Golden Age Signatures 0

[Mr. Lady Luck]

Golden Age Signature Poll

[Mr. Lady Luck]

I misspelled "certified"

[Nic8612]

I don't necessarily think they add value ALL the time, but I think they can. I have a handful

[comicjack]

I prefer the original owner put his name on a cover or inside now that is history 

[Black Bat]

Great topic.  For me golden age comics are like magical objects. They have their own spirit, relics of another world, etc.  Signatures totally break that spell for me.  Although I have favorite artists that I collect and have big passion for, their signature means nothing to me. And I enjoy seeing the writing done by people who owned/grew up with the books, for me that adds to the magic and spirit, but having someone 30 or 40 years later, scrawl their name across the cover with a sharpie, that doesn't not add value, it diminishes it.  

Edited April 6, 2022 by Black Bat

[shadroch]

As long as it isn't a modern artist on it, I'm okay with it. show me a vintage Captain america with Rob Leifields signature, or a 1940s Batman with Stan Lee's signature and I'll pass.   I'm in the market for a righteous Schomburg signed book but have not found the right one.

[Northwest]

I prefer internal page signatures, such as on the bottom of the first story page. 

[Cat-Man_America]

On 4/6/2022 at 8:29 AM, Mr. Lady Luck said:

Golden Age Signature Poll

Great topic! 

Since we're focusing on GA books, many prominent collected artists passed away long before the availability of signature certification (i.e., witnessed signings).  IMO, the fill-in-the-blank name "...written on cover" just comes across like an insult to the memory of the artist and to the collector who cherishes the book (OMMV).  There should also be a poll query indicating a preference of signature verification, but since that service isn't offered by the CGC it's understandable why it's inapplicable to this poll.  

FTR, I'm not a big fan of certification or signatures generally, but there are rare exceptions...

On 4/6/2022 at 10:09 AM, comicjack said:

I prefer the original owner put his name on a cover or inside now that is history 

From my perspective, the orig. owner's name is great when it's designated as a pedigree demonstrating the owner's passion for collecting a good quantity of comics and preserving them in grade.

Otherwise, I tend to prefer no writing or just an occasional non-obtrusive store stamp or distributor's mark. 

[pemart1966]

On 4/6/2022 at 1:36 PM, Northwest said:

I prefer internal page signatures, such as on the bottom of the first story page. 

Agreed - with very few exceptions, every book out there with a signature(s) on the cover has been defaced...your preferred spot is where they should go.

Edited April 6, 2022 by pemart1966

[goldust40]

On 4/6/2022 at 4:05 PM, Nic8612 said:

I don't necessarily think they add value ALL the time, but I think they can. I have a handful

A well placed sig is fine but I’m not mad on that Romita one. 

[circumstances]

On 4/6/2022 at 1:36 PM, Northwest said:

I prefer internal page signatures, such as on the bottom of the first story page. 

Any creator that wanted to sign the cover of one of my comics ended up signing in the bottom margin of the first page.

[PDGray]

Not gonna say they always add value, but if it is someone connected to the book then yeah, I am all for it.

 

PDG

[vaultkeeper]

This 7.5 copy of Batman #41 is signed by Jim Mooney on the splash page. I had the signature verified by...um...a company that verifies signatures. 

Edited April 6, 2022 by vaultkeeper

[D84]

I like interior signatures in the margins, but I don't want them defacing the cover.

[KCOComics]

I'm not a big signature fan, but I do have a few from people who are important to me.  

I know there are a few Craig Flessel and Al Feldstein SS books that they worked on floating around and I would buy one if I could. 

[Cat-Man_America]

On 4/6/2022 at 5:00 PM, Mosh It Up said:

 ECs aren't Golden Age 

That's a technicality, and technically ...my opinion... they still fit! GA reflects all early comics, starting with Famous Funnies #1 (called the Platinum Age; Note: In this timeline Obadiah Oldbuck is BC aka Before Comics) till the introduction of the CCA (Comics Code Authority), following the Wertham meteor impact when everything cratered.  

Viewed as an analogy, think of comic history correlated to natural history, the great dinosaurs evolved during the Mesozoic era's three periods, comprised of Triassic (comics arising from the Paleozoic newsstand landscape from nascent 10 cent pamphlet of newspaper Sunday funnies reprints), Cretaceous (growth of reptilian giant's domination and longest period of success, and in respect to comics evolution, the birth and development of super hero popularity) into the Jurassic (pre-code horror and GGA aka great googly-oogling good girl art) when things got a lot hotter.

Think of the Comics Code as comic history's cataclysmic extinction event that ended the great dinosaur's reign.  Those lumbering giants would die out quickly, mercilessly, as temperatures cooled.  Only small mammals survived into the Tertiary Period (also known as the namby-pamby era), but fertile well grounded SA would evolve from it.  The rest is history!  

 

Edited April 8, 2022 by Cat-Man_America
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[143ksk]

I love GA SS books, but it all depends on who signed and what the book is. If the signature is from someone who worked on the book, I think it adds more magic that years later they held it and put their name on it.

[143ksk]

[Ameri]

Edited April 9, 2022 by Ameri

[143ksk]