Aman619

yeah. just blur them up a little bit more. A lot more. But why? dont you think the newsstand pics are real? There's photoshop and then there's common sense. Mine sez the pic is real. What would be the point of doing that and then seeding it online somewhere? And if I did it Id pick keys just to make it more sensational. anyway, I was just pointing out the limits of photoshop magic vs peoples motivations for doing something like this.

no problem, but I think your over estimating what's possible. Yes photoshopp artists can do amazing things... but spending 100 hours to completely redraw that magazine printed image to look as crisp as the original still would not be worth anyones time. But maybe we are misunderstanding each other. The comics in the magazine photo are the real comics that were on the stand that day. But the ones in the 8x10 still were definitely photoshopped in to replace the originals. Thats an easy job! just reduce and rotate and skew them til they match and mask them under the metal wires and add a few shadows here and there... voila!

not really. The better pic was photoshoppable because it was a much higher quality, probably the from a publicity 8x10 still. But the top pic was the same photo printed in a magazine and greatly reduced in resolution. Theres no way the top image was retouched to look like the bottom one! You cant add clarity back to that extent.

whats great too about these pics is how silly they make all the movies where the crime is solved by enlarging a tiny spot in an old photo! Especially a photo of someone holding a newspaper... You zoom in on these and you just get mush!

I think the orange one was the error/mistake first print. This one looks like "normal coloring.. doesnt it?

Boy can Baker draw!! very col.

I d have to take the Adventure (the comic, not the one hour adventure with her!) because thats why! I get to keep the book forever but have to return the girl in an hour! In reality, Id fly to NY and pay a lot less than 4300 by saving the travel expenses to bring her to me!!

old school for me. Rock makes it and the faces are better and cropped more excitingly. Why not compromise and swap out the Jap for a flamethrower?? Or just add it and make it wider/smaller?

anyone concerned that one guy bid 25 times for the 87?

I looked at the new census, and there was a new JLA 1, and Flash 123 in 9.4 just added. So, who can say how many more lucky sweet raw war books remain in mylars out there? Maybe enough to go around... once their present owners tire of them that is!

As the seller is a board member, I hope my comments don't offend anyone. I just wish it was slabbed so I could feel comfortable bidding on it. I've been stung too many times. Outside a handful of sellers, I will never pay more than a few hundred dollars for a raw book again. me neither. Sometimes I violate that rule, and end up , well, violated when the book arrives as just not quite as sharp as it appeared and Id hoped. I think we get carried away by some of the rare coups we see here on the boards.

I didnt get one!

when you really compare this raw copy to the Heritage 8.0, the Heritage looks much tighter, glossier and cleaner. Most of these books are very nice as best I can tell from the scans, but have many flaws CGC hammers hard. Im not trying to steer anyone away from this book so I can win it.... I was watching it but no longer feel its a good gamble at this price. I wouldnt be happy paying 2500 for a 7.0. But, in a few years? Who knows -- if that might not have been so bad after all.... The collection as a whole looks pretty solid though...

Tec 27. but I suspect Marvel 1 will win this one here.

or does he own a different copy? who can remember anymore.

sez who? Someday Daves gonna put a whuppin on everyone who disses his books!

at least the characters are a good deathmatch here!

good question. closer to a draw for me than AA16. Id call it a tossup, but still lean toward the ACTION. But Best "second best Batman book" is a real fine piece.... and just about trumps the fifth best copy of the BEST comic...

you cant vote cause its your book! ACTION 1 WINS BECAUSE ITS ACTION 1. AA16 loses because its AA16. If it were a 9.4 Tec 27 vs a 6.5 Action 1 Id take the Batman. The problem is that Green Lantern is far from the brand Supes and Bats are.

6.5 unrestored cgc ACTION # 1 If the AA16 really just sold for anywhere north of 600K, then immediately that validates a 6.5 Blue Action 1 as worth that much or more, with a heckuva lot more upside to come.

or Kubert! look at her face.

he's channelling Varga in those paintings. But the war painting is practically rotoscoped. Virgil Finlay?

what mother names her kid Predates??

how about a recent smackdown for nearly the same prices: Action 7 8.0 on Heritage yesterday vs 9.0 Captain America on Comiclink last week.

wow. reading this again was a blast from the past. I swear I have no recollection making that Disco post at all! Anyway, it seems we dont have any consensus as to when the Copper Age began, or ended, but there does seem to be agreement that it does exist. Thats a start. after all, its only after a distance of years that we can and feel the need to denote a new era. As we enter the end of the decade with no name (oughts? nobody is even talking about it anymore) the 80s are far enough away (28 years ago already!) to be coalescing into an Age of their own. So, when everyone agrees on Day One, let me know so I can update my database!