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On 10/22/2021 at 7:20 PM, Bill C said:

you want me to hold the chicken, huh?

I want you to hold it between your knees

On 10/22/2021 at 12:42 PM, MagnusX said:

For all the old guys 
who keep saying:
"Who is Donny Cates?"

He is one of the top  10 writers (Maybe top 5)
for this generation (The one that are actually buying new comics).

His name and "Venom"
are going to be link together for the next 20 years....

2 Omnibus coming in 2022 with his name;
not an easy task...

 

 

Well then its good to know his Social media posting is not indicative of his writing - right?

BTW: I might have just F-ed around at lunch and consumed "an omelette - plain, a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast. No mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee"

On 10/21/2021 at 8:16 PM, Brandon Shepherd said:

That’s a sharp looking copy!

Thanks!  It will be wintering in Sarasota.

It was 20 years between my 2 Oakland DC 48/52 page Adventure Comics CGC submissions.  It was this topic that inspired me to gather up my DC 48/52 page books for grading.

It's got a lot wrong a press won't solve. Still a CGC 5 is more desirable to most than CBCS 6 so more than worth it for that alone.

BTW I did want CBCS to succeed, as consumers benefit from true competition,  however I've seen only a small handful of book in their slabs which I feel are indicative of the grade they assigned.  IMHO they should have been too strict to the point it slowed down business the first few years then they would have boomed once word got around they were equal to CGC in grading or better.  They decided to go the Oprah route "Here's 9.8 for you, a 9.8 for you, and everyone gets a 9.8". Hopefully one day a new service will come along and use CBCS as a template for what not to do.

On 10/21/2021 at 3:52 PM, marvelcollector said:

Incompetence or indifference.

or lack of regex skills doing a mod rewrite ?

 I think I just f-ed around and purchased an Original Miracleman #1  :

He did get lucky it was Albert as their were at least 3 OCA dealers in attendance at NYCC who would likley not have accepted a return if it had been a cash sale.  No names need be mentioned ,I think most who have been around the hobby know.

On 10/13/2021 at 10:33 AM, MagnusX said:

"I might have just f-cked around and bought the original art to MIRACLEMAN #1"

 

Never heard of "Cates" until this topic. No issues with someone not being in the Original Comic Art know. The IMHO cringe worthy post on his Social Media however has nothing to do with a lack of OA knowledge therefore a good ribbin' is simply not out of order.

On 10/19/2021 at 10:37 PM, Hudson said:

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?

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. 

"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.

1999 CGC Slab from their first couple of months before page color quality was added. 

On 10/18/2021 at 11:51 AM, valiantman said:

This isn't bad >>> https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GX3Uw2AN9CaHCwwEAAALT

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.

On 10/17/2021 at 9:11 PM, Silver said:

I forget where I read it but I once read an article that said something like these 25 cent books were a disaster for DC. They were locked into some kind of deal that they had to produce them for a year or so. Meanwhile, rival Marvel still had 15 cents books on the stands. I think this is when Marvel overtook DC in sales. I believe they both ended up go to 20 cents around the same time. I personally love the 52 pages, they were some of my favorite in my early collecting years due to the reprint material in them. I have all of the Superman titles, Brave and the Bold, Forever People, Tarzan, etc. I love the heft of the books as well as the extra stuff they threw in to fill them up. 

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.

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. 

 

Off-center cover, notice the 4 in 414 is cut off. Glad comic's aren't graded like stupid trading cards

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".

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.

On 10/17/2021 at 8:56 AM, BigLeagueCHEW said:

This one on C-Link as well, I know it is OW/W, but a major dip as well @Wolverinex

On 10/17/2021 at 9:19 AM, BigLeagueCHEW said:

I noticed that, this was a few days ago

A score for that C-Link and Heritage buyer.

Standard Deviation or portent that supply and demand is taking hold?

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.

How about Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta) in a high-ish pitch?

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

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.