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Nice, Chris! And your boss certainly has the "up" part in "stand up" down pat

I wasn't aware CGC penalised a book for an arrival date, is this true? Can anyone confirm this either way? Not true at all. At least, not for stamped arrival dates or other innocuous pencil / grease pen markings. Large, ugly arrival dates will have some effect, as will store stamps in some cases.

Was this the winner? How does one price a book like this? Why this comic is so special? How it's possible that there is only one known copy? Only one "known." I'm sure there are a few left out there in quarter boxes waiting to be unearthed. I need to make a list of all these super rare copper treasures. I'm sure I've skipped over a few of them dumpster diving. If there are any in quarter bins, I'd be shocked beyond belief. Ian Levine has said in the past that Paul Levitz affirmed that they were never printed. Where that one copy came from, I'm not sure, but I think it was a prototype or something like that

Maybe he gave Krickfalusi his Ice Cream Bar

Prepare to be threatened with a half-assed lawsuit!!!11!

To be fair, he does describe his habits as both "paranoia" and "a sickness." Like someone said before, if people here know that you collect a certain title, the odds are that you will get leads for books or outright offers more often than you will get punishment bids or greater competition. Besides, if you're collecting something, odds are that there's someone else already collecting it as well. Unless you're that guy collecting the Kite Fun books; I don't think there's much activity in that pool besides him

Hey, congrats! I have eleven to go, myself.

With respect to payment, I've heard it suggested that putting those terms in your initial post is pretty much become a requirement. Barring that, there's really not a lot you can do, as the rules don't delineate a specific amount of time to be paid. All that being said, if you were to go a week without any communication of any sort, a thread in General asking if anyone had any contact info about the noob might be a good way to smoke them out. But yeah, I think going forward, I'm going to stipulate payment terms up front

Pretty book. The art on this particular book might be the worst in the BA, though. It's complete and utter hell on the eyes

Hey Guy Who Sent Anfield That Book; Good work.

That's %&Y$ing fantastic

chrisco37 has been looking for that Bats 221 forever. you should offer it to him

This is quite an interesting Miracleman item - one I didn't know about either until last year. It's not a fanzine per se, it's comic published by Richard Johnston, the comics journalist. It was published after MM 24 so is the last appearance of MM until 2004's A1 Sketchbook (minus a few mags). Print run was 3,000 and there was an ashcan version. Yup, that's me, though I'm not sure about "journalist". I was at 20 or 21 at University, I was reading Cerebus, I wanted to put out a comic. I noted how publishers used hot artists to do covers, I decided to go round conventions getting "jam" covers from a bunch of cool artists. Bisley, Sim, Gaiman, Talbot, and the ones you see here - Campbell, Smith, Fegredo, Glyn Dillon, Sean Phillips, Paul Grist, Gary Erskine, Woodrow Phoenix and Mark Buckingham - remember this was all twenty years ago as well. Last year Gary Erskine drew my royal wedding comic biography. Some never even got used, like one with Frank Quitely art... I shoudl find that. Because here's the thing. I don't have a lot of spare copies, they were pulped along the way. I think 800 copies sold to the direct market, the rest are in landfill mostly. I do however have the original cover art. Hmmm. You absolutely should find that Quitely one. And scan it. And then post it here.

Nice pickup, can you post a pic of it? Not this evening but perhaps tomorrow...

Son of Origins, 1st print w/ dustjacket. Thing looks unread. $15.

yeah, finguh, you give 'm the ole what for! this forum ain't your private detective agency, n00bs!

I never understood why Ra's is holding up a Batman one-piece and Batman still has his trousers on.... One of my favourite covers but that has always bugged me.... Maybe my next cover recreation will be this where I change this maybe the original version had him in briefs and DC came back to have the legs colored in. congrats! Neal Adams addressed this point here when he logged in for a day or two a couple of years ago, and yes, his legs were supposed to be uncovered but Editoral changed that. He said they were more worried about showing Batman's nipples on the cover, actually

I believe the Amateur distinction is due to the trimming, not teh CT. CT is differentiated between (A) and (P) by the colouring medium. Amateur is pen or marker, essentially

where is that ohnoes graemlin?

http://comics.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=7009&lotNo=91139 I mean, no way, right?

the wanking?

mister economics professor may play one at his place of work, but either he doesn't know shiest about how the comic book marketplace works for 9.9 and 10.0 prices on wildly, superly, enormously popluar books of which they printed sixteen pantloads. or he does, and he's ignoring it. there's certainly enough evidence to parse out an answer but gosh if i have the time or energy to do so

PLEASE.

those are effin' sweeeeet

True, but it's been brought to my attention that there were multiple prints of that issue subbed, so the old Hanlon quote is probably germane here; "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."