Aman619

What do you mean, "pressing BOTH sides"? You can't press just one side of a piece of paper. pressing is not the correct process or term... but the spray isnt why its shiny is it? Like oaktag and other forms of two-diffferent sided boards, you can heat-treat one side only to flatten the paper's rag content, thats what I was getting at.

what does the manufacturer say is the side to use? and why? perhaps they think we prefer a shiny board next to our comics and shiny-ing up ONE side is cheaper than pressing BOTH sides... so Im guessing both sides may in fact have diferent ph-levels, but it's due to something else than pre-planning.

what I dont understand really is why would one side be any different than the other? Isnt the board manufactured to ONE ph-level in huge vats and left to fry into sheets which are cut down to comic board size?? Like amy other paper product? Does flattenning one side (accounting for the shininess of it) CHANGE its ph?? Or are these boards 'married' with 2 different kinds of paper used? dont make sense...

Adam Strange has herpes?? Does Alanna know??? Sardath will kill him!

I just clicked this thread and it went straight to your post, but sometimes it goes to posts I've already read,....so yeah... comes and goes...

wasnt the first graded comic the 9.6 FF#1??

Every time I come back to this thread to read a new post or two, the screen always starts way back to comic scans Ive seen before. Anybody else have that problem? It seems to happen only in threads like this with tons of cover scans...

u got it in one note, pardnuh!

shame about the bottom edge. It sure looks pretty. Its got a real pretty mouth... ken it squeel lak a pig?? ken it? lemme heah it squeel! soooueeee sooueeee

ho won earth can that book be a 4.5??? I hope we never see one lik ethat in the grading contest!! Or are the back cover creases THAT fugly??

Good to see a fellow fan of Kane on Kane. There's some other stories/covers that he did from the different DC 50s titles. I was at dinner with Gil and Julie some years ago and he was still ribbing Julie about not letting him ink his own work. Julie wanted the productivity from the pencillers and he preferred the inks of Anderson/Giella/Greene over the more distinctive stylings of Kane or Infantino. Marvel wised up later on too. letting Gil ink his own Hulk covers, etc. I loved his linework. So refreshing after seeing all his other more "polished" inkers for so many years.

Anyone else here reminded of the much later (but better known) "Flash of Two Worlds" cover? I was thinkin the same thing kemosabe, so I checkd it on Mikes. Flash 123 was September 1961 Fighting Forces #48 was 2 years earlier in August 1959, same month as Flash 108. that site is so cool.. Who IS Mike? Is he on the boards?? Sure wish he was. Somebody get in touch with him and lets wish real hard. Who knows, matbe he'll appear! Just like Neal Adams did!!

not until GL47. And he pencilled and inked the next few issues too!. I loved the release from Giella stiff brushwork. Kane on Kane is the best Kane inking!!

oh. cool. I thought they were recently bought, like at Chicago this weekend. Harley always has a lot of war book at every show.

did Sterling quit the Boards?? What did I miss?

beaytiful war boks! Who had all those issues? Harley?

Benedict Arnold is better than Arnie Sachnusan?? (Lost World)

Arnold the pig from Green Acres is better than Arnie Palmer???

god I hate showoffs!! killer books, Sterling.

looks like it. I actually pity poor Arch for having to read the entire thread, take notes and actually decide where to lop off!!! He needs a raise!!

thats a fair and balanced summation. well done.

depends on who was being stubborn: DTA or the owner of the book. WAS IT DTA who wanted to hold up Ian? or did the consognor insist on getting every last dollar? If DTA wanted to sell and owner didnt, I guess DTA could be said to have lost a sale that he couldnt finalize. If DTA was the holdout, he cost the owner and himself some dough. If so, I hope the owner is shrugging his shoulders and is happy he still owns the book.

welcome to the thread, Deathlok!! what took you so long?

Trust me on this, it exists. During that time when the BUGS BUNNY stamp first came out, the POST OFFICE gave out catologs which shown the comic. I had one of the catologs, but not now. The only way to get the comic book was to join thier STAMPERS CLUB. I already was a member. The PO did this sort of thing a lot around that time with the release of new stamps. Even though I never got to see the actual comic, there it was in the catolog. I would think someone out there must of joined STAMPERS and got one. STAMPERS CLUB was still going in 2000 as I remember. One thing I remember though, once in a while items were no longer available. I ordered Chinese New Year DRAGON stamps from them that included CARDS of the different animals of the years. Well those got cancelled on me. But then on the other hand I ordered UNIVERSAL MONSTER stamps that included CARDS. They told me they were cancelled, but guess what, they arived. I still have those and have never seen anyone that had um. I wonder if I'm the only one that got them? Ive never even heard of these stampers things, but sometimes, a picture in a catalog of the cover of a comic book doesnt mean the comic was ever produced and relessed. So the proof isnt necessarily in seeing one in a catalog...