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I didn't have much of a wait. I went on line at around 2:45 - 3:00 on Sunday. I pretty much just walked right up with a CGC rep. There wasn't anything else I saw there though that I felt like spending money on right 'now' as compared to what I know is coming up on auction in the next few months. I must say that this was more of a comic show than last year's. Last year Carbo had the Russian Mail Order bride thing going on in the room. That was kind of all sorts of weird. It was probably weirder that I recognized that it was someone that advertised her 'services' on the Stern show. There was none of that this year. What was with the beer person downstairs? I noticed that as I was leaving and had to catch a train so I could not stop.

Bought one book... bought one book and had it signed by the man himself and then said goodbye to it for a couple of months while it is graded. This replaces the Nick Fury 1 cgc 9.2 signed by Steranko that I sold over the summer. (Someone made me an offer I couldn't refuse for that... $650) Met up with my friend Pete, took a look around, took a train to Bayside, met up with another friend, she drove me to Forest Hills, had dinner at 5 Burros then hopped a train home... also took my picture in front of a kind of important mural... Might I also add that it is cold A.F. in NYC and I decided to travel sans jacket because of the legendary heat at the Carbo show...

Sigh... On. My. Way.

Maybe... originally it was that MJ would remember everything.

I haven't thought about Joan of Ark since "the flames rose to her Roman nose and her walkman started to melt."

Ohhhhhh...... My bad... For my submission I say at this point... ANY of the Valiant company wide crossovers from Unity to Chaos Effect. I also liked the storylines that saw the end of the original Valiant 4001 titles...

That was actually more believable to me than One More Day... It doesn't make that story great... but I say that to demonstrate how absolutely ridiculous OMD was to me. BTW... STILL waiting to find out what MJ whispered into Mephisto's ear.

One time, there was this stunt that Quesada pulled once where he said that Peter Parker made a deal with Mephisto to save his dying Aunt at the sacrifice of his wife and potential (?) daughter. Then all of a sudden Harry Osborn came back. They said it was magic or something. That was pretty ridiculous.

Great thread as I also have an 8300 and use vuescan and am always looking to improve my scans. I wish I could find it, but Ghost Town had also offered some advice to me so I will be testing your settings in comparison (eventually). As far as the glare on the cases I think it depends on the colors of the cover of the book being scanned along with the type of slab itself. This was what Ghost Town had offered.

Congratulations... that is an awesome collection you have created.

In all my years collecting, reading, buying... I have never come across one on the newsstand or on the shelf at the store.

To me great comic book art should tell a story even if there are no words. I believe it is known that I am a big fan of GI Joe, but I say the following outside of that interest. I sincerely believe that issue 21 of GI Joe should be included in the basic manual for how to create great comic book art. A good artist should be able to not only accent the plot but to be it's copilot. In the case of GI Joe 21 (The Silent Snake Eyes Issue), Hama tells a story through the artwork. He cannot rely on exposition for the reader to be engaged. The reader is engaged by the pacing, the mannerisms depicted by the characters, the background images, angles, point of view and every other artistic trick in the book. I mostly see a debate in style in this thread. However the basic mechanics are all that matters. Some people prefer different styles over others. To me, that is fine. However, take away the style, if the artist cannot tell a story with their art if the words are removed, then they are missing something that really should be there.

From what I have seen / understand eBay acts as a proxy for another auction house. The items are offered on eBay and as a participant you are responsible for any fees associated that the other auction house (not eBay) determines that the buyer should pay. The last time I saw a live auction, it was run by a company selling toys. They tacked on a buyer's premium (like what Heritage does) and then had a highly inflated processing and shipping rate. The auction was run from a house I had never heard of but seemed to be using the eBay service to reach a wider audience. I think that I also saw one for movie memorabilia and props once. Also their rules are separate from eBay so in some cases as you describe above you are not as protected as you would be with the buyer's protection that eBay offers. eBay makes this very clear when utilizing these types of auctions as you usually enter a prescreening process to become a participating bidder. (At least in my case I had to be prescreened.)

Carbo was also supposedly getting married at the show with Stan officiating. Am I safe in saying that this was <spoon> as well?

The only thing I am mostly disappointed about the new forum is that I cannot track moderation actions like we could under the old boards.

My current business model in relation to eBay fees. I raised the prices of my items to reflect the raise in fees. When they sell... they sell. If they don't sell... then eventually they will.

Adjoining township.

The thing was though that aliens or inter-dimensional beings made sense to me as Indiana Jones had aged out of the fight the nazis for religious artifacts in the middle east phase of his career. Indiana Jones was supposed to reflect the period, so with an older Jones it had to take place in the 1950's. During the 1950's the media focused on the Red Scare and the Atomic Age and cinematic plot devices like those old B-Movie space alien films. The real problem with "Kingdom" was that it was better than other movies that came out at the time but it was a poorly executed Indiana Jones movie. It is like Godfather III. Godfather III is not a 'bad' movie. It is just a bad Godfather movie. Like Kingdom of the Crystal skull it does not live up to the efforts that came before it.

Or maybe Bradley Cooper... just throw someone some money.

And seriously... just throw some money at Chris Pratt already...

http://www.slashfilm.com/indiana-jones-5-coming-in-2019/ Almost ten years after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull hit theaters and after years of promises and rumors and dead-ends, it’s official: Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones, the two-fisted archaeologist with a thing for punching Nazis and recovering ancient artifacts, is returning for a fifth film due out in a little over two years. According to an official statement on the Walt Disney Company’s website, the untitled fifth Indiana Jones movie will arrive on July 19, 2019 and the whole gang is getting back together. Harrison Ford will return as Indy, Steven Spielberg will step behind the camera once more, and Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall will produce. Here’s what you need to know from that statement: And that’s all we know right now. Whether this announcement sends chills down your spin or waves of dread through your heart probably depends on whether you’re a pessimist or an optimist. The fact that this news was announced on the Walt Disney Company website speaks volumes – this is the first Indiana Jones adventure to not be released by Paramount. After all, Indy was the property of Lucasfilm, which meant that Disney acquired him when they got in the Star Wars business back in 2012. By not releasing this news in a trade or even emailing out an official press release, Disney has made their message loud and clear: Indiana Jones belongs to them now, existing alongside Star Wars and Marvel and Pixar and everything else that you love. The Future of Indiana Jones You’d be hard-pressed to find many movie fans who were happy with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which has only further aged into one of modern cinema’s greatest sour notes over the past nine years. It’s the kind of thing people talk about in hushed whispers and with sad eyes – what the hell happened? While it’s easy to imagine the financial incentive in making a new Indiana Jones movie (Crystal Skull still made a ton of money), it’s also easy to imagine Spielberg and Ford not wanting their previous collaboration being the final Indy adventure. One of the finest heroes in pop culture history deserves to go out on a high note. But here’s the thing: Disney and Lucasfilm are in the franchise business and Harrison Ford will be 77 years old when Indiana Jones 5 hits theaters in 2019. You don’t build a franchise around someone knocking on the door of 80, even if that someone is one of the greatest movie stars of all time. If I had to make an early wager, I’d put good money on Indiana Jones 5 letting Harrison Ford ride off into the sunset, closing the book on his stint as the character…while also introducing a new actor to take his place. Conceptually, it would be easy. Bring Ford back for one last go, but also introduce a new, younger Indiana Jones in flashbacks. Let the torch be passed. Let Ford move on. And then, with the blessing of everyone attached to the original series, Indy lives on in a younger performer, free to go on all kinds of adventures for the foreseeable future. That’s the Lucasfilm/Disney way and so far, it’s been pretty good to Star Wars. Once again, this is all speculation – I’m just saying stuff. But also once again: whether this speculation sends chills down your spin or waves of dread through your heart probably depends on whether you’re a pessimist or an optimist.

I cannot simply redo my last sales thread and update it though. The links at the end of the thread take you back to the old boards.

I use the term Atomic Age if it means anything... especially in terms of the EC Sci Fi and Horror books. I think I noticed the application of Atomic Age after I picked up my first GA era Batman book with issue #41. That book is considered the first Batman Sci-Fi cover. Once I asked around someone edjumicated me and said it was one of the first Batman Atomic Age covers... Ohhhhh

To be fair... Arch said that he had never noticed that before. This indicated to me that he would have never permitted it on the old board either.

Larry Hama figure is live. I just pledged $25 dlvd for the basic figure.