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Never knew about those, thanks. Unfortunately none of the dropdown links in that Navigation group work for me. The galleries and calendar links work but the dropdowns are dead to my iPhone.☠️

Nothing is exactly the same, but still ...just lazy.

Got this vintage French rust, I think it might have a bit of comic book tho. 🤔

C'est juste Schtroumpfy!

Drac bit off a little more than he could chew with Surfer, & took some of the book too.

Yeah but how much for the gem 1/1 Variant, where you and a friend get to personally take part in the burning of the other 999 books?

There is no bottom I guess.

Tried to buy a book from France that shows up on eBay search & in seller's shop. Seller says item was already sold and eBay duplicated the item and refunded me. Is this a legit error?

On 8/24/2022 at 2:27 PM, jsilverjanet said:

A lot of times when I goggle info on a particular book (like how to tell 1st prints or stuff like that) usually what comes up is a CGC thread from before 

 

Yeah, this is how I made my way here. I often see these boards as a top search result when I Google. Maybe I'm just too not-connected.

On 8/23/2022 at 11:26 AM, Ken Aldred said:

Teen angst and tantrums, cosmic entity style.

Everyone makes mistakes.

I would love it. I think any series focused on them would have to exclude mortals pretty much entirely. 
Maybe a mini involving all the entities when they were "young". Story line might be a power struggle during the first seconds of the universe's existence. Game of Thrones style. Their "powers" are new, they are inexperienced, their reality is in flux, & next to each other their powers are maybe not all so OP. Would leave room for growth and exploration of characters and the development of the laws of nature in our universe.

On 8/15/2022 at 12:57 AM, TTony said:

In case you made it this far and think this is over...  you may want to get some popcorn.   

What a profoundly ignorant statement of certainty.
Or are we to believe that "CGC is at war with acetate. CGC has always been at war with acetate"?

Wondering how confident the AC#1, FF#1, AmFan#15, etc owners feel with their big-money CGC grades. Did that "4.0" get an under the table bump from 3.5 or lower? What about that next key they're looking at, think they still want that CGC stamp as much? Trust it nearly as much? I sure wouldn't know. But there's lots of people here on this site who do. If 10.0s are up for grabs, and no fool now thinks they aren't, what other grades can be trusted?

On 8/12/2022 at 3:27 PM, GetEmLuke said:

The cover is just ugly AF

'You just bought the most acetate I've ever seen anybody buy in my life'

This plot line has gone on for 94 issues now and so far the main antagonist has only made a couple of brief, 4th-wall-breaking cameo appearances to mock us, the readers. This run is cray-cray!! Glad I picked issue #1 off the rack, think I'll add an acetate cover or two, maybe slap some glue on the spines for that square-bound feel, shrink wrap it, and sub through the Triple-Platinum(or 'Black Flag') Tier for that sweet, sweet 10.0.

Can't wait to get my new Pop-up variant cover reprints graded. Wonder how they'll handle the error copy with the wrong herald, it's direct edition so very rare.

Bit of a twist on the classic Pump and Dump scam. Hype the umbrella with a hot product then short-sell it all to your inside-trading partners who Jack up the price after the closing bell. In other "markets" such "investors" and those who facilitate these manipulations go to prison.

In this market the only regulators are us. The only way to stop it is to stop paying silly money for manufactured "value". No 32pg comic book should sell off-the-rack for $75. Period.

Frankly tho, LCSs have been doing  something like this for forever, they sell all their copies of ASM-361 to speculators and favored regulars before they even put any out on the shelf. Plebs like me go home with a bunch of keys missing from our runs, that 3 months later are way out of our price range(but I'm not bitter about it at all).

Some TV goodies this week.
And beats me how I ever stumbled through my Electrical Engineering courses without 1940's comics by GE, but turns out that's a thing.

Bought this book knowing, based on some of the seller's descriptions, it might not be the  March of Comics #9 that I was hoping for. I still have questions.

it was listed as a soft cover children's book & by title only; The Story of the Gloomy Bunny, same as MoC 9. No pictures were provided, and while I'm sure I could have requested some, it was cheap enough to gamble on. Whatever it turned out to be I'd find a place for it.

It arrived today. It's definitely the same story as the MoC. Same story title. Indicia states K.K. As the publisher same as MoC, it's a giveaway like MoC with a children's clothing store advert on the back. The front cover arts are identical, though my background appears to have faded from blue to green-ish.

The indicia however doesn't mention MoC. I've read this is the case for some of the earlier MoC issues, but nothing regarding issue #9 specifically. MoC wouldn't appear on the cover so that's no help. My book's indicia states a copyright of 1946 but not a publication date. Whereas MoC 9 apparently has a pub date of 1947, although I can't actually verify that.

My book has 10 pages of story and art, it's dimensions are 8"x10", printed on what I'm guessing was the same newspaper stock as MoC at the time. Unfortunately, while the art is abundant and very lovely, it's definitely a story book not a comic book.

So my questions, if anyone knows and would be kind enough to answer(and has stuck it through to the end of this diatribe): Was this story definitely published as a comic book at around the same time they published it in such a similar fashion as a story book? Was that unusual at the time? Or did this story book, for some Golden Age weirdness reason, just get mixed into the MoC series in this form?

Anyway, thanks. Here's some pics.