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On 5/10/2024 at 8:59 AM, MachoGrande said:

It could be that proper authentication requires complete removal of the comic

JSA employs the Video Spectral Comparator (VSC) to reinforce the expert's findings. This state-of-the-art authentication tool is a powerful workstation that uses sophisticated color and infrared imaging, magnification, coaxial lighting, side lighting, and on-screen, side-by-side or overlaid autograph comparisons. In doing so, the VSC can detect erasures, reveal masked and obliterated signatures, differences in ink types, and several other signs common in autograph forgeries which cannot be detected by the naked eye.

I wish Kirby was around to draw the Video Spectral Comparator

Is that thing turbo-charged?

On 5/8/2024 at 5:02 PM, troydivision1 said:

What does the Signature Series hive mind think -
Will books (like mine below) that took the grade hit to keep a solid label yellow label fair better in the long run vs. a higher grade new yellow and black stripe label?
(presuming the current yellow and green labels on eBay will resubmit for the new label)

I asked about these books earlier in this thread and someone said they wouldn't be verified because there are doubts as to whether or not that jack kirby sig is real; even if it is certified as real, no one knows who wrote 968/2000 on the cover so it should still get a grade hit for having writing on the cover.

well here's what their website says:

What if my autograph was previously witnessed by JSA?

If your autograph was witnessed by CGC or JSA (as part of the JSA Witness Protection Program (WPP)), your comic will receive the CGC Signature Series label, unless your comic also has an unwitnessed autograph. If your comic has both witnessed and unwitnessed autographs — and they are all genuine — your comic will receive the CGC x JSA Authentic Autograph label.

I definitely would not want that stripe on my existing yellow label books.

What label does a book get if it already has a yellow label, but you send it in to get an interior signature JSA'd?  I wouldn't want that stripe because it would make it look like it ONLY has JSA'd signatures.  Maybe give it the yellow stripe at the top (like it already has) but add that additional text about JSA in the stripe.  Or, just make the JSA'd signature a label note.  But I definitely wouldn't want that black stripe on a book with witnessed signatures.

How on earth are they going to be able to verify those?

Another reason why they shouldn't be using the same label color for verified sigs and witnessed sigs.

if a book has both a witnessed and "verified" sig, then I'm fine with a yellow label.  If it's only a verified sig, I think blue with a color stripe (maybe orange?).  But they may have to start doing multiple stripes... what if it has a witnessed sig, a verified sig, but also needs to be green (say for a missing page) and has conservation, and comes from a gold-label-worthy pedigree?  That would be, like, 50 stripes.

On 3/21/2024 at 6:53 AM, Mr. Zipper said:

If you are asking if the Dynamic Forces Jack Kirbys will pass JSA authentication, the answer is “no.”

Yes that's what I was wondering.  I had heard there were questions raised as to whether or not those were really Jack Kirby's signatures. 

I REALLY hope they don't give these books yellow labels.  Yellow labels are supposed to mean something special, not just, "someone wrote a name on the cover and someone else who gets paid to say it's real thinks maybe it's close enough to looking real."

I wonder if they'll be authenticating dynamic forces books (like the Jack Kirby ones).

Otto Octavius missed his calling:  (Sorry if this was already posted but I didn't see it in the last 4 or 5 pages):

It's not working for me... I just came here to post this question.  Glad I'm not the only one having this problem.  I have a bunch of saved searches and well now they are pretty useless.

why is this on hulu and not disney+?

it looks like it isn't a "c", but a swoop on the end of the line that goes up to the right. 

Another awesome fan-made thing:

Looking for:

centerfold to cap 3,

complete interior to usa 8,

2 center wraps to usa 7.

Here's another fan-made video that's pretty awesome:

It means if you had your eye on that first wrap, you're too late.

I hope we get something feels like classic star wars.  Here's a fan-made thing from 2017 that (IMO) beats anything disney has done with star wars (well, except maybe rogue one).  C'mon disney, if a fan can do this for free, why can't you do this with all of your billions?

On 12/20/2020 at 3:35 AM, unclezebo said:

I blame the Dutch.

 

It was graded 11/13/2020

Now we know what happened to d.b. cooper.

Funny how a lot of them have that blue spot in the cloud, and a lot of them don't.

11 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

Did you do this? 

 

ery day

10 hours ago, piper said:

Based on the issue numbers, I would add these Omni’s: Uncanny X-Men Vol 4, Walt Simonson Thor Vol 1. 

Thanks.