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But you said it

It's signed by Stan Lee, so the latest it could be from is 2018

@Get Marwood & I I think you made him paranoid that every book he's going to buy will secretly be a Canadian price variant

I like em probably another topic with a generational divide

It was Don McGregor not Flo, at least according to how Denys tells the story here (timestamped)

What if there's a person who would have been one of the top two bidders but decides to not bid at all because of it. Like hypothetically with the masking tape the top two bidders bid it up to $50K before the runner-up drops out, but if it weren't taped there is someone who would have bid it up to $75k.

Plenty of space on my walls, just let me know

Am I missing something, those appear to be two different pages

For dealers who are also reps I could imagine it's also a benefit to have sold listings stay visible to cut down on "Is this page from this series from this artist available?" inquiries. You can just go to the series/artist's page and see "Ok, everything is marked as sold except for page 12 and 13". Having those sold listings stay visible could also show people there is demand, so there are "psychological merits" to having them around too (for the dealer).

I always imagined they kept the listing to preserve the key words for search engines. Someone looks up "McFarlane Spider-Man Original Art" or whatever they're lookign for, they get a result for a page from X Dealer's site from Google, and even though the person has now been taken to a sold listing they probably will go "Well I'm already here, let's see what else this dealer has" But I've come to believe it's just out of convenience, the software they use for their site probably just has a quick option they can select to mark a page as Sold and it's easier for them to do that than to remove an entire listing

I think it's called a Donnelly special

Yeah for sure, thats why I mentioned what I said was from a perspective of just looking at the art. They don't seem too far off from each other in that perspective to me. Obviously with all the extra not-art related fixins such as the brand name of the artists, the series its from, nostalgia, etc, I'd take this page over the Skottie cover, if just for the resell value if nothing else. And slightly more appropriate for the comiclink thread I guess but I just wanted to add, the Skottie cover is really just a departure of his Marvel/DC cover style. His art for his creator-owned stuff is pretty in-line with that cover (But of course his Marvel/DC stuff would be his more well-known popular style as you put it).

Nostalgia aside, just looking at the art I'd rather take that skottie young cover people were dumping on in the comiclink thread. Nostalgia really is a powerful force

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection Don't be that guy

You will never be Bird

Ghastly grim and ancient Bird wandering from the Nightly Grind Quoth the Bird: "Nevermind"

Editor must have been sleeping in that day, last panel should read "First Victim of Carnage in Cameo"

These were my votes: (Hopefully this link works) https://www.comicartfans.com/BestOfMyVote.asp?GCat=174608

Well based on Brian's earlier post that he will speak to Bill about fixing it, I'm guessing they didn't want people to vote for their own submissions but assumed people naturally wouldn't try to anyway and so they didn't implement anything to prevent it. I didn't vote for any of my own art either, just seemed tacky to me.

Aw man, this is one of the categories I rushed through. I missed that Muppets piece, definitely would have gotten my vote too

I don't know what to say anymore beyond what I have. I don't think your system is wrong or flawed in anyway (at least not any more wrong or flawed than what we have now), I just don't think it's the magic cure-all that you're looking at it as. Right now, there are people that obviously believe that 180 revolves around Wolverine/Weapon X (even though you believe that to be invalid), so I think it's reasonable to believe in your system people will say 180 should count as a "Wolverine Story" and "Introduction". People will still argue because what's being argued isn't being changed it's being called something else, and regardless of whether you think these hypothetical arguments in your system are valid or not the arguments will exist because we'll still be in the same situation we are in now: two sides of an argument where each side thinks the other's arguments are not valid

And thats how the argument would begin