Origin of the Plasm 0 stand alone.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:24 pm

I asked Jim about this book and here is what he had to say.

Plasm #0 was all one print run. I think, besides the copies shipped to Diamond, some were stitched and trimmed for use by the River Group as a spiff for one of their trading card products. Therefore, we would have had some boxes of same sent to DEFIANT, as with any other book.

Also

Quebecor stitched them all and Diamond cut and glued them.

So every copy was a stand alone at one point before Diamond butchered them.

childres · Post by **childres** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:43 pm

That Diamond ruined them.

A question though, I understand trimming easily enough, but what does stiching refer to?

-Joe

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:50 pm

childres wrote: That Diamond ruined them.

A question though, I understand trimming easily enough, but what does stiching refer to?

-Joe

Don't really know. From the sounds of it stitching must be a normal part of the comic book production process.

Since Jim says the whole run was one printing all books were stapled. I'd have to pull it out but I think it's just one staple in the middle probably because they knew the books would be cut and glued.

childres · Post by **childres** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:09 pm

Thanks Della!

Also anybody know for what card project the River Group used their stand alones with?

Course. I guess with with the River Group there were so many gimmicks going on with cards that no one would remember. It is strange though that no more stand alones have shown up than what we can acount for. The known # is incredibly small.

-Joe

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:23 pm

Agreed on the number. When I asked Jim I told him how I was told it was a print run of twenty by the dealer who sold it to me. From the sounds of it there were cases of stand alones that Diamond didn't cut and glue. I've never seen another copy outside of the one I have.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:26 pm

childres wrote: That Diamond ruined them.

A question though, I understand trimming easily enough, but what does stiching refer to?

-Joe

Saddle Stitching is a folded and stapled spine, how most comics are put together.

dellamorte · Post by **dellamorte** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:42 pm

Thanks Woogie.

childres · Post by **childres** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:49 am

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:38 pm

interesting. I remember taking a boxcutter to my Previews in hopes of liberating Plasm #0 and gutting the thing like a fish.

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:54 am

Ryan wrote:interesting. I remember taking a boxcutter to my Previews in hopes of liberating Plasm #0 and gutting the thing like a fish.

Instead of removing the comic from the catalog, you needed to remove the catalog from the comic.

Russfoot · Post by **Russfoot** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:43 pm

Ryan wrote:interesting. I remember taking a boxcutter to my Previews in hopes of liberating Plasm #0 and gutting the thing like a fish.

LOL!!!! I did the same thing. I decided to "err on the side of caution" and ended up taking a good chunk of the Previews binding with it. And the first 3 or 4 pages still fell off.