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@Marv-vell, I think it’s a lot better this way: with super-high grade copies you can be seriously tempted to sell at any given moment, while with great presenting lower grade ones, not so much… @Harry: I have a lowgrade #48, PM me if you can be interested.

For some reason, I don’t see the Photobucket images you have posted…

I just love Billy's RAW Annuals…

I guess most of us are like that… Especially with squarebound books or as far as better page quality goes. I especially enjoy to read books with whiter pages, as the artwork stands out a lot better! @Mar-vell: Thanks, in fact that is A LOT better for me…

I think that's R rated. If she is 11 Akira is probably not suitable. Not because it contains anything "obscene" or excessively violent in graphic terms, but it is a narration which couldn’t be so suitable (and even enjoyable) for a 11-years old. I remember I found it quite "strong" when I read the incipit when it came out (and I was 19).

Are you selling your undercopy of #4, Mar-vell? I am still missing it but not among my priorities, just curious.

Um… She might just love Kiseiju. The story involves teenagers, about 17 years old (they are very mature, and the events make them even more mature), and it’s pretty strong, but I guess that if I have read and enjoyed Killraven at the same age, it can be OK.

Jim, I have never been able to finish reading the whole work (in italian they suspended the publication), but I would recommend Kiseiju (in english: Parasyte): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasyte I am not sure whether these are easy to find in english: the first american edition was suspended, and the second one probably did not have a big print run: I tried to re-collect the series in the american edition but I am still missing some issues. However, it is an unique read for sure. You would like it as well.

Thanks, Jack. Page 15 is just FF#7 is… the "sense of wonder" of the classic years of science-fiction backfiring all the way!

They nailed it, carefully placed two pieces of microchamber paper on it , front and back, placed it within a mylite 2 mil with acid free buffered fullbacks, again front and back, placed that mylite into a 4 mil mylar, placed that into an acid free archival top loader, and then into a microwave signal blocking foil padded envelope, into a lead lined concrete box (constructed with 3/4" galvanized rebar, and shot that biatch into space...... I gave this a + feedback as soon as it arrived. I‘d give it an A+++++ eBay feedback even before it arrives!

This cracked me up… Not saying it's always the case, but Hector is an acute observer. :: you forgot 6 - mention current inventory with possible grades and future plans for said inventory

Yup, the german editions from that period are very nice. I gave to Matt my italian #48, now I have this one for him to send on the next occasion.

Very sweet (well, actually crude!) – I still do not have any single issue of Crime Does Not Pay.

That hurts, Claudio Nah, I understand though. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in many thing in life. I always strive to make a distinction and separate simple taste from criticism. There are great artists I really just don’t like, but I recognize the quality of the work. With Lim, especially in his early years there are proper flaws, both in proportions, anatomy, composition, and they are not deliberate interpretations: they just show a lack of background in drawing, an insufficient grasp on the volumes of the figures, etc. He had and has good composition skills, he knows how to tell a story, but the drawings in themselves have often many defects. Now, if one wants to find such defects in artists like – say – Todd McFarlane, it becomes more difficult to determine whether they are limits or in single cases choices, because his art is caricatural, but with Lim that always worked in a realistic way they just pop up. This does not mean he did not have qualities, but his work at the time was still immature and had objective flaws (I have not followed him recently but I seem to get he improved, much like Jim Lee, which had different defects, and worse ones we could say, as they were related to storytelling).

While I obviously have respect for all the people enjoying his art, I can’t really stand Ron Lim's early 1990s work. His defects keeps popping and popping to my eyes… I don’t know who Toxin is as I did not follow Spidey much afterwards, but that one is very nice!

Wonderful!

I have no idea what you mean here. In part, that’s probably why these movies have had such a huge success. They have a little to do with what the original comics and the Marvel age has been. As for the "disappearance" of comics (or books, if I understand correctly) I don’t think these speculations make any sense: you will always need a material support for everything, and with a power shortage you can’t read anything, while I can still read graffiti on million-years-old stone surfaces. We are men of flash and bone, you can have a period when things to be read on screen or on devices can be fashionable, but it‘s not much believable as a permanent thing. Unless people stop to read, in which case it means our civilization is not doing well.

I can be, but no trace of them (both the "digital comics" and the data) will remain.

Be patient, I have never photographed it! :: Love bc's avatar too!

On that, I truly hope so. I still have problem having a grasp on how much that could have been benefical for Marvel. So far, it hasn't. Earning a lot of money means nothing if you lose your soul.

Ah, and I believe there are very little "movie fans". People enjoying movies that also seriously collect (and read) comics are pretty much coincidental. At least, that is so in Italy.

I don’t know what you are commenting on, but just so you know my reply was directed at 1950s war comics which was wondering about Deadpool's popularity, and aimed at that one alone.

Nice, thanks much! I will join as I have a moment to register.

This is just… shattering! Of which year are we talking? Aside from value, he must have made a great impression on Jack: I suspect he was able to read into people's hearts, to some degree. He gifted me and the friend which was with me two mini-posters and the Argosy issues, that was very graceful. A pity my mini-poster took water damage, luckily I shipped yours before that happened (they have different illustrations).

Oh, I would surely not sell them (the Argosy does not have "commercial" value anyway), they would be viable just as special gifts, as they are special items. And luckily no Captain America Comics #1 which one could feel the need to sell under dire circumstances…