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I suppose it's similar to grading. Put in the time and do your research and you will become competent or even proficient in spotting comics with great eye appeal. I certainly don't need CVA to tell me what slabbed comic has the best eye appeal and I'm certainly not going to waste my money on such nonsense.

It's perfectly reasonable to give him advice either way. He will still make his own decision.

You mean the Playboys were actually at the cottage, not in a fort in the woods? The fort came later

Not really sure what hooked me on comics however, it was probably my dad. As a kid, he was a comic fan and that continued into adulthood. At a Summer cottage my family owned, there was a stack of Sad Sack, Richie Rich, Uncle Scrooge, some DC war comics, and a few other odds and ends. The first visit to that cottage every year, I would devour those comics. I still have them somewhere. I was also likely influenced highly by the 60s Spider-Man cartoon. There was also a stack of Playboys there but I was too young at that time to be interested.

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Great to hear from you Shep. That's a great book!

Nothing. And yet this is the best thread in CG

Agreed. Proper forum for this is Copper forum

What??? No voodoo, or magic crystals? Ebay completed sales??? Who knew??

When he began Infinity Inc his style as it would later be known on Hulk and particularly on Spidey was still in its very formative stage. You can see the progression as his work on that series progresses. For me, the "classic" McFarlane style doesn't come into being until his Hulk run.

....Or, pay what you need, get what you want You can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes, well, you might find you get what you need

Not sure but Probably Alpha Flight 1

If you're going to be buried with your comics, why care about value?

Maybe it's just a micro... Cocktail weenie

It's where all the cool hotdoggers hang. It's cooler to hang in the shade

Is this the place to be today?

pernts

There's something about green covers on DCs from this era that are particularly appealing to me. They just look really sharp.

Only a couple hundred?

If museums thought that way, it seems like that would slightly ruin the whole experience - "just imagine that there's a beautiful Picasso hanging on the wall over there" ... I'm not saying that you shouldn't be careful about how you display your prized collectibles - just that a knee-jerk reaction of "you will DESTROY the book if you display it!" is silly. I have OA hanging all over my house and comic books hanging on the walls in my comic book room because it gives me pleasure to look at them. I'm not saying don't do it. Obviously, people do. No way in hell I would do it. Do you have insurance in case all that framed stuff gets damaged? I wonder if museums insure all of their pieces?

I've never understood people who want to display a high dollar comic book where it can be subject to fading or falling off the wall, or something else equally horrible. But I guess that's just me. I'm sure I'd feel differently if I had money to burn

It's threads like these that give me pause about sending anything to CGC

I love it and I'm not even a Superboy collector. One of the things I did when I first joined these boards was pour over the threads that had pictures of comics. I just love looking at comics

Still a chance. I've upped the number of lines that are displayed before abbreviation a couple of times due to feedback. Looking for the sweet spot to see if there's a "right" setting, or if we should just remove it. Just letting it marinate. It sucks. Please remove it. And yes, that's hardly constructive feedback but I'd rather deal with people quoting the same images over and over again than constantly clicking "read more". I finding that it's more annoying and more frequent to click "read more" than dealing with people quoting (for instance) greggy's new slabbed drek multiple times.