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Jeter kicked a puppy? No wonder that one sports writer left him completely off the Hall of Fame Ballot. Can’t chime in until I know what the snarky remarks were. I think maybe the artist “asked” for it by calling you high maintenance. Many who solicit a service are high maintenance to some degree. It comes with the territory.

I wouldn’t hide this in a portfolio. They are rare to see. It’s an opportunity for fans. For the money it’s going to take I would pay even more chedda for Calvin and Hobbes on the strip. For me I need both.

Voodoo, You do that voodoo that you do so well Lets start with a joke to lighten things up... Two brothers walk in to a comic con one brother says to another, “ knock knock” who’s there? “Cash and trade.” Cash and trade who? “SOLD” Huh? Romaineman makes some good points but I can also see Voodoo’s point. I can see where Romaineman is simply encouraging those who call out flipping to inspect his art site for examples. Dealers gonna deal Mr. Mike Voodoo. Now the flip side is that Voodoo thinks Romaineman might be soliciting lettuce outside the marketplace. I love both you guys. Every time you get into it I spray Mountain Dew on the keyboard. Expect a bill soon. Lets stay friends, yours, Grapplemonkey

That’s honorable.

Alex is 100% right. Bid what you’re willing to pay and you should have no regrets win or lose.

Refreshing honesty

There’s also no such thing as punishment bid taxes either.

When the art works of others is sold they should be listed as from the X Y Collection. Then in detail describe the estate artists method of acquiring and trading for art from other artists. They will fly off the auction block. I’m ready to buy right now and I have t seen one piece yet! I’m glad his loved one(s) will be taken care of.

Thor vs. Hercules

Spoken like a true, knowledgeable Kirby fanatic.

I think he would make Remy too muscular. Still I like your outside the box thinking.

That would be awesome

What is a bull elephant Alex?

WOW

Crickets 🦗

Perfect

Marc Silversti is the penciler. A ton of inkers worked on # 20. Marcos the inker is Judith, not Pablo. #20 is an issue where Conan finds out his son is dead. The stories had nice emotional bonds between father and son. #15 was unremarkable. probably a few $100 each page.

Well J Sid you’re right. It sounds simple. Someone claims an auction contains a fraudulent item. TAKE IT DOWN !!! Not so fast. Imagine your worst enemy interfering with your auction, making a false claim just to ruin your auction. Imagine eBay shutting down an auction and it turns out the information is wrong. With all of that eBay still needs more oversight. They are complicit if counterfeit items or fraudulent activity takes place. Perhaps a review process before items are allowed to be listed on eBay. I am thinking of a process where a seller creates their auction item just like they do today, with pics and info. But before it can be listed it is submitted for review. A panel of e-dorks reviews the submission with a deep level fraud/counterfeit detection process. To cover the expense buyer and seller agree to split an additional 4% inspection fee, Once the item is approved the seller can request the date and time to start auction and eBay will enable the auction. I know a bunch of “this would never work” posts are coming. Please try to be a part of a suggestive solution. What would make things better? I think we have to help with innovative suggestions (demands) for eBay and the auction houses to make BS fake art, comics, sports cards go back underground. They are slow to respond so we need to make our voices heard. R I P # 2 4 🍇🦍

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y S A L Your admiral contributions to the world of comics are many. Thank you for all the great art work and bless you for your earnest appreciation of your fans.

It’s about time Bechara. Seriously. I’m super happy to see this up.

Nah Vodou, those comic book guys all saying there’s nothing to see there.Ha ha. No I get it, not soliciting a comic book thread just saying if it comes up in the discussion of fraud in general specific examples are better than “because I said so.” No doubt I agree with you and Terry. Getting out of comic collecting saved my sanity. All the classic stories I cared about are in well worn hard or soft cover reprints on the book shelf. Uggh....ever since the name Dupcak was dropped during the Shuster thread I’ve been out of sorts. Let’s get back to discussions of second run Cockrum X-Men pages and ASM Ditko splashes!!!!!! 🍇. 🦍. 🎈🎈🎈

Pressing is restoration. I was shocked the first time I was told this is now an acceptable practice. “Everyone knows it’s the same comic.” I don’t know what to say there. Crooks are going to be crooks. Unethical practices not surprising because they existed before slabbing. Now comics are infinitely more valuable then they ever were. So of course the evil doers are trying to do what they do. I have 1% of my comic collection left. Still toy with the idea of adding Amazing Fantasy 15 and a few others back into my life. The boards are the acid test though. I appreciate the strong feelings about shenanigans from you guys. Specific examples are much appreciated. It helps all of us much more than blanket statements. • cleaning •pressing • undetected trimming What else you guys got? If I do buy a few more books I gotta navigate this minefield. 🤮

They talk tough but simply refuse to act. They are too big with Rubbish oversight. Fraudulent activity seems to surprise them. Time after time we’ve had to point out fraud and hijinks to eBay. If they move at all it’s at a snails pace.