And since I’m on the topic…I’ve pointed these out in my recent pickups. Two books from the IDW series that are decent flips if you find them in the wild.
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Which is why no one should ever go by what’s slapped on slab labels… it’s just a label and most of the time the only thing that’s accurate is they get the title and issue correct for he label, even the grades are more than likely “wrong” on most days… 
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A lot of people were up in arms with this sale, how a single cover could sell comparable to a low grade (1.0 or
Lower) completed copy.
But looking at the cover, it might be in the 3.0 range. May be able to marry it with a completer coverless interior, and in that way it’d be a 100% complete technically all original (i.e., no restoration). Coverless are not that expensive (maybe can acquire for under $200k?…can’t find any recent sales). I’d rather have that than a restored copy.
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$408k? I know of so many other things I could do with that type of money… Even if I was filthy rich with millions.
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Could say that about any $1 spent on a comic book, or piece of a comic book.
So your statement doesn’t mean much.
It’s parking wealth
It may be a good investment, if the plan is to create a complete/high grade “conserved” copy.
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For me, it’s like buying the bumper on a rare Ferrari… it’s still incomplete. I like my shit fully intact… tha’ts all!
And it does in terms of those who want their crap intact, not incomplete! Comparing $1 to $408k is well, like saying apples are almost like oranges… they’re both round, that’s about it!
I take it you’re not into fixer-uppers.
I don’t mind a project. Especially when the end result cost much less than what I would have paid for someone else to do it for me.
That’s not a fixer upper… but to each their own!
If the cover was way less, just saying, 408k is a lot of money for just the cover and yes, I would consider adding a cover to the insides that were not original to each other from the print press as considered “restored”…
Give me $408k and I can make a lot more money instead of trying to find the rest of the book to make it more valuable. This isn’t like you can just go picking parts from a junkyard, the chances of finding the rest of exactly what you need is nil to none more than likely.
But covers are typically printed separately than the interior pages than merged together.
Ok. You can feel that way, But you’re not the one who decides when it’s label time at CGC/CBCS. Buyers will listen to them before they listen to you. You know the game.
Still waiting for you to start Agent Poyo’s grading service though… 
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Can a coverless comic still be graded “Unread.”
Well, part of the manufacturing process. Each page is printed separately too. Just like car parts, made then assembled but if you replace a broken or missing part years later, it’s considered restoring right, since it wasn’t the original part when leaving the plant… 
If it’s an original part from another car of the same year/make/model, I don’t believe it’s restoration. How would you even know the difference unless it was painted and the part didn’t fade the same extent?
That’s why replacing original parts with original parts is better aligned with conservation tactics.
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I don’t know… just go by the effing definition of “restoration”… why argue about everything said?
Add another cover from a different book to add to one without a cover… sounds like you’re restoring it to me, maybe not to full original condition since you know, paper over time starts to deteriorate.
But the two parts are original. They have not been modified or altered in any way.
Anyway, I’m not here to argue with you. It doesn’t even matter because you and your opinion or Webster’s dictionary are a non-factor.
People don’t listen or look to you, or even me. They go by what the label tells them. The label would be conserved, if it even calls it that. It might just be a blue label with “married cover” noted with a grade. I can’t seem to find any example of just married…ever example I find with a married cover has other reinforcements made and called conserved grade.
FWIW I have a Tec 359 that displays amazingly, however it is missing the centerfold so it is a CGC 0.5. If I can ever land an OG centerfold by its lonesome or a beat to hell copy I’ll gladly have it added back in and re-slabbed. I’ll likely never sell it as it was a gift from my wife, I just want to protect it. Color of label, monetary value, and “collectible community” be damned.
That’s like changing out the tires or brakes!
@agentpoyo would call such things restored too. NOT ORIGINAL!!!