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It's plastic, so it counts! Picture of the box only showed it from one side (front), which didn't give a sense of the damage to the back (that, or it got a bit trashed in shipping). And it doesn't have the coupon book or sticker sheet that it came with originally (no idea how/if I'll be able to separately source those...). But still, the price was right.

27!

13th place! That's probably the highest I'll ever see on these rankings

I'm in, please!

Ahha! I don't own any other Whitmans and hadn't actively sought them out in the past, so I had no idea what distinguished them from others. Sweet, good to know. Thanks!

Now that I finally signed up for CLZ and copied my personal DB there, I was going through my UXMs to note which were newsstand and which were direct...and realized I have no idea what's going on with this issue of UXM #118. I can't find any info on a variant for this issue (it's pre-newsstand/direct distinction...the only "variant" I can find is a British Pence edition, which this clearly isn't), and so I have no idea why the UPC is blank and the price box and upper right corner boxes are different. Does anyone here know anything about this? Normal cover, for comparison--

Thanks for the opinions! Yeah, it's more of a curiosity really; I didn't buy it specifically for the signature. It's a folder of the Marvel First Quarter Report 1993, I got it because the outside front and back look like uncut card sheets, with the front having 3 X-Men along the center row and the back being all X-Force (Fleer sets). Finding the sig (which is inside, yeah) was just a bonus.

Hi all, Picked something up this weekend that had this Stan Lee sig inside, apparently dated 1994...looks like actual marker (as opposed to printed on the folder). Any idea if this is real or not?

Sigh, that's kind of what I was hoping wouldn't be the case. Still, is there any way to view the CLZ Core? That would at least let me match what I have to what's in their system.

Sorry, that wasn't what I meant. What I meant was, does anyone know where is CLZ getting its comic information from? Like, what comicspriceguide labels as the numbering for a particular variant isn't what CLZ is referring to it as, and I'm trying to figure out where CLZ is getting its series name/issue numbering information from so that I can match the data in my Excel up to it. My issue isn't field mapping, it's finding out what they call, like, the Wizard edition of X-Men 1/2, or the Dynamic Forces version of UXM 560, or the FCBD edition of Suicide Squad: King Shark, things like that, so that I can match everything up and import it in smoothly. Does that make sense?

I've decided to go back to my Michael Moorcock/Eternal Champion Sequence read-through, after getting abandoning it a few years ago when I reached Mother London (I just...absolutely could not get through that book. At all. And I hate not finishing books). Skipping that and re-starting with the next book, King of the City...which...is not going very well either, lol.

Haha, I totally looked for Waldo also...

Hi all, I currently have all of my comics tracked in my own Excel sheet, mainly using comicspriceguide.com for specific title naming and variant numbering. I'm looking at getting CLZ (probably the desktop program and app) and copying my DB there, to have it be more accessible while at cons/stores. I did the free trial period for each to try them out, but found that a huge chunk of what's listed in my Excel was coming out wrong going into CLZ...some instances could be fixed by pointing CLZ to the right book, but in a lot of instances, it wasn't even letting me do that, or search in any way for what it was supposed to be. (And it wasn't all variants...I couldn't get it to recognize my Saga of the Swamp Thing #37, and I have no idea why it wasn't registering that book right.) For 99% of the entries that it wasn't recognizing out of my Excel, I couldn't figure out any way to pinpoint it to the correct title/book/variant. That brings me to my question...can someone point me to whatever CLZ uses as an underlying database? Like, whatever it checks to pull book info from to list it in their DB? I'm willing to put in the time in my Excel sheet to tweak the titles/numbering so that it flows better into CLZ (and then fix one-offs after that), but I don't know what it's pulling from to know what to renumber my variants as, for example, or to specify book titles that it wasn't recognizing. Thanks in advance!

Ugh...this has me concerned. And already annoyed. I pre-ordered the new printings from CGN for X-Men Omnibuses v1-2 and Uncanny v1-3 (and ordered a v4, which was still in print) back in like, July. So far, I've gotten Uncanny vol. 2-4 (2-3 just arriving yesterday)...and my vol. 2 is like you're vol. 1 (while my vol. 3-4 are like your vol. 2, the better spine). Now I'm dreading that Uncanny vol. 1 is going to come back the same as my vol. 2 with the smaller spine font...and who knows with the X-Mens. My shelf is just gonna be all over the place

My core collecting is Uncanny X-Men and X-related... I'd say my #1 grail outside of that would be Adventure Comics #247. I always enjoyed the Legion...

Woo, in the positive!

Woo, in the negative! Yeah!

Ouch, started signup on a holiday weekend...never even stood a chance of getting in, it seems. Oh well, next context!

I was cataloging some recent acquisitions and noticed an oddity with some of my Marvel Masterworks, so I thought I'd throw it out here to see if it was a known thing... I have 2 copies of Marvel Masterworks vol. 11, first printing (GSX1 and X-Men 94-100). Both say Vol. 11 on the spine, volume 11 on the title page, but vol. 8 in the indicia. Even though on the same page as the indicia is a list of the first 12 or so volumes of Marvel Masterworks, listing Volume 8 as the Incredible Hulk first one. Anyone know why there's a mismatch between the volume number everywhere else and the one listed in the indicia?

I'm in!

Posting a bit late, but only got back a day or two ago from seeing family, and got to open my great gift from @manicnerd! Some great oddball/oddity books (the Handbook is the hole-punched folio version), and the re-entry of one of my favorite, criminally underused X-characters, Mimic! (I cannot for the life of me get the stupid second picture to not be upside down, and I don't know why...I gave up, lol) Thanks so much, manicnerd!

Sent in my list! Not going to be able to make the live picking, and at #33, well into the middle of the list, I'm curious how far down in my rankings I'll end up getting...we shall see!

Pics of the actual book for my raffle entry, X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series. US only for shipping, unfortunately.

Shipped mine yesterday, should arrive Friday!

I'm in! Pic to come, but my donation will be a copy of X-Men: The Art and Making of The Animated Series