages as a light bend.

**Additionally: Front cover's spine edge has 3 small indents at its middle. ~1" vertical indent/depression at cover's lower half (photo#9 w/illumination), shows lightly on ~10 pages. Light vertical ~2" indent nearby the page edge, shows on ~3 pages. 2 small depressions around cover's center, with a nearby light ~1/2" crease/depression. Two light ~3/4" indents around bottom outer corner (photo#10 w/illumination). Back cover possesses a light ~2" scratch near the bottom edge (photo#11 w/illumination). Small depression near the page edge. Some light shelf-scuffing/scratching around the cover. Book has a light bottom outer quadrant flex/bend.

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