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It's not speculative. "One person I know acquired over 25,000 copies of Conan #1 when it came out. By early 1973 I was giving him $600 for a sealed case of 300 copies and selling them for $5 a pop." His price per case doubled to $1,200 in 1974." Bob Beerbohm, Comic Book Artist #6 (Feb 1999), Twomorrows.
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Bob Beerbohm via Facebook: 'The perceived sales DC NPP Independent News was receiving was the sold numbers were actually going down. Neal Adams' GL/GA was one of the most heavily "hit" by affidavit returns fraud on that "honor" system mandated by the larger ID gigs around the country in order they would handle ANY comic books.'
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The Spider-Man and FF cartoons were on here in the 60s, but not many adults seemed to watch cartoons back then. They only took note of live-action shows. Adam West Batman was huge here, like everywhere else... and in the very early '70s we had George Reeves Superman reruns for those who weren't around yet in the '50s. So that ensured Batman and Superman were household names. The 'mainstream' only seems to have become aware of Marvel when the Hulk live-action series began in the late '70s. Those lame Spider-Man shows were around then too, as theatrical releases.
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When I started collecting Marvel in 1976 it seemed the general public was aware of Batman and Superman, but the Marvel characters were practically unheard of. I recall a kid at school asking me if I was into that 'Captain Spider-Man garbage'. This was in Australia, may have been different in the US.
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The guy on the left just needs to have the front of his right foot on the ground and it would make sense. Kid Colt should just be standing with both feet on the ground, turning to respond to his assailant. Would be better if he was closer up, so you could just seem him from the chest up. Just trying to think how Mr Kirby would have staged it. If only there'd been an art director! Talk about Monday morning quarterbacking!
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Need help cracking a CGC slab. (No, really!)
Steven Valdez replied to Point Five's topic in Comics General
CGC is now telling us to 'only buy from reputable dealers' i.e. those who we don't think are inclined to tamper with books. Begs the question, what's the point of CGC now? -
Who Watches the Watchmen
Steven Valdez commented on comicwiz's journal entry in Who Watches the Watchmen?
Imagine having 'CGC grader' on your résumé right now.... Can't help but wonder why people with zero interest in comics (as CGC supposedly used to insist on) would want to be employed as comic book graders? How are they even qualified to work in such a capacity? -
What I do notice is that on YouTube comments pages people are up in arms about the case debacle and are swearing never to touch CGC again; whereas on these boards there's a strong 'this'll blow over soon' vibe as if it's just a minor road-bump. Yes, the 'nothing to see here' brigade. It's a form of cognitive dissonance , i.e. 'This is tough luck for people I don't know or care about, but I'll be fine.'
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I find it odd that so many on here are still defending CGC to the point of making pedophilia-based "jokes" in support of it. Is there anyone here who is at all circumspect about using their "services" going forward? I'll probably take advantage of their express MVS replacement deal if that's still on offer.