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On 9/12/2019 at 5:32 AM, livingwater said:

Hello all,

This is my first post.  I mostly collect USA coins and silver bullion.  I understand slabs since some of my coins are in NGC.  I know very little about comics but I want to buy some Stan Lee signed comics for myself and step-sons.  I want to avoid fakes.  I'll likely buy CGC slabs with Stan Lee to be confident they are genuine.  I know Stan Lee had used his own COA card with hologram stickers.  I read on another blog a collector could buy Stan's COA/stickers at a signing but only if they had a comic signed by Stan Lee at the time.

On ebay a seller has Stan Lee signed comics with Stan's COA/stickers.that are very close in number sequence from 35919 to 35927.  The signatures look different from each other to me.  See pics.  I assume Stan signed these during the same sitting since the numbers are close together?  As I said I am a newbie to comics so I wonder....

1.  Are these genuine signatures and genuine stickers?  This means Stan varied his signature somewhat perhaps since he had a lot to sign, maybe was in a hurry or he was bored and purposely varied them?

2. The signatures are fake but someone was able to obtain Stan's genuine COA/stickers and use them?

3.  The signatures are fake and the COA/stickers are also fake?  In the coin collecting world the Chinese have made a lot of fake coins and some have made fake slabs with fake labels also.

Please offer your opinions,  Maybe I am overly concerned.  Thanks.  Mark.

 

I personally had the privilege of seeing Stan signing comics including my own and the different COA’s and holograms that Marvel had as well as Stan and the excelsior approved ones too. I was privileged enough to see him at events at least once a year from 1994-2008. I have a huge Stan Collection and many personalized. That became my desire to collect comics rather than filling in titles I didn’t own.
 

Honestly, they look real, here is another reason not to base the shakiness off of his stamped signatures or Signatures Pre-2010... He passed in 2018 at 95 almost 96. How stable would your hand be and especially when he had Max Anderson over his shoulder reminding him of what he was signing. I mean by 2015 they began putting a Q-Card of his signature beside him at tables just as a reminder of what his signature looks like. 
 

Lastly, at conventions they would tarp him off away from public sight as he would labor and sign hundreds of comic covers for Sellers who purchased hundreds of signature tickets at thousands of dollars at a time. 
 

So again, how stable would your hand be? He was in his 90’s when these were signed. You have a great set, be joyful to own some history ;-)