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Ah, yes, Swamp Thing "died" but then his elemental spirit went on a journey through space and stuff and was reborn in #64. Same character throughout.

Like everyone else, Swamp Thing had a Crisis on Infinite Earths crossover, but I don't remember it being actually all that significant to the overall Swamp Thing story...

It's actually kind of tough to explain... Swamp Thing was sent backwards through time, point to point, mostly through historic DC characters. So, in No. 82 Swamp Thing was in World War II with Sgt. Rock, in No. 83 Swamp Thing was in World War I with Enemy Ace, in No. 85 Swamp Thing was in the American West with Jonah Hex, in No. 86 Swamp Thing was in the American Revolution with Tomahawk, in No. 87 Swamp Thing was in Camelot with King Arthur and the Demon Etrigan. Eventually, Swamp Thing was going to meet Jesus and Swamp Thing's body would be the wood of the cross, but after the issue was written and drawn DC pulled the plug. Rick Veitch offered some compromise, but eventually had to quit over it.

Swamp Thing continued to be excellent after Alan Moore left... the immediate follow-up by Rick Veitch is every bit as good as Alan Moore's, especially as Swamp Thing was cast backwards through time (which is due to another DC Universe tie-in, the Invasion! crossover). Doug Wheeler writing the conception and birth of Swamp Thing's daughter, Tefe... the Quest for the Elementals, all good stuff. After Collins, Mark Millar's were pretty good too. I stopped reading not long after that, though.

All that being said, I'm about to try to add a book again... I got an impossibly rare import at San Diego last week and I want to add it to the record, but... ugh. I'm not really looking forward to it, but I want to increase the awareness.

There were so many times when I would have a book open in front of me and entering info directly, then having it disputed by an approver. Or some formatting complaint about the quality/quantity of detail in advertisements, or whether something should be a synopsis or an indexer note... it just went on and on.

I have added and indexed hundreds of books for GCD, and eventually just gave it up. The editing and approval process was so cumbersome that it just wasn't worth it. The only times I ever get emails are when they are voting for new editors or policy changes or something. When you log in you can check what you're currently editing from your Profile page. Did you try to add it as a Canadian version of US Andy 21, or as a Canadian comic? https://www.comics.org/series/62790/ or https://www.comics.org/issue/311064/

Before the actual Vertigo split they interacted a lot; Martian Manhunter and Mister Miracle are in Sandman #5, when Morpheus is trying to recover his ruby. It also ties into the Golden Age DC stories with Wesley Dodds as Sandman and even the Kirby Sandman series in #40 (I think). In the "A Game of You" storyline Neil had to use "Weirdzo Superman" as a comic book character because they wouldn't let him have Bizarro comics since Sandman was taking place in a universe where Bizarro was real. And yes, Animal Man has a lot of tie-in, as a member of Justice League Europe and even met Psycho-Pirate in #24. Psycho-Pirate remembers pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity...

Dan Slott isn't exactly reliable as a hype man for himself. I remember Slott screeching on a video interview about how Peter Parker was permanently dead and would be replaced by Otto as Superior Spider-Man FOREVER. We knew at the time this was obviously false, but he insisted it was so. This pointless, fake character will go on the pile with the rest of Slott's creations that barely make it through their first arc.

Sales for issue #17 in CGC 9.8 were recorded 18 times in 2021, with a highest price of $7700 and a lowest price of $2358 during the calendar year. It's "Number of Reported Sales," not issue number.

Actually I'd bet the 4-digit year is the problem. With it entered this way, the system probably recognizes this as a different comic from Wolverine #2 (12/88) and broke the auto-fill that should've come up.

"Ruins" by Warren Ellis and Cliff Nielsen was an exceptional inverse to the better known "Marvels" by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross.

I really don't think either one of these would be considered the "A" cover, because they weren't really using that terminology at the time. The one on the left is the foil-enhanced, die-cut deluxe edition with a $3.95 cover price and the one on the right is the poly-bagged with a poster edition with a $2.50 cover price.

Unfortunately I didn't think the relatively amateurish art was indicative of anything. Here are a couple of real hip hop variants I'd say are objectively worse than the fake Wolverine:

Could be the same item, possibly relisted after the January buyer returned it for being an undisclosed fake? That's just speculation. Original auction could've been shilled to build perceived value? Regardless, I'd avoid it.

Not active currently, but still visible as a "completed" listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/204234981172?hash=item2f8d5a7f34%3Ag%3An0sAAOSwwi9j4FsM&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwDHt6nwRVUBVQ%2FzaIFR7vY1Sy69a8P%2F7rCe6xkibEic4jjfz4IseCE1A49d8fY3mdk%2Bm%2FJN3VAXk5dlMgl4ki%2B2BtsRBwFCqn91VR13yhL44jOcw288KLmSRRj5HIvQyB9ndSVxnrjq5i%2FYbLn7u2hb2bl66%2B0czrIPJx%2FNGgg2D21qaoUH4RcFaM0BOjDkuNTbYo3s%2B7BtYKOuwqe0crq4JMouetAGtqxGJtVzpoYA2KPV75pUbhFk45uds17ZBXQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR8a6tvHxYQ&nma=true&si=WauopYWR4HbaAUr2cOT%2B2GxDb68%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 As mentioned above, the staples don't perfectly line up suggesting a married blank cover from something else:

It hardly makes sense at this level. May as well sign SW8 or ASM252 because of the black costume at that point. But I guess it made sense to Todd. At least his signature is so erratic no one can claim it's an autopen or a stamp...

Here's the video of Todd himself saying explicitly that he WOULD sign Venom comics because he created the character. There are a few specific comics that he apparently won't sign, because Marvel went back and re-used art he had previously done without a new agreement, but this isn't that case.

I really get the impression this was meant to be some kind of April Fools thread that just didn't go anywhere.

The answer is yes. I've submitted at pre-screen levels of 9.4 and 9.6 and received 9.8s in each order. It's just an estimated minimum, not a specific target.

Mine was down last night but is fine now.

As mentioned, yes the top label peeling off is very common. It's one of the reasons they changed the design to make the top label inside the case. I think the edges do appear a little fuzzy from perforations, but the pics I have on-hand aren't clear enough to be sure. I'll check when I get home and post if that's not the case. If you can post some pics of your suspicious label the board detectives are pretty good at identifying discrepancies.

I'd love for you to buy that and show us what you get. Some of the pictures show a clear box that goes around a CGC slab, the X-Men #1 is just a CGC slab, and one picture even has the UltraPro logo on the item but is definitely not the same as any other item pictured.

Toward the end of the series, some of the NHS issues had alternate covers on the back! A nice benefit of being slabbed vs. being bagged/boarded.

is it possible those are just studio prop comics? I've found reference to "Atomic Archie" in a Leave it to Beaver episode and a Dobie Gillis episode.