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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.

So help me if anyone asks, “who is Jacob Kurtzberg?” I’m dousing my eyeballs with tobaasco and summoning Ghostbusters to implore the spirit of Vince Colletta to erase all of Roz’s Jack Kirby signatures!!!

Then I’ll read it...... after I die 😵

That must’ve been something else. The things you’ve seen. 👀

1983......

Everything you say is true. I don’t know what the answer is. I know we were dealing with “Experts” and a large segment of the collecting public that simply could not grade at all. No ability to detect restoration. Or sold restored books without disclosure Or claimed that higher grade restored books were worth infinitely more then lower grade unrestored.... So when I say cleaned up, (pardon me) a better word was “saved” the comic collecting hobby. Awful to say that I know. Now as you point out our trust is only as good as the third party we hand our books off to. As a comic man raw is all I ever wanted. I predicted CGC would ruin comics as collectors wanted to inspect, inside and out their comics. To smell the pages. In 2020 raw books are only as good as when they are turned to slabbed books. I cringe with all of the soul slavery, let someone else grade for me traps that slabbing poses. It is today’s reality. To me clean up means raw books vs. slabbed books met up for a gun fight. Raw books showed up with knives. They never had a chance. Tons more restored books were detected there’s no doubt about that. But crooks be crooks. No one is infallible. There was too long a period in collecting where the Dupcaks and other slugs manipulated and defrauded the market. Are their creeps out there in the comic world today? Art? Baseball Cards? Yes Yes Yes