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Robot Man

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    Berkeley Comic Con June 3rd. Mark your calendars!

    in Comic Events

    Posted

    19 hours ago, wormboy said:

    I love the Alameda show!

    I always find comics there too, mostly from that one guy on the corner who has boxes and boxes of book and comics.

    It's a great pitch to hit both shows!

    Yeah, he has stuff some times. Last time I was there a got some cool ECs from him. I also got the biggest find ever of UG comics a few years ago at that show. Sure wish I could go to both...

    What is the ONE GA In your Collection that you'll NEVER Sell?

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    18 hours ago, GoldCap said:

    I'd like to think I'd never sell my copy of Captain America Comics #78 as it would be impossible to acquire all of the signatures again but there is a 5.0 with the same signatures out there.  Also, if selling it helped me land a Cap #1 I'd do it :shy:

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    Not a fan of cover signatures as a rule, but that is one great line up and very nice placement. I have my first MAD #1 signed at the bottom of each of the artist's respective stories plus Kurtzman at the top of the page with a couple of doodles. My kids both want it and will have to fight it out after I'm gone.

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    The Anatomy of the Signature Fee

    in Comics General

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    13 hours ago, tv horror said:

    Comicwiz here is a quote from another forum I belong to and strange enough it mentions your airport, star autograph and even a plane ticket. I'd like to add what a nice man Sir Roger Moore was in life and he will be missed.

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    I've just seen this anecdote on Facebook and have stolen it to share with you all here. I didn't write it, the piece belongs, I believe, to a Marc Haynes;
     
    As an seven year old in about 1983, in the days before First Class Lounges at airports, I was with my grandad in Nice Airport and saw Roger Moore sitting at the departure gate, reading a paper. I told my granddad I'd just seen James Bond and asked if we could go over so I could get his autograph. My grandad had no idea who James Bond or Roger Moore were, so we walked over and he popped me in front of Roger Moore, with the words "my grandson says you're famous. Can you sign this?" 
    As charming as you'd expect, Roger asks my name and duly signs the back of my plane ticket, a fulsome note full of best wishes. I'm ecstatic, but as we head back to our seats, I glance down at the signature. It's hard to decipher it but it definitely doesn't say 'James Bond'. My grandad looks at it, half figures out it says 'Roger Moore' - I have absolutely no idea who that is, and my hearts sinks. I tell my grandad he's signed it wrong, that he's put someone else's name - so my grandad heads back to Roger Moore, holding the ticket which he's only just signed.
    I remember staying by our seats and my grandad saying "he says you've signed the wrong name. He says your name is James Bond." Roger Moore's face crinkled up with realisation and he beckoned me over. When I was by his knee, he leant over, looked from side to side, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said to me, "I have to sign my name as 'Roger Moore' because otherwise...Blofeld might find out I was here." He asked me not to tell anyone that I'd just seen James Bond, and he thanked me for keeping his secret. I went back to our seats, my nerves absolutely jangling with delight. My grandad asked me if he'd signed 'James Bond.' No, I said. I'd got it wrong. I was working with James Bond now.
    Many, many years later, I was working as a scriptwriter on a recording that involved UNICEF, and Roger Moore was doing a piece to camera as an ambassador. He was completely lovely and while the cameramen were setting up, I told him in passing the story of when I met him in Nice Airport. He was happy to hear it, and he had a chuckle and said "Well, I don't remember but I'm glad you got to meet James Bond." So that was lovely.
    And then he did something so brilliant. After the filming, he walked past me in the corridor, heading out to his car - but as he got level, he paused, looked both ways, raised an eyebrow and in a hushed voice said, "Of course I remember our meeting in Nice. But I didn't say anything in there, because those cameramen - any one of them could be working for Blofeld."
    I was as delighted at 30 as I had been at 7. What a man. What a tremendous man.
     

    Awsome story! My best celebrity autograph story. I don't do it often but if I stumble upon some one I admire, I figure what the heck. I was 16 and too young to get into the Whiskey in LA. Me and my buddy were hanging around the back door after a Doors show and out walked the band. As they walked by us I walked up and asked Jim Morrison for an autograph. He said sure and scribbled on the small piece of paper I gave him. I even got my picture with the band (which I sadly long ago lost). After they left, I looked at it and it read "Madly, Jim". Jim? Not Jim Morrison? I couldn't believe it. But I have that great memory anyway...

    The edowens71 Comic Journal

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    1 hour ago, edowens71 said:

    Well, here at the end of May, I still have had no luck finding any of the "Missing 10."

    I have to keep this journal going with something, so I might as well hit you with another title run...Crime SuspenStories.

    Crime SuspenStories was a bi-monthly anthology crime comic published by EC Comics in the early 1950s. The title first arrived on newsstands with its October/November 1950 issue and ceased publication with its February/March 1955 issue, producing a total of 27 issues. - Wikipedia

    Although the title produced only 27 issues, there were two different versions of the first issue (as I outline earlier in the journal where I was laying out the completist list. Here's that discussion: LINK). So, I have 28 issues in my completist set.

    I started working on the run in January 2013, and I completed the run in April 2015. Of course, the upgrading continues...

    Here are the stats for my current 28 issue run:

    Acquisition source:
    23 from other boardies (82%) (shout-outs to stevemmg, fantasyland15, Warren Oates, TorontoDesignGuy, GermanFan, heresy, Columbia Comics, Gsims718, cheetah, and KirbyJack :headbang: )
    2 from eBay sellers (7%) 
    0 from ComicLink/ComicConnect/Heritage auctions (0%)
    3 from other online comic sellers (11%)

    Raw vs. Graded:
    13 have never been graded by any grading company (46%)
    15 have been graded by CGC (5 cracked out) (54%)

    Pedigree Copies - 7 total (25%):
    4 Gaines File Copy
    1 White Mountain
    1 Northford
    1 Edgar Church

    Grade distribution:
    Mean grade: 7.2; Median grade: 7.5

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    That lowly 2.0 copy is the relatively hard to find issue #1 that was originally labeled as #15. Happy to have any copy of that one, but I would be happier if someone would sell me an upgrade. lol

    The group shot:

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    I've had two complete EC collections and hundreds of others and have never seen Crime SS #15 (#1). Consider your self lucky.