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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 15:40:13 GMT -5
 There's one up for auction at Hake's that closes March 13-15. Current bid is only $245,700... Apparently some owner of this at some point preferred traditional periodical numbering to comic numbering, and noted it was Vol. 3 #3 on the cover in pen. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 22, 2018 16:07:24 GMT -5
Nah, I've already read that one...
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 22, 2018 16:46:32 GMT -5
Oh, the one with Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise in "Illegal Aliens?"
I've heard that's a good story.
But that cover... Yuk.
I'll pass.
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Post by batusi on Feb 22, 2018 17:33:38 GMT -5
NO, this would be a downgrade to my already 9.8 TRAVELED BACK IN TIME obtained find!
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Post by Crimebuster on Feb 22, 2018 17:48:41 GMT -5
The writing on the cover would bug me.
Not that I mind writing on the cover - I like names of previous owners and whatever - but this specific notation I find irritating. It's bad enough when the publisher uses this annoying system instead of just issue numbers, but it's worse when some rando writes it on the cover himself. Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 18:31:43 GMT -5
The writing on the cover would bug me. Not that I mind writing on the cover - I like names of previous owners and whatever - but this specific notation I find irritating. It's bad enough when the publisher uses this annoying system instead of just issue numbers, but it's worse when some rando writes it on the cover himself. Ugh. If publishers had used periodical notation instead of issue numbers all along it would have removed much of the fetishization of #1s, reboots, renumbering, relaunches and what have you that have plagued the industry for decades. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 18:41:46 GMT -5
I hate people writing on covers and that's alone is a no-no and the person who put in the bid for $245,700 is a certifiable kook. I would walk away ...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 18:54:17 GMT -5
I hate people writing on covers and that's alone is a no-no and the person who put in the bid for $245,700 is a certifiable kook. I would walk away ... It's up to over $320K now with two weeks to go. It will likely top out just under a million if precedents hold. -M |
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Post by shaxper on Feb 22, 2018 19:10:06 GMT -5
This was pretty far into the run, when icons like Fu Manchu and Slam Bradley were being pushed aside to make room for flashy new upstart characters. "The Batman"? Please.  |
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Post by nero9000 on Feb 23, 2018 2:16:52 GMT -5
The writing on the cover would bug me. Not that I mind writing on the cover - I like names of previous owners and whatever - but this specific notation I find irritating. It's bad enough when the publisher uses this annoying system instead of just issue numbers, but it's worse when some rando writes it on the cover himself. Ugh. If publishers had used periodical notation instead of issue numbers all along it would have removed much of the fetishization of #1s, reboots, renumbering, relaunches and what have you that have plagued the industry for decades. -M Yeah, Marvel and DC should have stopped messing around and switched to periodical ages ago. Good thing the renumbering works both ways. Now I'll just go and cross over all my reboot numbering and put the original over it. That is if I had any reboot issues. |
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Post by dcindexer on Feb 23, 2018 2:54:15 GMT -5
I just bought a copy of Detective Comics #7 and I have my eye on a #20. Does that count as a #27?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 23, 2018 7:44:23 GMT -5
If publishers had used periodical notation instead of issue numbers all along it would have removed much of the fetishization of #1s, reboots, renumbering, relaunches and what have you that have plagued the industry for decades. -M Yeah, Marvel and DC should have stopped messing around and switched to periodical ages ago. Good thing the renumbering works both ways. Now I'll just go and cross over all my reboot numbering and put the original over it. That is if I had any reboot issues. I suspect as time passes, most collectors are only going to care about the original runs,first appearances, and 'rare' alternate covers... stuff that's happened in our current 'renumbering' age far easier to consume in trades (and EVERYTHING is in a trade).. perhaps 25 years from now people will look on those snickers ads like the hostess ones of the 70s, or something, but otherwise, I think single issues are doomed to go the way of regular sets for baseball cards... stuff you have to get through to get to the valuable stuff. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 11:18:06 GMT -5
For some reason, my frowned on the idea of me placing a bid on this...I can't fathom why  -M |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 23, 2018 13:12:57 GMT -5
She wants it for herself!
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Post by Phil Maurice on Feb 23, 2018 16:42:49 GMT -5
Nice to see Bill Finger's name above Bob Kane's for a change.
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