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I'm not a fan of youtubers or influencers or any of that, but this is one of those situations where I just think all parties look bad. The kid came in with a camera on his chest, so the shop owner, in his own words, "started messing with him right away." Okay, have at it, but if you react with immaturity, then you can't be surprised when someone comes back with even more immaturity.

Been a while since I looked at it but it didn't seem pressable. It's just a label at this point.

I have several Folio Society fiction books and they are well done. Didn't know they had Marvel--might have to consider a few of them. Taschen is nice but I'm running out of space for oversized books.

I always felt like it was a question of recognition. I really only think something is a homage if it affirmatively states it or 2) if it's so recognizable that no statement is necessary (Action 15, H181/340, etc). Short of that, swipe. Especially if you're taking some obscure interior panel, or secondary element on a page or cover, I really don't see how that can be anything other than a swipe, even if you try to pass it off as a "homage" after the fact. For example, in this thread, the Action 8 seems quite swipey to me (though it's possible that it was an obvious homage at the time to more cultured people, and those same people bought funny books, but I sort of doubt it). Most of the other GA examples seem pretty swipey too. I realize it's tempting to call them homages now because the source material is easily recognizable to the experts on this board, serious collectors who are armed with the sum of human knowledge at their fingertips thanks to the internet, but would most people have recognized them as clear homages in 1950? What was the circulation and visibility of the source material? Would bet a lot of swipes became "homages" over time due to the rise in popularity of the swiper or the after-the-fact popularity of the source material.

$1500 for what looks like a 10x10 or so room seems quite high. We did our entire house a year ago and got a number of quotes which varied wildly. Highest one was about $10 per square foot (no frills, water-based finish). Ended up going with someone that did it all for a bit less than $3.

Double homage even.

That's interesting--I agree it's a bit surprising. I have Marvel Age 90-93 or so and just had a look at them and I'm not sure I'd be too interested in an omnibus of such issues, but maybe, as a curiosity. I'd probably most consider volume 3--if they get that far (assuming it's issues 70-100 or so). Don't think I'm hardcore enough for the whole series.

Because they aren’t on the long beams.

I think I still have PTSD from the I HUNGER followed by that giant thing chasing me down.

I started collecting in the 80s and could never get into FF. The stuff I liked and which I felt was cool and popular at the time was kind of the antithesis of FF—Miller/Moore antiheros, hyper-violence, Claremont X-Men, etc. I would guess that most FF fans started earlier—70s if not 60s. So to answer OP’s question, I’d say early 80s at the very latest. I did recently get the Hickman FF omnibuses (vol 1 and 2) collecting his 2010 storyline as they got good reviews even by people who claimed to have never read FF before, but I haven’t started it yet.

I was referencing the 2x4 pictured.

Zork, Ultima 4, Hardball!, Mail Order Monsters, Skate or Die!, Test Drive, Castle Wolfenstein, Bard’s Tale, The Hobbit, Hitchhiker’s Guide… I didn’t have Karate Champ on C64 but I did play it at the coin-op arcade a lot. Along with other favorites like Paperboy, Sinistar, Dragons Lair, Galaga, Tron…

Just fyi some people have had issues using it in this orientation (with the long beams vertical).

There aren't even 100 $100 books that I want, so I will take the 30k. In fact, I'd take a single 25k over 30k in 100s.

I liked the trailer. Though my grumpy old man view is that it's usually not the effects that are the problem with these movies but the generally bad writing, so I don't have high hopes. Even in the trailer we have the ol' monologuing villain trope.

Thanks for the link, I bought one.

One problem is I'm not sure people are even asking the same question. For instance, one person might write "Pressing is NOT restoration" but what they actually mean is "Pressing, in 2023, should not result in a purple CGC Label" while another person will respond "Pressing IS restoration" but what they actually mean is "Pressing is, by definition, a restorative process." Reworded thusly, some people may actually agree with each other. I'm actually not sure how you can really disagree with either of those reworded statements due to our current practical reality. Because the inescapable fact is that decades ago ago CGC made a decision to not treat pressing as restoration for the purpose of its labels. (Some explanations for this have been advanced in this thread, but CGC's decision also seems logical to me due to the physical manipulation involved in pressing as compared with, say, color touch and trimming, and the relative greater difficulty in finding evidence that a book was pressed at all.) Whatever the reason initially, CGC's industry presence and 20+ years of precedent make it pretty well settled that CGC's definition is the law. So, then, pressing certainly is a method to "repair to original condition" and is therefore a form of restoration. But it is not restoration. I expect that I have now brought peace to the Middle East.

I also like Mike.

Just preordered these. Every couple weeks for the last year I've been searching for them, and they finally popped up. https://cheapgraphicnovels.com/hulk-the-immortal-hulk-omnibus-hc-ross-cvr-pre-order- https://cheapgraphicnovels.com/x-men-the-uncanny-x-men-omnibus-vol-05-hc-romita-jr-cvr-pre-order- On the Imm Hulk, was wondering what else, if anything, they'd put in besides 1-50. Beat expectations. Similarly, was wondering what they'd put in on the X-Men vol. 5 since they only had 194-209 before running up against Mutant Massacre. Pretty good here too as I don't think I have Longshot 1-6 anywhere else. Anyway, that completes my omnibus X-Men 94 to 280 run, so I am done. Done I say.

Thanks, Sledder. 2023 will be the year I get my hands on Greggy's junk.

Comics are nothing. What takes some explaining are giant statues and things like the USS Flag.