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Top left corner has a tiny line that can be dry cleaned.

Top right corner has about a 1/16” bend. This will flatten out and look nice.

Light dust shadow horizontally along the top right edge and another vertically along the bottom right side. This cannot be improved via dry cleaning.

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Top edge has a 1/16” overhang that is uneven. If the paper is all there, it can be flattened out and look even across.

The right side corners will look sharper as well.

1 spine break on Hawkeye’s leg will be smoothed out. Color break will still be visible.

Slight foxing along the spine and right side edges cannot be removed via dry cleaning.

This copy has nice cover color and gloss. No dry cleaning necessary as the white shows no dirt or wear.

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Top left corner is blunted and has a spine break and bend as if it was dropped at some point in it’s life.

3 more spine breaks: in the logo box, Klaw’s left arm, and Hawkeye’s leg. All of these will be smoothed out. The blunted corner will be a little sharper.

The right side corners will look sharper as well.

There is a dust shadow along half of the right side. This cannot be improved via dry cleaning.

This copy has nice cover color and gloss. No dry cleaning necessary as the white shows no dirt or wear.

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Top left corner is slightly chipped and blunted. Not much can be done here.

Bottom left corner has a small bit of wear, should sharpen up a tad.

Spine break at bottom staple on Hawkeye’s leg will be smoothed out.

Top right corner has about a ½” a overhang bend. This will flatten out and look nice.

The color breaks on the right side in Melter’s cape will smooth out.

Dry cleaning can be used to clean up the dirt accumulated in the color break from Melter’s cape in to the white.

Also, the bottom right corner appears to have some dirt which can be removed.

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