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Carmine Infantino is another artist that definitely is up there. Huge body of work, highly inspirational and a great style. You can make the arguement that he was the Silver Age until Marvel took off. All depends in the criteria we're using. How were the 4 figures for Rushmore chosen?

Hey was a solid journeyman artist with a huge body of work (like zillions of others) but I never found him inspiring or extraordinary. There's a zillion artists like this (Tuska, Milgrom, Colan, etc etc) with long, solid careers but I'd never point to them as stand out artists. Again it all depends on the criteria you are using. If it's size of body of work then yes, he trumps Frazetta.

I love Byrne, but sorry. No. Every one of his faces look exactly the same.

Completely wrong Yeah, I was too tired to go there last night.

That's why I hesitated when I named him....but what are the criteria for Mt Rushmore? He is as highly revered as any artist to ever touch the medium and some of his works may be considered the best of their kind. So I guess it comes down to what we're using as criteria.

I said from the start that Adams was my third. I melted when I saw his art the first time and I still feel that way to this day on his SA / BA stuff. I just felt a little compelled to not be so quick to nominate him because he's 'only' a SA / BA artist but his originality, quality of work and his reach of influence earn hims that spot.

Even if Ditto didn't help create Spider-Man, he'd still be considered a great because of his body of work and quality of story telling. Eisner changed story telling and inspired many of the greats after him...Frank Miller obviously being one of the most obvious prodigies, and a great himself. Sorry, but I think Kirby and Eisner are probably the only two who are shoe ins.

The criteria isn't necessarily bodies of work but rather who made an impact. Frazetta is up there among the most revered artists of all time. Whaaaat? Are you wrecked? If anyone deserves to be up there with Kirby without much of a dispute, it's probably Eisner. And Neal Adams slightly edges out Bernie Wrightson but both are probably considered the greatest artists of the bronze age.

I had the same 1st 2 before I clicked on the thread and as soon as I saw Eisner I glowingly agreed. I just don't know enough about Barks to actually suggest him...and I'm thinking about a 4th as I type this. Frazetta?

Maybe with better scans? Or better pictures. So many people take pictures of their slabs in a plastic bag and it doesn't do the book justice.

Gawd, I was so young. I think I was in my mid to late 30's there. I forgot how dark my hair used to be!

Greggy doesn't love me anymore. He used to send me special messages and everything.

For that greggy cover I actually got the original Rawhide Kid comic, had Flee make the cover, printed the cover on cover stock and had it mounted on the original interior of the Rawhide Kid comic. Then I got CGC on board to do a fun slab of the thing and they filled in all the commentary on the label. We handed it to greggy at a gift at a forum dinner. I think it was in Chicago one year, about a decade ago.

I forget how the Strawberry Shortcake thing started. What I remember about SS is that greggy would post multiple quotes of the cover to the comic and it would literally crash the forums because there were so many multiple quotes loading at once.

Neither. I just think it's a natural swing (as @joeypost said in the other thread) that possibly one tight grader is swinging the grades in that direction.

That's been my number one complaint since day one. Do you mean on the latest, updated site? Me too, but it isn't changing. They have improved the site greatly since the new release so I'm happy with that. Tons of stuff has been addressed from the rollout a year ago. This is relatively new and a GREAT feature!

There was a thread in the Grading and Restoration forum that discussed this recently. The general feeling was that CGC was tight (with a few people who disagreed) In my experience, they are very tight right now. I know how to grade. I've been submitting books to CGC for 17 years and I generally am about 70-80% accurate with my submissions with the 20-30% missing the grade being accounted for by either things I missed (not as likely) or just me trying to test the boundaries of what will get the grade (more likely) My last subs came back with only about 30% of the books hitting the grade. My submissions are generally higher grade Silver and Bronze / Copper. I feel like CGC is right on the middle of the road when I'm hitting about 75% and when my percentage drops below that, they're tight. I also see resubmissions not grading the same grade so it's not just my own grading but I'm also comparing their own grading to how they're grading now.

Another successful post.

Don't you think you should contact a doctor about your health issues rather than a comic book chat forum?

try rubbing alcohol. It might be on the inside of the glass.

Scan a white piece of paper and see if it has that spot.

You mean like the one that Brulato's collection was losing money as each day passed? I quickly skimmed this thread for the 1st time in nearly a decade. Now I know where 10,000 of my 97,000 posts came from.

Can you show a picture of the back cover? Interior page quality won't change as quickly as it takes to fade a cover. Comparing the colors on the back cover will likely give you the answer.