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Well, that's a big YIKES.

Oof.

There are plenty of people discussing Manga. If you're wondering why the Marvel fans aren't discussing Manga, maybe ask them instead of asking the board members why, as if we have an answer for video creators' motives LOL

Different tiers can be sent in the same box, and appear on the same packing slip when you print it out. Just be sure to stack the books in the box in the order in which they appear on the packing slip. As others have said, the different tiers will be completed at different times (with Walkthrough being the fastest), so each tier will be shipped to you separately and you will be charged separate shipping and "invoice fees."

Oontz oontz oontz RIP Keith Flint

Yep. I've had a little over 50 comics graded in the last year and a half (when I started getting some of my books done), and none ever came back with Newton Rings. I had an order of three books came in yesterday. Two had Newton Rings. My first subs to come back with them. Hooray. Thankfully, they're very minor. But they're there.

In that case, there would be no split. The cover would have been pulled off at that staple.

Per Jennifer F in a post yesterday: The George Perez signing will be in about two weeks.

I just recently acquired a raw book with this exact error. I wasn't aware of it when I bought it, but discovered it while grading it for my personal collection. I thought it was such a bizarre curiosity that the interior would have went though the stapler, then AGAIN with a cover on it. It made no sense to me how this could happen at the printer.

Definitely moisture damage - pressing would get rid of rippling, but not any related staining. Those severe spine crease marks on Legacy would also not be "corrected."

It's not like books submitted for in-house signings get bumped ahead of everybody else, thus increasing TATs. Oh, wait, that's exactly what happens.

Now you're talkin'!

Richard Dawson as Two-Face?

I was gonna go full-on Match Game and say Brett, but I think I'd much prefer Laraine Newman in the role

PERFECT!

No, no! Paul Lynde as the Joker! Reilly as the Riddler!

JOHN WATERS? Starring Jaleel White? And you said Burton's vision was too campy! At first, I thought you were trolling. Now, I'm convinced of it.

Perhaps a problem with your....memory banks?

I'm convinced it was repurposed C-3POs.

NICE!!

I know the submission cut-off was January 31, 2022, but is there a date for the actual signing? Just wondering if I've got three weeks or three months before my books' statuses start changing on my submission list

Hyperbole much? Burton's Batman was so UN-family-friendly that he was booted off the franchise so Warners could make more money in merchandising, after the merchandise tie-ins for the first movie were so successful. This contradicts your statement that Burton was catering to toys and (ironically, as McDonald's is often blamed for putting the final nail in Burton's Batman 3) fast food. to wit: In the run-up to Batman Returns' release, Warner Bros' had doubled down on the 1989 original's success by bringing in an unprecedented number of merchandising and commercial partners. As reported by the LATimes reported in 1992, the key partners were McDonald's, Diet Coke, and Choice Hotels with an astonishing 120 product tie-ins planned including "talking toothbrushes, roller skates, and, naturally, T-shirts... boxer shorts, sunglasses and throw pillows... beach towels, beanbag chairs, weightlifting gloves and, yes, mugs." Nothing on that scale had really been considered before. That meant a huge responsibility on the movie to try and move merchandise for the partners who'd paid licensing fees, and with partners like McDonald's banking on Returns being a family movie, it all backfired very quickly. As Burton himself put it: "I think I upset McDonald's. [They asked] ‘What’s that black stuff coming out of the Penguin’s mouth. We can’t sell Happy Meals with that!’" They weren't the only ones offended or put out by Burton's creative vision. Toy companies had to be appeased by a claim that marketing would be reliant on the release of Batman: The Animated Series, and actual movie tie-in toys are conspicuous by their absence from that run of releases. Kenner simply released a line of Batman figures with absolutely no link to Returns, despite advertising claiming they were indeed tie-is. Problematically for Warner Bros, who had to answer to their partners - including McDonald's who were being castigated by Christian organizations for their association with the movie - the key license holders had plowed an almighty $60 million into TV advertising, roughly three times as much as WB spent on marketing the movie itself. McDonald's had ignored Kenner's approach to avoiding specific links to Batman Returns and transformed their restaurants into Gotham City, running a commercial campaign that merrily sang "it's Batman time at McDonald's" and proving to anyone who subsequently saw the movie how little they knew of Burton's vision. Batman Returns screenwriter, Daniel Waters - who had been a big part of Burton's commentary on freaks - told 2005 documentary Shadow of the Bat – Part 4: Dark Side of the Knight that watching early screenings made it obvious there was a huge disparity in expectations and what was delivered at an audience level too. “It’s great. The lights are coming up after Batman Returns, and it’s like kids crying, people acting like they’ve been punched in the stomach, and like they’ve been mugged. Part of me relished that reaction, and part of me to this day is like, ‘Oops.’” source: What Tim Burton's Batman 3 Would've Looked Like (& Why It Didn't Happen) (screenrant.com)

That KILLS me. My LCS also has the most expensive wall books - their Golden Age books - the highest on the wall, and closest to the (presumably) fluorescent light Fluorescents are MURDER on colors. In my 20s I worked retail, and the folded shirts that had been out a long time and not touched (the store wasn't very popular) had color fade on the edges from the lights!! When you opened the shirt, it had fading lines in a shape resembling a tic-tac-toe board.