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thank you....great person, great artist

Top pic..she looks said in her eyes and he wears sunglasses...not a good vibe here...maybe Stan is correct

PN congratulations on your CGC registry award as one of the top 3 posters...well deserved!!!!!!!

PN outstanding post above. The wild card has always been Goodman. Probably like all of us we sometimes regret what we sell using hindsight. Goodman probably should marvel for pennies on the dollar. So why revisit something painful........something worth many millions of dollars. Just a guess PN

I feel same way part one by far the best...then politics and a bunch of other stuff came in.....Again this was made for general consumption with a mental age of 15....for reference see the movie "network".

Great EC panel on Sat. Lots of images of private commissions by Johnny Craig.. EC fandom is alive and well. More books coming on EC!!!!! There is a "Flegal" book coming collecting all the non-EC stories that is gonna knock everyone's socks off.... Williamson and gang.... By the way without Hollywood the comic con was just fine, one thing I noticed the floor was much more crowded. I also attended the FrankFrazetta panel...and there is a major documentary being made while we speak. They previewed the first 5 Mins, it has been in the works since 2019...fantastic. This years SDCC a knockout

Saw all three last night. Did learn a few things especially early dc history. I would rate it 5/10 content and 9/10 visual. Stunning to see those iconic images blown up. I think for the general public it was very informative. If board members are on the fence try one. pretty cool DC admitted they had no clue early on what marvel was doing during the silver age. thanks for the heads up.

hopefully SM book on this subject will be the go to source as to what really happened!

will you be there?

SDCC great this year...not has much hollywood which is fine with me. More collectors...best show in the last 5 years!!!!!!

Great stuff Cat

Big EC panel tomorrow at SDCC...I saw a preview of one of the presenter's slldes...wow stuff I have never seen before. it happens at 8 pm and any and every serious EC collector needs to attend, over 100 sides from 3 presenters along. It is great to see stuff you have never seen before or knew that it existed....incredible

I was at SDCC and had talk with the Jack Kirby collector publisher. I made him aware of this thread and hopefully he will add to its content. In a nutshell I great the impression it would be 90% Setve and Jack and 10% Stan. He did an article which from 1963 on took Stans's statements about creator input and how they changed over time, especially going into the 80's. Interesting that he has come to the same conclusions as we have...

do we know how many times she appeared in the GA.

That puts you in a very powerful position of rebuying them very cheap with your vast knowledge .....and nobody really knows how really rare they are except you.. I hope you do that...pick the top 5 and go for it. If not please PM me your top 5/10 that I need to look out for....and I will run with it.

I will second that...especially early 70's

Thank you for your explanation Ian. It did not occur to me that you did not want to break up the set as it is doing now upon sale but it makes sense being that it was your creation and your won actions on not breaking up the set when you let it go. On your collection of Disneys, Harveys and Gold Keys, have you thought about going after complete collections of those to add to your legacy! When you say you have an enormous amount would you estimate that you have about a 50% completion on those?

Great info WW. Was there ever an explanation given as to how the original deal of Ian keeping the books for the rest of his life and how they ended up being on the sold block. Did Ian and buyer amend the deal later? Basically how did it get to the point that books could be sold before Ian's death..I am missing something here...any speculation WW.

Understandable, but we here on the boards understand, he might not, that all auction houses are not created equal......by far. Does the current owner post on the boards?

This does not look good, however if you want to be...welll

Makes sense Ian.....the bigger you in the collecting world, the bigger the target. When I first came on, it was on like donkey kong, a lot of people came after me. You either sink or swim...the sinker leave the form, the swimmers like you and me become teflon...bounce it off and come right back at them. I was wondering Ian if you considered buying some of your collection, especially the ultra rare editions that most collectors would not appreciate, in a way buying back some of the best. To that point, the choice of auction house for your collection is very weak and a number of buyers, especially international that Ha or CC would have on their customer lists are not going to find out about it. So repurchase price could be reasonable on the material you would really want, especially the very early books you purchased with special meaning. I know you stopped buying, but I have suggestion for you, by the hardcover DC omnibus editions of JSA and Green Lantern...the sliver age ones and reread them and see if you can get back into the collecting bug.Your collection is once in a lifetime...which means you have one last chance to cherry pick and get back some the unknown and super rare editions. Even if means just 10-20 books instead of 40K and you could start a new thead...the Ian Levine collection II...the good stuff book by book ,Give it a thought!!!!!

I was there it was fantastic, but all the current heavy hitters in the EC world, the movers are gonna be at SDCC for the panel coming up

On sat July 22 at 8pm will be one the greatest EC comic book panels ever assembled at the SDCC..it is entitled "EC Fan Addict Club 10th anniversary"... it is worth the price of admission.....The current generation of great authors and publishers keeping the flame alive...do not miss this. If someone can cut and paste the guest list...I know there will be some super surprises!!!!!

as a early attendee, it has NOT...but it is different. This year less studios due to the writer's strike and should be more comic con.....there is always good material at SDCC....some do not want to incur the expense, I can understand that...it still is the best comic book con panel wise bar none. For example the outstanding "EC fan addict club 10 anniversary". on July 22 at 8 PM...look at that line up....a who's who of EC publishers etc....worth the price of admission alone....

I think one thing is clear....by the evidence Kirby/Ditko were the true creators of the marvel universe with a little stan sprinkled on top.Lets look at more evidence...more stories on this post to confirm what we now know.