shadroch

Without reading all 32 pages of this thread, is there a site that list the various Turtle appearences in other books? I know they are Miami Mice #4, and there is a pinup in Colt #2, as well as what I believe is there first color appearence in an issue of Grimjack, but are there others before the Archie series?

Ain't they all batwhatever crazy?

He's the Daniel Baldwin of the forum.

Maybe Cal will do it on his pay to play forum

Why is this not a freakin sticky.

No way. It was cool, but "The kid who collected Spider-Man" was more powerful. Different strokes and all that nonsense.

It was one of the most moving stories I've read in a comic. So much better than "The kid who collected Spider-Man". Thanks.

Its a back up story about a homeless girl who is a Spiderman fan. I forget all the details, but she dreams that she is friends with Spidey and he takes he swinging around town. Story ends with her freezing to death.

A first year membership in my blackjack forum is $300. You also have to be nominated by a paying member and pass muster. Keeps out the nuts and the tire-kickers. One of our rivals charges $40, has many more members and much more strife and stress.

Theres an old poker saying- There is a sucker at every table. If you are playing a half an hour and have not found the sucker, odds are it is you. You've got to love it when one of the most destructive and devisive people in forum history lectures us about the problems of the forum.

When Cal is seen as a voice of reason, you know this thread has jumped the shark.

The fact that they bought pallets of books that were noted as destroyed has nothing to do with them being inked. Lots of books that were supposed to have been destroyed ended up being sold on the secondary market- Mile High 2 being the most public example. In the 80s, most of the stuff sold by koch and Dolgoff had these distributor markings, it wasn't uncommon for distributors to cheat the companies and sell stock they swore was destroyed.Think this thru and give me one reason why a distributor would mark books like this, after they were supposedly destroyed.

From Overstreet "Distributor stripes: Color brushed or sprayed on the edges of comic book stacks by the distributor/wholesaler to code them for expediant exchange at the sales racks. Distributor stripes are not considered defects" While normal distributor stripes are not defects, your book has a good deal of overspray and would be knocked down. I think it would get more than a 4.0 VG, but I'm not certain how badly CGC punishs that. I could see it as a raw 6.0, no problem.

That type of ink is not from the printing process, its related to an unsold copy that credit was given back. The inking was there to mark the comic, similar to when they used to manually cut the top third of the comic off. Same scenerio, different year of print. Thats not correct. The marks were put on so drivers could idenify their companies product when taking returns from stores.

Thats a distributor mark, but there is no way of knowing if that book was sold off a newstand and comes from a persons collection or was a return. There is no evidence to say the book should have been destroyed.

When most dealers sell you a book, it's high grade. When you try to sell back the same book, it isn't. Learn this and you won't be disappointed.

The obvious solution is to buy more 100 pagers. Bags aside, you can use magazine boxes for the wider books.

DeFalco and Kalish both told me at different times the list was over two hundred people. now, 201 is over 200, as is 500, so I don't know the higher end, just that it was over 200. I've heard that under the Goodman/Lee regime, boxes were sent out to kids, but that doesn't seem to have continued thru DeFalcos reign. Around 1998, I had a neighbor who worked for Marvel as an accountant and he got free copies but they were not stamped in any way. Were your friends copies stamped "complimentry"

Office copies, and review copies. Marvel used to have a free circulation list of well over two hundred back in the DeFalco era. At one point, every Marvel employee could get a copy of every book, and they would also send out packages of books to writers and artists that they were cultivating. Advance review copies were B&W photocopies, as the books were on sale within a day of being printed. When longtime DC employee E. Nelson Bridwell died, his collection included thousands of Marvels with similar stamps so Marvel might have been sending comp copies across town, or perhaps Bridwell did some horsetrading with his Marvel buddies. I've got a couple of dozen myself. Some from Carole Kalish, or Lou Banks or Tom DeFalco and some I bought when Bridwells collection was sold by Phil Levine.

Not that there is anything wrong with it.

Relatively speaking, that is harsh. And almost all of that is non-mainstream stuff, like Tarzan, Turok, Lone Ranger, etc. Fun stuff to collect Tim. And after all, at its core, the hobby is really about fun. The dollars stuff gets so mundane and stressful when introduced. Totally agree, Bill, although when I was spending money, it was for stuff that I genuinely liked and collected. I`ve never bought comics for pure investment purposes. Mainly, my point was to show how much the various shady goings on in our hobby have caused me to retreat from the hobby. Have they caused you you to retreat from the hobby or caused you to stop investing in comic books? It's not the same thing.

None of which changes the simple fact that if Supa knows that Ewert is selling under another name on CL, he should provide the information. Sitting around whistling " I know a secret" gets old pretty fast. Either Supa cares about his fellow collectors or he doesn't.

I really doubt he's using his name. What steps would you suggest CL does to keep him from consigning? Should they get a photo id from every consigner? What is to keep JE from submitting books to CGC under a different name? How do we know he is not here selling on our boards? If anyone knows he is operating under different names, why isn't this shared?

Interesting article.

I guess different people reacted differently to the different series. I had an Army Reserve unit( 423rd MP brigagade of the 77th ARCOM) located yards from my store, and a Marine Detachment about a mile away. Many service members came in to pick up copies of The Nam due to the extensive publicity but most dropped it after a few issues. A much smaller number picked up Veitnam Journal, and another comic called In Country, but they seemed more enthused by them. I haven't read either in years, though I did recently read the first Nam story in Savage Tales.