seanfingh

Cool beans?

This question has been asked many times, and for some people it might be a good way to go. But for me, I collected signed comics, not signed plastic cases, so it was a non-starter. Also, I do not believe that CGC will certify a case signature. If the book gets cracked out, the sig is gone, and then what?

I purchased a large lot of Warren Magazines from an original owner. He kept them in amazing shape. Many of them came back after being signed 9.6. One of them came back 9.6 Purple and it was determined that there was a dot of ballpoint pen ink on the cover. The only real explanation was that at some point either the newsstand, the OO or myself dropped a ball point pen on the cover. At the time I was having it reviewed, I asked whether they were analyzing whether the ink was damage, or whether it was attempted CT - my thought being that if it didn't clearly appear to be done to improve the looks of the book, then it should just be plain old damage. At the time they were pretty adamant that they were not in the business of making value judgments about stray ink. I thought that was kind of interesting at the time. I tell that story because most of the posts are assuming that someone engaged in CT actively, when it could just as easily (and possibly more logically) be stray ink that was not intentionally placed on the book, but is there nonetheless.

I will give $1000 FOR IT RIGHT NOW.

Excellent books, and the way you pair them with other collectibles is very cool.

That is exciting. Some Charlton Yang painted covers are begging to be done. The yellow cover #1 will look incredible as well.

I can make you a better fake on a better book for less. It's just an awful fake. As I said before, people want these to be real but they aren't.

Also, I mostly just repeated @eee91 excellent post. I should have kept reading instead of answering. :-)

A gigantic percentage of authentic JK signatures are in ballpoint on the splash page. I question ANY Jack Kirby cover signature, including the DF ones, because it is well known that Roz was "helping" get those done. There is no way Kirby would have signed a Bob Layton cover either. I firmly believe that the Lee is fake as well, but Stan would sing anything you put in front of him, so there is a microscopic chane it is real, I suppose. But I believe it is fake and I have seen a lot of good, bad, messy, awful Stan Lee sigs. I know people seem to want these to be real - but they are not - so please don't be the gullible fool that buys the magic beans.

NO. He should go get his money back.

The Kirby is 100% fake. The Lee is about 97.5% fake. Run, don’t walk.

Who the F is Bernie?

You need to find the right person for the purchase of an item like this. Putting it to auction would be the worst move ever. SS of this type of pedigree historically tanks at auction because the market of interested, motivated and properly heeled SS fans is rarely watching auction sites. If this were mine I would BIN it on EBay at $4999. Do I think it is worth 5k. Maybe, maybe not, maybe . . . whatever. For the right person it is almost certainly worth $2500-3500. That is where other singularly popular Moore books have sold previously.

To the best of my knowledge there are none. None were done after 2007 for sure.

Jackson Bostwick - This guy played the live action Captain Marvel / Shazam from the 70’s. It was a hotel show in Louisville (same one where I met Margot Kidder who was quite a handful). Bostwick had a hand made sign on his table that said “ALL AUTOGRAPHS $20.” Pretty simple and easy to understand, think I. I hand him a couple of Shazam #1 and $40. He goes - “Oh, no, those are $50 each.” I said what about “all autographs $20?” He goes, “that doesn’t mean for collectibles. Those are separate.” So I’m standing there, slack-jawed, trying to imagine what type of SNL “The Californians” style logic gymnastics must be going on in his bag of cats mind to allow this. The irresistible force of my stunned incredulity smashed against the immovable object of his illogical avarice until finally he spoke “I have to do it because of EBay, man.” He got his $100.

OK - here are some of my favorite sig stories. Joe Kubert - one of Joe’s last shows that he did CGC for was in Chicago. I used to go to both regularly and would help witness whenever I could. Joe had a lot of subs that weekend - not Jim Lee or JSC a lot, but enough to have to coordinate. He was donating all of his signing fees to Hero Initiative, otherwise, he never would have taken a dime. He was so friendly and so affable, and he really cared about his fans. So we decided that we would divide Joe’s books into stacks of 15 or so and get them done whenever we could because he moved around a lot and didn’t stay all day. I had done maybe 60 that day, and saw the opportunity to do my last stack. He recognized me and we picked up where we left off - it was Hawkman or the Unknown Soldier or whatever. He did the signing, and I gave his daughter in law the $150 for HI. I was closing everything up and realized that one of the window bags had not been cut and he signed the bag. So I asked him to quick sign the book. As he picked up his pen, his daughter in law said “Wait I have to talk to the Hero people, I think we need to get another fee.” He smiled and nodded. When she turned the corner, he grabbed the book, picked a beautiful place, as he always did. He said “she is a wonderful girl, and pretty protective. If you don’t tell, I won’t either.” We shook hands, he put his hand on my shoulder and said “thanks for reading!” And that was the last time I saw him. I still have that window bag.

It is allowed to have a thread in the Sig Room to publicize an SS sales thread. And not just because I said so.

I have used several pressers and they were all easily able to remove polybag creases. All of mine were Spider-Man 1s.

Not silly at all, but thanks for stopping by!

I get it. I'm sorry that i sound so jaded, but it is because I am. I always assume that the person wants it to either flip it or hold on the if-come and flip it later. If I get my price, I am good with it. But I never take anyone that i don't know at face value with the "I've wanted this since I was a suckling" because, most of the time, it's about beating you down on the price.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

You got played. But that person didn't really play on your heartstrings that way you made it seem. "Been wanting this book forever (so I can flip it for fat stacks)"

Also to all n00bs, would be dealers and folks that like to feel good when giving someone a deal on their "grail." If you hear "it's for my personal collection," "this will be in my collection forever" or anything of the like - run for the hills. Chances are, it is on its way to C-Link and the Buyer just stole your cream.

@thunsicker

I would agree with you if it were a printer's crease, but for it to curve like that one does at the end, I don't see that as being a printer's crease. I wouldn't give that over a 6.0 if I were grading it.