F For Fake

Still hope it's a happy ending for you, Bird!

Earlier this week (or maybe late last week?) I had a post held up as it needed to be "approved by moderation". It was highlighted in purple. I couldn't find anything remotely resembling an offensive term, so it was a real headscratcher. A few minutes later, it popped up in the thread, exactly as I'd typed it. Still have no idea what it was all about, but that was the first (and only, so far) time it's happened to me in all of these years of posting.

I'm not sure which is worse: the fact that you actively insult anyone who may be interested in doing business with you, or the fact that you're apparently using a turn of the 20th century insult guide to do so. But what do I know, I'm just a buffoon.

It's great stuff, nice pages! I loved Campbell's work on Glory.

Blue and Gold has been a movie rumor since I was a kid reading the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire (alter Hughes) JLI series. If it ever happens, it will literally be a childhood dream come true.

I got ya. It doesn't really bother me, but I see what you're saying. Thanks for the input!

yeah, it really is. Of all of the copies I've snagged, I think I've only found 2 (maybe 3) golds in the cheapie bins. I hope to keep growing my hoard. I'd love to, I dunno, wallpaper a room with 'em.

Well, the pictures are all in the big link, so I don't really see the problem personally. I don't have a dog in the fight, but curious as to why it bothers you? Could be instructive!

Oooh, I LOVED and STILL LOVE GR 15 with the Glow cover. I buy them whenever I find them in bargain bins, so I've got 15-20 of them now. Maybe the best gimmick cover of them all.

Yeah, if Marvel doesn't go ahead with the Black Widow movie at this point, I don't know what to think.

Holy Terror was definitely one of the better Elseworlds, I've got a couple of 'em!

Growing up, I was always trying to stretch my comic money as far as I could, so if I could afford two books, I'd buy two DIFFERENT books. It wasn't until X-Force 1 and X-Men 1 that I gave in to the hype and bought all of the covers, because I thought I had to, for some reason. The odd side effect is that to this day, as an adult, if I find either of those books in NM for 50 cents or less, I buy 'em. I doubt they're even worth that much (X-Force Deadpool card notwithstanding) but those adolescent memories drive me to hoard.

Keep the buck, I'm doing this for free, out of the goodness of my heart! PS: "removed boobies" is now my favorite edit ever.

My earliest memories of comics were Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck books that my folks bought me to keep me occupied on a long car ride to Florida for summer vacation. Those are the first comics I remember reading, but they didn't get the collecting bug going at that time. That would come a few years later. I was a copper age kid (but no, not a CopperAgeKid) so I grew up with the Transformers and G.I. Joe cartoons and toys, which I was absolutely obsessed with. Some kids on a bus ride told me about comics where they had stories about the characters that were different from the cartoons, that seemed more adult and interesting. So I started grabbing those off of newsstands as well as the three packs you'd find at toy stores. It wasn't long before I had a decent sized collection of the toy based comics. Within those comics, I saw ads in the books for characters like Wolverine and Cerebus, and the pictures got me interested enough that I grabbed some X-men off of the newsstand as well. That was the seed, firmly planted. My best friend had older brothers who collected comics, and they would go to a store that actually ONLY SOLD COMIC BOOKS. So one weekend when I spent the night at their place, their dad took us all to the comic book shop that Saturday. I was in love, and fully, 100% hooked. I would do anything to scrounge up some cash, cut lawns, recycle cans, whatever I could do, and then beg my folks to take me back to that magical shop so I could spend my loot. Those were still the days when $5 or so would buy you a few new books plus tons of stuff out of the quarter bins, maybe even a poster or something. Magical times, for sure. I ended up working at the shop as one of my first jobs out of high school. The magic faded a bit, but I still cherish those early memories.

I've run out of "likes" to give for the day, but I think this is a very healthy way to look at it. My feeling is that once collecting starts to feel like an obligation, or begins to cause you actual stress in your real life, it's time to give it up. At the end of the day, it's just stuff. COOL stuff, no doubt, but stuff all the same.

I'll be signing for free at work later this afternoon, but if anyone comes to me with books in a window bag, I'm eating the books right in front of them while they cry. Nerds!

I'm not sure about the value of 2nds specificlaly, I'd guess they'd tend to not be as valuable as the later, lower prints, but I don't really chase them much. The only ones I really look for are Bat-related, and most of the modern era have the roman numerals, I believe, I believe. The copper era books, the ones that came out in multipacks and the like, no, I don't think those have any exterior notation.

Not sure about its potential, but I love that cover!

I expect it to have a phenomenal hold. While most of us fanboys seem to be in the "Hey, it's pretty good!" camp, the casual fan seems to LOVE the movie. My wife, who normally doesn't give two carps about this sort of stuff, loved it, and has been reading up on the production and stuff. Same for our niece, she just loved it. Word of mouth outside of fanboy circles appears to be super strong and growing. Glad I bet against The Mummy on HSX!

It's a cool cover (I got one because I have a standing order at my LCS for all Bat-related books and variants) but I don't see it ever reaching AH S-Girl territory. Who is the artist? If I can't identify the artist automatically, that means they probably don't have a huge following (yet!). Also, while it's a cool Batgirl Image, there's still a Turtle lurking in the background, and the big Nickelodeon logo as well. I could definitely see it breaking out a bit, but AH Supergirl is pretty exclusive territory. Still, cool cover ,and I'm glad I (and you!) have got one!

RE: the reopening of certain auctions, hooray for the sellers, but I'm sure it stings for the current winners. Once a lot if closed, you have that sense of relief, phew, I won! Now they have to go through it all over again, and potentially lose the item they won fair and square. But I totally see the sellers' side as well, so I guess there's no perfect solution.

I totally get it, but the DC 2nd+ prints aren't too bad because they have the roman numerals right in the corner box, so they're easy to spot as you flip. The Image Newsstands (and DCU logo variants) are more annoying because you generally need to see the bottom of each cover in order to scope out the UPC box (or lack thereof), which means deeper digging. That can be annoying if you're going through a ton of boxes.

Nice! I'm putting together an UXM NS run (slowly and on the cheap), love the books! (The Adams Hulk is swell as well!)

The very sad truth of the whole forum.

yeah, I've been picking those up for a few years now whenever I find them in bargain boxes, and I STILL don't have many. Just not a ton of them floating around out there. Beautiful covers too!