adamstrange

Heritage should reimburse you for the time you wasted, and, more importantly, the trauma you suffered.

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Mob boss with a boutonnierre vs. cop

He'll make the headlines.

5,6,7 are all by Schomburg. The 5 and 7 aren't attributed because no one cares enough about the covers or the books to make a big deal out of it. You are free to petition Overstreet and CGC. You can join GCD to enter your remarks. Without that, it probably will be years before Alex is fully credited.

TL DR; The cover is credited to Alex in the biography Chroma, which was written by Jon Gustafson with the participation of Alex.

Creator attribution, absent direct evidence like signed art or ledgers from the publisher, is more art than science. Assigning a particular creator based on artistic similarity is a common method that originated in the fine art and antiquities world long before it was applied to comics. It is not foolproof and reasonable people can disagree. Let me address some of the questions I saw in your post. 1. Why does GCD assign pencils to Gray? They indicate that the art attribution is because it is "signed", which is not true. Brick Bradford is a syndicated newspaper strip written by Ritt with art by Gray,and so they are given credit for that on the cover using machine lettering. Their names may be on the cover as a courtesy or, more likely, as part of the licensing arrangement with the syndicate. 2. Why did CGC not attribute to Schomburg in early days? Thousands of comics were published without creator credits, and it has taken decades for dedicated fans to research, debate, and document their findings. Disseminating those attributions to the wider community took longer as there is no formal authority that is the custodian for comic creator credits. Jerry Bails Who's Who, Overstreet, GCD and others have all played a part and have been leveraged by CGC, but CGC has also utilized the Boards and members of the community as sources. 3. Why is this attributed to Schomburg but other similar ones, of which there are many, aren't? Schomburg's covers for Nedor/Standard were rarely signed during WWII, yet he was their primary cover artist for superheroes and Real Life comics. After WWII, he mostly signed his airbrush covers but with a nom de plume, "Xela". These WWII hero books and the airbrush covers were intensely sought after by the collector community and, unsurprisingly, they were first to be researched and attributed to Schomburg. The post WWII expansion by Standard into teen and syndicated strips was of much less interest and received much less attention from indexers/fan attributors. Also, Alex was drawing established characters and tried to reasonably match their creator's style, making it harder to see which ones were his. The upshot is that many stylistically similar Standard covers were drawn by Alex and eventually the attributions will be accepted by the wider comics community. I have been confident going back to the 90s that Alex was the artist for the Brick Bradford cover, but I was hardly alone in that. I seem to be pretty good at artist identification for reasons that I don't understand, but I think a google image search of Gray's art will easily show a significant discrepancy with the cover. The figures of the guy and gal in Brick Bradford are very typical of Schomburg, as are their poses, and those are so strongly similar that I have no doubt it is by Schomburg. Schomburg was interviewed by fans in the 70s and 80s, so it's possible that we have direct references by him to this cover or that his personal records include this piece, but I can't cite any particular source for that off the top of my head.

If the resto can be removed, then the price will be more than justified.

Outstanding research! Having watched your video, I think you have established that the wrong Okajima family has been associated with the collection and that family at the Poston camp fits all the known facts to where they should be designated as the original owners. As to who collected the comics, I don't think we are any closer to knowing how much were bought by/owned by Jayne vs. Mitsuru. I think the family history you turned up and the types of comics in the collection make me lean towards some Jayne books during WWII, probably a few after, but the vast majority bought by Mitsuru, who saved all of them until they were sold in the 90s. More might be determined by following up on descendants of those two.

Lego sets from 1970 to 2000 are often built and re-built by fans, but only if they were well cared for. The plastic will yellow and dry out making small parts especially fragile. The "clutch" power of pre-1970 bricks is likely very gone. Post 2000, there are periods where the brown and red dyes caused brittleness that developed within a couple years, even in unopened, properly stored boxes.

Maybe they'll make up for it with an extra dosage of Garfield strips.

Next, you're going to tell me that the Bethlehem pedigree didn't come from Israel.

When confronted by a spear-wielding native guarding the treasure, I knock them off balance by throwing the nearest small child and then grabbing the chest and running. 90% of the time it's 50% effective. Follow me for more self defense tips.

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There's an excellent movie adaptation from 1937 starring Leslie Howard. He's not a super-hero or even a costumed hero (Zorro added that element), but Scarlet Pimpernel was a part of the evolution of the superhero.

Superior competed with Charlton as the worst printer of comic books ever. Even the comics produced for the American market at this time are almost always on really cheap paper.

Going by the scan on GCD, the Superior cover stock has a matte finish when compared to the glossy FH edition. The copy in the clink auction looks like the FH edition. If I wanted a Canadian copy, then I would want this book verified by CGC before bidding. https://www.comics.org/issue/729528/cover/4/

This is so disappointing. When I was little, I was told that if I gave to UNICEF it would prevent anyone from suffering from high grade Pearl Harbor comics ever again. We have a long way to go to end this scourge, and I would never forgive myself if I didn't offer to share your burden.

Tribute to Carl Barks

Could be another one of the books where an inferior copy is substituted during re-holdering. Or the case could have been hacked after re-holdering.