James J Johnson

Church Mile Highs. I'm not sure if all of the Blue label Churches that have the glue and color-touch have the notes detailing it. It may have been left off some of the first ones graded, wayback when, and/or the notes about the resto not carried over on resubs. I'm not 100% sure, I have to review, it's a while ago. I do remember some flip flopping in sentiment on how to label these mildly restored Church books even before the CGC opened its doors for business and I've forgotten the fine details and chronology of the progression of the issue. I'll see if I can find some of my notes to jog my memory on whether the chicken or egg came first on this discretionary blue label treating of minor color-touch and glue on Golden age (and the Church books). However the CGC did treat the issue, it was always above board, fully explained, the policy outlined on the back of the label.

One of them went for $10.

#2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 14, 15: each of these historic issues that laid the groundwork for/intriducing arch-nemeses that would pass the test of time and become permanent fixtures in the Spider-man mythology.

In this hobby, forged items represent a very insignificant percentage. In the signed cast poster arena, I'd venture 75% of the material offered is forged, from what I've seen, and that includes items with a COA or LOA! Now I'm not talking about major authenticators of great repute, but certificates from fly by night companies, most of which are fake themselves, many generated by the forger/seller himself! In sportsmemorabilia, forgery and knockoffs are more rampant then ever.

Better!

Another half-dozen beauties up for $25 grabs in Tonfulle-84's cornucopia of Stan Lee forged bargain box dreck. https://www.ebay.com/sch/tonfulle-84/m.html?_trksid=p3692

They give a grade for each cover. As an example, the label will bear the higher grade of the two covers, then around the area where the page color is, small notes: "Outer cover: 1.5, Inner cover: 2.5". Or something to that effect.

Now, let me tell you what I can't locate. Any Millie the Model Stan Lee signature CGC sig series comics! Of course, no Homer either. Once pressed + Lee signed? You may have quite a coup with this piece and the Homer too. Collectors love rarity. Try to find them!

Couple of suggestions:

I'm in this group. Especially on the very high dollar books, when the value of the book transcends the value of the signature by an exponential multiple. In that case, it's defacement. IMO, it doesn't matter if Stan Lee or Stan Musial signed it, it's ink, defacing the cover of a high dollar book, and it's as detracting a defect as if an 8 year old kid scrawled his name across the cover or Stan did.

I can envision that Millie bringing beaucoup bucks with a neat Sig Series Stan immediately to the right of it. Sadly, and I don't know why they do this, but a lot of people seem to pick busy covers with lots of artwork over the totality of the front cover to get signed. Stan's signature is, at times, illegible, so the added lines of cover art detract from the visual impact of his signature. That Millie (as does the Homer) affords a pure light, blank field that can be framed off for him to sign and I think the finished slabbed product will bring enough $$$ to totally pay for all expenses laid out for the pair, for the same treatment. The price of the books + the submissions + the postage + the sig series' cost. I think a lot of bidders would jump on that. Lots of action.

Yes you can. The beauty of both is that the sale of the Millie, after a press before the signature, will subsidize the Homer, a freebie for your collection and a beauty with that large white area Lee signed. You'll be in the red only temporarily. Then about even money with that Homer the profit and icing on the cake!

My thoughts exactly as I paged down to post.

That's the combined overall grade I'd set on it, an average of both covers and the whole.

Both. Send them both. A winning combination.

It's a pet upgrade. Before you can get a freakin' pet owl, you need freakin' sacrificial pet mice.

It doesn't appear so. What seems to be rust is just over the top staple, top staple hole, but it's just another similar spot of many like it on the spine and elsewhere.

Our avian friend must have flown in a delivery of Overstreet OWL cards and decided to lend a talon and bear witness to their authentication process.

Rough with the worm holes and chews, but it could have been a whole lot worse. Inner cover presents nicely without that high degree of foxing the outer cover has, made even more prominent by the light, bright cover colors, which offer no help t provide coverage for those spots like on many issues with foxing on dark colors and lower visibility. I've seen a few CGC graded Golden age books almost like this before, and if my memory serves me correctly, the outer cover was a 2.0 and the inner cover, a 3.0 My feeling is that here, a 1.5 outer, 2.5 inner is more appropriate.

Homer 13 has that large white area, perfect for a signature, and the condition will make the finished product more attractive. Millie 93, same deal. Better shape, after having it pressed, and again, the perfect area to the right of the date stamp for a signature = eye appeal. Forego the ones that are VG or less. Those are the two that IMO are winners.

Just go slow and you'll be able to do it.

small amount of color touch (that we can't see in that image).

OC = not a factor in the technical grade.

Here is a list of most recently sold Stan Lee signatures on ebay, search query: lowest price first, using Stan Lee signed CGC as the keywords: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=Stan+lee+signed&_sop=15&_sadis=15&_dmd=1&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_osacat=0&_stpos=11426&_ipg=50&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR8.TRC3.A0.H0.XStan+lee+signed+CGC.TRS1&_nkw=Stan+lee+signed+CGC&_sacat=0 Interesting to note that Tonfulle-84s Lee forgeries overwhelm the list.