Chipmaker

I did have a cheeky bid and I was winning for a while but it went for more than twice that amount Does anyone have it? - Chipmaker may be able to tell us (if the buyer is ok with us knowing of course ) That was mine, yes (#23/100), and I'm very pleased with the sale price, but I have no idea who the buyer is. Perhaps in a month or so, when the item is delivered and the pride of ownership bursts forth, the buyer will make him/herself known. I'm a wee bit curious, but my role is ended.

But I could put a reserve on it.... It's a difficult one to call. I would as a seller as the book is untested in the market... but as I potential buyer It's a revalation that Cat Yronwode just wrote any number in there - i.e. "23" just because you'd asked. the implicatons give me a headache That's never how I thought of it. I assumed the copies were all already signed and numbered, and per my request cat simply riffled through the pile and pulled the one I asked for. But perhaps your interpretation is correct, which would be daunting.

But I could put a reserve on it....

I had my copy (#23/100) graded and slabbed about a year ago, and since I have no real interest in keeping it, off to auction it goes. Yeah, sense of urgency is zero. Lotta other things going on. Don't read any significance into this serial number (#23) indicating how many copies might be out there. I requested #23 in my letter to cat, and hurray, she complied. (At the time, late 1985, I had recently finished reading Shea & Wilson's "Illuminatus Trilogy", in which the number 23 often appears, so it was on my mind.) As for CGC taking note -- I submitted it directly into an employee's hands at a convention here in Austin, and pointed out the 2D interior and had it noted on the paperwork. And they missed it; when I got it back the first time, there was nothing noted on the label. Complained, sent it back, and then they got it right.

I can still remember some of that Kotter parody. Favorite line, and you need to know that the Arnold Horshack character is renamed as "Arnerd Horseshot". Klodder is reading out the sweatslobs' grades on a recent exam to the vice-principal. Horseshot got a -4, and the VP demands to know how he got a negative? "He spelled his name wrong. That's '...s-h-O-t', Horseshot."

Well, congrats, very, very nice book, but why are you obscuring the serial number? my big-time quest for this book (with Chris) ended when Michael acquired a NM one! At one time I was offering £500 for a copy If this is a new one, yours is copy no.7 (or no.6 if you discount the MSU one) It's a new one; mine since I bought it. I no longer have my canceled checks, but I do have -- I dug it out a week or two ago -- the register, showing I wrote a check to Eclipse Enterprises for $5.00 on 12/21/1985. My vision, at the time, was not very good -- nearsighted -- but also wildly unbalanced, as my left was MUCH more severe than my right. I could not resolve the 3D effect well (and even today, I'm not much good at resolving "magic camera" hidden pictures). Cat did ask for letters of explanation for those interested in buying the non-3D versions, and this is what I wrote her. Curiously, a few years later, I had radial keratotomy (the procedure cat mentions in the final line of her vision essay) on both eyes, immediately improving both greatly. I still have some astigmatism (RK does not address it), but my nearsightedness has been gone ever since. There are more advanced procedures now -- and my RK corneal scars (which are nowhere near as bad as they sound) make me a complex candidate for further surgeries -- but the RK was a blessing to me, and I can resolve 3D just fine.

I'm arriving pretty late to this party, but this may be of interest. I read Miracleman real-time in the 1980s. Had the entire series, #1-24, most (probably all) of the associated, Eclipse-published issues. But they had long been stored away, untouched for many years, and I didn't really think much about them. Coming across this forum recently, I've been amazed that 1980s material has seen some collecting revival, and the intensity of interest in Miracleman floored me. So I dug out (probably) everything today, including this -- yes, original owner, bagged and boxed everything back in the day -- the 2D version of the Miracleman 3D issue (I've decided to obscure my copy's serial number for now): Cover, indistinguishable from regular 3D: Page 1: cat yronwode's signature on an interior page: I handled it today, to take these pics, for the first time since probably 1990, maybe earlier. It is not for sale today. It may be in the near future. What now? Should I have it graded?

Sizzle #28 was tough for me to find (I missed it in real time). This is her only cover appearance so far in the Sizzle run. Important tip, Omaha has NOT been in every issue since #28. Many, but not all. I think all the issues with Omaha have cover mention of it, but my copies are not here to check.