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On 1/31/2024 at 5:39 AM, godzilla43 said:

Looks like the type of artwork that would be on a pack of 70s/80s trading cards. 

I bet there's more variants to be found from this time period on Ebay UK!

Interesting. Reminds me of the X-Factor 38 1.00 price variant that largely turned up in the UK and had a slightly different looking price box (besides the price change, which must have been an error). X-Factor #38 $1.00 Cover Price Variant | Rare Comics (wordpress.com)

When you see the empty UPC space on original cover artwork, is that already printed and the artist draws around it, or is it stuck on after? Sometimes the artists will draw in this space, and it makes the direct edition. 

Simonson's Thor from this time period has a few directs with no UPC box, as does his X-Factor. Looking at his original cover artwork it seems they rarely have the empty UPC space so maybe once and a while someone in the printing process saw the opportunity to print without it? 

Same with X-Men 214

On 7/24/2022 at 10:01 AM, shadroch said:

I've often wondered what would happen if a small cadre of buyers started picking up a book nationwide.

lets pick a random book- Fantastic Four 223.  I've no ideas what is in it so hopefully it isn't hot.  

I hit a small show and clean out the dozen dealers who had it's stock. Later three or four people show up and ask about the book and no one has any.  That month, a hundred volunteers spread out and pick up as many FF 223s as they can find- in shops and at shows. In a month, each of the hundred conspirators has managed to buy 50 copies., so we have removed 5,000 copies of the book from circulation.  Will anyone notice?  Will the trend cause FF 223 to rise in value? Will word get out that FF223 is hot? How about after three months when we've removed 15,000 copies?  When a new customer walks into a shop and all he buys is the four copies of FF 223 in stock, will shop owners notice?  When people at shows start seeing others walking around with stacks of FF223, will they join the party? When dealers start seeing FF 223 fly out of their boxes, do they unload their backstock or do they start to hoard it.  

We just need 99 more people.

 

I think ebay would have to be manipulated- if it's possible to buy every copy that turns up- for anyone to really take notice. 

On 7/3/2022 at 5:40 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Ah so more coloring book than anything else, I was stuck on the 'phrase' but no wonder 😂

I think Hulk said it a lot! It was one of the first things I learned to read and I would read it out loud all day and drive my family crazy. 

On 7/3/2022 at 5:09 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

I'm sure there are a few treasuries too, but not sure the size we're talking  

Yeah it's not a treasury. This is the closest thing I could find to what I think it is similar to https://www.ebay.com/itm/353792850863

It even has the puny human line but it doesn't look familiar to me otherwise. 

Does anyone know of any over-sized Hulk books from the mid 70s to very early 80s? 

I had one when I was a kid and I am trying to find what it was.

All I remember is it was over-sized. I can't remember if it was a coloring book. I've searched Hulk coloring books and only see normal sized ones. Whatever it was, I think it told a story with captions at the bottom and I remember the line "Puny humans fear Hulk, hate Hulk". 

What is Wendigo hitting Hulk with? 

In the 80's I was lucky to have a comic store around the corner from my house. They were pretty good at changing out promo posters on the walls and throwing free promo stuff in your bag. I would buy Marvel Age to read about future books, so unless they were specifically keeping something secret, I knew what was coming most of the time. I don't remember any big surprises. 

I remember that Silver Surfer title being popular for about a year, can't remember why, Marvel may have been pushing it hard. This was not long after I first got into the X-titles and, pre cartoon, I noticed their popularity in the comic world did not translate into the outside world at all. I always wondered if they would have been selling less on the newsstand, presuming newsstands sold to a more general audience. Marvel Age published the top 10 direct sellers mid to late 80s, have been wanting to compile all that info if someone else hasn't already. 

He's my favorite of those early 90s artists

more X-Factor

On 7/6/2021 at 7:05 AM, Mecha_Fantastic said:

The most active it got was a mild cheer when they came on stage one by one and left one by one. This was in the 2000's, in a festival setting, so they quickly lost a LOT of their audience, because there were other stages with more interesting acts on. 

Back to bad covers, here's another one I've submitted in the Modern thread. The layout is bad, Cameron Hodge on the top left looks terrible, Cable on the top right looks DREADFUL and like an old geezer. Underneath looks okay, but the piece just doesn't gel together in any way, shape or form, and looks rushed, and is ultimately a bad composition. Plus judging by that pose, what exactly is Cable doing? I sure can't tell. 

The Cable/ Hodge portion of the cover is lifted directly from the artwork inside the issue. I can only guess that the cover artist submitted the Jean/ Wolverine cover and someone thought it needed more. 

It's the middle of Central Park, so variety. 

On 5/21/2021 at 6:00 PM, Math Teacher said:

Yes, that is a poor signature placement. But why, oh why, would you get Stan Lee to sign a book that he had absolutely nothing to do with?

Sometimes I wonder if people see his name "Stan Lee presents..." inside and think it means something. 

Is that Walt Simonson art? Maybe something from this period PREVIEW: Walt Simonson on THE AVENGERS #25 (ifanboy.com)

When I was a kid buying comics in the early 80's pretty much every adult male in my life would tell me they had books that would be worth money now, so there was a sense that there was value and they shouldn't be thrown out, at last among dads that used to buy comics. By the early 90s I was a teen and my best friends mom was asking me if X-Force 1 was out yet. 

Copies of X-Factor 4 moving on ebay today, someone somewhere speculating on 1st Frenzy. 

Circa mid to late 80s my LCS kept all their X-Men back issues (the entire box) behind the register, you had to ask to look through it. This sort of special treatment put me off checking out the book for a while. 

If not already mentioned; 80's bike movie Rad. A scene in a store with a wall of comics. I could recognize Hulk 313 and X-Men 199, both 11/85 cover dates. 

Auctions that sell these (Hulk 181, NM 98 etc) without 'facsimile' in the title get bid up into the hundreds while the honest listings can be had for $10 BIN. 

CGC 9.8s now $700+