Jeffro.

Pollard is a great choice. His stuff was never flashy but it was nice solid pleasing work For me, it's Mike Ploog. Okay, he's not underappreciated but he definitely was underutilized

Well if it helps, I got acquainted with that art in 2010 amidst everything else that was. So their art did not appear to break free from the crowd. It just looked like standard proportions to me. Well done for sure, but nothing I could pick from a line up if they drew a scene I was unfamiliar with. Unlike Miller, Simonson, or the aforementioned Bolland. Not saying Miller is a better artist, he is not, but his style is more recognizable to me. Also I thought Perez was picked for Superman to indicate to readers that the title was returning to a more classic and familiar feeling, that alone tells me that his art is not that distinctive when compared to other artists. Maybe it comes down to you had to be there in 80s to understand how truly unique Byrne and Perez were. I can't imagine looking at their work and not immediately recognizing their distinctive styles. To each his own indeed

To each their own I'm curious how you could say that two comic artists with distinct and unique styles, again no one else was drawing like them at the time, could have no distinctive style. Genuinely curious

Oh c'mon. Both Perez and Byrne had distinctive styles. That's just wrong on all levels. There was no one else drawing like them.

Oh wait, I got it. It was one of the paintings in the Flying Hellfish tontine

Spoilered in case anyone hasn't seen it yet

I think it was called Mega Frazetta vs Speedboateroid vs Sharktopus 2. SyFy Channel original movie

There's your problem

The discussion about Byrne and faces is interesting. Jim Lee can be accused of the same thing and he gets near universal praise for his work. In fact, you can probably go through the work of many comic artists and find the same faces thing. To me that doesn't diminish Byrne's work. For some it does. Geeks are passionate about their geekery but there's no right or wrong answer.

Already at $14.5k before taxes damn that's way too much for that book....just sayin Why? After all, it is the first appearance of Wolverine.

Yeah, that Byrne guy sure does suck

They're both great but I always come back to Byrne. His style appeals to me more.

There are many, many other pressing options than CCS. It's a shame more people are not aware of that. Quick press? Fire up the assembly line and pump those books though. You get what you pay for.

Could be worth it if they are high enough grade and given the utter common dreck that some people waste their money slabbing, these certainly aren't the worst choice, again given high enough grade..

When people talk about reprints in the X-Men run they are usually referring to issues 67-93. Yes, issues 67-93 contain stories reprinted from earlier X-Men comics.

Thor shorts = Thorts

And he wasn't the only one guilty of that. Several well regarded 90s comic artists did the same thing unfortunately

I say keep pressing it until you get 9.8 or all the pages fuse into one thick page

Double boxing (type 1092 + type 1095) helps a great deal but yes use extra cardboard as well.

I think that crease tells you all you need to know. The impact that caused that crease could easily be what caused the crack in the slab.

Yes. They can be found here

That's pretty much all the early Image stuff. Flashy art on slick paper with vibrant covers and stories that are whatever. Pretty to look at it (perhaps) but not much of a read.

Embrace your inner newb

And or taking several pictures and contacting Cgc customer service, they have actual paid employees whose job it is to help you Well yeah, that too

How about several pictures that detail what you're talking about?