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On 5/11/2024 at 2:06 PM, OtherEric said:

The cover is by Chiodo

Stevens inks the first story, three pages.

awesome, I may leave raw and use as a back cover pic for a Stevens book then...

Idk if you do the registry here, is that book even in a slot? It isn't under three dimensional, nor Dave Stevens and etc, I haven't been able to find it is what I mean....

If you knew where?

It is complete with the glasses, but idk

question?

Three Dimensional Alien Worlds 1 in Comic Books & Memorabilia | eBay

Is the Three Dimensional Dave Stevens?

I had heard rumored that no it isn't, apps list him as either inker or penciler, but I haven't found CGC note and it isn't in the registry under Dave Stevens....

Figuring there is a reason for that as prolific the artist is, age of the Dave Stevens sets, and the thoroughness of passionate collectors.

But could it be that "inker or penciler" doesn't qualify as a "cover of Daves" but he is associated with it nonetheless? @F For Fake or anyone else  

It might have changed at this point, but it took a while to get there, I guess.  

On 5/11/2024 at 10:21 AM, Cman429 said:

I remember seeing this on the spinner rack at Krogers and even though I wasn’t “smart” about comics, I knew Ditko created Spider-Man. “OMG it’s the next Spider-Man!” Spoiler: He was not the next Spider-Man.

On 5/11/2024 at 9:48 AM, SeniorSurfer said:

This guy just missed being as popular as a different Siegel and Shuster creation

 

On 5/10/2024 at 8:48 PM, grendelbo said:

Yeah, I don't know that book but that's the Spirit on the cover. Denny Colt's the man.

I wasn't as familiar with it either, it strikes me in art that pops up from now and then, for example reminds me of x-force #116. Pastels 

I was thinking some of the other characters represented but can't remember all of them, and it's not a story book to take off in ongoing either. Lol

I could mention something like squirrel girl, but then you never know!

I deleted Fantagraphics 1 as it is basically a preview book, in that it also has the 1st color advertisement of tmnt on the back cover. While that is why I own a copy the other stuff besides tmnt is a bit hit and miss, but I don't want to confuse the situation

This is all matter of opinion right? So no wrong or right, as some of these went for a long run

On 5/10/2024 at 6:55 PM, littledoom said:

The Venus was $100, but was quoted $75 as his best price

and the Vamp was $150

Those prints are available on etsy by a DS seller for $35 free shipping if anyone is interested

Awesome 💯 

That too can be a factor.

Hard to believe if they were copper age prints that they'd still be so cheap! So thanks for the heads up!

I don't remember a lot of prints as I perused areas as a kid, rarely got to visit LCS or cons if at all. I was still aware of them though as the 90's and upward and everything became cards, prints, holograms, 3d foil and or etc

"Let no one despise your youth!" 1 Timothy 4:12 king james version , I think is in the Bible. 

The parents I lived with were firm believers but lived loose, as a child I thought ok what do I do with that info?

I was more strict on myself for straying. I'd visit other parent who was always looking to the Bible for every decision before making it.

I was caught in the middle. My books as a kid concerned mostly copper, so I cant contribute, but to say I trashed a Marvel Spotlight #5 because I bought it raw and read it. I was raised well enough, which is no excuses for my own mistakes, of the two trains of thought I do prefer the straight and narrow now!

Sometimes we think it fun or novelty to read fiction, but some facts are out there that are equally disturbing

We're the prices the reason you passed?

No judgment, I've been in that kind of way when happening upon something. Still glad you showed the pics!

I figured that's why there are pics but no acquisitions. Always nice to see stuff in the wild, and we don't have a "things not often found in the wild" thread for copper, only modern

On 5/10/2024 at 3:56 PM, Corona smith said:

New X-Men #126 Newsstand. First appearance of Kid Omega, he appears on the cover only. His next appearance in NXM133 he appears fully. Paid $9.71. I also think this is the best X-Men run ever  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one?

On 5/10/2024 at 4:03 PM, Stefan_W said:

25 book MODERN submission

May 7 - Arrived at CGC's PO Box

May 7 - Picked up by CGC (very end of the day)

May 10 - SFG 

This submission hit SFG right at the very end of the day on a Friday, just when I thought I would have to wait until next week. Great stuff!  

Lol you had me scrambling as I had checked earlier to no avail, but mine

Delivered May 6th

Received sfg May 10th

It finally happened! Whew!

On 5/10/2024 at 1:51 PM, Ozonetv said:

Dumb question...I can see JSA authenticating signatures, but what the heck do they do with sketches? 

They don't "authenticate sketches", and that's all we've been able to determine.

Something about the sketch disrupting the grade of the book now affects the label determination, and regardless of the other things that are authenticated yay or nay, but which also affect the label.  

Somehow the sketches that aren't up for authentication can still affect label designation depending on if the sketch affects the book: (grade, condition, or other) criteria but those effects aren't laid out yet

On 5/10/2024 at 12:47 PM, ThothAmon said:

Congratulations you’re going to sizzler!

"Going to Dave and Busters!"

Drives to Dava and Adams comics and card world 🌎!

"I want to be a teenager with a shell!" 

Probably a too obscure TMNT cartoon reference

4 weeks!

28 days later?

Lol

On 5/10/2024 at 9:09 AM, wardevil0 said:

Just got in another great Copper Age AP slab!  This is a copy I've had for a while and managed to find Sonny Strait at a convention appearance.  There are very few comics credits for Strait; he's best known as an anime voice actor, specifically as the voice of Krillin in Dragon Ball Z.

 interesting!

On 5/10/2024 at 7:59 AM, MachoGrande said:

It could be that proper authentication requires complete removal of the comic

JSA employs the Video Spectral Comparator (VSC) to reinforce the expert's findings. This state-of-the-art authentication tool is a powerful workstation that uses sophisticated color and infrared imaging, magnification, coaxial lighting, side lighting, and on-screen, side-by-side or overlaid autograph comparisons. In doing so, the VSC can detect erasures, reveal masked and obliterated signatures, differences in ink types, and several other signs common in autograph forgeries which cannot be detected by the naked eye.

I wish Kirby was around to draw the Video Spectral Comparator

Well that makes more.sense than all that supposing I did

On 5/9/2024 at 9:42 PM, Iconic1s said:

I predict they will reconsider this.

Indeed. It will take time to do so, considering they are running a business and cost benefit of acquisition.

Where is my jetpack! 

On 5/9/2024 at 9:42 PM, Iconic1s said:

 

I really do not want to not bite the hand that feeds, because I'm more inclined to enjoy cgc jumping in, rather than down the move.

Yes it took 20 years to gain momentum , confidence, market availability etc.

I'm sure that within another 20 years there is room for improvement

I'm not discouraging the conversation, just the reality that is in my brain. Even if they reholder authentication in five years, then they get the submissions from reholders and an announcement etc. Nothing is perfect in life, although we encourage ideas for improvement, always.

The guy who suggested this in the office one day with the chart graph is wanting to walk back in for a promotion a year from now!

Doesn't mean they don't care, just what it took for them to even take up the idea without getting to ideological.