Indrid_Cold

Neil Gaiman

Been looking for this baby for a while...

 

Wowzers. Some very sweet books in yer sig as well!

nice one!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

 

Sweet book in a sweet grade! Happy Thanksgiving indeed

Just got my coupon sub back.

Monsters Unleashed, love it.

A few recent eBay wins...

 

Very nice!

Claremont/Byrne + Phoenix =

Sold another high grade X-men 94 slab to Bofidious LongRupp. Payment was received from Mr. LongRupp well before the agreed upon target date. Friendly and reliable, the Rupp is a real asset to this board!

Nice ones Slym. Love that 94

+1 and the #266! (thumbs u

Agreed! Nice set of books there, Slym

Your " lid up " example looks really good to me! I'd be happy with that scan, but the graphics pros around here may be able to identify further possible improvement that my simple eyes are missing.

I prefer lid up, that's how I've always done it

I'm pretty excited about that All - Select. It's just an amazing looking book.

+1 you can say that again!

legal size scanner that uses CCD for $2.50?

Thanks for the tip, I'm definitely going to be hitting up the Goodwill (and similair) stores this weekend! I'd rather not have to deal with splicing images.

A couple years back I bought an inexpensive Epson Perfection v30.

Unfortunagely It cannot do legal size, so I have to scan the slab twice to get the whole thing, then merge the 2 images using photoshop.

But I only do a handful of slab scans a month max, so its no big deal.

The good thing is that this scanner is the CCD image sensor type so it has no problem focusing on the comic. I believe the CIS image sensor types have more issues with blur and glare due to the slabs inner and outter wells.

Here is an example of my cheapo scanner , lid up, in a dark room.

I probably used photoshop to knock down the brightness a couple of clicks, and upped the contrast a few clicks.

Label looks a bit out of focus, but no glare on the comic.

At some point I may spring for a legal size scanner with a CCD image sensor so I don't have to deal with image splicing

have you tried scanning with the lid up? preferably in a dark room

Random goodness.

Nice books!

I was extremely happy to see the Fed Ex guy today.

 

DAAAAAaaaaaaaannnnng! NICELY done sir (thumbs u

Nice X-books!

such a great cover

Wow! very nice!

@Harvey - thanks! I am lovin this book

@Shark - I saw your update regarding your health, congrats man, excellent news!

I was probably about 6 years old when I saw a Spider-man cartoon that had Juggernaut and the X-men in it. I barely remember anything about it, other than I thought this unstoppable Juggernaut bad guy smashing his way through everything , and those X-men trying to stop him , was too cool.

With that said, it's no surprise that Spider-man and X-men were my focus when I started reading comics years later. Peering into the glass case at the local comic shop to see the expensive comics, X-men 12 was the issue I pined for the most. I always wanted to get that issue some day.

Today is that day, and I'm really happy.

Won this last night on Clink!

very cool book, congrats!

and welcome back

very nice x-books!

These arrived yesterday

I "downgraded"... but it matches the other 8.5's in my collection so...

 

sweet sweet book!