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I love Jay's grasp of natural anatomy, Just love it. The "flaws" on the women's bodies is just perfection. The torso on Sonja is a touch long, but other than that, they look like real women's bodies. Just lovely.

Avoid them both and put your money into the an IRA. If you must buy comics, buy highj grade secondary Bronze Age keys, which have pulled back in recent years, and have some potential relative to their GA and SA counterparts (except IH #181. Skip that.) Try a nice Avengers #100 or Conan #1 or IF #14 in 9.6+.

Who is "they", and where do "they" get their information from...? The Venom Black has been a well publicized....and spectacular...error since it was first noticed shortly after publication in 1993. The white is just the gold foil version of the same thing. While having the heavier paper for the newsprint is kinda cool, it does not have the same type of immediate eye appeal as the Venom errors. But, if you're happy paying that price, more power to you. It's your money; you should spend it the way you like.

P.S.: If you MUST use 576 yards of tape, do this: put the already bagged and boarded comic(s) in ANOTHER, BIGGER bag (Golden Age or Magazine, whatever fits) and THEN go to town on that OUTER bag, so that the books inside aren't affected by the (overuse of) tape. And for God's sake, make sure the books inside cannot move a millimeter, or they will bust through the outer bag on the first impact the package takes.

There IS such a thing as "too much tape." Tape isn't magic, folks...the real protection is the cardboard and the box. 5 rolls of tape doesn't protect the book(s) any better, and can cause damage. Use enough to secure the item...add an inch or two...then stop.

As I mentioned elsewhere, Tim Bildhauser, who is some person in charge at CBCS, was standing 5 feet away from me, openly defying convention staff at Louise Simonson's table at Baltimore. Louise was exceptionally gracious, and Bildhauser basically told the convention staff to shove off, he had books to get signed. This is the attitude they have. The company is a mess, and the way they deal with it is to silence criticism. It's about as textbook as it gets. If I were any of them, I would look for other work, soon. This isn't doing anything good for Borock's legacy. As I've said many times before, I wanted them to succeed, and told them so, publicly and privately. Competition is good for everyone, but mostly for the consumer. Unfortunately, they had their own ideas, and they simply were not ready for prime time. There's no one in charge, and it shows. The only thing left to do is to quietly stop taking orders, and either restructure the company top to bottom, getting rid of everyone, or end services completely.

But...but...."no one has EVER complained about my packing before. You must just be someone who can't be pleased." And the people with the guts to leave negative feedback for it were the ones painted as the scammers....

I've said this before, and I'll echo you all above: the best part about these is that they are a fascinating little niche in the midst of some of the most monstrous print runs the industry ever saw. They're rare, but not *too* rare. They're young enough to be generally available in high grade, and old enough to be "collectible." They are finite: they have a beginning, and they have an end. Plus, they are genuine variants, of the kind that quietly gets published, totally under the radar, and is ignored for a couple of decades, like the 30/35s before them. They put back a lot of the thrill of the chase into an era that is flooded with garbage. I think $5-$10 is the most these should be worth; if they got to be worth much more than that, with some exceptions, it wouldn't be fun anymore, because everyone would run to find them and put them on their walls for 10 times what they are actually worth. That would be a shame if that happened.

Good to see you over here, Baba. Sad to see your experience mirroring so many others, but that's how it's been going. If that company has a prayer of surviving, they need to get rid of everyone, top to bottom, and start over. Those people had no business trying to run a company. - The poster formerly known as "Doc Brown."

(Secretly, I do too... )

"Spider-Ghost, Spider-Ghost, does whatever a Spider...er...hosts..."

These kinds of things just hurt to see. This seller took a real bath on a resale...or someone did. Ouch. Any other tales of woe from the GPA files?

Great display, but the 4 newsstands and 1 direct would annoy me. ...and maybe now annoy you.

By the way....thought I'd share this here: I watched Tim Bildhauser of CBCS stand 5 feet away from me at the Baltimore Comicon, and totally ignore the con volunteer who said "10 items per person until the line is gone" for Louise Simonson...to which Bildhauser initially assented, and then he plops 30 or so down in front of Louise. The volunteer was pissed, and got in the middle of it, and Bildhauser, arrogantly, said "I have clients that have to get their books signed!", and Louise was like "oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't know, I'll make sure we do that!" Tacky, classless, and perfectly in sync with their mindset. If I was Louise, I would have stopped signing immediately, and refused to sign any more of his books.

Regardless of how good or bad everything was, I'm so very glad Carrie was still alive to film these movies. Sure, fan servicing, but hey..."slave Leia" made a very big impact on me. So yeah, I had a big fat 11 year old crush on her, that developed into a lifelong appreciation for her creative work, as wacky as it got. I'm sad she's gone, but I'm so very, very glad I got to see General Leia one last time.

hehehe....

Someone DESPERATELY needs to animate this...

There are really two options to pursuing runs like this: 1. Offer a "this makes it worth my time to look, find, possibly press, and submit" price for books that are already graded. That price is around $80-$100 a slab, though you may certainly find someone willing to do it for less. The cost to slab is roughly $25-$30/book, with all shipping included (to and from CGC.) Shipping to get the slab to you would be in addition to that. or... 2. Slab them yourself. Depending on what your time is worth, and the resources you have for locating copies that would meet your requirements, #1 is potentially far less expensive than #2. But, lots of people do #2, and find it very rewarding. If you ask for someone's assistance and expertise in helping you with this, be fully prepared to compensate them for their time and effort, even if they don't ask.

I think you're just specuating....

Print runs are unknown, for every publisher, unless they release that information. In the case of this one, they did not. The newsstand would likely have been printed in greater numbers than either the gold embossed or platinum (B&W), but not nearly the numbers of the regular. DI #1 would have been printed to the tune of 500,000-1,000,000 copies, since it is a 1993 Image book, but the newsstand print run is anyone's guess. They're not particularly rare, they're just very, very well distributed and hidden in collections. They may be, like all Imagine newsstands, tough to find in high grade. What is the website everyone directed you to? As far as "worth getting graded"...if it's a 9.8, the answer is "yes", for all Image newsstands, from Spawn #1 to whatever was the last newsstand Image produced. For other grades...the cost per sig that Kieth, Liefeld, and Lee INDIVIDUALLY charge ($20, $60, $40) is more than the slab would be worth, so unless it's a 9.8, and you can get it signed at a free signing...I wouldn't bother.

The thing that set NM #98 apart was the 2008 series by Daniel Way...Deadpool hasn't really been out of print since 1997, with a couple of months here and there, but during the early 2000s, he couldnt carry his own title. But the 2008 series, combined with the release of Iron Man and the surge of interest in all things Marvel, combined with the new tactic of finding the next hot first appearance, no matter how obscure, and that's when NM #98 began its climb to the top. Before then, you could buy runs of Liefeld NM on eBay for $10-15 complete, or entire sets of NM #1-100 for $40-$50.

Anyone know who"t.kotche" is on the board...?

When? Nobody cared about NM #98 from 1994-2008ish.

That and the pinkie. I wonder if the Bloodshot movie will inspire people to look for more Bloodshot, unearthing some more of these?

Yes, but I'm specifically looking for the variants of chromiums...not the "chromium variants" (of which there are hundreds) themselves. So while Shadowman #0 chromium isn't applicable to THIS list, the gold version is...as listed in the first post.