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Jesse-Lee

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    Him?
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    Bought in cheap recently on some Panda Khan - apparently there's a cartoon that's been in the works for the past year or so... Either way, some cool books - I always loved that action figure from the TMNT run.
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    Some old stuff and some new stuff:
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    I agree with all of this. I'm a huge Batman fan. I do think the art on this is gorgeous - moody, great use of light. But there's no way I'd go in for $400 on the 1:250. I guess maybe I'd pay the $25 or whatever for the regular version, but I'm with you - I don't like the Spider-Man 1 parallel. But then, I also bought this, so who am I to talk: (Although, I don't care - I do love the Batman 423 cover...)
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    The turn around times on the site say 186 days for pressing and 106 for grading - so those stack? I thought maybe the 186 for pressing included pressing+grading TAT (I can't imagine people really send for pressing only)... So it's really 292 days if you want to get your book pressed and then graded?
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    If you've got an extra $400 laying around, man, have I got a book for you: https://unknowncomicbooks.com/products/batman-118-cvr-f-inc-1-250-viktor-bogdanovic-gold-foil-card-stock-var-1-200-12-08-2021
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    It's really cool! I was surprised to find it, and at a surprisingly low price too!
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    This one is kind of interesting - I kind of dig that it's an error copy actually. Just got this nice copy of Catwoman 46, a nice Hughes cover (the marks are from my dirty scanner I keep forgetting to clean; disregard those please): When I opened it up, this is what I found: First couple of pages/wraps are short. So I went to the back of the book: So it's like miswrapped but cut correctly, so the front pages are short and the back pages are cut off. I haven't seen this before - like I said, kind of neat and unique.
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    Just got these in today: And also this one - really love this Hughes cover!
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    One more "big batch of books" mail day - the last one for awhile: Lady Death Swimsuit Special 1 - Signed Pandora/Shotgun Mary Blue Foil 1/100 Teen Titans 48 Double Cover: I can't find a ton about this one - Wolverine Untamed Sticker Album. The album is complete with every sticker stuck in the book: And I also got the following in the mail the other day from @John R's excellent sale - thank you!
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    I state in my listings that I won't ship Media Mail - I hate when people ship comics to me via Media Mail, and I refuse to send that way myself. Had a guy message me and ask, "what do you mean by you won't ship Media Mail? I'm new to this." So I messaged back, patiently explaining what I meant. He then placed a $20 offer on a book I had listed for $25. I usually like to let offers sit for a little bit, since they're technically binding for 12/24/48 hours (however long the offer limit is), just in case someone else comes along and buys the book at BIN. But 10 minutes after he made the offer, he messaged me again asking me if I would decline it. People are weird.
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    "Good artists copy; great artists steal." - Picasso Georgia O'Keeffe - Jack in the Pulpit No. IV, 1930
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    I never thought I'd own a copy of Detective Comics with a 2-digit issue number. I guess I just figured they'd be so far out of reach and prohibitively expensive, but actually a number of them are relatively affordable. I found a copy of Detective 94 that I liked and went for it. It's low grade, and not a grail or a big book by any stretch, but it's my only GA book, and I love it!
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    I overpaid for my 9.0 back in August compared to now. Oh well, still a cool book I'm happy to have!
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    Yeah, I can definitely see that point of view. I feel very much the same about Gleason for example - when ASM 55 came out, I just loved that webhead cover. I got feelings of Jock's Detective 880 - like wow, what a cool way to represent the character in a way I don't really remember seeing. But then it seemed like every single cover Gleason did got the webhead treatment, and it just wasn't as "special." It seems like now, when something takes off, then the publisher/artist/whomever responds by saying, "well, they liked that, let's shove it down their throats." I'm as guilty as the next guy of buying into it - I buy cover swipes and "homages" of covers I like all the time. But then there are those covers that resonate with me for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, and that Hulk 1 is just one of them. I can't explain it. I was into Pupeteer Lee's work from early on, and I still love it - and I think it's an example of someone having a style and working within the parameters of that style - but even their work is beginning to have a "sameness" quality to it. Which is also a little weird to think about because when you see vintage Neal Adams for example, it's almost immediately recognizable, but to me that's a good thing - that's my favorite Batman.
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    It's strange, because in the case of the Hulk cover, it's the simple, childlike, whimsical nature that makes me stop and take a second look at it, and for whatever reason, I really like that particular cover, even though it's not usually the style I like. For example, I usually hate most of what Skottie Young does, even though you can see parallels between his work and Momoko's Hulk 1 cover in some ways...
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    Maybe it's too obvious, but I grabbed a couple of the Momoko covers. I actually really like the Momoko Hulk cover, I felt like it has the potential to be one of those classic covers:
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    Great sale, cool books, excellent prices, fast shipping and wonderful communication - can't ask for more than that! Thank you!
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    I'll go four! (That's what she said?)
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    I did the same thing, but on a much smaller scale - Ultimate Fallout 4 - bought at the very top of the spike (and I'm not even talking 9.8, I bought a 9.2). But like anything else, I've had some wins and I've had some dumb purchases. Win some, lose some.