Ron C.

Spirit Jam #nn with Frank Miller signature and remarque. Thanks to @GACollectibles for a really nice raw copy.

If you find out, please let me know. I will ask around though.

The self published (B&W) #1 from 1981 had an 800 print run. I have not found the print runs for The Fantagraphics editions though.

Signatures and remarques are always a crapshoot. Here is one that I am not unhappy with, but I wish were done a little differently. Jim Starlin signed this book at Niagara Falls CC in 2019. In the process of signing, he made an ink/marker smudge with his hand. He was nice enough to add a small Dreadstar remarque, but the little sketch didn't quite cover up the smudge.... just a few more marker strokes would have made all of the difference.

I was giving away a lot of my raw duplicates on the Los Bros Hernandez FB site throughout last year. Higher grade copies (of the first printing) are tougher to find though.

I will likely be offering one or both of these 3rd printing copies. I would still have one of the existing 9.4s for my collection.

This will be up until Sunday morning. I am happy with keeping all of these.

Books without rusty staples appear to be the harder to find I am sorry to say.

I would have done a Love and Rockets sales thread sooner, but these books are hard to put a value on. Many (actually quite a few) of the 1st printings, I have the only one or two on the CGC census. I don't know why Fantagraphics used this type of staple for this size of magazine, but it is hard to find these books without rust on them. I preserve what I have with desiccant gel packets, but after 35-40 years, much of the damage has been done. I do have a lot of L&R and Epic raw and graded to put in a sales thread.

I would have done a sales thread sooner, but these books are hard to put a value on. Many (actually quite a few) of these 1st printings, I have the only two on the CGC census. I don't know why Fantagraphics used this type of staple, but it is hard to find these books without rust on them. I preserve what I have with desiccant gel packets, but after 35-40 years, much of the damage has been done.

Sorry, but I am just now seeing this thread. This copy of mine was stolen off of a porch earlier this year. Please let me know if you ever see this one.... It is less than likely that someone would crack and resubmit a Bolland signed copy... perhaps to CBCS as a verified book though.

This is my only Albedo book. Hopefully it makes me a "Junior Member".

These are the Fantagraphics printings starting in 1982. Los Bros Hernandez self published the B&W #1 a year earlier (1981).

Here are the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th printings. That is correct, there was no 4th printing.

It's going to take some time to put things together and work is pretty busy right now. I am shooting for sometime in May.

I would like to join in.

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Hulk vs. She-Hulk by Manuel Garcia. 12 by 16 1/2"

Jennifer Allyn/RDJ

Jennifer Allyn

I know that it doesn't count (sorry), but there are only 6 signed copies of Joker: Year of the Villain Parrillo A and they are all here on this table.

I do. Sometime in April I will be doing a sales thread with both raw and graded Love and Rockets and Epic Illustrated books.

I came here to post my little pencil sketch, but the above are just so awesome. Still, I am so happy to have gotten this Greg Horn Spidey! I have been able to match it up with a print of his from NYCC and his ASM #1 from 9/18. It's probably a preliminary piece, but the lines look so close.

If you have a specific book in mind, sometimes you can get lucky and narrow it down a bit comparing the CGC Census with GPA. In your FF #209 example, we know that the 6.0 was signed by Frazetta. The 9.2, 8.5 and 7.5 books are unknown as they are likely in private collections and have not been sold/listed online.

I was thinking 1.5. It may not be worth getting graded though.