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MAY1979

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  1. MAY1979
    You win the topic for the book on the right I thought the All-Star 10 exists in pencilled form and a light boxed inked form. I could be remembering wrong of course. If I am right is yours the inked light boxed or a recreation?
  2. MAY1979
    BTW I really like this topic. Thanks to Kav for starting it. The DC 52 and 48 pages were a decade before my time but something about the look of them spurred my interest.
  3. MAY1979
    "Old School" slabbed Kirby and Cardy covered 52pgs. Both purchased raw in 1998 and slabbed around 2001. I picked up a bunch of Oakland's in August 1998, less than 2 weeks prior to them being made "publicly available", but the Forever People 8 was not one of them.
  4. MAY1979
    1999 CGC Slab from their first couple of months before page color quality was added.
  5. MAY1979
    The seasons develop a bit slow but I do enjoy the show, looking forward to it each week, and wish there were more episodes per season. The take on the characters differs from the comics, of course so too did both Cartoon series'. IMHO Raven and Wonder Girl are excellent. Also love Blackfire. Casting, scripting, for Jason Todd was perfect they found someone who I dislike in the same way as I did in the late 1980's comics. Sure wish Cyborg wasn't hiding out with Doom Patrol.
  6. MAY1979
    Another popped up while going through my slabs for scanning. There are only a few comics that remind me of my Dad, this is one of them. I do miss him. This was first month DC differentiated between Newsstand vs Direct Sale. They must have printed tons of the Direct version this first month. Not saying this newsstand is "rare" but from my observations it's lower in population. I do wonder if Jim Starlin thought this cover would be so remembered over 40 years later? It an excellent cover, but of course that's not the reason it's remembered.
  7. MAY1979
    Correct. It's been well documented in Twomorrows publications, blogs, and various books the past 20 years. I first learned of it in the mid 1990's reading: The Comic Book Heroes: The First History of Modern Comic Books - From the Silver Age to the Present by Gerard Jones , Will Jacobs The maneuver was pretty much the coup de gras in Marvel taking over the leader spot in the industry.
  8. MAY1979
    Thanks for starting this topic. Seems like what i wanted would have been GoCollect a week ago and earlier, but definitely not now. Will give GPA a try.
  9. MAY1979
    Off-center cover, notice the 4 in 414 is cut off. Glad comic's aren't graded like stupid trading cards
  10. MAY1979
    Some direct sales Marvel from 1979-1981 Just don't look "right" to my eyes. This is one of them that for me personally only the newsstand looks "correct".
  11. MAY1979
    My final pre-Covid newsstand purchases. Due to my earliest memories of these books I specifically sought out newsstands which I don't normally do.. Glad I got them before they jumped in "value". One day the Statement with the yellow background might come true for the book? Classic Byrne covers.
  12. MAY1979
    Standard Deviation or portent that supply and demand is taking hold?
  13. MAY1979
    Noticing a trend while going though my books for scanning. A bunch of Newsstands for which I thought, or rather guessed, I had Direct Sale. Seems to me 12-19 years back Newsstands were somewhat common at cons and on eBay. For DC especially back then I never would have sought them, but yet ended up with them. Probably 15 years since the box this one was in had been gone through. Great Garcia-Lopez Cover from a fondly remembered series. 1st app Dart.
  14. MAY1979
    How about Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) in a high-ish pitch?
  15. MAY1979
    While breaking-in my new scanner found that my Losers Special which I've owned for nearly 20 years was a newsstand. To be fair it's the first time in 10 years or more that I opened the box that held it. Now I have to look for a direct sale as to me the book is not the same with out the "1935 DC50 1985" in UPC area "Old School" slab
  16. MAY1979
    Don't recall if i posted this in past. The last 2-3 pages of this book were excellent and timeless, even if the rest book was horrid. Mine from back in the day has some serious spine creases, so went looking for a replacement 5 years back. I had sought the direct sale as it was what I remembered but got a fair price so ended up with the newsstand version. The book was one of DC lowest seller's the last 2 years of the run.
  17. MAY1979
    Big fan of this Aparo cover since I was a child. Love the scowl on Superman's face and the look of shock on the Flash.
  18. MAY1979
    Got my new large sized scanner hooked up today and first book I scanned was my Eclipse Groo Special #1 . The blue background cover in the old school CGC slab and blue label "warms my heart" - apologies for gettin' all choked up.
  19. MAY1979
    Perhaps Thor 282 would have become more of hot book after Loki TV, were there actually more than a small amount graded. Almost like it was penalized for having a low census population When mine came back from CGC in 2006 it was the only copy on the census.
  20. MAY1979
    uhm, I have to go ask my brother.
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  22. MAY1979
    Not sure why exactly but this has been a very fun topic to read. Thanks!
  23. MAY1979
    Excellent point! Those collectors are life-blood of the hobby. When (not if) the "speculators" and "social media hype crowd" dump and move-on, the loss of the hobbies life blood will be felt. Some will return, many will not. When similar occurred in the 1993-1994 the effects rippled for near 3 decades. Comic Shops and new sales never recovered - never will. Changing paradigms would have done that anyhow but the 1990's speculation bust exasperated and hastened the effects. What will the impact and extent of the effects the next bust be? Especially with loss of hobby life-blood. It's not if a bust will occur, merely when.
  24. MAY1979
    Hi, I'd really like to see the same chart for Thor 337. Please and thank u. It's off-topic here but at NYCC and on eBay i see more 9.8 newsstands than direct sales. Likely for reasons we all know.
  25. MAY1979
    Good to note the census increases as well. Seems to me each month many more ASM's 300's in high-grade are shoveled into the hobby. Won't take much of dip in demand to have that continuous never ending flow dilute the books value. There won't be another Venom movie this January to stabilize value, I'd expect a drop. Although the famous quote from John Maynard Keynes regarding irrational applies. P.S. of course it's pretty much been a hot book for 34 years, however there are different degrees of hot.