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On 5/1/2023 at 2:04 PM, Hot Nickels said:

Does the $210 include any variation of the Chiseled auto? Do we have to notate which Chisel we prefer? These are important questions that need answering 

I think in the submission form it states that you can request a particular signature, but ultimately its up to the signers discretion.

I'm waiting on a book from this signing as well.  In my experience, the signings usually take place anywhere from two weeks to a month after the deadline.  Seems like it can be the same time period from time of signing to shipping.

One strange thing I'm experiencing now is I sent in three books for the Chris Claremont signing.  I received two of them back this week, which were just regular signatures.  The third book is getting the "SNIKT" inscription, and that one is still sitting in "Scheduled for Grading"  Have a few Frank Millers there as well, which had the same cutoff date as JS/JB and Claremont, and they haven't moved from CCS or SfG since they hit the system.

On 4/26/2023 at 3:48 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

You have to allow for the fact that the grades offered here are not precisely going to align with CGC grades. Likely the CGC grade will be higher than those offered here. I see this book as an 8.0 but I can see it grading higher.

Thanks.  Understood. I mostly use other graded comics for comparison.  I'm fairly new to the grading and guidelines, wanted to know exactly what I should be looking for. 

Thanks for the replies.  What exactly are you seeing that could put it in the 7 range?  I'm looking at 7.5-8.0s of this book with worse foxing, frayed corners, color breaking ticks, spine rolls and even stains that look to be in worse condition than my copy.

Hey all.  Picked this up at auction couple weeks ago.  Looks to be in really good condition to me.  Sending it in soon, but wondering what y'all thought grade-wise, and if its worth/would benefit from a press?  Thanks in advance!

Thanks for the replies.  Called them today and spoke to an awesome rep who made the same exact mistake as I did and the graders caught it.  Crossing my fingers.

Hey all.  Sent in a book to be pressed and graded.  In the submission form I didn't specify it as a Newsstand edition.  Is this something the graders will catch and label it correctly?  Thanks in advance.

I second Jim Valentino.  Would love to send in a couple issues of ShadowHawk

Thanks for all your input.  I also looked at hundreds of different Stan and Todd signatures.  All of that, combined with a lot of what you said, made me feel extremely confident that these were not genuine signatures.

One thing I noticed in EVERY Todd McFarlane signature, is that he always starts his R from the very top of his A.  Literally every single signature I looked at was identical in that way, but not this one.  The connecting line from the A to R starts in the middle of the A, not the top.  Looks like a lot of overall hesitation in it as well that didn't look consistent with the other signatures I saw.  It's also not easy at all to find books he signed "Todd" instead of "T."

Stan's just seemed off to me right from the get.  For starters, the angle seems off to me.  Every signed book I looked at, which was literally hundreds from all different eras, was signed at a more upward angle.  Also I could not find a single signature where the last E in Lee is smaller than the first.  That seems like one tell-tale sign in his autos he always made that E bigger going into his underline back to the front.  Seems to be on the small side as well.  Overall just doesn't look like a confident signature, more like its drawn.

Also did some digging into his feedback as a buyer.  Found some very suspicious times of purchases from sellers that seem to have a large selection of duplicate comics.  A lot of which had obscure copies of Spawn, Spider-Man, and other Marvel comics. Of course none of them had Spawn #8 (probably because he bought them all to practice on haha)  Also looking at his feedback as a seller, he's sold no less than 50 signed Stan Lee comics (none of which are CGC) in the last 6 months.  Which also happens to be the same timeframe as his feedback as a buyer from the duplicate comic sales.

I ended up asking to cancel the order, and voiced a few of my concerns over the signatures.  He was not happy to hear any of that, and proceeded to tell me he's been on the auction site for 17 years and has never had negative feedback or questions about his signatures.  At first said normally he would cancel the order, but because of my baseless accusations, he was leaning towards not.  We went back and forth a couple times, and I ended up telling him I was tired of arguing about it.  I was going to chalk it up as an L, learned my lesson, and move on.  But that I was going to be leaving a detailed feedback.  That may have scared him off, because he relisted the comic and told me he would be cancelling the order on Monday.

End of the day, I take the fault.  All the research I did after I bought the comic should have been done beforehand.

Hey everyone, first post.  I just picked this up on an auction for a good price.  Probably too good to be true.  I'm especially skeptical of the Stan Lee one, but not all that confident in the McFarlane either.  Thoughts?