rob_react

Yes, I would say so. From the ones I've seen clear scans of or actually got to see or hold. That cover with its different shades/hues of blues and purple is brutal on any breaks in the cover. Spine tics are especially so magnified and pronounced against it. Like fricken beacons!! The Twin Cities does look like a very strong 9.2. I wonder what the grader's notes state why it was held down. One of the prettiest (best presenting) 9.4s I've seen is Rube's. I don't know if he still owns it or had to end up selling it. I've never seen it in person, but unless the scan was magical....it is a very, very nice looking 9.4. Personally I think one of the best out there. Roy had (brought to market) the only other 9.4 imho that was as pretty if not more so than Rube's. (One of his many) It was so purdy!! I had to pass on it at the time - don't know who owns it now, but it presented like a bute!! I'd love to get a look at all of them lined up, to compare and contrast. It's a frustrating position to be in for me as it's obviously a book I need and it will be the second most expensive book in my run and I'm faced with lowering standards in one way or another or I'm never going to actually finish the run Either I go for a 9.4 that doesn't present really well (I've been trying to get nice looking copies, for the grade, of everything I've bought) or I go for something like this Twin Cities book which would break the 9.4+ string, but would fit the mold in terms of looking great for the grade. Or I wait around for a nice looking 9.4 to surface

Yeah, the cut is weird on that book. In this case I'm just talking about preservation and presentation. It just presents better.

Does Daredevil #7 create the softest 9.4s in the hobby? The Western Penn is a soft 9.4 and the book Doug has listed doesn't look much better. I won't argue that the Twin Cities should be a 9.4, but if you laid the three of them out side by side, the Twin Cities would stand out.

Yeah, that consignment request is bonkers. Super stuff

It's not just the number on the label (and that's tough enough!) I'm looking for well centered books and that era wasn't the greatest for Marvel in terms of production quality. It will be interesting to see what the last 5-10 are.

Thanks! It's a tough slog for some of these books in the 100s. The only easy one left is 131, which I just need to step up and win/buy somewhere.

Yeah, getting nice copies in that range is so hard. I'm really happy with this copy.

here goes:

Talk about awesome timing. I forgot that I'd won two books from ComicConnect. DD #117 and #85 in 9.4. They just came today. I just need a handful of books (6 or 7) to finish 100-157.

I just looked: Last Modified: 3/13/2014 I do have some raw books I'm submitting soon, but I've been shut out for two months.

I don't remember the last time I won a book for my 1-157 set.

Someone said you need to see Pollocks at scale...viewing the original is always a vastly superior experience to mag or web reproductions...and if this was ever true of anyone, it is true of Rothko. His work is not accessible at first glance, they reveal themselves over time and evoke emotional states and a very significant factor is being enveloped by them at scale. these are very large paintings, meant to take up your entire field of vision. That's fine, you guys have your own opinions on this stuff, obviously there are many people who are impressed by it. I still question how many people actually think these types of paintings are great masterpieces because that's how they truly feel or if they are great masterpieces because someone else said so. It's in a museum so it must be important right? In other words, if you didn't know who this artist was and you saw a full size reproduction of it at a local market, would you stop and marvel at it or would you pass right by it? I'm not saying it's impossible that someone likes this painting; I believe ucleben when he says he likes it. I think that second Pollock piece that was posted looks pretty cool myself. But when people start saying they feel great emotion and tear up over 4 lines of color painted on a canvas (I don't care how big it is) that's when I start having a hard time believing the sincerity of it all. I've seen people I know get very emotional over Rothko. They certainly weren't showing off their sincerity for my benefit. I don't get the same response, personally, but people like his work at a deep, emotional level. It's a common response to his work in particular. People don't share the same sort of emotional response to someone like, say, Joseph Albers (who really does just do blocks of colors and is also "important because it's in a museum") And again, reproduction versus real painting is a big difference. Even at scale. There are subtleties in the way that canvas and paint play with light in a room that even high quality reproductions can't reproduce exactly.

Someone said you need to see Pollocks at scale...viewing the original is always a vastly superior experience to mag or web reproductions...and if this was ever true of anyone, it is true of Rothko. His work is not accessible at first glance, they reveal themselves over time and evoke emotional states and a very significant factor is being enveloped by them at scale. these are very large paintings, meant to take up your entire field of vision. I don't particularly like Rothko, but this is true. The difference between them in tiny reproductions and at scale/in person is like night and day.

Not counting buyer's premium? What is that, monopoly money? Heritage even does the math for people.

Double Professional, prompt and detailed. Great work!

I won three of those books that night. 1st Echo, 1st Bendis/Maleev and #45 (the "fight me" cover)

Nice copy! I thought the Daredevils in this auction were great. I feel like I got two bargains, at least based on what I was willing to pay and then the rest of the books I was bidding on went for strong prices (stronger than I was willing to pay, at least.)

Loving the #9 and those White pages. I wonder if that is a unmarked Green River copy. If so, you did really good ! There was a nice Green River #9, NM/M or whatever in the original catalog Regardless, it looks like a sweet book. I have a beautiful #9 already, the White Mountain copy, but it's technically only 4.0 because of a large piece out of the front cover but was unread when I got it. I think this one will compete nicely against the looks of that.

I won these in the CC auction tonight. I got clobbered on a bunch of other DDs which went for what felt like strong prices. I'm happy with what I did win, for sure.

The last few books I've won:

The one Strange Adventures I own right now

I lost that by $11. I missed it when it went by in the live auction, so I never even considered bidding again.

I really like your list Rob. I take it you're more of a Batman fan than a Superman fan? Guiltr as charged! 11-20 would have another few Bat-books (and, to be fair, Superman #14)

I might rewrite this five times just tonight. 1. Detective Comics #27 2, Batman #1 3. Action Comics #1 4. Superman #1 5. Captain America Comics #1 6. All Star #8 7. Whiz Comics #2 (#1) 8. Planet Comics #1 9. Detective Comics #31 10. Detective Comics #33

It's kind of buried. I knew they'd written it up somewhere so google was my friend.