Jaylam

On 4/19/2024 at 7:38 PM, Jim Corrigan said: I'm glad you said that because I was thinking it. Are you saying the great new Marvel breed of readers are hideous?

Has "Grease Pencil" or "Foreign Substance" been taken?

Rat Chew The Coupon Cut Outs Missing 3rd Wrap The Dog Ears

These are probably my 2 favorite Silver Age Green Lantern covers (there are so many to choose from). On #44 the black logo against the orange background really pops and is quite a rare combo in the Silver Age.

And in just a few short years, not only did Stan revamp the look of comic books, he revamped the look of himself......new found hair and beard???

Why was Mr. Fantastic called Mr. Fantastic? Just ask Sue!

Think of the possibilities....and all for just $7.95.

Image of one side of said package in question….

Well, exactly, if you see 4 spine ticks and a roughed up corner in the image but the book is 9.8 with no grader notes, you have to know something is amiss. Caveat Emptor!

Isn't that how the scam was discovered, people started noticing the book didn't match the grader notes for said certification number?

...and, did you get a resolution to your inquiry?

Yes, and both were happening at almost the same time. Related or just an amazing coincidence? Will we ever know the real truth and if there are any other scams and compromises going on that are still in the shadows that no one is savvy too yet? Tune in next week for the next episode of "Mystery Bullet Theatre".

I have only had one book come back graded less than their raw grade out of probably 25+ books I have bought from them and then graded and that one came back one full grade point lower than advertised (7.0 vs 8.0). I've had 2 or 3 get 9.6's graded at VF+ or VF/NM. Most others have hit right on the mark or the next grade level higher. Of course, there may be bias on my part of only sending in the books that I thought looked as good or better than their grade too. I have sent a few back that I believed were too far off the mark for my preferences. Never had a problem with their customer service and communication.

I didn't even know it was flower (some consider a weed) until I read the origin of name for the character.

I honestly thought it was this, not knowing it was actually called "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Can you imagine my embarrassment if I was a contestant on Jeopardy and wrote "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" instead?

I think the other contestant said "A Tale of Two Cities".

Last night's final Jeopardy question was "Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution “was the 1st super-hero I…read about”. The answer was "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Even though I had heard about "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in passing, I never knew much about it except that the great Daffy Duck cartoon "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" was some kind of parody of it. This Jeopardy question of course piqued my curiosity about it and was shocked to find the stage play and subsequent novel was the first to set the pattern for the superhero genre years down the road with all the double life/secret identity and calling card tropes we are all now familiar with but were virtually unheard of before this. I found it was a novel written by Baroness Emma Orczy and first published in 1905 but this novel was based on the very successful stage play she and her husband had written a few years earlier. I am both floored and embarrassed about how through all my literary travels over the years this information has escaped me, especially since I have been a comic book aficionado most of my life. Am I the only one who somehow let this slip through the cracks in my life? For more info into this story here's a link to an article about it and how it relates the superhero genre; one of many such stories you can find. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/09/batman-wonder-woman-black-widow-worlds-first-superhero-scarlet-pimpernel-orczy