The Black CAT club (Cerebus1, Albedo 2, TMNT1) 7 7

[Aman619]

Looking at a map of Ontario, Preney Print is only a 3 hour drive to Kitchener-Waterloo where Dave and Harry lived.  Given the excitement of printing their first issue and having little cash for shipping, it’s conceivable Harry got in his car and drove to pick them up. I would have !  So damage from boxing makes sense.  Even just lax handling at the printer would be enough   They weren’t in the comics business, so there would be no hands on expertise, and prob gave two sheets for this one off low rent job.  Didn’t the industry switch from Diamond to the new guys last summer by the new comics distributors also damage books?

Edited February 13, 2022 by Aman619

[lou_fine]

On 2/12/2022 at 5:13 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Man if only I had the money, now like I didn't then  

Are you saying you definitely would have gone after that Little Nemo 1906 and the Yellow Kid in  McFadden Flats books.    

[SuperBird]

There's an 8.5 in the upcoming CLINK auction. 

[lou_fine]

On 2/12/2022 at 3:13 PM, SuperBird said:

As to CGC, no clue. But I have never seen a spine-damaged Cerebus 1 get a grade that seemed higher than it should have been. 

And yet we get the early Marvel keys with all of that fugly looking eye gouging Marvel chipping or some of the Promise Collection books with all of the rat chewed bitten off corners which tend to be given pretty much a free pass and hence all seem to grade much higher than they should have been.   

No real surprise though I guess, as it's all really about maximizing the top and bottom lines for the CCG ownership at the time.  

Edited February 14, 2022 by lou_fine

[WolverineX]

On 2/14/2022 at 1:57 PM, SuperBird said:

There's an 8.5 in the upcoming CLINK auction. 

Guesses where it will end up?

[SuperBird]

On 2/14/2022 at 6:36 PM, Wolverinex said:

Guesses where it will end up?

I'll wager $10k.

What grades do you have, anyway?

Edited February 14, 2022 by SuperBird

[WolverineX]

On 2/14/2022 at 6:51 PM, SuperBird said:

I'll wager $10k.

What grades do you have, anyway?

I think $9500.  I don't have anything like the big ballers in this thread. 

[WolverineX]

Btw, has anyone ever figured out what was going on with the counterfeit cerebus 1s?  Who was behind it?  

[WolverineX]

Usagi fans.

@ghn999

 

This Albedo 2 6.5 just sold for $6,000 .  Is this an ATH?  Entry fee into Black CAT club is getting higher.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255375059901?hash=item3b758a2bbd:g:ZZwAAOSw1PBiAXdn

Edited February 15, 2022 by Wolverinex

[SuperBird]

On 2/14/2022 at 10:37 PM, Wolverinex said:

Usagi fans.

@ghn999

 

This Albedo 2 6.5 just sold for $6,000 .  Is this an ATH?  Entry fee into Black CAT club is getting higher.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255375059901?hash=item3b758a2bbd:g:ZZwAAOSw1PBiAXdn

I think your mean $8,000

A copy sold for $6k earlier this month. 

[WolverineX]

On 2/15/2022 at 10:01 AM, SuperBird said:

I think your mean $8,000

A copy sold for $6k earlier this month. 

I think it was a best offer for 6k

 

 

Edited February 15, 2022 by Wolverinex

[SuperBird]

ah you're correct. 

[F For Fake]

@Aman619I've very much enjoyed your reminiscence, thanks so much for sharing! Cerebus was a huge book for me as a kid and young man. I share your melancholy about how it all wrapped up. A book that meant so much to me in the early years eventually became an endurance test that I was determined to see to the bitter end. I always enjoyed the art (Dave stayed a strong cartoonist until the end, and Gerhard's stuff was always so beautiful), but the long, slow, preachy, bizarre stories, it really became a chore to read the book. Such a shame. It's still a singular achievement, and the first half of the run is still to be praised. Jaka's Story is also where it started to come apart a bit for me, and somewhere in the depths of my parents' basement you might find my "I Survived Jaka's Story" t-shirt, buried beneath some rags!

[Aman619]

On 2/16/2022 at 3:07 PM, F For Fake said:

@Aman619I've very much enjoyed your reminiscence, thanks so much for sharing! Cerebus was a huge book for me as a kid and young man. I share your melancholy about how it all wrapped up. A book that meant so much to me in the early years eventually became an endurance test that I was determined to see to the bitter end. I always enjoyed the art (Dave stayed a strong cartoonist until the end, and Gerhard's stuff was always so beautiful), but the long, slow, preachy, bizarre stories, it really became a chore to read the book. Such a shame. It's still a singular achievement, and the first half of the run is still to be praised. Jaka's Story is also where it started to come apart a bit for me, and somewhere in the depths of my parents' basement you might find my "I Survived Jaka's Story" t-shirt, buried beneath some rags!

haha  Id love to see it!

[Aman619]

hey, found it!

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 2/16/2022 at 6:35 PM, Aman619 said:

hey, found it!

 

Rapha! Fred's dead, wasnt that a movie or something? 

[Aman619]

wasn't it "Zeb's dead" from Pulp Fiction?

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 2/16/2022 at 6:48 PM, Aman619 said:

wasn't it "Zeb's dead" from Pulp Fiction?

I was thinking of the green blubber ball, maybe that was something else

 

Edited February 17, 2022 by ADAMANTIUM

[ADAMANTIUM]

Zeds dead must have been a memory

I was too young seeing that movie, if I confused it with flubber

 

[F For Fake]

On 2/16/2022 at 7:35 PM, Aman619 said:

hey, found it!

 

Yup, that's it! I remember buying it on clearance at my local comic shop, wearing it to school, and endlessly having to explain it to my friends. that was a couple of decades and as well as a couple of shirt sizes ago, so my Dad probably long since cut it up into rags. Oh well. It was fun at the time!