Legit McFarlane? Help Needed! 0

[Brewcrewfan77]

 

Saw this on the bay and it's one of my favorite McFarlane covers but the sig looks wrong.  What do you guys think?

 

 

Edited April 11, 2018 by Brewcrewfan77

[ivdyer]

I would vote not his signature based upon my own collection 

Edited April 11, 2018 by ivdyer

[seanfingh]

His signature looked like that for a time in the early 90's.  If I had to bet my own money, I would say it's legit.

[DarthRawn]

If you want to be certain only purchase one with a reputable COA. Very easy to replicate that signature.

[Pirate]

On 4/12/2018 at 5:27 PM, DarthRawn said:

If you want to be certain only purchase one with a reputable COA. Very easy to replicate that signature.

[DarthRawn]

8 hours ago, Pirate said:

Ok, so what is your take on it? It is not an easy signature to replicate? Certificates of Authenticity that are verifiable are not safer options than a random buy on ebay?  or you have nothing more than to do the whole internet-bully troll thing, dismissing others and adding nothing to a cause  #internettough?  You posted and didn't offer a single bit of useful information to the original posters question 

[Pirate]

12 hours ago, DarthRawn said:

Ok, so what is your take on it? It is not an easy signature to replicate? Certificates of Authenticity that are verifiable are not safer options than a random buy on ebay?  or you have nothing more than to do the whole internet-bully troll thing, dismissing others and adding nothing to a cause  #internettough?  You posted and didn't offer a single bit of useful information to the original posters question 

It was your stupid COA comment i was referring to.  #idiotnoob

[revat]

3 hours ago, Pirate said:

16 hours ago, DarthRawn said:

Ok, so what is your take on it? It is not an easy signature to replicate? Certificates of Authenticity that are verifiable are not safer options than a random buy on ebay?  or you have nothing more than to do the whole internet-bully troll thing, dismissing others and adding nothing to a cause  #internettough?  You posted and didn't offer a single bit of useful information to the original posters question 

It was your stupid COA comment i was referring to.  #idiotnoob

if only there was a way for a company to have someone witness the signature, then keep a chain of custody until that comic was encased in a sealed protective case, and then that comic case would be labeled to show what date that the sig was witnessed live and in person.

 

Sadly

On ‎4‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 2:27 PM, DarthRawn said:

If you want to be certain only purchase one with a reputable COA. Very easy to replicate that signature.

 

[RockMyAmadeus]

17 hours ago, DarthRawn said:

Ok, so what is your take on it? It is not an easy signature to replicate? Certificates of Authenticity that are verifiable are not safer options than a random buy on ebay?  or you have nothing more than to do the whole internet-bully troll thing, dismissing others and adding nothing to a cause  #internettough?  You posted and didn't offer a single bit of useful information to the original posters question 

Take it down a notch or seven, sparky. No need to contribute to the massive overuse, misuse, and abuse of the words "troll" and "bully" to refer to anyone who posts anything that disagrees with our cherished notions, especially to refer to a post that only has two emoticons. COAs are functionally worthless, regardless of who they're from.

The sig looks just fine. Occam's razor applies here: if the book has little to no value, it's not going to be worth someone's time to attempt to forge it. And if someone thinks "oh, it's probably a practice forgery!", I've got some other conspiracy theories you might be interested in.

[newshane]

I agree with Charles. Looks like a fake to me.

[Pirate]

1 hour ago, revat said:

if only there was a way for a company to have someone witness the signature, then keep a chain of custody until that comic was encased in a sealed protective case, and then that comic case would be labeled to show what date that the sig was witnessed live and in person.

 

Sadly

 

Don't play games, he wasn't referring to cgc but a reputable COA.  No such thing.  Heck even CGC has had issues with facilitators and have had to qualify "SS" books.

[seanfingh]

3 hours ago, newshane said:

I agree with Charles. Looks like a fake to me.

No way, n00b.

[RockMyAmadeus]

Look at Todd's signature on the book itself...you know, the scroll. Compare the letters, especially the last "E". Then compare to other books signed at the same time. 

I don't think you're getting an "unverified" over at Voldie's for this one. Could be wrong, but I doubt it.

[Kevin76]

It's fake. there is a stop and restart dot between the A and N in Mcfarlane, When Todd did in fact write T Mcfarlane, he always put a dot next to the T 

[RockMyAmadeus]

9 hours ago, Kevin76 said:

It's fake. there is a stop and restart dot between the A and N in Mcfarlane, When Todd did in fact write T Mcfarlane, he always put a dot next to the T 

Look harder.

[newshane]

10 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Look harder.

It's still a fake. 

 

[jcjames]

On 4/19/2018 at 9:10 AM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Take it down a notch or seven, sparky. No need to contribute to the massive overuse, misuse, and abuse of the words "troll" and "bully" to refer to anyone who posts anything that disagrees with our cherished notions, especially to refer to a post that only has two emoticons. COAs are functionally worthless, regardless of who they're from.

The sig looks just fine. Occam's razor applies here: if the book has little to no value, it's not going to be worth someone's time to attempt to forge it. And if someone thinks "oh, it's probably a practice forgery!", I've got some other conspiracy theories you might be interested in.

That other dude (Tonfele or whatever) on Feebay is making a killing forging Stan's sig on literally garbage books.

 

Edited April 20, 2018 by jcjames

[RockMyAmadeus]

25 minutes ago, jcjames said:

That other dude (Tonfele or whatever) on Feebay is making a killing forging Stan's sig on literally garbage books.

 

That's because Stan's people charge $140 for any and all sigs on anything.

Todd still signs for free "if it's not for slabbing."

That's a huge difference.

[RockMyAmadeus]

1 hour ago, newshane said:

It's still a fake. 

 

Other people have given their opinions and analyses as to why they think it's legit. What's your analysis for why you think it's fake?

[seanfingh]

1 hour ago, newshane said:

It's still a fake. 

 

I can see how you would think so, based upon his current sig.  But he has signed a lot of different ways over the years.