Bronty

RIP Paul.   Wonderful artist.

on the comics side, here's a good one.    Grade looks slightly soft but the book does look gorgeous below the blue banner.

I like the better adult titles that came out at that time.    Its more interesting to me to read all the various genres you could get in indies at the time from humor to fantasy to horror to adult to sci fi without reading another same old, same old superhero story.     

I've never read Omaha but for adult works I did enjoy the Don Simpson works from the time - Wendy Whitebread, Forbidden Frankenstein, etc.    

On 2/8/2024 at 12:19 AM, tth2 said:

 

I have to say I never cared much for the xmen as I thought it was a corny soap opera, but that issue 102 is super cool.   That was one I enjoyed reading and loved the art for as well.    Out of the cockrum run that might be my favorite issue.

On 2/7/2024 at 8:43 PM, adamstrange said:

Maybe they'll make up for it with an extra dosage of Garfield strips.

that would be amazing

On 2/7/2024 at 8:41 AM, cstojano said:

Good info, thank you. Funny you mention pressings because WOW I find that a confusing landscape. But I am not talking about vintage records here but more recent releases where its clear they are intentionally releasing multiple color pressings, special editions, special special editions, etc.

On price stickers, I think vintage action figure collecting led the way in not preferring them. But there is no real issue with authenticity there, unlike shrinkwrapped products like video games, records and for me RPG products. While I don't care for the look of price stickers it does make me feel a bit better about the shrink being vintage (although people can lift old stickers too).

I can't speak for records or rpg products but on (vintage at least) games there's no authenticity issue; the sticker doesn't prove anything.    The boxes are cardboard and just the act of opening them stresses the cardboard in detectable ways, especially along the back hinge where color breaks and a groove is formed from having to pull open the flap that you can see under magnification.      Now, when you get out of the cardboard age and into the plastic case age, I have less expertise on that and it may be more of an issue.

Merry Christmas  

I like the ones for stores that no longer exist.   Woolworth's and Richman Gordman and so on.

And TBH I basically feel like whatever the answer to that question is, removal will happen more and more over time - its a losing battle, a bit like telling people not to press their books. 

On 2/7/2024 at 7:31 AM, delekkerste said:

TiG has better looking labels than the hideous ones that VMG uses. They also have a partnership with Heritage. 

Also, VMG downgrades sealed albums if they have a store price sticker on them (perhaps not coincidentally, they offer a "sticker removal service"... ) whereas TiG does not. Price stickers can often provide valuable information that help date the pressing of an album (since the exact same sleeve was often used for later pressings) and are often really cool looking in and of themselves. All things considered, I generally prefer albums to have a store price sticker on them as 9 times out of 10 it's a net plus. 

I always liked store stickers myself on the video game side as well.   You could see the original price, sometimes the date, and as you say they have a vintage look to them themselves now.   Unfortunately, the OCD crowd won out and stickers have been removed consistently for 15 years now.    What's it like on the music side?   I have to think there are lots of people running around removing stickers there too, and that the market generally slightly prefers 'clean' copies without stickers?

You were right.   Now would you consider letting it go?      

On 2/6/2024 at 9:39 AM, delekkerste said:

Sent off another dozen albums to Tuned in Grading yesterday and sending off a second dozen (including Ratt's "Out of the Cellar" and "Invasion of Your Privacy") later today.  

Stephen Pearcy hit on my sister a while back.  

I'm guessing that's not that exclusive of a club

How long ago?    I saw him on some interview maybe 5 years ago and he was a mix of entertaining, interesting and messed up.

On 2/3/2024 at 3:52 AM, romitaman said:

My brother has i think over 1000 cds....from 30+years ago   (if that matters to anyone.????  he loves his music!)

took him weeks to download them all on his computer.

I have many pinball machines and video games if anyone wants to stop by... (no bunker however)

By the way I saw that Leave the World Behind movie a month ago as i love SYFY movies.......I liked it but thought the ending was a little too silly.....

(my brother loved the ending)  go figure! LOL

Nice to hear you have good taste!

Pinball OA for the win!

On 2/1/2024 at 1:24 PM, vodou said:

But hey, no worries going (back) to carbon zero yea!

and horseshyt in the streets!

On 2/1/2024 at 11:26 AM, Bronty said:

I think I've just been debunked!

Let me just say.....................   WHEW.

I have to admit I've gone from thinking.... wow she REALLY fell off to... damn I've never really considered the phrase GILF before!

And no disrespect to Marianne, time gets everybody in the end.    

On 2/1/2024 at 10:06 AM, delekkerste said:

Marianne Gravatte  

I will submit my sealed copy of this LP in my next grading submission (I have sealed copies of the Ratt EP and first four LPs in my collection ).

All this talk about nostalgia and whether now is better than then or vice versa...all I know is that '80s music and pop culture will never be exceeded as the high point of Western civilization!  

Speaking of Marianne,

Here's the concept of future shock in a single jpg:

On 2/1/2024 at 9:52 AM, comix4fun said:

When I tell my kids that when I was a child that I was the remote control (every kid born in the 60's and 70's knows what I mean) and we had 4 channels and UHF as entertainment....they start looking for homes that will take me for my elder care. 

When we drive by the seniors' home, my kid tells that's where I'm going to later  

On 2/1/2024 at 9:38 AM, KirbyCollector said:

That is it, exactly -- thank you for putting something concrete behind my abstract observations. A long time ago I used to contemplate the changes my one grandfather (born in 1907) saw during his first 40 years, and how shocking these must have been: phones, cars, planes, television, penicillin, not to mention running water, in-home bathrooms, washing machines, refrigerators etc etc. If you fell asleep in 1907 and then awoke in 1947, you wouldn't recognize your world. Considering what we have seen over the past 30 years alone, it has been a lot to take and definitely explains the need to literally encapsulate the past.

Yes, that's true!    in 1907 you're riding a horse around town.    You wake up in 1947 and there's concrete everywhere and cars.    Huge changes all through the 1900s.

great books guys.   Just watch out for light exposure.    Leaving them out on permanent display can turn those purples into baby blues and those deep reds into pinks before you know it.

tremendous.   was he the original owner?   

great books