Taylor G

In the absence of any further information, and in an abundance of caution, if you've provided Heritage with your bank account details, I'd recommend changing your bank account ASAP.

The malware was in the 3rd party software they were using to show ads on the free version. Sounds like they're looking for another way to monetize their product. Y'know, app development is not free, those guys do need to put food on the table.

Not answering your question, but CamScanner was removed from the PlayStore (and later reinstated) because it was carrying malware. There's got to be something better out there.

New English Library, who published the Dracula magazines, also put out a nice hardcover that collected all of the magazines (unlike the softcover Warren TPB that just collected half of them):

Thanks, I was hoping that someone had already done the work of fonts to imitate the work of the great unsung letterers of the past. For example, not what I'm looking for, but hasn't someone developed an Artie Simek font?

Where? Thanks for the advice on Adobe Illustrator.

A lot of art tends not to have dialogue on it, including modern art and not-so-modern art that was intended for the international market. In the past, publishers would tape a plastic or vellum overlay over the art, with the dialogue balloons on it. When they didn't just glue the balloons directly onto the art . Question: Any pointers or advice on constructing one's own dialogue overlays, for the case where the original is lost or in poor condition? My thought was scanning the printed page and using Photoshop to erase everything but the dialogue balloons. Then print or glue onto a mylar sheet. Perhaps blowing up the original printed dialogue balloons would not look so great, so instead tracing out the shape and position of those balloons in PS, adding the dialogue, then print or glue onto mylar. Since dialogue balloons with Arial font would look cheesy, I wonder if anyone has worked on fonts to imitate letterers of the past? I'm personally interested in the seventies..... The market rate for getting this done is about $500/page, which really adds up if you have a lot of pages like this.

Stuart Ng on NYCC:

Well, boxes get moved around, and pages can get blunted corners from moving around in the box . Bagging and boarding, and/or some kind of portfolio (I prefer both), also gives the option of vertical storage. Less of a footprint, easier access, why I'd like to avoid a box. A 24"x36" box laid flat has a big footprint. I've heard of people who store their hundreds of pages of art piled in stacks in their closet, not looked at for literally decades.

Ordinarily I'd consider trimming the art to be vandalism. Whenever you see it, you wonder who was the who used to own the art that did that? But I've got story pages that are 19.75" x 27.5", and the art is about 12.25" x 17.5". I can get mylar sleeves and custom cut backing boards (minimum order 50!), but who makes a portfolio that these will fit in?

Use archival mounting corners to mount the art on the backing board, otherwise you're going to end up with blunted corners as it shifts around in the mylar sleeve.

Sorry, I meant Ebay. I guess you have the option of sending them a postcard.

You've got contact information, including their telephone number, so you can text them asking for their email. As for side deals: Ebay is too big an operation to police private messaging manually, they're relying on dumb algorithms that filter for things like email. People work side deals all the time, and I'll bet it's getting worse now they're collecting sales tax. Of course, if you're caught, its grounds for having your account deleted.

Frazetta. Wrightson.

Congratulations to all winners of the Auraleon CSK pages on Heritage Auctions over the last few weeks. For what it's worth, I obtained these pages as "trade bait" in hopes of trading for pages from this story, which I was hoping to complete: But I was never able to find owners of the pages. Too bad, based on the Heritage results it looks like some people missed some great trading opportunities. In any case, if anyone has one of these pages and wants to sell it to me, to bring this story closer to completion, let me know.

BWS on Buscema:

Where these before or after the 4-issue run of Vampirella? Where they also from IPC? Did they also have color interiors?

This art has this explanation: I have a copy of that book, great reading, chapter titles like The Whip Cracks Or Is It Kraft-Ebbing? and Is Conan Dating Clark Kent? This is what the original cover looks like:

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If the shill bidder cancels the purchase, all fees are repaid and there's no reputational hit on the seller. They don't even have to pay insertion fees if they have less than fifty listings a month. I don't know if even Ebay would notice a pattern and shut this kind of thing down, but as long as the seller is generating sales and no-one is complaining, I assume they will turn a blind eye.

Perhaps storytelling is not Lucas' thing (which if true would be a shame for what it means for the museum).