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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 11:16:25 GMT -5
I KNOW. I was going to add in my last post that I use their avatars to help me tell who is who. And they both agree on this subject, so that makes it even MORE confusing. Really? Trevor and Trebor the Unconquered is that similar? If I change it to Robert the Unconquered will that help? Yes. And I think it would be for the best. Thank you. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 24, 2016 11:29:08 GMT -5
There. It is done. I apologize for any confusion and distress that the spelling of my name backwards has caused the community.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 11:32:00 GMT -5
There. It is done. I apologize for any confusion and distress that the spelling of my name backwards has caused the community. All the distress has melted away now. lol. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 11:50:19 GMT -5
And opening it will instantly devalue it, so either way you look at it, you've wasted a lot of money. And? Some people make that choice. I know dealers who regularly make several hundred to a couple of thousand per month flipping slabbed books...I'd like to see someone tell them they've wasted their money. And I know quite a number of collectors who don't mind paying a bit extra for the assurance that comes with a graded book...that it's original integrity is intact and the condition it was sold as has been reasonably assured. Some of these collectors then remove books from slabs. Easy as pie. But let the haters hate  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 12:00:50 GMT -5
And? Some people make that choice. I know dealers who regularly make several hundred to a couple of thousand per month flipping slabbed books...I'd like to see someone tell them they've wasted their money. And I know quite a number of collectors who don't mind paying a bit extra for the assurance that comes with a graded book...that it's original integrity is intact and the condition it was sold as has been reasonably assured. Some of these collectors then remove books from slabs. Easy as pie. But let the haters hate Exactly. I intend to try and get every single Sub-Mariner book from the golden age. And I'll want those slabbed, especially considering even crappy, raw copies are typically priced way more than their worth. I am really wanting all the books from his first solo, 1-11 and earlier. Basically, I want all the stuff from when he was a red head. Because THAT is the character Everett intended. But I'll take any golden age Subby. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 24, 2016 12:09:42 GMT -5
Sub-Mariner would be hilarious as a pissed off ginger with freckles.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 12:16:39 GMT -5
Sub-Mariner would be hilarious as a pissed off ginger with freckles. I need to go back and re-read the golden age stuff, but I'm pretty sure Namor didn't get temper-tantrum-pissed under Everett, like he does now, the bronze age, and the silver age. Everett's Namor always struck me as going straight for the target, and then taking care of business without saying AS much. Silver age Namor was when we started seeing him acting out when he got angry, I *think*. That's when Namor would break his own toys AND everyone else's. I love both takes on the character, but I love Everett's art the best. His Namor made most sense. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 24, 2016 12:19:58 GMT -5
$5 was quite expensive back in 1965 for what was essentially a catalog. Concurrant to that was dealer Howard Rogafsky who sold comics thru mail order and one of the first to buy ad space in Marvel Comics as well as fanzines like RBCC in the mid 60s. He charged very high prices for that time period but had quite a treasure trove of Golden Age books for sale. Rogafsky hung around at least thru the mid 70s and probably was the most well known (though a bit reviled about his pricing) comics dealer $5 is around $37.50 in constant dollars. That is really expensive for that book by the looks of it. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 24, 2016 12:28:11 GMT -5
Sub-Mariner would be hilarious as a pissed off ginger with freckles. I need to go back and re-read the golden age stuff, but I'm pretty sure Namor didn't get temper-tantrum-pissed under Everett, like he does now, the bronze age, and the silver age. Everett's Namor always struck me as going straight for the target, and then taking care of business without saying AS much. Silver age Namor was when we started seeing him acting out when he got angry, I *think*. That's when Namor would break his own toys AND everyone else's. I love both takes on the character, but I love Everett's art the best. His Namor made most sense. I've only read a handful of those Golden Age stories, but I do recall Namor being temperamental even then.  |
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Post by tingramretro on Jan 24, 2016 12:31:27 GMT -5
There. It is done. I apologize for any confusion and distress that the spelling of my name backwards has caused the community. I...I don't understand. Who are you? I'm so confused, now!!!! I liked the name Trebor. I used to have a dog called Trebor. Every time I saw a Trebor post, it was like she'd been resurrected, somehow...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 12:33:06 GMT -5
I need to go back and re-read the golden age stuff, but I'm pretty sure Namor didn't get temper-tantrum-pissed under Everett, like he does now, the bronze age, and the silver age. Everett's Namor always struck me as going straight for the target, and then taking care of business without saying AS much. Silver age Namor was when we started seeing him acting out when he got angry, I *think*. That's when Namor would break his own toys AND everyone else's. I love both takes on the character, but I love Everett's art the best. His Namor made most sense. I've only read a handful of those Golden Age stories, but I do recall Namor being temperamental even then. An a-hole, and a bad guy, yes. But running off at the mouth, giving a shakespearean speech before, during, and after? No. Temperamental, yes, but not as mouthy as he was written later. But look how awesome he is there! I'd have punched that cop, too. My god, he's the best. |
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Post by Nowhere Man on Jan 24, 2016 12:40:00 GMT -5
If I remember my Marvel history Namor was born in 1920, so he was literally 19 here. He was simply an angsty Atlantean teen letting off steam by loitering around surface tourist attractions and mouthing off to authority figures. By the time the Marvel Age came around, he'd had a ton of life experience and had a lot to say.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 12:42:16 GMT -5
If I remember my Marvel history Namor was born in 1920, so he was literally 19 here. He was simply an angsty Atlantean teen letting off steam by loitering around surface tourist attractions and mouthing off to authority figures. By the time the Marvel Age came around, he'd had a ton of life experience and had a lot to say. Hahahaha! Yesssss. |
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Post by MDG on Jan 24, 2016 13:04:56 GMT -5
The way I see it "comic collecting" covers two hobbies: collecting comics "for content" and collecting comics "as objects," for lack of better terms. There has always been some overlap, but they're growing farther apart due to much easier access to older comic stories on the one side, and practices like stricter grading, stabbing, and price inflation on the other.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2016 13:19:20 GMT -5
The way I see it "comic collecting" covers two hobbies: collecting comics "for content" and collecting comics "as objects," for lack of better terms. I'm a walker between both worlds. I'd pick up heaps of bronze age Archies that will never sell more for $1 each simply because I adore Archies and have lots and lots and lots of them. I'd also pick up a slabbed Golden Age Archie because it DOES have a commodity value as well as being a favourite character. |
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