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Flex Mentallo

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  1. On 10/14/2023 at 6:22 PM, Darwination said:

    That Kunstler Tiger is an absolute classic. 

    Apart from the rendering, I love the fact that the hunter is evidently stalking a person whose footprints are visible in the snow. Imagine turning around to find a stalking tiger right behind you!

    "To wait for a tiger is to wait for yourself"

    Sooyong Park

     

  2. On 9/17/2023 at 11:21 AM, jimbo_7071 said:

    I don't think so. With these horror books, it's all about having the highest-graded copy to guys paying the insane prices. It may only be a small number of guys competing for the highest-graded copies. If that's the case, it might only take one or two guys dying for prices to collapse.

     

    Alternatively, prices might collapse, and a small number of guys will have heart attacks.

  3. On 9/1/2023 at 4:42 AM, Et-Es-Go said:

    Boardie's, I bought a few of these books and there is just no way that the peeps at CGC would mistake these facsimile copies as the genuine thing.  They have a different look, different paper, different feel, and they don't smell like an old vintage book.  For $20 they are great to have in your collection, but there is not way these books will pass for the real thing.

    This.

    They are very nice for what they are, and the interior paper at least gives them the feel of a proper comic book. But the covers are too juiced and the colors correspondingly a bit too strong. (The facsimile of Suspense #3 uses a flat, brilliant blue for the background for example.)

    The ones that look the most convincing tend to have a lot of black in the cover image, such as the Punch #12. Thing! #13, #14, #15 - but even then, the razor sharp edges are a dead giveaway.

    As for size, they are all the same, so some might correspond to the original proportions, but others will not.

    Nor do they bend in the same way.

    And so on...

  4. On 8/18/2023 at 7:47 AM, lou_fine said:

    Well, if it's the Allentown copy you are referring to, no doubt it's an exceptional copy but unfortunately locked away somewhere in a private collection and not likely to see the light of day anytime soon.  :cloud9:

    One of the other possible still raw HG copies of Mystery Men 8 might just be the Larson copy as that was graded as a VF/NM copy with lite stains at the spine, but no doubt another copy that we will most likely not be seeing any time soon.  :luhv:

    Speaking about HG copies and being the early Fox expert that you are, are you aware of the existence of any HG copies of Mystery Men 7 as this particular issue seems to be dearth of any HG copies?   Especially since the highest graded copy to date is the Church copy at CGC 8.0, with the next highest graded at only a mere CGC 4.0.  Doubt we would have much luck with the Larson copy here since that issue is listed as having a clipped coupon which would take it right out of the Universal category.  hm

    If the Church collection were removed from consideration (in an alternate universe where it never existed), I wonder what that would do to the census in terms of highest graded copies. How many Golden Age comics would have a highest graded in the vg/fine range, rather than the NM range?

  5. On 8/17/2023 at 9:08 PM, MrBedrock said:

    I am first and foremost a Timely collector, so Verzyl's collection was always the most intriguing to me. But Jon's collection was so deep in so many areas right up to and through the silver age. And he was always willing to show and share his books. That is now the way I would like my collection to be.

    That's a worthy torch to be the bearer of, I'd say.