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1 minute ago, exitmusicblue said:

By not paying.  Then they get a strike... 3 strikes and account closed, iirc.

Disappointed by all these non-paying winners.

Agreed, thanks. I figured eBay would automatically charge the winner or something. They should ban after 1 strike. This is for charity fer chrissakes

The J. Scott Campbell Zatanna piece is back up on eBay. I guess the winner backed out. I'm not that familiar with eBay bidding, how can a winner back out of the winning bid??

53 minutes ago, OV said:

What was the final price for this piece?  I was tracking it but deleted it somehow.  Thanks!

You can look them all up on eBay, just look for his sold listings. It went for $14.4k

In a video chat with Kevin Smith Jim mentioned that 1 bidder purchased 5 pieces already, so I wonder if it's the same person.

5 hours ago, Unstoppablejayd said:

This... and I would also note @stinkininkin is one of the nicest easy to deal with guys I have some across... whether buying or meeting .. so MAYBE OP went a bit to far..

+1 on @stinkininkin being one of the nicest guys. Met him a couple of times at NYCC, always super nice, donates any sig fees to great causes and gave me a kickass head sketch in my Jim Lee artists edition.

19 minutes ago, Chazgee said:

The signers are usually well stocked and open to using whatever color I ask for.  I try to bring a few extras with me just incase they're out of a specific color.

Thanks, any specific pens you'd recommend? Last year Bill Sienkiewicz signed one of my books with some kind of white paint pen. It had a square body and came out quite nice. Anyone know what that might be?

Hi all, wondering if people bring/ask a signer to use a certain marker vs just letting the signer use whatever they have available. Tend to prefer a metallic ink but have had sigs with a plain black sharpie because that's what they were signing with. TIA.

On 9/28/2019 at 3:17 PM, CardiacKid1 said:

That is an awesome sig, couldn’t have been better.  Congrats!

I didn’t weigh in, but having a double-cover book signed on the exterior cover is a no-brainer, IMO. It is only the interior color that is graded. For a purist who doesn’t want to buy a signed comic, he could remove the exterior (signed) cover and still preserve the grade.  Best-case scenario. 

I just bought a double-cover book on eBay to have signed at NYCC, with the same thought in mind.

I have a TMNT #3 double cover where Kevin Eastman signed both and both covers were graded.

On 9/12/2019 at 2:37 PM, mschmidt said:

Check with comicsketchart.com - they rep Frank Miller (which means they're set up at every show he's at and any artist alley signings with him happens through them).

Great, thanks for the suggestion!

Any one know how to hear about Frank Miller signings otherwise? I've been trying to get my Dark Knight Gallery Edition signed for forever and he was in Artist's Alley last year signing but you needed to have some kind of number. Does anyone know how those were given out?

Anyone know if there's any particular reason why there are no pages to Psi-War? That's one of my favorite issues.

Have an extra Sat ticket if anyone is interested.

12 hours ago, joeypost said:

 

Grimaldi's 

+1 for Juliana's (the original Grimaldi's and usually less of a wait)

Not sure how to parse that address but if you're near the Empire State Building, Jim Hanley's Universe is right around there, as is Korea Town which has all sorts of great Korean Food. I'd recommend Kang Ho Dong Baekjeong or BCD Tofu House. Pretty much anything you get there will be good.

If the kids like chicken wings there's Bonchon Chicken which is around there too.

8 minutes ago, Nexus said:

No, just two versions, not three. #1 and #2 happen on the same page. Miller would paste his redraw/inked panels (#2) over the already-inked page by Janson (#1). Case in point:

This is a page I own. Miller redid the four middle Batman panels and pasted over the original Janson-inked panels. The whole thing, once combined, then became the published page.

There are very, very few instances of #3 that I'm aware of.

Any given page, though, could be #1, #2, or #3. But again, there would be at most, two versions of the same page (and again, that's pretty rare).

 

Right, #1 and #2 occur on the same physical page, I was just loosely referring to them as 2 different versions. In your above post with the image of the Joker dying you mentioned there is another version of that page, which is the published all-Miller version. So would that page be an example of #3, where another version exists on a physically page?

15 hours ago, Nexus said:

The art Scott is holding up is Miller/Janson, and it's the published page. There's only one. In this case, I do believe Janson inked over Miller's pencils.

In general, I believe Janson inked over Miller pencils. Where Miller redrew panels/pages, I believe he either lightboxed the art himself, or redrew from scratch. So any Janson inks (or assistant inks) would still at least be over Miller pencils.

The page below has two versions. One is the unpublished Miller/Janson version (in the scan). The other is the published all-Miller version. (I don't have scan readily available of that version, but I think it was reproduced in the Gallery Edition.) This would seem to be clear evidence that Miller redrew the art later, as the "HAHAHAHA" and "KKKRAAAK" sound effects are statted from the earlier Miller/Janson version and pasted onto the new all-Miller art.

As well, you can see the page I own in my gallery, which is a Miller/Janson page, with all-Miller patch panels. The Batman panels were redrawn by Miller and pasted over the original Janson-inked panels.

Interesting, so there are in essence 3 "versions" of this page? 

1) Original Janson inks over Miller pencils for the whole page

2) The version above which has version 1 with full Miller panels pasted over

3) The published full Miller version?

I remember Frank at the NYCC DKIII panel a couple of years back where he said he was driving Klaus crazy with all the panel cut and pasting he was doing on DKR.

23 hours ago, biglouv said:

My Brush with Scott Free and a Small Mystery.

Thanks very much for the interview.  I answered and bought a partial DK page through the one time CBG ad and wondered for a long time who Scott Free really was.

My story – Like many of you, I was totally blown away by the Dark Knight and when I saw that ad, I jumped at the chance and called right away.  I was not really an art collector but I had a few pieces and was already an FM fan.  I called as soon as I saw it and spoke to Scott.  I recall the conversation and he asked me how much I was looking to spend. I told him that I was looking for a page with Batman on it.  He offered me 2 choices, 1 that was published with Batman, Robin, and Supes -- and one that FM did not use but was similar to the published piece and was almost fully inked with Batman, Robin and Alfred.  I chose the published piece and we closed the deal.  I asked if he could have FM sign it and he said no problem.  I mailed the check and a couple weeks later I got the page.  I loved it then and still love it today.

Knowing nothing about the split between FM and Klaus and having no idea of duplicate pages, I took the page a few years later to a show for Klaus to sign it.  I asked and he took a quick look at it and said “That’s a Frank page.”  I asked him that he meant Frank inked it and he said yes.   I never thought at that time to dig deeper. I wish I had because it was many years later when I learned of all the issues.

Also some years later, I asked FM at a show who Scot Free was and he just kind of shrugged and blew it off.  He was nice about it but I just assumed it had been many years and he didn’t recall the details.  Again I wish I pressed for more details.

Now the mystery.  I still have the cancelled check.  It was dated 2/19/1988 and cashed on the 25^th.  That means the ad could not have run before the 1987 SDCC.  If I dated it the 19^th, I can promise you that it was only a day or two after I spoke with Scott.  So I imagine that ad ran in a CBG the first 2 weeks of that month.  So is Benno’s picture of the 1988 SDCC? Or did Scott just mis-remember and this was run with leftover DK stock in 1988? Neither seems right but after listening to the podcast, I would love to know the correct timeline. It was 30 years ago  --  I surely don't remember all the details but I have the check.

Thanks again for the podcast.  It was a blast from the past to hear this story from Scott.

I had no idea about the different inked versions between Klaus and Frank until I got The Dark Knight Gallery Edition. Does anyone know how that worked? I always assumed that inks were done on top of the original pencilled pages. If so how you one go about re-inking something? Where the re-inked pages on top of pencilled photocopies? Since there are multiple copies of a page that's what must have happened right?

BTW great podcast Felix, keep up the great work!

Was big fan of Jeff Dee's art from D&D to V&V, always thought that he should get into comics.

I also was into Willingham's art. I met him at a con a long, long time ago and brought up his TSR work. He didn't seem too enthusiastic about it, but I loved it nonetheless.

Looks like CGC won't be there but authorized submitters will be. Never submitted through a 3rd party before, does it work exactly the same way? Is there a surcharge to go through them? 

1 hour ago, Bomber-Bob said:

A color rub is a loss of color. How can a cleaning possibly replace a loss of color ? If anything, an overzealous cleaning can cause a color rub. I don't think you mean a color rub, sounds like a color bleed

Maybe I am referring to color bleed. I'm referring to when books are stacked together and the color of the front cover on the book behind rubs onto the back cover of the book in front of it. Many of my books have the back cover where there's a white border where the color rubbed onto. Is this called color bleed?

Does anyone know how well a cleaning can remove color rub? Or is it basically YMMV? Thanks.

21 hours ago, Dr.Fate'sFullHelmet said:

If it was recent then I assume the slab is the current with-well type.  If I may ask, does there seem to be adequate space in the well for the book, or does it seem like (as is the case with mine) the well is just too narrow and the book may be being squeezed?

It's hard to tell. Here are some pics:

I recently received a book that was submitted for pressing also that came back with waves in the slab that absolutely did not have waves prior to submitting. Will try to post pics later. It was for a magazine sized comic.

2 hours ago, MedicAR said:

That would be a safe assumption, $100 per item.

Thanks, damn that's a lot.

I see that Frank will be at Big Apple Con next weekend. I'd like to get my DKR Gallery Edition signed but I see that's he's charging $100 for autographs. The book itself it over $100! As I  don't usually pay for autographs does anyone know how this works? Is it $100 per item?