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30 year collector who started in my late teens. Be patient, be smart, with time it'll work out. College students should be scraping money together for beer. I had to give up for a few years while I was in school.

An alternative explanation, which I've seen play out on HA before, is that when they offer several similar pieces staggered in time the first few go highest, then the others sell for less as bidders check their boxes and the pool shrinks.

Clarification, it's speculator fatigue.

I don't know. Mitch said there weren't any more.

That's like one of those buddhist mind exercises of imagining something impossible. "What's the sound of one hand clapping?" "What if metropolis undergraded a book?"

Who the heck paid up for an Eternals 1?

Yup. That 56 pt board is bomb proof, so any acid-free board over the top works.

My previously mentioned Matt Fox splash back from the framer.

They missed a spot.

How many seconds do you have to look to see that?

I started my own leafcasting service, but I had to shut it down after I went through all the leaves from this past fall. Gotta wait until it gets cold again and rake some more.

Fair enough, I guess my point is that Infantino inking himself is a different animal than Anderson over his pencils.

When I first read this I felt some sympathy for your situation, but the way you're responding to people who are giving you solid advice has eliminated that. There's an answer that you want, and there's an answer that you'll get. If those two things don't match, arguing until you get the answer you want doesn't work.

Editors were more concerned with sales than art. Colletta, Heck, Sinnott, Infantino, the list goes on and on, but all brilliant on their own and less than brilliant when neutered.

I too find his stuff for Atlas to be a treat when I come across it. Recently I was flipping through a book where he did only inks or pencils, I can't recall which, and it just didn't work. But when he inked himself, he was a real talent.

Recently finished the last season and it was pretty bad. Aside from all the problems with the story & character development, the worst part is that none of the characters have any personality. Every line is delivered with the seriousness of a military death notice.

Unfortunately there's not a list. But if it really stands out, it's worth considering.

It's been said many times on here that Heath would color his own covers on occasion. This is likely one of those.

Passively for another 15 years?

Battlefield 2-4 are all 52 pages.

I don't know that it's fair to call it label chasing when in many cases it's the only time a HG copy has been offered. The next highest graded Marines in Battle 2 is a 7.0. The last time a War 23 was offered in grade was over 10 years ago. None of the HG Farrells have ever been offered in grade. I could list a few dozen more examples. As I've pointed out, the upcoming War 11 in 7.5 is the ONLY copy ever publicly offered over 5.5, think about any other key you can say that about. I really don't think there's another book you can make that claim for. I've been collecting 50s war comics aggressively for 15 years now and I've never had some of these opportunities. So while it is chasing a HG copy, it's not the same as waiting for a 9.8 over a 9.6. It's just simply finding a copy in grade period.

They should require you to carry in SF.

This was maybe the best deal in the auction. That cover is so great in person.

I thought as a whole the DC books went really strong. They were less variable than the Atlas stuff, but there weren't many "keys" or sought-after covers.