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Picked this up on a business trip once. I had just purchased an OO collection of BA romance, about 120 Marvel/DC/Charlton, and headed to my hotel. On the way, I saw the LCS and spotted this from the window. I went back to the car, thumbed through the collection, pulled out a Night Nurse #1, and walked the rest in and negotiated a trade. I got a couple much lesser books thrown in too, but this is what I went I for.

Make that red circle to Red Rube!

From streak to zip

Did he have another copy? I'm missing that and the 3.

That's ridiculous. I haven't had a return for grading in at least 5 years and the one return I took the buyer agreed it was NM he just didn't like it. It does happen, but only if you don't do your homework. Grade the book well and scan the book well the rest will take care of itself. Sure there are cons on ebay, but the % goes way up when you are selling slabs I think. If you look in the ebay threads a larger % is involving a slab for all types of reasons. It is impossible to grade a book well when at any time someone can disagree with your grade. Your grade could be spot on but they still disagree with it. I know one LCS that when you sell them books, they are a 3.0, when they go to sell em, they're 6.5's. Just ONE?!?!?! When those types of LCS are firm with me on their selling price and say, "That's what it's selling for on eBay!" I reply, "Yeah, but this ain't eBay. This is I'm standing here with cash bay!" Which is better because I'm looking right at it as I make my offer, so that there is no return/you can't grade/my mailman's dog ate it issue. LCS's need to value that, because eBay can be a Wild West for a seller. Easier to control who you buy from than it is to control who buys from you.

Winter wonderland to wonder how he got in there???

Mysterious Adventures to mysterious behavior

Heat on the beachhead to pining for the beach

I cycle through a lot but that's part of the enjoyment for me, at least currently .... Buying collections because I want some pieces, and selling or trading the rest to get books I want. I figure if a collection is a good deal, my drek is somebody's grail and vice versa. The rest is just networking, which is fun.

Arm-twisting to flogging

Fawcett to Fawcett

Not being an artist myself, I could see the Adams wannabe thing (heck, isn't Starlin basically a somewhat better Adams wannabe?) but seeing the struggle is waaaay beyond my knowledge of artistry, so to me it was just serviceable comic art. I reasoned a lotta guys wanted to be Adams and this guy was among those who could imitate adequately enough to get work. I understand how you can see it differently given your technical knowledge.

Robbins! Thank you! I had suppressed him. Liefeld Of course.... You really dislike Grell that much? Same camp as these guys?

Very insightful and informative, thank you! You are right, many of those shown would not even come close to appearing on a poster today! The sizing of Frankenstein and Doc Savage probably had more to do with their ambitions for the two properties than the actual reality at the moment. It was a marketing piece at heart.

I'll bite....Al Milgrom, the Giacoias, Frank McLaughlin.

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames. Is the fact that Dave Sim is very highly regarded as an artist just one of those things I've somehow never heard before? Well certainly don't look at ME....I was just responding to him being thrown out there....sure his work (arguably Moreso his writing) has a cult fan-base, but if we're using SquareChaos' definition of a skilled draftsman whom other artists would say one could learn from...uh not so much... I'm serious, I have literally never heard anyone ever refer to Dave Sims as one of those type of artists. I don't mean anything by it, I'm just actually curious. Even on the writing side, it seems like most can't help themselves to add how he 'went crazy' at some point. I realize you're serious, I am agreeing with you. Someone threw him out there and I was just trying to point out that though someone might produce a popular work but necessarily possess elite-level skill at their craft. It's like KISS...they sold a lot of records but no one, even themselves, calls them talented musicians. The corollary is what you were saying before about a certain baseline of talent....though to ignore it is not lack of taste but lack of understanding of the core skills...the music analogy I'd use here is Rush...one may or may or find them to one's taste, but no one complains of their lack of technical skill.

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames. Is the fact that Dave Sim is very highly regarded as an artist just one of those things I've somehow never heard before? Well certainly don't look at ME....I was just responding to him being thrown out there....sure his work (arguably Moreso his writing) has a cult fan-base, but if we're using SquareChaos' definition of a skilled draftsman whom other artists would say one could learn from...uh not so much...

I'm pretty sure I've encountered at least one post on this board that said Neal Adams was overrated. No idea who Wrightson is. Besides, just because you don't hate someone's art doesn't mean you automatically like it. There is such a thing as apathy. This too. Was thinking that when someone threw Dave Sim out there. Serviceable, but doesn't excite me. And in the blasphemy camp, I don't get what's so awesome about Darwyn Cooke's cartoons. But I am not an artist, either. I think he tells a good story, but the images themselves are more like cartoon frames.

"Feet" for Rob Liefeld... well, that, and you know... other parts... I feel like I'm posting this a lot, but it has to be done. They resemble insects

It's like eating a bag of junk food....you glance and it looks like a comic book (or food)...then consume a little and ask yourself why you're taking in empty, cancerous ...that's my experience with Lee and that whole 90's fanboy set....But that's just me...

Was thinking Heath too, but he's also unfamiliar to many, I bet. Romita Sr was a good call, and I'd add John Buscema and Gil Kane to that guess list. Kind of a warm, fuzzy late Silver/early Bronze Marvel look that most everyone at least finds accessible....do we all sing Kumbaya now???

I was thinking about this when Kirby came up in the other thread too, Kav. I've never heard someone say they don't like Will Eisner.

7 to 7 to a different 7

Any insight as to who Gus Lemoine was? The style is similar to Henry Scarpelli who was drawing/inking at DC during the period Gus Lemoine received art credits at Archie. Gus seemed to disappear following the Fast Willie title and a short time later Henry was at Archie. An aside, one of the Fast Willie letter pages (which had to be fake) had a letter from "Geri Lemoine". Sorry for the delay; I've been searching but I cannot find the blog I once read...at least not yet....anyway, rumor is Gus Lemoine was a pseudonym for the Archie artist (some claim Henry Scarpelli) who was moonlighting, but Lemoine is also credited with someArchie books, so I don't know for sure.