BabyAteMyDingo

That is so right on. Even The Big Bang Theory bagged on it every chance it got. I loved the Neal Adams Denny O'Neil run. When I saw the movie (Thankfully for free.), I couldn't believe how far off the mark they went. I dug the Sinestro character to a degree. The guy can act.

I read a pirated copy of the 1989 Batman -script 1 year before it was released. I saw that "I'm Batman" thing in the -script. I thought "Well, that's just poor writing. He doesn't need to tell anyone who he is. They'll change that." They did not change a single word in that -script. And when I stood up to leave that early in the movie, the friends I went with and my wife put me back in my seat. I hated every frame of that movie. And the nerve. After "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" had been released 3 years earlier, they went right back to Gotham City as a gigantic playground stuffed with giant props and the Joker was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person again. Pandering to the yuppies who remembered the TV show. Now, Tim Burton is good when he's doing a Tim Burton movie. When they announced he was directing, I recalled the -script and a shiver went through me. This is going to suck. And everyone loved it. To my continued bewilderment.

They sure can. They ruined Batman. They ruined Green Lantern. The 1st Wonder Woman movie was pretty decent. Then they shot it in the face. She wasn't ok with women being taken advantage of but she was ok with Steve Trevor inhabiting the body of a man so she could get some snu-snu. She was ok with necrophilia. And rape. Yeah. I have had a problem with DC movies since 1989 when those terrible words were uttered: "I'm Batman." I had to be restrained from leaving the theater when Keaton uttered those words.

Here's one that's been languishing on CLINK for a long while. A 2.0 with hole punches through the entire book? $72,000? I guess so.

Maybe I have been lucky. The books I buy are usually $100-$200 Books. I Have Been Buying Raw Lately Because I Am Sick Of Paying For The Grading And Encapsulation Process Over And Over. Sellers Add Their Cost Of Grading On. Which Means I Have To If I Resell As Well And I Don't Think That's Fair To The Buyer. Even old label books have that add-on. Been finding some very nice raw books, too. I chose some sellers who have their own web stores and so far so good. As far as damage in shipping goes, I would be more upset that a nice book was taken out of circulation more than the money spent. Like if I dumped grape juice on my 7.0 All Star Comics #7. There's one less book for a future collector to enjoy.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/black-adam-dwayne-johnson-dc-fandome-181546021.html

Yes. Even though the OP probably had the best intentions. When I go to restaurants, I treat the staff with kindness to the point of night sweats. I have worked in many restaurants. You DO NOT want to Poff the waitstaff. I do NOT tell them how to do their job. I tip heavily. I have never received a comic in the mail that badly damaged. They have all been well packed and perfect. Even more so the raw books. I just pay for my shwag and move on. IF anything like that was to happen, I would contact PayPal for a refund. Also, I don't give bad reviews. I contact the seller first and ask WTF? Try to talk about it. But if the seller has 100% positive, what good will my seeming paranoid complaint do?

I have to wonder if the seller did it on purpose. If they had 100% positive feedback, they wouldn't be packing the books like that. Sometimes, people will take offense at being told their business and show us how bad things can get. It's puerile but they do it. I would open a complaint with Paypal and give them a bad review.

Yes there is. A member sent his father's Avengers 4 to be graded. It came back torn on the right edge. He sent it back to them and the again sent it back with the bottom edge crushed. It was put back in the well wrong and had slipped. He sent it back a third time. I forget what happened after that. It received a grade of 7.0. It was torn during the grading process.

It's a QC problem if they caused the tear, isn't it? That's like saying I got hit by a car but if I wasn't there, NONE of this would ever have happened.

Denny O'Neil and Bob Haney.

I hope the OP shares what the outcome will be with us. So many times someone will post something terrible and then there is no follow up. I also hope someone sends his books back to him. It's another collector so hopefully he/she honors the Collectors Code.

It's very cool. I just hadn't seen a full sig like that before.

I have never seen a Wrightson sig like that fully spelled out.

How is this minor? 1st app Boy Commandos? A Joker app? Best of all, a class Jerry Robinson cover? I see major, not minor.

I believe you.

Human nature 101. I am thankful for the times I have gotten caught. I was always more humiliated than sorry. But those times taught me to not fawk people around. And so I apologize less. No one needed my baloney. I try really hard now to walk the line.

Maybe. The writing style in JLS is different than his subsequent stuff. Only people who know for sure is he and Bette. I have used the term "Gaslighting" or "Gaslight" for well over 35 years since I 1st saw the movie. I'm convinced someone stole it from me.

No. But this was a calculated scheme. Calculated scheming only becomes a mistake when grand plans fail.

You weren't in that plane. So who cares who said what to who in some article or interview? She was pretty convincing. I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

Hell yes it's fraud. I was up in a plane - a Beechcraft - with ex wife Bette of Richard Bach. "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" Richard Bach. I made the mistake of bringing up that book. Figured she had the plane because of alimony or whatever. She became so upset she almost flew us into some trees. She claimed that was HER manuscript and he poached it, divorced her and took full credit. Did he? Probably. We'll never know for sure. His subsequent books are no where near the same writing style. As I say, "Who knows"? Her ire was real I can tell you that. I have seen many PO'ed wives. Had several myself. And she sure seemed authentic. I wished I had brought it up on the ground, but there you go. Who knew? That kind of fraud isn't cool.

Isn't the point that he masqueraded as an Asian guy. He used an Asian ghost writer to get the "feel" of Manga. It isn't so much he appropriated an ethnicity. He misrepresented himself to editors and bosses to get a job he wasn't qualified to have, then trained himself on the job by using someone else. Pulled the ol' "Tootsie". Sure. It's clever. But that kind of clever is deceit clever. Over the line. How would you feel if you were dating someone as a male, were impressed with this knock out female and when it was time to do the bump, discovered you had more in common than you thought you did? It's kinda that sort of deceit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/marvel-writer-quits-learning-editor-210425757.html

Thank YOU! If I hadn't seen this thread, I would not have known there was an Adams/O'Neil Deadman story in this issue. Bought it from MCS this morn.: