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Those back covers might be early Mike Champion work.  He was an artist alley favorite during the early days of sketch covers.

Here are some auction results for Opper. It looks like Happy Hooligan does the best for him.

https://www.invaluable.com/artist/opper-frederick-burr-teclugpnd0/sold-at-auction-prices/

Swinnerton is a very sought after landscape artist. His comic art does pretty well too.

https://comicarttracker.com/james-swinnerton-original-art-for-sale

These comics were obviously read and loved.  They exhibit what I consider to be normal wear for comics that were moderately well taken care of.

The wear at the corners, edges and spines of these books indicates grades ranging from 8.5 to maybe a 9.4 on one of them.

DO NOT SLAB THEM.

You would be wasting an absolute fortune. Pressing will not help these books because the reading wear breaks color.

If you love the series and want to get into graded books - buy a couple already graded - they should be cheap, relatively. 

Buy a couple 9.8s.  Check out what they look like compared to your copies.

Learn how to grade to CGC specifications, and then you can start hunting raw copies and subbing them yourself.

On 2/22/2023 at 1:06 PM, ivdyer said:

I was half tempted to start a “How long have you waited for a fully paid for commission” thread for this book.  This was fully paid for in 2019, yes 2019.  After establishing a schedule I checked in ever October only to be met with not this year or you can accept a refund.  Fast forward to October 2022 and I finally relented and asked his manger for my refund but as fate would have it Jay had time in between covers and in January it was finished.  At home commissions are a rarity for Jay usually only doing at show commissions according to his manager so count this as a “you will have to pry this from my cold dead hands” book.  Without further ado Jay Anacleto…..

 

OMG - worth the wait!!!!!

I can't help with facilitators, but ECCC 2007 is where I got my 1st SS books done. 

Hope this bump brings some facilitators to the yard.

I don't know what that is, but I don't think it is Ron Lim. He very consistently has a stacked sig with the Ron over the Lim in a kind of box. And the L-I-M is nearly always quite distinct and not connected as those letters are.

I went to GCD to see who else worked on the book and I didn't find anything good.

But I am strongly, "Not Ron Lim."

On 2/6/2023 at 11:08 PM, Buzzetta said:

 

Back when this thread was originally created one of the people mentioned in this thread "allegedly" called CGC and then complained and they in turn "allegedly" reached out to several people. 

I forget what was pulled on him at the time.  I think that they found a shuffling of property or something under a few of the names mentioned along with some other things.   Either way, one of the people who might be the focus "allegedly" threatened to sue and spooked enough people that I heard about it at NYCC that one of the people in this thread was "allegedly" going to come after a few people.

 

 

Allegedly.

{Rubs hands}    Dis gon be good . . .

On 1/30/2023 at 1:30 PM, Turnando said:

If it were me, assuming I'm wanting a high grade Psi Force #1, I'd keep the 9.0 as it is and begin a quest to find a better one in the wild.

It is an inexpensive book so you can afford take chances.  Buy the super clean copies when you find them and then you can hone your grading skills... on your search for a 9.8.

This is really good, non-snarky advice.  I struggled with how to do it, and this is excellent.

Yeah, exactly.  Hey, Lloyd!!

On 1/13/2023 at 10:03 AM, Axelrod said:

$611.00?

Not too bad, I don't think.  Congrats!

That's a strong price.  Reminiscent of the Dave Stevens cover craze. If it follows suit, the next one will probably go for $250-300 and then settle in a bit lower.

On 1/12/2023 at 10:39 AM, MAR1979 said:

Pretty near a 20 year old term. Origin's in on-line (video) gaming. For purpose of my original post you can substitute it for; rube,simpleton,novice,neophyte

newb

Someone who is new to the activity that they are currently partaking in. Very often this term is used pertaining to computer games.

I was just having fun with you. You typed uniformed i.e. "wearing a uniform" instead of uninformed "having no information, naive, newbish."

I shouldn't have wasted my time.  My bad.

On 1/12/2023 at 10:07 AM, MAR1979 said:

My opinion is on non-trading cards Goldin auctions get fewer eyeballs and since the bubble burst they no longer get uniformed newb's with deep pockets.

Why not Comiclink or Heritage?   The fee's on the former are more reasonable as well.

I am uninformed about uniformed newbs. Please expand.

That is the best looking 6.0 I've ever seen.

My family was always very tolerant, because they were the ones who gave me comics as a very young reader to shut me up.

I caught a lot of flak about it in high school, but I always talked about how much money I made flipping comics. That would shut them up.

Certainly not the best defense of comics as a legitimate art form, but good in the short run. Money talks - Bu****it walks.

It might be a good idea to check it every once in a while to make sure the pages aren't migrating.  It looks really good, but if the pages move, I would crack it out so it doesn't get damaged.

On 12/12/2022 at 9:18 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:

That’s  what you get when you mess with the ginger 

What makes it so bad (for the N00bs to understand) is that at the time almost no one was charging for sigs. Neal Adams might still have been free. That's the context.  Frickin Suydam

Beautiful book, and better signature placement than on my former copy.