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I'd move that range up about 10 issues. #175-210. Those really do suck. They're cheap for a reason. I don't see anything in that run truly breaking out.

I don't see how "grail" is even a term that's applicable in the comics collecting realm. There's only one grail. A comic may be rare in grade or condition, but it isn't one of a kind. Grail is a term that's been bandied about in the Original Comic Art collecting circles the last 20 years, but at least it makes sense. OA is one of a kind. Now when people claim to have more than one grail, well they are kinda FOS, or they are some sort of polytheistic collector I guess. My Marvel "grail" is Marvel Team-up #11. I have 3/4 of the art for the book. My DC grail is JLA#110, and I have half that book. They are the first comics I ever remember having.

Ditto- all winning bidders got screwed. This auction smacks of one big low rent one and done money grab. just wait for the horror stories to come about not receiving your item while PIH fades off into the shadows.

Interesting- I'd like to see the prices along the way too, and track it's journey from $150 to $35K...

Is this what the CM hater's do to bide their time until Rise of Skywalker come out and y'all pivot back to piling on the hate for Rey, and the rest of the cast? You guys have your fake reviews already penned for a movie you haven't seen? Time's a wastin'....just a few days left.

Time is not a fungible commodity- I work with a team of software developers- the only comics they own are the ones I gave them - they pinned them to their cube walls like decorations. I’m not sure they read even one. Their time is spent streaming stuff on YouTube, and posting memes to Slack and playing games on their phones or consoles. If it’s not on a screen - they aren’t interacting with it. They are looking at 5 things at once all day. One guy has 150 tabs open in his browser - so many he needed a plug in to organize his browser tabs. If they unplug at all, they are playing board games, especially strategy games. I’ve never seen them hold any piece of printed material for more than 2 minutes. They will never collect old comics or art. What’s the appeal for them? It’s too slow, too static.

I'm as Gen X as Gen X gets, but I probably have a couple years on you and Gene. #146 was the first issue I bought off the stands, though I had read #137-up. I didn't stumble on Neal Adams until late teens when I got ahold of X-Men #56, and realized Neal Adams was GOD (and he will most certainly agree with that !) For me, Claremont's meandering writing overshadowed his ideas and it really started to show beginning towards the end of the Paul Smith era. The JRjr era was perhaps the single most lackluster era in X-Men history since Werner Roth's SA run. It's telling that there's isn't a single HC or trade of any of those storylines until Mutant Massacre, and JR bailed in the middle of it. The ONLY memorable issue in that run are the 3 essentially fill-ins by BWS. Even those aren't really that good, except #205. Paul Smith earns an honorable mention because he closed out perhaps the last best Claremont run with the first Brood Saga. Then it was diminishing returns with brief flashes of brilliance inspired mostly by the shot in the arm the artist gave the title (i.e. Jim Lee, UXM #268)

The 1990's called, and they want their Christi's Auction Catalog back....

Th Correct answer is: Neal Adams Dave Cockrum John Byrne Jim Lee Kirby Silvestri -------------------- Paul Smith was good, but his run was less than a year. I know that same applies to Neal Adams, but Neal Adams is Neal Adams. JRJr was deliberately left off this list. His run was utterly forgettable from 176-210. also, if you listed JRjr in your ranking, you really mean Dan Green. JR did "breakdowns" for the whole run and Dan the finished art. This was not the case with his stint as Silvestri's inker.

what I'm hearing here is HA would rather err on the side of what their own insurance will cover than to actually insure the safe delivery of a rare, often one of a kind item that is IRREPLACEABLE. Porch thieves take your art and after much hassle and claims filing they will eventually reimburse you, (minus fees and other misc, of course) and you are out that piece of art FOREVER. I think we live in a complex, nuanced, sophisticated enough world that HA or Comiclink too it appears) can make a distinction or Fedex can make a distinction between redirecting a package (a package that is being sent Fed Ex ground, no signature required mind you) and HOLD AT A FED EX LOCATION (where you will have to show your ID in order to claim your package) If they cannot, they don't deserve my business. I"m by no means a big player, I"m sure they will survive without me, I don't have any illusions about that. But if more bidders take the same stance, it behooves them to take this into consideration, because each of us that's not Albert or Burkey bidding on mass lots are still moving the bids up. My value as a bidder to HA is not my wins, it's all the bids I lose. I've bid 6x in $$$ what I've won looking at my total HA history. Hell I'd rather buy it from Mike at 25% over his cost to win it than bid against him and still lose. Let's just not bid at all. I"m sure the Boomers cashing out by consigning to HA would love that!

Thats just it- it's not the same as logging into FedEx and having a package sent to your listed shipping address redirected to your mom's house or your place of business, or a shady address across town if someone got wind of an inbound package and are deliberately trying to redirect it to another location if no signature is required to effectively steal the item. This is HOLDING the package at a FedEx facility to be picked up by the addressee showing a damn photo ID confirming they are the named addressee. I'm going to to take this up with Joe M at HA, and see if they can see the gap in their logic behind this.

well, with me it was also already on the truck going out for delivery. They were terrible at keeping up with where it exactly was, or when it would be delivered- it was almost faster than their system seemed to be able to keep up with. But at least you didn't have to sweat it, and got it while home!

that's EXACTLY what it did to me repeatedly to mask the fact that it was not an option with this package from HA. So it appears it was not an isolated incident with me and HA has done something to trigger this on FeEx's end....- thanks for checking!

I'd like to see if that little Manage Delivery Button works for you....

yeah, these are among the first legit production art pieces I've seen in awhile, and I've ranted extensively about all the fake stuff. Curious to see what Metropolis says. They may downplay it, or completely blow it out of proportion. I just wish there were more pics of the pages. I'm just interested in seeing the un-inked pencils. That's what's truly rare and unique about this, in addition to the production notes. If I was the seller, I'd make some high rez scans of them regardless. Some publisher would love to have these for scholarly stuiff like Back Issue Magazine. This would have been a boon for the Don Heck book John Cooke put out a few years ago.

Having up the nose Kane drawing no-nose Spidey in costume seems almost like a cruel joke.... This will be tantamount to blasphemy, but I'm curious how it would have all turned out if Don Heck had taken over Spidey instead of Romita and JR had drawn the Avengers instead. I feel like Don with the right inker would have been a good fit to follow Ditko, at least for a reality based, urban book with lots of non-costumed characters like Spidey in NY as opposed to something trippy like Doctor Strange.

So this is the kind of feedback I was hoping to get- to see if it's a recent change in the way FedEx is handing Ground Shipping and/or the way HA is setting these packages up, which they do en masse, electronically- because they show up on FedEx's tracking system before FedEx even picks them up in Dallas. I may take this up with HA to see if there's an account preference that can be set or if it's just another way HA is trying to nickel and dime customers to charge more fees while also negotiating cheaper shipping options on their end to further maximize S&H as a profit center within their business. FeDex insisted the reason they could not redirect was driven by the shippers preference, even though it was FedEx ground, no signature required (which also surprised me)

I'm done shill bidding your attempted flips! Always backfires on me!

All of this nonsense can be avoided, and it's less work for FedEx to simply allow a package to be picked up at one of their retail locations. It defies logic to not allow the recipient to voluntarily opt to not have something delivered to a residential or even business address and instead have it routed to FedEx where that driver would be going anyway to pick-up packages. Having to re-attempt delivery is the least efficient part of the entire process. The last mile of a delivery chain is the most difficult by far and skipping the step entirely should be the thing they go out of their way to promote and simply not allow "Shipper Terms" to interfere. It's 100 times more secure that leaving it on the damn porch. I'm curious what number or menu options you selected to get someone from the US on the phone. Your'e right, my previous experience when getting someone on the phone is that they where phenomenal. The moment I got the first guy on the phone and heard the accent I knew I was wasting my time. Offshore Customer service is an oxymoron.

I did, thankfully. The last couple days had been misty and foggy, but it burned off today- nevertheless I find it incomprehensible that I could not intercede to increase the amount of security for my package which is less leg work for FedEx, and less of an insurance risk for theft or damage for both FedEx and HA. Instead they insisted on leaving a package on my porch in December. Unacceptable.

Last night I got an email that I had a HA package en route via Fed Ex. Tracking number was provided as usual so I immediately go on Fed Ex's site to track and redirect delivery to HOLD at Fed Ex Location. That way I can pick it up as I likely wouldn't be home when they delivered. The website gave some vague error that the option wasn't averrable right now, try again later. Ok, sometimes when a package has just entered the system sometimes the tracking takes time to catch up. So I tried again in the morning. Website was still not working. It almost worked, but then something went wrong and the page wouldn't load. I tried online chat, and waited 76 people in queue and then the chat freaked out and I lost that too. Tried again from desktop. Still no dice. Frustrated I called them, 25 minutes later I get some cheerful overseas guy who'si more than willing to set this up. Then he says he can't. The shipper put restrictions on the shipment that it couldn't be redirected. Huh??? Nope, he can't do it. I explain it makes zero sense. The package is being sent FEDEX GROUND- NO signature required. They can leave it in the middle of my front yard but they can't take it to one of their own retail locations where I would have to show my ID and sign for it? Nope, can't. Shipper Restrictions. If I call the shipper and have them call FedEx they could do something. Yeah right. At the very least I ask him to set it up to send me text alerts of the tracking and delivery status. Nope. Can't do that. Not an option they have. BS. BS BS. I've done that over the phone before. All he can do is have it send me email updates. Fine. So I stop wasting time with this cheerful insufficiently_thoughtful_person and call HA directly in Dallas and speak to the shipping dept. I get a nice gal who listens to my issue and she puts me on hold for awhile to look into it. Nope, they put no such restrictions on my package or any other package. She didn't even know what or how that was even possible for them to do on their end. Her suggestion was to call Fed Ex back as I would most certainly get someone else that knew what they were doing. Ok, That sounded plausible. So I went through the 9 layers of BS to get yet another much less cheery overseas guy and he says no. Shipper Restrictions. I tell him he is wrong, and that it makes zero sense for that to be the case. I demand to speak to his manager, hoping that this would transfer the call to this continent, but no dice. I get a really snotty guy that must have been sitting next to the other nimrod and we really get into it. Finally I give up and just hang up in the middle of a string of expletives. While I've been on-hold, I did the thing they said they could not do online and set it up to send me text alerts. Screw you Fed Ex. 2.5 hours later I get a text that the package has arrived, in the middle of the afternoon, left on the front porch. I had to wait a couple of hours to go home and retrieve my package in the the middle of Porch Pirate Season. Thanks for nothing Fed Ex. I am a little annoyed with HA that for all the extravagant fees and taxes I paid they can't spring for requiring a damn signature. I"m curious if anyone else has had a similar issue recently with HA and Fed Ex? I can't be the only person that uses the hold at a Fed Ex facility option. I've been doing it for 6-7 years after I learned my lesson what a hassle it was to track down a package after the fact. Getting Fed Ex customer service involved used to be a fairly painless and efficient process. Now that they've outsource this stuff overseas, not so much. They really just want you to do it all online, but at no point did the website provide any useful information as to why the option they promote was not working, which would have saved me a couple of hours time trying to get a person on the phone. This might just be the last nail in the coffin for me and HA.

but we ARE talking about the ASM title artists @zhamlau! That's why our Pal Sal was not on the list since his work was mostly on Spectacular. Otherwise MOONEY would be way higher on my list as well as Sal for PPTSSM & Marvel Team-up.

The correct answer is: Romita Sr. Andru Ditko Kane Pollard JRjr Frenz

My first ever exposure to the Phantom Stranger character vis-a-vis my first DC Comic: JLA #110, a 100 pager, and an Xmas issue: Dillin/Giordano

:Published Covers (Unpublished covers as well): This is by definition contradictory, and often abused. Or there needs to be a Donnely rule. If you bought it from them it's not eligible. Because it's most certainly not the original cover, it's prelim, rejected cover, alternate cover, cover by another mother....