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    Most of those books present pretty nicely VF+/-, but yeah you payed the Comic Con premium on them. Not sure which of those books would go for $80, but it was certainly over priced. Personally, I prefer buying online, with nice large, clean scans, where I can judge a grade and do some comparison shopping. If you enjoyed the convention experience, that's not a bad price for an afternoons entertainment.
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    Had to go look through my collection on why I don't remember this book. I'm a Larsen fan but teaming a young Larsen with Vince Colletta is just about the ugliest work I have ever seen in a Marvel book ( that includes the Frank Robbins Captain America mess of a run).
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    Just a heads up that the Taschen site has the Marvel Comics Library Amazing Spider-man vol 1 at half price right now. Regular $200, marked down to $100.
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    I was thinking the same thing, but then thought how could a movie do justice to that series? It might work better as an HBO Max series or even an animated run. Give me "Planetary" and "100 Bullets" in well done HBO Max series and I could die happy.
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    Have a handful of these books, bought in the 1990's. Not a pedigree collector, just curious. Most of the books, while nice looking, have issues somewhere on them. Bought a lot of books from both Greg Buls and Howard Harris in the 1980's, but that was before they moved to Arizona and discovered Circle 8 collection. That said, they had a bunch of connections here in San Antonio and wouldn't be surprised if a number of the books made it over here. Not grading, but if I did, would they get a pedigree designation or is this too easy to duplicate?
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    Plus EERIE 20 EERIE 22
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    If you haven't checked out his work on Charlton's Phantom comic, give it a try. I'm not a Phantom fan, but Newton's work on it was beautiful. His painted covers were crazy good. Di ck Giordano hired him to work for Charlton and then brought him to DC when he moved over there.
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    When I was a young kid back in the 1970s, my older brother would buy me comics every year for Christmas. It drove my parents crazy! They would buy me a bike, I'd go crazy over the comics. They got me a TV for my room, my favorite gift was the comics. I remember my freshman year in high school, they talked with my brother about getting me a more "grown up" gift. He agreed and said he would figure something out. Christmas morning, opened his present first, big old stack of comics! They just didn't get it at all.
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    That's from his Marvel Team-Up appearance in #37. Sal Buscema and Vince Colletta at their finest!
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    Not sure who is in that picture, but "desert-comics" has auctioned off probably between 100-200 copies on ebay over the last 3 or 4 months. I would imagine those books are from the stash shown in that picture. Many, many of them are mid grade and lower copies.
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    I've always enjoyed the western books and certainly collected the original Jonah Hex series, but the run started in 2005 was a much, much better read. Most of the run is available in tpb and you really can't go wrong. It's been awhile, but many arcs had really nice Phil Noto and Jordi Bernet (legendary European artist) art. That's where I discovered Jordi Benet's work and became a huge fan. They also had stand alone stories by Darwyn Cook, Brian Steelfreeze, Jeff Lemire, Eduardo Risso and many others. Can't go wrong with it.
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    This thread isn't complete without the classic AH! poster
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    A handful of Art Adams prints, plus a sweet Wrightson plate from the Frankenstein book.
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    Listed as Fred Stesney
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    They are very nice. They were originally advertised in 2020 as a black light calendar with the posters being around 12x16. I forget what the original price was but around $30. Calendar never came out and these were released about a year later.
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    Now you're going to make me dig them out and re-read them.
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    Take Watchman HC and the 2 Supreme HC books per pm.
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    Yeah, that's the crazy thing. If CGC had just stopped and called the customer, explaining that the book had been ruined during pressing and offered him an over the market type compensation, this issue would have quietly disappeared. Sure, the customer would complain and post on the internet about the poor experience, but it would end there. Instead, they pack it up and send it back to the customer like nothing ever happened. Posting the image of that book, and the accompanying story, is a thousand times worse for CGC. It will never go away. Who in their right mind would trust CGC with a $10,000 to $100,000 book?
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    Go ahead and throw this one in also. Thanks!
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    To clarify, The 2 signed Sin City books
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    I'll take the 2 Sin City books and the Bone set