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More accurately, he needs to REMEMBER how to draw. Its like he is trying to protect the value of his older work by turning in only crude disjointed now.

Only to practitioners of wrongthink.

THE COMMITTEE IS WELL AWARE OF THESE TRANSGRESSIONS!!! THE GUILTY WILL BE CAUGHT AND PUNISHED!!! Thank you for speaking your "two minutes' citizen!

Well to be fair he has won 10 world championships and thats 4 more than Jordan....

The next years version of this card (98-99) is being pushed on Goldin Auctions right now, only at 5% of that and its graded Gem Mint AND is from an actual regular season gamer....so probably what 800k-1mil? https://goldinauctions.com/1998_99_Upper_Deck__Jordan_Jersey_Autographs___MJx-LOT75197.aspx

The Certified Link auction ends tonight, tons of high end 2017 Mahomes RC's and RY cards. I wonder how last nights game will impact their sales. That's why I'm "catch and release" with cards. Unless its Brady, Jordan, Gretzky, or Mantle the players value is still subject to rises and falls based on their on field performance....of course I collect at least one active player and two retired mid-tier players so I'm not exactly always following that rule. https://www.certifiedlink.com/auctions/default.asp?clickType=&TypeRads=all&ord1=5&ord1d=ASC&ord2=4&ord2d=ASC&ord3=0&ord3d=ASC&top_search_hiddentext=&pg=&control_loc=low&nextsectlow=&nextsectlowval=&nextsect=70&nextsectval=FOOTBALL&nextsecthold=&nextsectholdval=&nexttype=&lefthandpick=1&focused=1&code=&beenheredonethat=1&overridesort2default=1&view=2021jancert

I do a lot with cards and art, so I see the value of both options. My view is sorta on those lines. Keep autographs that fall into these categories (the more they align the better): 1. On card (no sticker). 2. Licensed by the league its from. 3. RY material/ earliest examples over later signed (when possible). 4. ESPN/Marketing tied athletes. 5. HOF guaranteed. 6. No longer signing (or rarely like Sandy Kofax). 7. Clean design cards with large dedicated area for signing (busy autos seem to suffer IMO). 8. Graded over Non-Graded (especially ones with clear issues of corners or surface wear). 9. Major brands over lesser (I.E. if you can keep a Prizm auto or Mosaic auto with all other factors being equal lean to the Prizm. Same goes for UD older cards like from SP authentic or Panini Flawless/National Treasures. Ones that don't fall into those categories (especially on multiple fronts) i would be apt to move for comic art. Hope that helps.

Everything now is just marketing, Forbes is just a little more obvious about it than most.

He just expressed violence so clearly. Even in this later style it’s so clean and spidey just looked like a man who understood how to deliver damage with his fists. Just perfect, I want to read this story now. Great page.

I’m excited by this. I was gonna send some props to Profiles but this will be much easier.

I saw all these names of posters and I had to do a double take and check I was still in the original art section.

1. Ammo 2. Gold 3. Heirloom Seeds

I didn’t bid because I couldn’t identify it either.

Check out blowout forums. It’s insane how glib people are about prices. What’s more trimming is still an issue with high end graded so what exactly are they buying?

I see Mets/CAP/Point72 owner Steven Cohen deleted his Twitter after being called out by Dave Portnoy for his involvement in Melvin Capital. Things gettin spicy.

Flaming Carrot 17 cover by Bob Burden (1987)

Well as long as were not making it personal. Could just leave it at "I dont agree, but would be interesting to see."

If you can justify printing any direct market books next month, you can justify something like this that actually has a chance to generate excitement and positive press/marketing for the overall corporation (that would vastly outstrip the value of any comic sales if you think about it).

This is not my idea or what i was proposing, but again I think its getting pointless to discuss further here.

What’s more...what if you let them get creative? Huge event occurs that literally wrecks the earth? In our earth the disaster (as always) is averted...what if in theirs it didn’t? Sea change (lit and fig) occurs and we now see villains and heroes in this new reality. Maybe bad guys become semi good guys (stealing and revenge mean little in a world where a large portion have perished and basic necessities aren’t being easily meet). Maybe some heroes succumb to this horrible new reality and they shift to a less noble version. The world works because it was easy and it made sense. What happens when it stops making easy low effort sense? Anyway Ive pitched the idea before and I’ve yet to hear anyone think it totally sucked. I’d love to have a shot to talk it over with someone at Marvel, I’ve been thinking about this idea for like a decade...and it all started because I thought it would be neat to see them go back to lettered on page pencil Ink originals lol.

You should be able to print a book on that stock for 1.25-1.55 a copy since much of it’s in house from what I’ve read. I can imagine a print run of 25-35k could be doable. You sell at 2.99 a book to mostly older established collectors who might be willing to step back in for the nostalgia and see where you go. The value comes from the free press this generates beyond the book sales. Marvel giving back to the creators, hell you would get main stream media pick ups on that. Shop owners would be more In support to take a chance on this product than some rando inhumans relaunch. The marketing alone makes this book a guaranteed hit. Like Marvel doing a hero’s initiative version of their own. Any proceeds extra goes to a fund for older artists and creatives. This is tip-money to Disney, a guaranteed PR win in the era of dark days for them. It makes it seem like a big happy family looking out for its past and maybe opening up a nice new product line that could catch fire considering their readers skew older.

I don’t think it would. You would have to get the word out it was coming but I bet you could sell similar numbers to many current books at a much smaller production cost. Cheaper paper and technique to offset hiring letterers and a few colorists. It might not make a ton of money at first but the value it brings to the community in taking care of older artists and providing them a voice again could generate good will and positive PR that Disney could use right now. That alone makes it a “profitable” idea.

Someone at Marvel should start a small imprint and call it Marvel:1975 or something to that effect only the trick would be to have all of the artwork and printing for the book be done using the same production processes as 1975. All of the artwork would be pencilled, inked, on-page lettered, and completed by guys who worked in or around the era like Pollard, Buscema, who ever. The printing will be on the same cheaper stock, coloring using same old school methods. Should keep costs down on it. The twist is that it will allow you to take a completely different line on already existing stories and characters but have it occur naturally using many of the same era creators to give it authenticity. Maybe some cataclysmic event caused this alternate world and so we have to see how the heroes and villains react to this sea change event. Maybe alliances/priorities shift? It also would provide a lot of work for those guys and produce pages they could sell and maybe bring people back into reading who have “outgrown” that part of the collecting. You could have small to order print runs and format the fonts and graphics to align with the era, only you could do more in-depth dialogue and story content. Anyone brought on would have to work in the more traditional marvel style of the era, understanding the world they create would still have to exist in a 1970s world view.