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Can anyone ID anything else here?

ASM

101 (by MR SigS)

121

122

194

238

AVG

43

54 (by MR SigS)

55

DD

8

DocStr

1

1

FF

15 (by MR SigS)

JIM

83/GRR (by MR SigS)

MSpot

3 (MR SigS)

4

5 (MR SigS)

5 (MR SigS)

STAnn

2

Surfer

4

TOD

1  (steveinthecity)

TTA

90 (by Gaard)

On 5/28/2022 at 11:47 AM, MTDEW said:

This thread reminded me of the chance I took 25 years ago. Dark Adventure is still in business today, so that's a good sign. Anybody remember this ad or have an idea how legit these could be?

Cool, do you have pics of the sigs? I'm happy to offer my two cents

On 5/26/2022 at 11:59 AM, Cat said:

Why Uncanny #304? The other 2 make sense, but who wants an Uncanny X-Men 304 signed by Jack Kirby? 

As a practical matter it seems unlikely that he would have signed any quantity of anything at this point in his life. Healthy young sportsballers have a hard enough time getting through their Topps commitments, and this would have been an elderly man in declining health doing 1,000 immaculate signatures with nearly perfect consistency in a style he doesn't use.

On 5/26/2022 at 10:53 AM, James J Johnson said:

This would have me wondering too. Wondering about why Kirby would draw, not write; draw, an oddly segmented and shaky 4 piece 'J' with atypical lift points indicative of starting and stopping. And why, as an artist, with all that white area to sign in, why he would start his signature so close to the portraiture and at an angle that the top of his sugnature would run into the portraiture and his imprinted signature. 

Also, the signature appears to be drawn, not written; drawn, in very close proximity to the imprinted signature to make copying it an easier task. IMO, odds of this being by a hand other than Kirby = 80/20. Lots of red flags here, IMO 

I can help, odds are 100%. This print was done in 1990 in a run of 950. He wasn't signing these just like he wasn't signing the DFs etc. For reference, this is a post-'85 Kirby example

and I've seen even sadder 😢