WoWitHurts

Still have not received my badges ordered 7 February.

Hope so. It is currently hurting my IM 9.6 run :-)

I think ASM 300 is more iconic than the other two and from a run perspective it IS Spider-man and part of the McFarlane run. The other two not so much. There isn't much love for the IM run in my opinion. I have my original 55 that is 8.5 and have wanted to upgrade for a long while but Marvel is dragging out this Thanos thing forever lol. I want to eventually get a 9.6 white but I can't pay these prices right now. I would be happy for it to go back to the 2016 prices.

I am a fan of extended bidding personally. I wish all auction houses did.

I'll Take it.

I'll Take it.

I'll take it.

Ill take it

I was bidding on a dozen or so books and only one success.

Yeah I imagine for those of us building an IM run it is a slow process. After reading this thread I took a look at my SA raw IM to see what I had. I actually laughed out loud. I think I have a problem!

I totally understand. Bring what sells. However, there are a lot of other strange drek I see that I would be surprised to find sells.

About 4x the comics at WW STL. I picked up some nice copper ASM. Once again no love for High Grade Iron Man. Either IM is the most popular title ever or no one ever read it because even in low grade it is scarce. About half of the dealers didn't even have a single issue.

If you have any High grade Iron Man's do bring them.

I stopped at 700 but really don't care about anything after 441.

I agree here the sudden inflation is crazy there is more than enough interesting comics out there. I guess no one wants a common book, it has to be "rare." I liked this cover but then I love 238 so I bought a couple. I was also in communication with the artist to buy the OA but the first offer raised his price to mine and I missed out. No biggie. Iron man 219 was a $3 book one day that no one cared about but now people want $40 for a raw copy. Just because that villain is going to be in a movie. It's not popular because people liked the character or it would have been in demand already. Weird.

I was just going to change the post. You are right. I just didn't have any more time to devote to it today. I apologize for that remark.

"I can't prove anything, and neither can you!" Exactly. I didn't read any further so I am sure whatever you said was important.

So is your assumption that it was a back alley amateur job? What proof other than a lack of literature do you have? Proof please? It may be but I do not think it is. I cannot speak to the Vampirella books. I never said no one did it correctly. I even stated that books I worked on were successfully printed. Malibu had the most experience and a lot of color studios were born from them. I also did work for Malibu and Image during this time. Image wasn't set up like other companies. Each studio was responsible for their own production of their books. When I worked for Valintino's studio there was an assistant that handled due dates and production for him. Production and quality control were not driven by a central office. So to say one Image book (or more) was successful so they all should have been is incorrect. Also, A simple miss registration is in no way proof that it is fake. And wildcats #2 foil looked good too but proves nothin one way or another. I also vaguely remember this book with my printer comps but it could be a false memory. I can't prove it one way or another anymore than you can. I can only speak to my personal experience of working for Image and my own person experience of working on specialty covers.

Kevin Maguire - both

I actually think this is legit. I would propose that it was done with the foil but they couldn't get it right and scrapped it for wide release. Books colored in photoshop in the early /mid ninety's had difficulty with foil and even pantone colors. Mostly because the people coloring then and today too are more artists than technicians. I asked a question to a digital colorist just the other day about a technical issue and the just responded they just send it to the printer for them to figure out. Any way I did have success in coloring and masking in the pantone colors on Underworld for DC and Foil with Doctor strange number 75. In both cases the room for error was small since the foil and pantone are applied last after the black. That misalignment looks like some proofs I got back for DS 75. just my 2 cents.

Last year I did not see much in the way of GA. A couple dealers would have a short box with GA books. But I wasn't specifically looking for GA so could be I missed some.

molecule man.

Nowadays its the same kids grown up.

I will take them.