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Oh and if anyone wants to know, there’s one end credits scene and its right at the very end.

Just saw it, and yea... It’s not great. I’m still trying to think if it’s bad. Unfortunately I’m beginning to believe it’s bad, pretty bad.

Yes they do, they also ignore slight restoration especially if they're pedigrees.

Sorry, bit late coming back to this - the Who piece was originally posted on CAF by the owner who bought it direct from Gene Day he said directly that he himself cut the borders off as he was young and didn't know any better. He then auctioned it via HA who listed it correctly as was with borders missing. It sold for $700 or thereabouts - the brothers D then listed it on their site with the fraudulently added borders with a 'price on application'. I asked and was told $7000 or thereabouts... I then asked directly it it had anything added referring directly to the borders. I was told it was complete and that nothing had been added or was missing inc the borders. I then answered and sent a link to the original post on CAF and also the HA auction itself, both showing the piece with missing borders. No reply was forthcoming. Its just one of many absolutely concrete cases of them adding overlays/artwork/calling splash panels covers - you name it. They are crooks - its not 'mistakes', they do it 100% to defraud and part people from their money.

Sorry that is incorrect. The mask was thrown in loose, and yes it did fall out on the shelf at the newsagent. How do i know? Because I bought one myself and picked up a few extra masks that had got left behind on the shelf. Hey! I was a kid ok?!!! Plenty of UK comics had free gifts that are were not in anyway attached to the actual comic, stickers and transfers mostly, it was always a bit of a shoot as to whether you managed to get a copy that had the gift if you had to rely on your parents to pick up the issue. This issue is most likely the rubber band perishing and adhering to the paper. You should be able to pry it apart with the end of a teaspoon or whatnot.

Well unless you're the artist who owns the rights or the actual copyright holder I'd assume that the person producing the merchandise will be acting illegally.

This seems like a weird lawsuit, surely CGC have no automatic obligation to grade anything they don't want to? Particularly as there's other companies doing the exact same grading job. Or is that too simplistic way to look at it?

Everything is relative. Excluding my house (as I need somewhere to live and store my belongings) if I cobble together everything i own and sell it then I'd have a fair chunk of change. What what I do then? Buy pretty much everything back again? Or maybe just change it into various coinage, deposit the lot into some kind of large square container (say for argument lets call it a bin), then sit in it and throw the coins up into the air and let them hit me on the head, or swim and dive in them like a dolphin?

Idris would be awesome. No chance though.

Agreed, I felt it was a return to form from the director after a poor run of films.

Some people are capable of incredible feats of strength and stamina when under incredible pressure. Likewise shrugging off gunshot wounds. People's experiences in war give us many examples of that. The change in musculature etc could be explained with adrenaline as mentioned - plus think of when body builders pump themselves up before going into a pose, that's very similar.

Actually that's where I think the BW character went wrong in the movie. All of his powers are explainable.... But one. He touched someone and was able to read their mind in a visual flash. Thats an unrepeatable supernatural power in the real world. Every other thing he does could be explained by coincidence or just good luck etc. I felt that was a misstep in the BW film and took it outside the real world.

Oh and I meant BWs powers were supernatural in the classic sense of the word, as in, they arent based in anything that's recognisable in the natural world we live in. His powers can't be replicated in any way in the real world. JMs 'powers' just about could be.

The diabetic bit could have just been a smokescreen, because we only saw that in videos he'd made of himself, that wasnt ever confirmed through a third party. But yea the wall climbing, fair point, that was the one bit where I was hmmmmmm. It wasn't totally smooth (which I felt was the director giving the audience a 'get out' in their head), plus it was a strange thing for the character to have said - I mean as 'a power' it was only something that someone would have found out they could do beforehand, so I kind of justified it in my head as something that he'd 'prepared' as a demonstration of power either to his other personalities or indeed to any of his victims. I mean it was pretty useless, he climbed a wall, albeit very creepily. Hardly being able to read minds etc like the BW character could. But yea, fair point.

Of any cover ever, surely a Cap 1 needs its red! Legit printing defect or no, it looks just plain bad.

I dunno, I felt the physical changes were just about in keeping with 'possible'. There's plenty of instances where people get immensely strong when confronted with extreme stress etc. I think the changes could fit in with that. The BW character however had supernatural powers never seen in real life.

Peter Capaldi out. Tom Hardy in. Sonic Screwdriver out. Sonic Blade in.

I'm not so sure about that. I think its more likely he just chucked the ending in because he called up a certain actor and just said 'do you fancy appearing for a laugh'. When you consider it, split itself, although far fetched, is set in the 'real world' - in that it could happen without any other wordly events having to occur. The other movie referenced showed the charcater having supernatural powers and couldn't occur in the 'real world'.

Horrible news. I don't think I truly appreciated how art can be elevated in the comic book medium until I found the work of Wrightson. Legend in every sense of the word.

There isn't a twist ending in this film.

I only know of two known copies. Derek has one, Chris this one, wasn't one in 'the' auction and I've never had one. Who else has got/seen one?

Marvelman and Young Marvelman both #27 on eBay at the minute. Don't look like facsimiles to me.

I don't think theres any denying that his DK3 cover is poor. And if it had been done by 'another' artist then it wouldn't have seen the light of day. It actually seems more like a convention sketch cover piece to me. What he seems to have started doing is drawing around musculature with a sharpie to emphasize it rather than use tonal paints to give depth. However his career pre 21st Century was exceptional. And is one of only a few artists having dealt in the fantasy/comic field that you would genuinely describe his work as 'beautiful' no matter what the subject matter. Bolland is another one I'd place in that overall decline, his DK3 cover certainly isn't the best either. For the past few years I'd describe his work more akin to a good competent artist working in a Bolland style. The passage of time sure has a way of levelling the playing field... Unfortunately the more brilliant the artist, ultimately the more glaring the decline.

Ultimately it's just one of 'those' things tbh. The one person doing the buying has probably had the score of his/her life, like you say though, it's not like you haven't picked up stuff in the past similar, I know I have, anyone collecting/dealing for a while has. All it needed was one other person with a fair idea of true value to be present and the prices would have been completely different. Indeed even if I'd seen it in time it's not like I would have been the buyer at the hammer prices anyway as I would have been up against the person who did ultimately get them. So yeah, wishful thinking... I would have gone very hard on some of the lots though, leaving MM and YM aside for a moment there are some other lots that really are incredible. With no chance any of them were facsimiles either.

i guess thats all true? But as far as I'm aware no #26 was ever made. If it had been it would stretch the realms of incruduality to believe that no one, inc the one guy with a full set had never even seen it or heard of it. My gut says, taking the whole auction into account (some of the other lots are actually up there with the MM and YM in quality imo), that they appear to be real. The MM #25 certainly shows various age related defects, tears to the spine, wear to all edges etc. YMMV. Oh and I have a full run of original Capt Marvel Jr #1-24, mine look easily as good or better than these. I've had various orignal MM that look like they were printed yesterday too.