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Isn't detective comics 168 the first app of red hood? @Wolverinex I guess 609 is it, but in a roundabout way since Tommy Elliot ends up being the Hush we know today. Still interesting that there is no such thing as a slab with the words "first appearance of Hush".

I thought that too. It's an odd looking cover to me. My favourite is the Bachalo one.

Haha!

I am surprised you are surprised. I thought this was common knowledge. I remember being shocked at it all a few months back when I first looked into them (never needed to before) and everyone was like, "yeah, they are terrible, been that way for decades".

That is not Batman 1, it is a reprint. That binding looked off right away and that back cover cemented it. Well, what was most telling was that it was aquired in such a haphazard way. With most of the people who first purchased these comics now being dead, and their collections passed on, we are reaching the point where finding "new" golden age books is becoming increasingly rare. Don't send it in.

I know it's unfortunate, but I love this story. People sometimes really wonder why there was such a big difference and here it is the best explanation I have ever read since it makes perfect sense.

Amazing Spider-man 850 is the next milestone issue and there are lots of covers being made for it. Which ones do you like best and which will you be getting? And anyone else underwhelmed by Bruce Timm's cover?

a) looking forward to that time you describe. It is kinda nuts that there are golden age books where we don't even know if more than 100 copies survived, and those are being sold for waaaay less than "rare" variants. But then again, if something is so rare, it's hard to get a momentum going. Variants are rare enough to stirr some interest but common enough to have several copies readily available for purchase so what whoever wants to pay more right away can get the variant they want. And that creates the momentum. b) of course most moderns would be variants. Their comparative scarcity is the only thing stirring some interest that would get the value worth enough to get it slabbed.

Isn't that how all of Jim Lee's books are? Like the ones we are discussing. Does he have an actual key then? That first appearance of Gambit is definitely a key, but I wouldn't attribute it to him over Kubert since he isn't the artist on it.

sounds par for the course with Metropolis.

Oh I see now, I reread your first post and I get it. Sorry about my comment then, I thought there were 23 books where 9.8 was expected, my bad. Another question, did you opt to press any of the books? Because for those more subtle grades, pressing can help.

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You submit the full charge through the credit card and they will charge you the right total when comes the time. Also, I thought you said you submitted 23 books as 9.8s, that's more than a handful. Does your LCS not know about prescreening?

I know this will probably come across as disrespectful but reading that post of yours made me cringe. I myself would never state with utmost certainty that a comic of mine is a 9.8, since I am not CGC. Even if some were undergraded before (in your point of view), I would never assume to have a 9.8 let alone expect that. Hope for it, sure, but expecting it and being in disbelief sounds like folly. Worst of all, you had 23 books, just add 2 more for 25 and do the prescreen. That's the only way to ensure you get the 9.8s. What I can't believe is that this wasn't the strategy chosen by you and the LCS owner. You guys wanted 9.8s and this is the one guarantee you have of getting it and you didn't go for it. Why? Did you also choose not to get these pressed? Also, less than half a point of grade is literally one of the lowest discrepencies possible.

They dont figure it out later in the story since Riddler is revealed to be behind it all, not Tommy. Only in later issues does Tommy Elliot become the Hush we know of today. That's why CGC has no first Hush notation I think. It's a very weird character origin, publication wise.

I'll be dead honest. Even though my favourite character is Batman and Jim Lee is one of my all time favourites, I think that X-men 1 cover is his crowning achievement. Too bad he couldn't replicate that awesomeness in the All Star Batman foldout of the Batcave (which I felt was a bit weak, especially the angle chosen).

It is and that's the draw, not so much that Jim Lee's art is inside the book.

Oh man, I'm such a fanboy that I prefer it to the original.

Yeah that's Tommy Elliot, but he isn't Hush there and doesn't take up that name/mantle until later.

You may want to double check this one.

He answered this before by saying that there should be no problem. Foil covers can be pressed. The books that should not be pressed are older books with brittle pages.

Grading is unbiased, it has nothing to do with the value. The tier are based on the turn around time, how fast they get to a grader to grade, and then back to you. As with comics, the higher a collectible is valued, the more quickly CGC wants it to go back to you. You arent paying more because its valued more, you are paying more because your card is moving to the top of the grading pile.

Up to you, X-Men 4 could be your Jim Lee key. I was just asking what people considered theirs to be.

I agree with all the points, and yet I think that this is why he is so beloved. He really gives you the iconography of Superheroes being removed from reality. They aren't real, they are only ever present on the page, hence why that cloth isn't behaving realistically. It only exists within that static drawing. Everything is big poses. We have seen it a million times, but he sets out to do the one everyone will use from here on out, the defacto image. Others have tried since and well... not so great