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Comic celebrity passes away. “Oh no, now it’s too late to get him to sign my book”

Stan Lee passes away. “Oh thank the one above all. His reign of terror is ended. Books around the world are finally safe from his magic marker.”

On 3/13/2022 at 12:53 PM, WernerVonDoom said:

Surfer!

Alright. I can’t hold the question back any longer. How many do you have in 9.4+ from 1-100?

Based on the timing of his post and his indication that his funds would be in hand on the first, I think it’s obvious his funds were in a buried cache in Ukraine that he expected to be liberated in short order. But his plans appear to have gone awry.

On 2/26/2022 at 2:35 PM, Randall Dowling said:

That writing on the back is... unusual.  It looks like young Recil was going through some things.  

Well she WAS being a ijit after all...

Just imagine what this would sell for if it had a stamped rocket on it!

On 2/24/2022 at 2:49 PM, chrisco37 said:

Cleaned & Pressed is the way to go!

Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then...

On 4/24/2021 at 4:24 PM, Domo Arigato said:

Several are no longer active, but here's the ones I know off the top of my head (pretty sure I got them right).  I know who a few of the others are, but can't think of their board names right now.  I'm sure greggy could fill in the blanks.  I believe this was from the very first forum dinner.....so the time frame was probably in the early 2000's when this picture was taken.

 

Man. So many epic eyebrows in this pic...

On 2/24/2022 at 9:14 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Wait, you don't like the land bridge to Ireland?

I think it’s the unrealistic standard for flight times to Australia suggested by that globe that bothers me most.

On 2/23/2022 at 2:28 PM, MattTheDuck said:

I'm pretty sure that's intended as foreshadowing of Attuma's appearance in FF #33

 

I dunno what bothers me most about this cover. That unfortunate stain? Subby’s missing toe?

Nope. It’s that Leroy here forgot his gun.

If he pays a cool billion for it in dollar bills (which is only about 8% of the total in circulation so shouldn’t be too hard to round up), that works out to 2.2 million pounds of currency. 
 

Lift with your legs.

On 2/20/2022 at 9:49 AM, Kevin76 said:

I know some folks hate on this cover because it’s “boringly mono-chrome” but I’ve always liked it. And how can you go wrong with that perfectly accurate map of North America? Look at Baja California... and Florida... and... well, yeah.

There are over 7 trillion bees on earth. A thousand for every human being.

I’ve often wondered what it would be like if we each had our own thousand bees that just followed us around all day like an angry personal cloud.

...

Sorry. This seemed like the right thread for that.

I have zero chance of ever being in the market for a book like this, so my thoughts matter little. 
 

But for me the writing comes down to “was it on the book before the first time it was offered to anyone to buy?” If so, then it’s no different from a receiver date when it comes to the grade. Writing was already there from the chain of events that pre-dated its availability for sale.

Which is why the same writing on a Spawn 1 is a defect. And this is not. (To me, at least.)

Had a collection dropped off yesterday with at least 80 signed Linsner books (and a couple hundred more unsigned), including dozens of variants I’ve never seen. Two full sets of every printing of Cry For Dawn. There look to be 9.6-9.8 copies of a few but I strongly doubt it will magically have the two that @RedGiantneeds. 

On 2/18/2022 at 4:34 AM, namisgr said:

Saturation.  

 

I can’t imagine a better looking copy of that book. Yes it’s “only” a 9.6. But that’s a Mega Ball winner when it comes to the saturation. Wow.

On 2/17/2022 at 9:13 PM, mr_highgrade said:

How many of these bad boys did you pick up in that once in a lifetime collection? 

None.

That collection went in a closet midway through the September 1965 cover dates and wasn’t touched again. So the final FF is 42. Final ASM is 28. Final Avengers is 19.

On 2/17/2022 at 2:45 PM, WernerVonDoom said:

That saturation. *swoon*

Yeah if I was selling it raw in person, I’d probably have it priced like a 5.5-6.0. Clearly explain both the flaws and the eye appeal. And I doubt it would take more than three or four interested customers before someone went home with it. 
 

Fifty years ago the prices informed the grades. Books with these five different combinations of flaws all sell in the same price range therefore they are all the same grade. 
 

That process breaks down here. Because the person who buys that book likely chooses it over any similar priced 5.0 that was available. (Some folks would reject it outright because they hate that particular flaw.)

On 2/13/2022 at 5:42 AM, Kevin76 said:

Grader Notes 

Large spilt center of spine

Light spine stress lines

 

That sort of thing is tough. Because honestly it feels more like a Qualified 8.0 than a Blue 3.5.

@greggy drew my name for Secret Santa almost twenty years ago and sent me a pile of his under-under-under-copies of awesomely cheesy Bronze Age DC romance comics. They’re still among the most beautiful books in my collection and not one is ever leaving it.

And one delightful afternoon when I was visiting the area, he invited me to his home and let me look through a couple boxes of his Sweet Sweet DCs. 
 

Truly one of the kindest, most generous comic people I’ve ever met. Keep being awesome, Short Shorts. Love ya man.

Hadn’t seen the page quality until now.

Someone is going to be very happy to own this.