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Pretty much. His mom was happy, but it was just a job like if he was working at a laudromat (!!). Sounds like kids regularly worked jobs back then at young ages to help their parents make ends meet.

Holy cannoli!

Oh yay! CGC asked my question (daneinva) in one of their Instagram videos to Shooter about what his parents thought about a comics company hiring him at age 14 (they put 13, but I definitely said 14).

None for me. It's was initially a novelty for me that's wearing off quickly. I will say though that with this Shooter / Zeck / Beatty signing, I got smarter and sent the books to a third party presser FIRST before sending them to CGC. So, we'll see if that helps at all.

Yeah, I had that feeling after the McFarlane signing. Felt like a bunch of my 9.6s should have been 9.8s. Even wondered if they were actually sent over to CCS after the signing, and still have my doubts. But no way to prove that of course. As well, have to acknowledge McFarlane could have had a heavy hand when handling the books. So, then the Crain signing came up and I thought, let me try it once more. Sent in 3 books, and this time, they all came back 9.8s. Yay! My faith was restored. But then the Perez signing happened, and that was a complete waste. A 9.0, 9.2 and 9.4. Now, I'm not an expert grader of course, but I do feel like I can discern those grades from 9.6 - 9.8. Again, wondered if they even went to CCS for pressing at all, or if Perez sat on them before signing. I've got 3 Miller and 2 Claremont coming back to me at some point this year, but I honestly don't have my hopes up high for those anymore. Expect they'll be similarly disappointing like with Perez. I wasn't going to send in anymore for these signings until the Shooter / Zeck / Beatty triple signing was announced, then I was like DANG IT! I'm super excited for them, and really hope they don't disappoint. But yeah, probably no more for me after this either.

I'm sending one in that's a strong candidate for 9.8. Fingers crossed!

Shooter / Zeck / Beatty are signing this upcoming week!

Stamped the week after I was born:

I was wondering why I was having an increase in offers on my 1st print 9.2 copy. Interesting. Difficult to gauge the value after that 7.5 sale. Wow!

CGC announced Frank Miller's signing starts tomorrow!

Yeah, but I wanted to send the books to Gary Kendra first for pressing, and he's got a 7 week TOT.

Thundercats 1 quietly doing well. 9.8 doing really well.

About 10 years ago, when I was putting a set of these together, I found the Heathcliff 12s to be the most impossible to find.

I'm kinda hoping the trio of Shooter / Zeck / Beatty gets pushed back a bit as well. Need more time to get books over to them in time.

That's simply untrue. It's certainly more pronounced these days with the insta-hype internet machine. But there are popular issues / characters that Hollywood hasn't touched. Firestar has her fan base.

I don't know anyone my age who's concerned about their prostate. I don't know what 'ed' is, so perhaps that's a concern for my generation. I can assure you though that Firestar is popular for us thanks to the Saturday morning cartoon. That 'Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends #1' issue hasn't been cheap for many years, at least not the high grade copies. I will say though that it's always irked me that UX193 doesn't get more recognition for being Firestar's first in-continuity appearance. Even CGC ignores that little fact on the label. But Firestar's in-continuity appearance was the main selling point of that issue when it first came out.

A LOT of kids who grew up in the 80s.

One of my all-time favorite covers.

Still no movement on my Perez books signed last week. Sigh. This is like waiting on Christmas morning for the parents to get up!