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    R.I.P George Olshevsky

    in Comics General

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    On 12/21/2021 at 8:39 PM, Book Guy said:

    I don't know as I only have the copies I bought from him. I think I paid $250 for Tales To Astonish # 1. Maybe it was less. At any rate, it might have been a $5 comic when he bought it. Though he did all the Marvel Checklists, I got the impression that his main love was the older, esp Timely Books. Maybe there was a date cut off?

     

    I was told he did it to prove the books were his in case they were ever stolen. I assume he only coded the more valuable books. 
     

    There were actually 2 different types of codes he did. There was the long code he did near the spine of an interior page and a -script “GO” that was on the bottom of the last page.

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    Where in the world was the Quality Control at CGC???

    in Comics General

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    On 12/19/2021 at 11:05 PM, Beige said:

    I'm with Domo

    I don't care how old the book is, or how nice it looks.

    Since when have books with fully detached covers - two big ol' holes in the spine - get a 5.0?

    Total BS gift grade.

     

    No offence to the owner - you didn't grade it - but a 5.0?

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    When I was a grader at cgc, the highest a book could receive with a detached cover was 4.5, 6.5 for a detached centerfold. Apparently, since then, they raised those grades to 5.0 and 7.0.

    The competition uses the former grading scale, but either way, if you take a 9.8 book and detach the cover, a 4.5 or 5.0 is a significant drop from 9.8. If the book is otherwise a 7.0, the grade may drop to 3.0 if the cover was also detached. It’s a bit of a sliding scale. A 1.0 with a detached cover would still be a 1.0.

    R.I.P George Olshevsky

    in Comics General

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    On 12/20/2021 at 11:13 PM, Book Guy said:

    He didn't mark all of them. I bought a number of Pre-Hero Monster Comics from him from a catalog he put out sometime in the 1980's. I think he was selling off his Atlas collection, or at least they made up the bulk of his catalog as I recall. I told John Verzl (sp) about buying from him at one SDCC and he told me about the code, (which I think I still remember). I looked at a number of the ones I had bought, but none had the Code. I didn't look at them all though. I've been meaning to post pics of them in the Silver Age section as I bought only really nice copies. There wasn't much demand for those then, so Most were still available when I got the catalog.

    I believe there was a value cutoff to the coding. He would not have coded a $5 comic, but would have a $500 one.

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    R.I.P George Olshevsky

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    On 12/17/2021 at 4:59 PM, davidtere said:
    I received a phone call from Greg Pharis (San Diego iconic comic book retailer (Golden State Comics and San Diego Comics 40 + years of comic book retailing) regarding George's passing. I was fortunate to have met the pleasant and mild mannered Marvel Comic Book Indexer (and dinosaur expert) a few times in Greg's shop. Certainly one of fandoms greats.
    Before the internet, before the GCB database there were the indexing of Marvel Comics by George (complete with pictures). I lifted this bit about George from Marvels database.
     
    R.I.P. George. 

    Graduate of M.I.T. Olshevksy indexed all of the Marvel Comics major titles in the 1970's and Early 80's. This quite extensive project also employed Lou Mougin and many others. Olshevksy was also aided by a complete personal collection of Marvel Comics. 

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    Sad to hear of his passing. I’ve owned many of his books (he coded them all in a very specific and unique way) and saw him at SD several years back. 

    G.I. Joe #21 Cover Art Hitting Heritage in January

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 12/9/2021 at 8:04 AM, delekkerste said:

    Ed was at SDCC 1988 selling art outside the convention hall from what one person posted, and presumably he sold this one then. 

    Having fielded numerous inquiries about the complete story over the years, I have a long list of just some of the potentially interested buyers of the cover.  And given what I've learned since yesterday, without putting any numbers to it so as not to influence the proceedings, all I'm going to say is that I'm confident that it's going to be a total bloodbath that's not going to be fun for anyone. 

    I know what my limit is, guess we'll see! Good luck to all!

    G.I. Joe #21 Cover Art Hitting Heritage in January

    in Original Comic Art

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    On 12/9/2021 at 6:46 AM, delekkerste said:

    Thanks. There are a lot of interested parties like @Timely who have been shut out of owning any/all of the interiors (since I never plan to sell them), and this will be the next best thing for many. I am under no illusions that this is going to be anything other than a total goat rodeo now that it's hit the auction block:

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    Reuniting the cover with the complete story would be the icing on the cake. But at the end of the day, it's the cake that is the grail* for me, not the icing - the interiors have the iconic silent issue story with all of its memorable moments; all the 1st appearance of Storm Shadow pages; the 1st Cobra C.L.A.W., the 1st Silent Castle, the 1st Arashikage tattoo that is the first link in the Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow origin, etc. (all drawn by Hama, to boot). :cloud9: 

    Of course it would be awesome to add the cover, up to a point (candidly, I don't know what that point is yet).  But, one thing I will rule out immediately, though, which several people have asked me about since yesterday, is selling any of my big pieces (either the ones on my CAF or the ones that some know that I hold privately) to fund a run at the cover, so people can stop asking me about that.

     

    * in the loose sense of the term, not as in the one and only

    I think GI Joe #21 is going to be a bit of a wild card, and for that reason it's going to be hard to asses value & decide if it's worth going for & if any comic collector even has a shot at it.  I paid about $30k for the cover to GI Joe #5.  I think it may be the most any Joe cover has gone for (aside from #1).  So how much more is the cover to #21?  I actually like the cover art of #5 better than #21, but if I want any part of the first comic I ever had, this is my only chance.  Odds are some investor company will outbid us all!  lol

     

     

    PS. I find it interesting that Ed signed the cover in 1988.  I wonder if that's when he sold it?

     

     

    They're Still Out There!

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 9/1/2021 at 4:33 PM, buttock said:

    I think the Okajima story is great, but not 4000% markup great.  Couple hundred bucks extra, sure.  

    What if we found out the story was 100% made up and completely false? Would it negate the value of the comic? You still have a fresh 9.6 book? That aspect hasn’t changed!

    Everybody loves a good story, but what is a story worth? After all, it’s only a story! Sometimes the comics speak for themselves. Sometimes that’s enough. A story isn’t needed or required to sell the comics.