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On 5/11/2023 at 3:32 PM, golfplyr said:

Jim Lee will have a CGC rep with him at his table. Does anyone know how that works? Do we have his CGC rep crack open the slab of a graded book and then have him sign it? Thanks.

I talked to the facilitator.  They're charging an additional $25 per book as a facilitator fee and another $15 for breaking out slabs.  As Jim Lee is charging $50 per book, that's a total of $90 per slabbed book...before grading fees.  

Is there anyone facilitating the Phoenix Fan Fusion during the first weekend of June?  A lot of great creators there...

Anyone know if the labels will be available for reholder.  I have many books signed by Todd I'd love to get reslabbed with the new labels....

Any witnesses going to Fan Fusion in Phoenix this year during Memorial Weekend?  Starlin, Scott Williams, Wiacek, and many others...

Bill Sienkiewicz...

CGC won't be there... any facilitators setting up?

Mike Ploog

Glynis Wein

Pat Lee

I actually got this back a couple months ago, just too busy to post. This is my Wolverine #1 homage...sketch by Frank Miller, ink by Rubinstein, and quote by Claremont. As the facilitator tells me, he gave my book to Claremont to sign and quote. 10 minutes later he still had my book so they checked on it. He had taken the quote and googled the Japanese translation, then spent 20 minutes putting it on my book. The facilitator said he's never seen him do it before, but not sure how rare it is. CGC actually lists it as a sketch from Claremont on the label. He also sketched blood on the back and his name in blood drips...something I didn't ask for but enjoy that he did it. 

2 hours ago, followtheleader said:

Really enjoy the #2 covers and the Choi cover. 

Not a big fan of the Lee cover.  Great for Batman, kind of goofy for Maxx.  Not sure why he's holding his arms out so weird. 

Patrick

Yeah. The Maxx's "teeth" threw me off. They look like separate teeth instead of a set. Choi did a great job on it. 

25 minutes ago, Sooners151 said:

Mike Choi work.  This is the OA painting, haven't seen the dress cover yet.  Could be a store exclusive

 

 

Love it! I think this has been the best Maxx depiction I've seen from someone other than Keith. 

7 hours ago, Oddball said:

I would rather have a Maxx solo limited series without Batman.  But here is Jim Lee's cover.  Will probably be digitally colored.

They're probably using this series to test the market. If it's a success, then we may see the Maxx series return. 

These are the covers I've found so far...

The Maxx is back and Sam Keith is back on Batman. I've seen a lot of variants on the first issue. Anyone else as excited about this as I am? 

On 8/14/2018 at 8:14 AM, Couchy81 said:

Couple of recent sales of the variant in 9.8 - around the 2k mark. 

 

Blue label 9.8

SS 9.8

Yeah, the 9.8 SS was mine. I sold 2 of them to one person 3 years ago for $1000 each. Decided to put my last one up on Ebay to see what it would fetch now. Was happy and shocked to see it hit that high. Deal went through and the buyer purchased it for his son who's a huge fan of the character. 

Alan Davis Sketch of Phoenix (At Phoenix, lol) with Mark Farmer ink. LOVE the way it turned out...

When I first posted up these (pictured) I had a few people PM me to buy them. I was recently talking with Marat Mychaels about it and he said he still had a few and that he'd sell them for $5 a book and $25 additional if you wanted a remark on it. I can possibly see if Livio can do a remark on it too, but I'm unsure of his cost. Let me know if anyone is interested. I apologize if announcing this isn't allowed, I just thought as collectors it could be a cool opportunity. 

My point to the post isn't bagging on CGC...its trying to get a list of facilitators that'll be at the Phoenix Fan Fest in their absence. 

58 minutes ago, somewhereintexas said:

Yeah, I can't understand why CGC is attending a huge show in its own backyard in which it will doubtless accept numerous submissions (SS and otherwise) that it will receive only because of its presence there.

They'll receive numerous selections without being there through the 20-30 facilitators set up and taking submissions for there...everyone on the board has been advertising for it. They'd make more money total covering another large con that currently has no one taking subs and let the bulk of facilitators handle the Megacon. 

Not seeing how it makes business sense, CGC is not coming to Phoenix for Comic Fest Memorial weekend but instead has decided to go where most of their facilitators are already going. With Capullo, Snyder, Janson, Azzarello, Granov, Sale, Michelinie, Art Adams, Zeck, Farmer, and many others including actors Jeremy Bulloch, Famke Janssen, Val Kilmer, Tim Curry, etc, etc.... I'm positive there will be a need for facilitators. Anyone want to announce their availability below?