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Norm Macdonald is lovely this time of year. Thanks for the reminder!

New Mexico is lovely this time of year. Thanks for the reminder!

Great topic! I would say I try to strike a balance between two and three, which would also keep in mind 1, even if I do not collect as a true investment. I determine the nostalgic “context” I’m looking for, then pass over lots of pieces until I find a piece that has the artistic quality I want. Of course, the notion of picking quality examples can be subjective, so success may vary in the eye of the beholder. It does start with nostalgia for me, though.

Masters of Evil would be one hell of a heavy metal band name! Check out my CAF link if you’d like to see the write up. CAF link

Thank you, Mr Spears! It’s very nice of you to fill us in. It’s really good work, even if they pressed you into doing another style.

Lol! I think I want to call this the Ron Burgandy Escalation Equation.

As I mentioned, I’m only watching two, so my sample is much smaller. One shot up very early and seems to have at least two very motivated buyers, and the other nearly tripled this week. I wasn’t speaking to every price, just commiserating with a couple people that have the Platinum Day Blues with my small watched slice of the auction, and floating a question. You also may be a lot more experienced than myself (sounds very likely), and able to adjust to the new market better.

Do you have room for one more? I whittled down to 2, and both of them are already over the value I put on them. Clearly, I forgot to carry the one. One page is a long sought after piece that I might never see again, so the evil, over-bidding FOMO (fear of missing out) dude that lives between two folds my brain is whispering stuff... How are you all approaching those types of pages? How much “stretch” is prudent over your set FMV to get a piece like that? I’m also thinking I just don’t have the computational “sea-legs” yet for this crazy market.

Javokk a troll. Not the troll, just a troll, but from Walt Simonson Thor Ragnarok. I’d love a page, but you get what you get. CAF link

I thought of this thread as soon as I saw that piece. Lol.

Some people want to go back and hit that home run in the big game to change everything. Batman has different dreams... CAF link

Definitely a problem on The Internets. Less a problem here than most, imo. I’d like to think we can handle a digital laughing face, though. And that is no knock on your good point about talking to each other politely, I just think we shouldn’t let ourselves get triggered by cartoons (Unless we are buying them! 😁). I really was just giving an anecdote from another board, to possibly shed light.

On another board that I frequent, the laughing and sad emojis became an “issue.” It was largely because of political needling, but people would use them to laugh at, and make fun of people’s comments, so other thin-skinned posters reported it until the moderators stepped in. We did get to keep them, but it’s become a bit of a point of contention. Personally, I wonder why care that much about the opinion of a complete stranger. This board is much more polite than a lot of others I’ve seen, but I have noticed bickering increasing a smidge over the last bunch of months—or maybe it’s just become noticeable as I’ve been here longer—so maybe it’s a similar “issue” to the moderators here, too? That’s just a guess, though, as I don’t really know the players or interactions here very well.

SSSNNNIKT SSSNNNIKT. Wolvie Cat is my spirit animal. CAF link

A little more Tradd. Logan Maximus (Are you not entertained, Bub?) is frying the target of the night on everyone’s favorite state-run police show, The Guardians. Will Stella save her new love interest? Will Kirby be medium rare or well done? Tune in to find out! CAF link

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Of course. Hence the discussion. It just seems like low hanging fruit to prune. This listing comes up a lot. Heh, that’s a whole other problem. Beer google bidding?

The description only says “hand drawn,” but without specifics. It’s poorly/cleverly written, too, in order to create subject verb confusion so people can’t really say it’s signed by Jack Kirby, since they threw Cap in there first. Following the language, it was signed by Captain America, and then they outed his secret identity as Jack Kirby! Oh noes!!!! You can also read it as claiming nothing definitively. Why is eBay letting this go? Odd. I know people here have logged complaints.

Tradd day! Man, seeing his art up close, you GET it. CAF link

Is creating a “hinge” something a collector could (should?) do on their own? Carefully? I have an EC horror page where a panel was drawn twice, and taken off sometime in the past. I wanted to attach it to be able to see both easily (and keep the pieces together, I currently have it on the next portfolio page).

You know, Bill might be right. I think the inking is different, and I missed it with the image similarities. Good call, Bill.

I found one on one of my collectibles It’s a lunchbox. The others look familiar, too. I’d bet they are on other 80s-90s Marvel Super Heroes line collectibles. I don’t have a thermos in this one, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the other top Spidey image was on the thermos. I’d also add it’s a pretty collectible toy line, so hold onto that art, buddy.