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Flex Mentallo

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    GA Board Member step up....Taschen needs your and Cap 1-12 and All Winners 1-3 for the ultimate Cap book

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    If anyone in this forum happens to be interested:

     

    Marvel Comics Library. Avengers. Vol. 1. 1963–1965


    Relive the classic early adventures of Avengers Nos. 1–20 in an XXL-sized edition that’s bigger than the Hulk’s fist, weightier than Thor’s hammer, and with more extras than Iron Man’s armor. Rather than recolor the original artwork (as has been done in previous decades’ reprints of classic comics), TASCHEN has attempted to create an ideal representation of these books as they were produced at the time of publication. The most pristine pedigreed comics have been cracked open and photographed for reproduction in close collaboration with Marvel and the Certified Guaranty Company. Each page has been photographed as printed more than half a century ago, then digitally remastered using modern retouching techniques to correct problems with the era’s inexpensive, imperfect printing—as if hot off a world-class 1960s printing press.

    Seriously???

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 3/21/2022 at 10:33 PM, Dark Knight said:

    Yeah, pretty ridiculous if you ask me...  The seller made out like a bandit with this transaction that's for sure, like taking candy from a baby.  I really want to know the thought process of the bidders as to why they think this is worth over a grand.  I still can't wrap my head around it..  Maybe they are paying for the CGC label because it says "Action Comics #1 from 1938?"  

    Speaking of CGC, they should really stop slabbing ridiculous things like this, it just lowers their standards.  It seems like a lot of people are joking around about it like we are now on this board and it comes off as a bad look for CGC in my opinion.  Heck, they don't even have the proper case size for something this small, all that dead space in there...  I guess if there is potentially $ to be made, why not?  Things like this should automatically be rejected for grading and encasing.  Will we see vintage staples being graded next now?  :facepalm:

    Single panels? Or has that already happened?

    Seriously???

    in Golden Age Comic Books

    Posted · Edited by Flex Mentallo

    On 3/21/2022 at 5:38 PM, goldust40 said:
    On 3/21/2022 at 10:32 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
    On 3/21/2022 at 10:26 AM, Duffman_Comics said:

    This "hobby" has now reached peak stupid.

    Yes. It seems stupidity is quite lucrative though, doesn't it.  

    I foresee greater stupid. Not sure what it is yet, but the market will find a way...

    I fear it's only just begun.

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    Borges, “Of Exactitude in Science”

     

    Of Exactitude in Science

    …In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same Scale as the Empire and that coincided with it point for point. Less attentive to the Study of Cartography, succeeding Generations came to judge a map of such Magnitude cumbersome, and, not without Irreverence, they abandoned it to the Rigours of sun and Rain. In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar; in the whole Nation, no other relic is left of the Discipline of Geography.

    —From Travels of Praiseworthy Men (1658) by J. A. Suarez Miranda