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Of course, we all know there has never been a scandal or question with any duly deputized "witness". I'm sure the guys who used to be among the biggest witnesses and are no longer active all just retired after banking enough money. Then again, I'm wondering if this whole Declaration of Independence thing should be reexamined since we have no way of telling who really signed it.

Keep drinking that kool aid. why am I getting flashbacks from 1994, when fanboys were lining up to trade Marvel Silver Age books for the latest shiny Valiant cover? .

Follow the money.

1930s Supes would be lucky if the Legion of Substitute Heroes took him in. He was fortunate he never ran afoul of Billy Batson. Then again, 1950s TV Superman used to laugh when hoodlums shot him in the chest , but would duck when the empty gun was thrown at him.

Really? So the only way to authenticate a signature is to have it witnessed by CGC? So you walk into a shop and are offered two copies of FF 64. One is signed Jack Kirby and the other is not. You think most collectors will choose the unsigned one. I'm not so sure about that but it thrills me that anyone might think that. Anything that lessens my competition is a good thing.

It certainly affects what a preview can cost, and isn't that what this hobby is truly about these days. It doesn't matter what people call it, it's what people are willing to pay.

I've never seen a Kirby signature on a cover I thought was real. He almost always signed the splash page.

The people who concentrate on yellow labeled books are a very small percentage of the comic hobby. They have a larger presence on these boards as CGC appears to be the alter they choose to worship on. Anyone who devalues a book signed by Jack Kirby because one company doesn't authenticate unwitnessed signatures is silly. I have a print signed by Stan, Jack and Joe Simon. Unsigned copies of the print go for $15-25, signed ones go for high three figures, yet if CGC were to start grading prints, they'd give it a green.

Green labels are a crazy mishmash. Most people seem to want a deep discount on them regardless of why it got green. I have a Dark Horse/ Dynamic Forces book that is signed by the cover artist. A non signed copy sold for $125 in 9.8. My copy is also a 9.8 and is signed by the artist, yet people devalue it because it has a green label. To me, the market has this backwards. A book missing a MVS is incomplete and should be graded as such. CGC realized it made a mistake with its Red labels and quickly eliminated them. They seem to have doubled down on the green label. I'd like to think that is unrelated to their yellow label books ......

While I own about a dozen DC with hand stamped British prices, I have yet to find any books with them preprinted. They seem much less common then their Marvel counterparts. I'd always assumed the hand stamps were added by the shop owners, similar to date stamps, as opposed to being done by the distribution company.

In 1975, I didn't find any American Comics in my very limited search of Hamilton and St George. In 1979, I found a few American books with handstamps. They were several months old and I already had them so I skipped buying them. One newsstand had a few b&w digest sized books with really crappy printing. They were mostly war books and I passed on them as well. In both cases, I was on a cruise and only had very limited time to hunt. In 79, I made the mistake of asking a record shop if they had any reggae. I had no idea that both reggae and dreadlocks were banned in Bermuda. The shop owner educated me on Bob Marley being a Satan spawned commie who would sooner slit my throat than sing.

Defenders 11 is one of my favorite BA issues. I always thought the early issues were forced, but the team took off around the time Hawkeye joined them. The next thirty issues ( including the Giant Size ones) were great, but the series descended into weirdness after that, and never fully recovered.

Buy what you like. If comics don't thrill you, sell them and use some of the money on what you like. I haven't been buying many books lately, but have been hunting down some great 1/72 scale armored vehicles from about ten year ago. Most of the companies went out of business as the products were.too expensive for toy stores but have taken on a second life on the secondary market They are hard enough to find to make the hunt fun, but still cheap. Most sell for under $25. This week I've sold three books on MCS for a $135 profit and spent $15 on a post Dunkirk British tank. The English Army left almost all their armor on the beaches of Dunkirk, and anticipating an imminent invasion, they created all sorts of haphazardly produced armored vehicles, Few saw actual combat as Uncle Sam leased England a couple thousand of their top of the line tanks, and Hitler turned from the West to the East.

It was on James Street in Franklin Square. Across from the municipal parking lot. Maybe #7.

I always thought the X-Men had transcended sex just as they conquered death. No Men, No Wo-Men, just X-Men. There are no male mutants, or female mutants, they are all just mutants. Out of curiosity, is there a core member that hasn't died at least once?

Most were poorly reproduced and at the time the originals weren't very expensive. A bit hard to find and published in B&W. I know Seagate did a line of Frazetta books and he was very disappointed in the sales that they did.

So to sum up this thread- the seller never said the mark is added after the fact and the discussion on the other board was quite awhile ago. Not at all the impression I got from the original post. Fake news. Mangia.

With both sides matte, you can put two books in a bag, on either side of the board.

The box and the line thru it indicate the book is non-returnable. I have no problem with someone referring to it as a "no return" box. I also see nothing in that listing that implies the lines were added after production. Given a choice between a copy with a line thru the UPC or one without it, I suspect most casual collectors would go for the one they find most attractive. I have no idea what others say, or why people who are so obviously anti- cbcs feel the need to search their forums for bochincha, but I've long told people the difference in the two is one was returnable and one was not. Many shops( including my own) stocked copies of both. In my case, many DC books didn't sell well enough to justify ordering the minimum quality of non returnable copies so I'd get newsstand copies two-three weeks after the direct were released. I'm not sure when the term Direct Market began to be used, but as many comic shops didn't even stock new copies, it certainly wasn't used to describe the comic market. I remember a seminar when Seuling and his Sea Gate crew were trying to convince a very skeptical group of comic dealers that getting a bigger discount in return for non returns was a better deal. Most shops back then either didn't sell new books or simply allowed newsstand distributors to do all the work and collect a nickel per book sold. It wasnt until books became 50 cents that many retailers saw the advantage of switching. In the early 80s, I was spending $50-$75 a week buying books for future sales. I was getting them wholesale at a third off, pay as you go. Phil offered 50% off but you had to prepay and wait two or three months to get your books, and pay for shipping. On a .25 cent book, I'd pay 18.6 cents from a distributor or .12.5 cents plus shipping from Seagate. Many small dealers just didn't think it worth the effort. It wasn't until I opened my first shop(all 350 square feet of it) and began order more that it became worth it. Comics are monthly, and come out 12 times a year., but there are 52 weeks in a year which meant four weeks a year, Marvel " skipped" printing. This raked havoc on people's cash flow and scheduling. I was a pretty much a one man shop but others had staff's and making payroll on weeks where you bring in 80% less revenue was stalling people's growth. I believe Carol Kalish convinced Shooter to advocate for the elimination of the dread skip week. She didn't want the rising competition to have week of their own.

You'd think that with all those price guides he'd be able to locate a dealer or two.

Doesn't ring a bell, but the collective knowledge of this place is incredible. Someone will nail it.

Market a set of each for $30.

For the AOL discs

I have no idea why the book wasn't added. I conjectured on it, but all I know was a seller was complaining about someone requesting a refund over not being to add the book to his registry. I thought it was ridiculous, and am glad to see most of the people feel the same.

Why not? Where would we be if Grandma Woodchuck hadn't decided to price his books above guide? Take a hard to move $3 book and make it a hard to find $30 newsstand edition, that every collector should have in his trove. Anyone can sell a book to someone who wants it. The truly successful dealers get you to buy what they want to sell. The ability to get top dollar is a talent not discussed much but it is really what separates the best from the rest.