Silent Master

Hey Shotgun - I keep meaning to look through my stash to see if I might have some of these extra but haven't had time... Maybe this weekend I'll pull the boxes from the closet and give them a look.

I have a dozen or so GI Joe sketched blank covers. Here are my latest 2: Storm Shadow (by Blanks) came in a 9.6 - the Baroness (by Kurth) a 9.8

SWEET!!! That is awesome!!!!

Here's the thing, I've seen both versions in the 3-pack bags. So I don't know the history of why there are two different types. Great...so now I've got to start looking for 3and 5pack bags with big 75s...just to add more crazy rare items to my neurotic searching... From a couple pages ago: I've got three of these and they all have the large numbers. Those are the 2nd print reprint variants! - I love this hobby!!

Also GI Joe 2nd print threads give me a headache, but... What about the Treasury Edition? reprint? Digest sized magazines... mini tpb or reprints?? Foreign prints... considered reprints? It's all too confusing - just give me one of each please .

I really loved the Serpentor story line in the comic. I thought the whole gathering DNA and even using Storm Shadows DNA to "freshen the stew" (I believed they called it) was a really cool idea back in the day! Of course I loved about every story line from issue 24 up to the 60's... The sunbow series had some memorable moments but having everyone using laser guns use to drive me nuts!

Nice Bronty!

Very Nice!!!!!

+1 - very cool

Crossovers!

SCORE!!!

Beat me to it! (thumbs u

GI JOE maybe... Started as a comic strip in 1937, first comic in 1950, over the last 60+ years titles published by Ziff Davis, DC, Marvel, Blackthorne, Hasbro, Dark Horse, Devils, Due, Image, and IDW. Not to mention its been published in 24 counties. Major toy line for the last 60+ years. One animated series, animated movies, and 3 live action movies and working on a 4th (mind you the first was horrid beyond believe, the last two progressively better) GI Joe never gets any respect....

Toss n' Cross - Bridge Layer - driven by Toll Booth!!! That's it, thanks for digging it up. Still seems both cool and mostly useless. - I thought it was a very cool toy back in the day but it was probably because of this awesome TV commercial brain washing me!!!

Here's one of my favorite Atkins sketches that he did on the back of the Storm Shadow #1 Retail Incentive Cover: He does incredible work!!!

Toss n' Cross - Bridge Layer - driven by Toll Booth!!!

And this is awesome as well!! Robert Atkins is the man for Joe art! He's high on my want list for a sketch cover/commission. (thumbs u I totally agree, Atkins has done some great Joe work. I have several sketches including these (2) 11X17's

I traded/sold this Turner SS to a fellow boardie for a non-Turner 9.8SS because he was a huge Michael Turner fan. My foil version came back a 9.2

This brought a smile to my face. Nothing will ever beat the Christmas when I got the USS Flagg Aircraft Carrier Oh hell no! I would have krapped my pants if I had gotten that under the tree. I mostly got the planes, and figures. Never got into the big bases. I'm with you; was never lucky enough for the big ones! Absolutely LOVED getting the vehicles and aircraft though. I can't even image the number of "missions" my VAMP, WHALE, and Dragonfly went on as a kid!!!

No love for the IDW continuation at all???

Well anyone keeping up with the IDW - GI Joe: ARAH? 200th issue coming up in a few months! - Celebrating with and GI Joe/Transformers series kickoff for Free Comic Book Day and Transformers issue 100 with a connected sketch cover by Robert Atkins: (different continuity of course) I'm excited to see the series reach 200 (just bought the Hama sketch cover OA to celebrate!!) Plus with the Christmas season here I always think back to my favorite Christmases and what new GI Joe toys Santa brought me!

WTTB's! Awesome OA from 155!!!! And excellent pick-up on the Elite #11 9.8!!!!!!

They're both second prints, CGC didn't mark the first one correctly, they missed that it was a second print. The seller probably didn't put on the invoice form that it was a second print, and CGC also missed it. not so fast. You can't just go by "Black Spidey" = 2nd print. It depends on the issue. For example Joe #26 1st prints are the Black Spidey; however, the price changes from .60 to .75 on the 2nd printing. Issues 18, 25, 29 and 30 you can't tell by the cover. Both the 1st prints and 2nd prints have the Black Spidey AND the same price. Those books are probably graded correctly. - never really paid attention to this before but my 9.8SS copy is the black spidey, the other image I pulled off E-Bay..... (my raw copies are so buried in the closet I don't even want to think about digging them out)