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I'm flabbergasted that people are talking about how "easy" is to identify authentic Stan sigs. Stan used to have a small clean sig - like those found on the Spiderman-Superman Treasuries. It got bigger, fatter and messier as the years went on. He started having the separated "t," then he started having the "Stedle/Stendle sig, and by the end there were a lot of big blobs. How anyone is going to authenticate anything post-2015 is an absolute mystery to me.

Image United and the Glossy Secret Invasion blanks were universally panned, but you would have to try and find those. Most everything that has been done from 2013 or 2014 on have been pretty good.

@AleLuque We will need better scans in order to see the damage or lack thereof on your copy. I would almost be predicting a subscription crease unless the spine is wrecked like the other example.

I do not believe that page coloration will affect grade

Keep them like that. Those are absolutely super cool.

Check again!!!

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It is very similar to my Saviuk signatures. I believe it is real.

I think there is a good chance that all of the 9.9 SS book are owned by Tony Moore. I was with the Moore's and their rep when they submitted a bunch of his personal copies for SS. I don't remember for certain and I don't have the picture evidence any longer, but my memory is telling me that all three were from Tony Moore's file copies.

The logic of your second sentence needs not the straw man of your first.

This is not exactly the same thing, but I think the market, at some point will differentiate between very clean sigs and sloppy or age-affected sigs. The best example is Stan Lee. Most of his early sigs are clean and classic. As he got older, he moved into the phase where they looked like "Steadle" and then finally, "SBLOB." So Stan's earlier sigs may do better, but it will be because they are cleaner.

I think it is because tons of these FCBD books are in the wild without store stamps. CGC chose to differentiate between stamped and non-stamped.

It looks like you chose books that have covers prominently featuring the characters that the voice actors play. That is very cool. But it is not necessarily standard operating procedure. I used to try to get the highest grade #1 or jam cover done and try to get as many sigs on one book as possible - to get the biggest bang for the SS buck. That is probably more SOP in the SS world. I would say that is why you are doing a lot of "1st done" celeb books.

This post is on point. And it goes beyond losing the fanboy base. My nieces had female friends who were absolute MCU ride or die fans. We are talking 12-17 demographic. They have all moved on because the magic is gone. Blame whatever you want, but for the kids, the draw and the magic is just gone.

I had a book SS'd through Celebrity Authentics very early on in their collab with CGC. They demanded that their COA sticker be placed on the comic instead of on the case as it is done now. The book was a strong 9.8 candidate and it came back 7.5. That, I believe, is a fair benchmark for what the drop would be - at least for a sticker the size of the CA sticker.

RIP to one of my favorites of all time. It takes a special kind of talent to be able to air arm-wrestle with Arnold and also give Adam Sandler "a hand."

This is the kind of post that used to lead to a great thread. I miss you 2012 . . .

I don't want to get too far down the rabbit hole, but there is a distinction between licensing intellectual property like Conan and Godzilla - where the licensed character is part of an ongoing series of stories, some of which may be adapted from source materials and some are not - and obtaining the rights to make a comic book adaptation of a previously published story - which would be a "one and done."

This is awesome. The only thing better than the original RoadHouse is more new RoadHouse.

Finished last night. It felt like a 6 episode season stretched out into 8. Good - I really enjoyed the backstory of the 110th especially - but not great. And I felt like the way they dealt with the big bad and Swan were huge anticlimaxes.

I really have to disagree with Kojima's analysis of the flashbacks. To me the flashbacks were the only thing that made this series not "ho-hum." There was very little monster action so it needed to have something else - and in my opinion what it had was a great system of seeing three generations of the same family interwoven with the Titans and Monarch. I give it about an 85

Agree - I usually really like Snyder's movies. This was messy montage of origin stories, weak plot, A deus ex machina galactic power screw driver and a big nap in the middle where I fell asleep. What a disappointment.

Drax vs. Jack of Hearts might be an acquired taste . . .

Definitely not the only one - JJ had one for sure as well. But two, three, five - whatever the number, there are not many.

For all you history buffs, this is one of the first blank cover sketches ever graded by CGC. The book dropped in July of 07 and this was done in August. Fallen Son started the whole sketch cover craze. And for a while it was the only game in town. Those were heady times. We were all so young . . .