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On 6/11/2024 at 11:56 AM, Conacon said:

That's what I was thinking, but the way people talk, the green label is the "label of death" for sellers. 

The green label is bad for people trying to flip unwitnessed signatures or Hulk 181 with the Marvel Value Stamp cut out, but in these cases it should be fine.  A lot of people would overlook your green label TMNT, but they wouldn't have wanted one with upside down pages either way.

This page has a second print upside down: https://tmnt-ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage-studios-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-vol-i-01-2nd-error-signed-inside-cover-9-2-9-7-nm/?highlight=upside down

They may be the best point of contact for specific TMNT info like this.

Personally, I don't think it would be worth reholdering/regrading.  I would think anyone interested in manufacturing error comics would understand the green label and why it's there.

It seems CGC has been inconsistent with Qualified/Universal labels on manufacturing errors.  Currently, it looks like errors get blue labels with the problem description on the label.  This thread may be helpful: 

On 6/9/2024 at 5:04 PM, APDallas said:

Esad Ribic is now a Marvel artist but he got his start at Antarctic Press doing covers for the CRIMSON NUN mini-series!

 

 

 

Got my copy signed earlier this year!

On 6/10/2024 at 8:00 AM, Poka said:

In pretty much every second vintage submission there is a ME label issue - so frustrating

 

 

The grader notes are available for anyone to look at:

Grader Notes

detached centerfold
double cover 1st cover 5.5, interior cover 6.0
all wraps, moderate brittleness splitting
light spine stress lines to cover
moderate creasing to cover

 

With a detached centerfold and splitting on all wraps, a 3.0 doesn't seem outlandish.  More than just the cover is considered in the grade.

CGC can't grade Previews from this era, they're just too thick.  I don't think anyone really collects "Previews," per se, but if someone were a big fan of a particular property, they may want the Previews cover feature for completion's sake.  The Hellboy cover, for example, is probably the most marketable of these.

I'm not aware of any CGC facilitators attending, but the other company will be there for witnessing (better than nothing).

On 5/23/2024 at 7:40 PM, WolverineX said:

Any restaurants or bars that people like in the area?

 

 

It's a little out of the area but Mac's Speed Shop is an excellent BBQ place.

https://macspeedshop.com/

Last time I went the RedEye Diner was on the route between the convention and my hotel; everything I had there was delicious.

https://redeyedinercharlotte.com/

I'm surprised there isn't a forum thread on this, but I couldn't find one.  Another usually reliable resource, https://recalledcomics.com/VenomLethalProtector1Error.php , looks fairly similar to this one, especially based on the Marvel top corner logo.  So, probably legit?

On 5/28/2024 at 11:22 AM, Qalyar said:

Nomura's Families of Altered Wars is absolutely ambitious, even if (at least in my opinion) it doesn't always work quite as he'd probably hoped. Still, it would be immensely challenging to put together a high-grade run of the entire story. Heck, it would be moderately difficult to put together any grade run of the entire story. The last five or so issues of the first AP run (which is sort-of-technically volume 2, after the Creative Frontiers run, although that got co-branded Antarctic by the end also, and there's Legacy numbering, and...) are probably in "books you can't find in the wild" territory. There are a couple of copies of #25 currently for sale online in various places for, erm, aggressive asking prices, but to be fair, I can count the number I've seen in person on my elbows.

This #17 is real nice. 

Add in a Ninja High School crossover and I'm there for it... the best I've found of 21 so far:

Couldn't believe I found this one in such high grade in the wild... the dark, gradient color background shows every flaw.

First Twilight-X issue on the CGC Census...

On 5/23/2024 at 9:44 AM, Qalyar said:

I don't own a copy myself, but yes. I'm friends with a very passionate NHS fan who owns one of the signed copies. It's not as nice as this one!

Another NHS fan out there!  Excellent.  Is he or she interested in possibly buying/selling/trading NHS items?  

I have another copy of this I picked up online, and it's absolutely wrecked!   Chewed corner, stains, creases, but it's a double cover!  And yes, it's initialed.

On 5/23/2024 at 9:13 AM, Qalyar said:

That's an amazing copy of a simply impossible book. And it got into the wild unsigned! 

Do you know if this was a subscriber copy that Ben just didn't initial somehow, or if this was a proof or file copy or something along those lines?

Basically a file copy; I got it from Ben directly a few years ago.  It was never sent to a subscriber.  Since you specified "initialed," can I assume you're familiar with this one?

Just unpacked this last night: the impossibly rare NHS 70 subscriber edition!  Because of an ordering mistake, too few copies were printed to fulfil all orders so this version was made to be sent to subscribers so they could follow the story (their subscriptions were also extended to make up for it).  Copies that were sent out were signed on the back cover, but not this one...

Spotted this guy from across the crowded con floor...

Just got in another great Copper Age AP slab!  This is a copy I've had for a while and managed to find Sonny Strait at a convention appearance.  There are very few comics credits for Strait; he's best known as an anime voice actor, specifically as the voice of Krillin in Dragon Ball Z.

There isn't really too much here to "question"... sure there are some obvious technical errors, but minor mistakes happen everywhere.  If you see a Shadowpact 8 under a label that says Shadowpact 2, it's not too hard to figure out.  They can check the submission to see if the 8 and 2 got swapped labels or if they just mis-typed the number. 

The low grade 0.5 books probably have significant damage internally, like a missing page, coupon cut out, whatever.  Turns out, you can't always accurately grade a comic from a picture of a comic in a slab.

Taking a graded comic, cracking it out, then getting it signed and regraded can result in lower grades.  Sometimes creators are rough on books.  There are videos of Todd McFarlane waving books around during his signing, but lots of people still got 9.8s back from his signing.  Sorry?

So, what are your "questions?"

On 5/7/2024 at 11:31 AM, BA773 said:

Is that serie originally come from a manga or not? 

Not really, it's an original North American comic book heavily influenced by the manga and anime Ben Dunn was exposed to as a kid in Taiwan and onward.

Seems like the kind of things folks here might like: 

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?ItemID=60911249

(Not my book, not my listing, just ran across it.)

On 5/3/2024 at 11:58 AM, Hepcat said:

What's an APA?

What's wrong with nostalgia? It's a perfectly natural phenomenon and is what prompted the explosion in comic, bubble gum card, Barbie doll, Hot Wheels, My Little Pony, etc, etc. collecting in the last fifty years.

APA is an amateur press association, one of the tentpoles of comics fandom since 1964!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPA-alpha

On 5/2/2024 at 6:38 PM, zach1900 said:

There's like a dozen proven ones out there I would hardly say a long history

Cerebus 1 and TMNT 1 are among the few comics to have a notable population of counterfeit copies, dating back decades likely due to the scarcity of authentic copies and authoritative information in the pre-internet era.  Without internet access in your pocket, it was relatively easy to pass off fake small-press comics.  They were odd sized, black and white, and too tempting to pass up if one appeared at a local hotel ballroom convention, flea market, or even LCS (since they didn't always have any better identifying information than the rest of us).  I'm not sure when TMNT 1 counterfeits first appeared, but I'm sure someone could check Copper Age back issues for ads from American Comics, New England Comics, and Mile High to find the listings.