Artboy99

How many people attend this show? I note CGC is there.

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well I am not an expert on that but there are a ton of places that serve it.

yup. An area within the city of Edmonton.

Can I ask: what is wrong with having a CGC 9.2 white pages copy of FF 19? Leave it be.

looks like my old copy

Thanks. My Mom was a great person. While she always appreciated my art, she always asked me to "draw something nice" so I found myself on occasion doing water color paintings for her. While I did do those nice things she wanted, my true passion was comic art and monsters and the like. Here is a sample watercolor I did for her:

I can't take the credit for keeping the art I did, my Mother did. She passed away a few years ago and when I went to do the duties of executor I found a lot of it and brought it home. Stuff I had not seen in more than 35 years.

The key words; I am sure if you ask me this question in a few months I will have a different list. Some of the books will always be in my list, but others are outliers and they can change at any time. Looking at the #58 above I wonder how it isn't in my list. Another interesting experiment would be for people to list their 10 least favorite covers of the run.

I can just see a few panels: Neron Man flies with great speed directly at Clumsy BUT Clumsy falls down tripping on his own feet in his attempt to avoid being hit so Neron Man misses him completely but plows into a wall! Laying dazed amongst the broken wall with pieces of brick everywhere Neron Man struggles but begins to rise. Clumsy moves forward to finish Neron Man off and grabs at a brick still stuck in the busted up wall. In taking out the brick, the rest of the wall falls on them both, the battle ending in a draw!

LOL! In a fight against Clumsy Neron Man would still get the tar beat out of him because he would somehow be injuring himself.

re-reading these Neron Man comics are a hoot. Poor Neron Man always got the tar beat out of him, yet somehow in the end would be victorious.

Thanks! I love your idea, the best form of creativity from the mind of a kid. Clumsy defeated evil by being in the wrong place at the right time! My stuff you can clearly see the "Marvel" influence; the way they talk, the type of action it is "Marvel" all the way. In issue 7 of Neron Man, which I think I made when I was 10 or 11 I killed off a character in an explosion. Clearly influenced by the Amazing Spider-Man 121-122 stories I read a year or 2 earlier. I made 14 Neron Man comics and a cover to issue 16, and an annual. Fun times with all the time in the world and no "must do"

I started to draw when I was around 3 years old. I was drawing things I saw and experienced. My Mom had a drawing I did of my dog pulling me on a sleigh, stuff like that. We lived on a farm, and one day my Dad told me we were going shopping in the city. In those days, if you wanted to buy Rye bread and lunch meats you had to go to a bakery and a meat shop you couldn't buy it at the super-market type stores. Anyways, once Dad had arrived at the baker to buy his rye bread, he reached into his pocket and handed me a bunch of change. He pointed at the used book store across the street named Paul's Book Store and told me to go buy some comics. He just wanted me out of his hair while he did his thing. Inside Paul's store, he had shelves with piles of comics on them that he sold for 1/2 cover price or you could trade 2 for one. I didn't have a lot of money but I had enough to buy 10 or so. While I don't remember exactly what books I picked I do know one of them was Fantastic Four 112. After reading the comics I became very excited to try to draw these characters I was reading about. Eventually I started creating my own comics, mostly of my own characters. My Dad even bought me a stapler designed to staple extra long paper/ documents so I could staple in the middle and then fold the paper ( just like the way comics were made! Also because the ones I made were falling apart and my Dad said you should never put tape on a comic. ) Some early stuff: Then my own character creations ( as a side note: while Neron Man resembles Nova he was created a few years before Marvel released Nova ) The character fighting Neron Man is called the Mercenary. He came from a Mego creation/mutilation of putting Spiderman's head on a Green Goblin body! The Defender was created in 1980, I was 15 at that time and it was the last comic I made in my youth, high school was approaching and interests were changing. Before I went to High School I had continued to collect comics using money I earned from a paper route and I had a complete Hulk collection. 1-6, all the Tales to Astonish, and 102- whatever the current issue was + everything he appeared in. I really liked the big green guy in the Fantastic Four 112 I had bought and decided to collect his comics. I like comics, because they have truly been a part of who I am.

If the tattoo was originally in the book and is still in then it will get a blue label. ***edit: If the tattoo is removed, it will be qualified. Just checked GPA is a LOT of incomplete 238's listed, clearly tattoo removal

I didn't take any pictures of mine either. I bought a long time friends comic collection in 2010, picked through it to determine what I wanted to keep and then sold most of it over a few months. I am sure the ASM 238 I had was one of the first books I sold from the collection. I did kept 1 of the FF Byrne runs he had for myself, I do not know if the 252 contains the tattoos or not, as I have never opened it!

Very hard for me to answer which is why I have been avoiding answering. Now that you are calling me out... I am fond of/ call them classic covers: 6, 10, 15, 17, 19, 33, 34, 66, 70, 71

Yes from my personal experience some Canadian versions did contain the tattoos. I had an Amazing Spider-Man 238 Canadian price variant that had tattoos. To have a copy that did not contain the tattoos and then to have it added would require removal of the top staple to insert the tattoo pack then re-insert the staple. I think CGC is reasonably good at detecting staple removal/ manipulation ( although I am not 100% sure on this ).

Many copies had the printing and advertisement but did not contain the little package that had the actual tattoo in it like the picture you are showing. It was attached at the top staple in a little package. Was the tattoo pack originally in yours? I still have the copy of FF 252 that I acquired from the same collection from my friend, I will check it when I get home to see if it is a Can price variant and if the tattoo is in it I will post a pic.

wonderful copies. I especially like your Cap 3 and that All American 61.

So I checked again, my tracking has now been further updated. It is still in Ontario, but now it says: In Transit with Destination Carrier Never know what that means. Is it Canadapost? Is it Purolator? Or is it the dreaded CanPar whose depot is on the far east side of town from me and it takes me an hour to go there? And the Edmonton boardies shall dominate this thread! *** very boring at work today, when I walked in I had a full schedule of appointments, they are dropping like flies. 4 cancellations. Is there a long weekend or something? Not for those who work tomorrow like me!

I think so, but near that 7-11 and further east =

I would like to. Can we sell more comics so I can afford to? On second thought that wouldn't help because I keep spending the money!! So many "my precious" to buy.

It is a problem because that post office handles a lot of residences as there are tons of apartments surrounding it in the area. The location should have 2 people working it always (like it used to) but the staffing got reduced to a single person. I feel sorry for the employees there to be honest. On another note: I do not like how business branch out into other areas of retail to garner a market share of things they have no business doing. I feel a post office shouldn't be in the business of sending faxes, money orders, and of course selling hotdogs. ( yeah yeah I know 7-11 sells the hotdogs, but the employees that work that location do shared duties for both 7-11 and Canadapost )

Without discussing condition... Absolute hardest: 5, 6, 14, 15 difficult: 2, 10, 13, 17, 26