Can anyone please explain why this is not ...

[Dr Carl]

... a green label book???

 

FF 1 3.0

 

... I just don't get it!

[thunsicker]

I assume it's low enough grade that they just took the minor grade hit rather than go with a green label.

[seanfingh]

Sigs are treated as a defect on that book. They most likely don't lower the grade based on the other damage. What a cool book.

[rtecbot]

Signatures are probably marked as defects if it was green (qualified) the grade would be higher

[Gsims718]

I assume it's low enough grade that they just took the minor grade hit rather than go with a green label.

Sigs are treated as a defect on that book. They most likely don't lower the grade based on the other damage. What a cool book.

 

What they said.

[kav]

Anyone still want an unwitnessed Ditko sig on their HG AF 15? With a side-order of COA?

[CAHokie]

Sure, if you are giving it to me

[kav]

Sure, if you are giving it to me

[kav]

This is one of those times I wish I was a millionaire so I could actually give you one to fully flesh out the joke....

[CAHokie]

This is one of those times I wish I was a millionaire so I could actually give you one to fully flesh out the joke....

 

(thumbs u

[Dr. Balls]

Sigs are treated as a defect on that book. They most likely don't lower the grade based on the other damage. What a cool book.

 

I'd do some very questionable things for that book. That is awesome.

[shadroch]

I don't think those signatures are real.

[kav]

Me either

what a waste...

[rjpb]

Signatures are probably marked as defects if it was green (qualified) the grade would be higher

 

It barely looks like a 3.0 even without the sigs.

[Tony S]

I don't think those signatures are real.

 

Stan's signature has changed a lot over the years. The Stan Lee signature does look like other signatures of his from two decades ago.

 

Kirby - perhaps because he was an artist - his signature didn't vary all that much over the years. The Kirby signature I think think looks really suspect. The "J" in Jack lacks the big swope underneath that was a Kirby hallmark.

[kav]

never saw a kirby sig where the J had a curly Q at the bottom like that-it looks awkward all around...

[cousin itt]

I think he was just trying not to draw over Sue's face.

[Dr Carl]

I think what's most confusing for me is that - when collecting in the 70s, 80s and very early 90s - no one signed on the covers - that was ruining a good book - everyone signed on the bottom of the splash page.

 

Hmmm...

[Dick Pontoon]

There’s no hard and fast rule about signature location. Signing on the bottom of the splash was common, but when Stan signed my ASM #8 in ’78, he signed the cover, and dated it too IIRC. I didn't consider it ruined then and still don't.

[Dr Carl]

There’s no hard and fast rule about signature location. Signing on the bottom of the splash was common, but when Stan signed my ASM #8 in ’78, he signed the cover, and dated it too IIRC. I didn't consider it ruined then and still don't.

 

I wasn't suggesting it ruined the comic, I was suggesting that everyone I knew at that time considered writing on the cover (even a signature) as sacrilege. Sounds like that wasn't the case globally.