Aman619

I have two observations about Baker and the Cinderella cover "swipe" First, Ive never been an esoteric, horror, atomic age, GGA or Baker collector or fan. But -- in recent months looking at Bakers work here on the boards etc, Ive gotta admit, he's one of the best comics artists ever! I get it! and as for this cover being a swipe? I thought so at first with the nearly exact pose of the girl and the mardi gras "fan" hat in the background. But the more I look Is there anything REALLY in the greek mag that Baker needed to swipe? He redid the hair as he wanted, added more emotion to the eyebrows, didn't keep the necklace, and is an off one shoulder dress something he needed to swipe? Or a flower in the hair? Even the background doesn't take a lot from the greek cover: no car, he just drew another pretty gil and used streamers and balloons. Hes an extremely talented artist and would have needed merely a glance at the greek cover if at all to create his composition. Im not saying that he like all other artists didn't use photos to perfect his realistic style. just not sure this is a swipe as opposed to a coincidence. He definitely didn't trace anything as swipe artists often do because they cant do it on their own and need a framework to build on...

And it’s not even the first Teen Titans appearance!

I’m 94% sure you’re kidding!

I was wondering recently about what software they use... it’s a lot of data, and it MUST be a spreadsheet of some kind to calculate all the in between grades, right? Any database software could do this AND be searchable and sorted/reordered by any of the fields for each book... like NM- price , AND database apps can be formatted to produce the final print ready hi-res page galleys , fonts, sizes spacing columns etc too... Cause pouring the text into indesign would lead to a lot or reformatting and tabbing etc... so now that you Point out that the top 100 has omissions and errors? Wow. How ARE they doing this book?

must be the cr/OW pages!

the 9.6 Batman 49 sale was strong, but didn't a different 9.6 see for 48K earlier? like last February? GPA:

interesting you say that Lou, cause the hard sell just grates at me... however, yeah, this laid back guy seems to want to go to the next lot too quickly. So I suppose that the energetic "give me more!" approach might spur most of us who are only too happy to not have to push out another bid!

Action 7 did okay, not a heck of a lot above when it sold on CC a few years ago. Book just too expensive now?

Me either. It’s the book that matters not the thing it’s encased in

Just the 802 bid??

man I love this hobby! finally get to say that in a GOOD way! : )

kinda weird to have something I said 8 years ago quoted!

Comgorilla

But the stash was mostly bronze and later silver as I recall.. scattered issues of earlier 60s comics.

wow. you don't expect or often see a textbook answer to a question here on the boards... or elsewhere! muchas gracias!

You can have my answer now Senator.... I’d hold onto the FF run until a nicer looking copy of the OA to Action 15 showed up !

Doesn’t the dentist own the real/best bat mobile.?

Hey I bought $1000 of dirt! It’s a fascinating business in the suburbs. Somebody adds onto their house, pays someone to dig and then Pays extra to haul away the dirt from the hole for the foundation. Builder finds a landscaper building a berm and needs dirt. Owner has to pay landscaper not only for the dirt, but also to transport it to his backyard. The dirt triples in value. Common, lousy dirt! Seems like a good business!

if a reputable business created a system that could allow investments in Action 1s etc, IMO it would be something many collectors wouldn't mind putting a few dollars into.... From the perspective of those of us who believe strongly that an particulatr comic he cant afford will ABSOLUTELY be worth double its current value down the road and they are willing to BET that it will happen, why not? They could buy $1000 of it, and look to sell their shares to someone else down the road when it appreciated. Isn't that what buying stocks are? Trouble is as many have pointed out, there is ZERO infrastructure or demand or historically safe vehicle to do this kind of investing. And it would be rather thinly traded too compared to wall street investments... So to me while on paper it's a viable and comparable investment vehicle -- it faces a mount Everest sized roadblock and list of problem to getting going any time soon. Problem#1: Someone or place would have to take possession of the Action 1 to safeguard it... and anybody who tries to set up this business will be suspect. If / when it collapses, they have the goods, and your marginal investment % is worthless. But, is there a chance a well known Comics Company has enough gravitas and financial weight as well as credibility and trustiness, where this is a merely sideline and not a get rich scheme could pull this off? Heritage maybe? Could CGC at some point be up to working this out? someday maybe. we've seen a lot of changes in the past 20 years to know that anything is possible in this hobby. not all work out as planned, but...

This thread is such a nice quaint nostalgia trip for us, huh?

Tony has a similar explanation...

could the trimming have been done because the book was manufactured with that extra triangle of folded paper attached? Its unsightly and someone might have decided that since the extra paper should never have been there in the first place, so since he wouldn't be ADDING a missing piece, that it would be kosher to reduce the page to same size as the rest of the pages? Kinda finishing the job they messed up at the printer? To me that would be the least offensive type of trimming. however since CGC has said this was a error and should have been purple label, Im just guessing what the reason for the trimming was/

I think they mean Internet Consignment site, but, now, 20 years later, that sounds less cool than it did when the internet was new and their CONCEPT and EXECUTION was revolutionary.. Comiclink WAS the first widely used internet site SPECIFICALLY for collectors consigning their own comics, that allowed you to post them yourself, price them yourself and negotiate the selling price with the buyer yourself.... Thats very different from how dealers who took consignments worked, so they have a point to brag about. Probably should refine the wording to only take credit for what they did internet-wise though, which IMO is enough to feel proud of doing.

Hey you peeked! Barks is fine, but Jack Davis is amazing. stylistic to the extreme. I’m always amazed but how simple he makes it, from satire to horror to war.

They might have covered up Batman with Justicier.... but Batman is fewer letters and the pasteups (One in particular) are even wider than Justicier. They may have had something else in there. But good insights about the French seeking new names to avoid the wrath of their new masters.