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Bought this as a teenager almost 30 years ago.  Part of my first CGC submission.   Pleasantly surprised by the grade.

Asking $850 OBO

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The attached examples have Best Wishes.   The JSA approved is from Roz, in my opinion.  The other three are from the King in person.

In my opinion, the To Paul piece is a Roz proxy signature.  Even without looking at the Kirby signature and just looking at the letter W in wishes you can see that both the JSA and Paul pieces have a hook on the W.  The rest do not. 

Looking at the relationship between the height and transition of the letter b and y in Kirby, one can see that that Paul piece is also more similar to the JSA piece.  There are other problems with the small K and big K that I dont want to go into detail because it could help forgers.

Look at the angle of the B in Best.  Compare that to the angle of J and K in each the examples.  In the true signatures they are same angle as J and K. In the Paul and JSA piece, they are not.  So the forger only focused on making the angle of J and K the same, but forgot to make the angle of the rest of the To Paul and Best, the same angle as the J and K.  In many cases with dedications added, its easier to spot fakes.

Therefore there are several inconsistencies that suggest it is a proxy.

On 6/22/2021 at 11:40 AM, 956Ref said:

Howdy.

I came across two books that have Kirby and Stan autos on the splash page. They are still raw and would like some help authenticating them. If anyone can offer their experience I would greatly appreciate it. I have no backstory other than an older collector came into a nearby LCS and sold them. I’m interested but would like to avoid a fake if possible. The two books are X-men 10 and X-men 12. Any information would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

First impression is that both Kirby signatures looks good.  I would say the signature on X-Men #12 is more representative of his signature than that on #10.  Upon closer comparison with other examples I have of Kirby's signature, I would say that the angle of the Y is steeper than usual (it is typically parallel to the vertical stroke in the K).  The loop on the upward clockwise stroke of the J is typically larger.  These two Kirby signatures, have barely any space between the loop and the vertical stroke.  So they are not the best examples of Kirby's signatures as compared to others that are out there.  But I need to preface by saying that signatures do evolve, these could be later as his penmanship starts to shake.  If he was signing a lot of books quickly that day, it could also alter the autograph from his normal slower signatures.  I can confidently say they are not from his wife (Roz).  Please check you message.  I can provide more insight.