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[Robot Man]

Found annother Woody!

[oakman29]

2 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Found annother Woody!

[RockMyAmadeus]

1 hour ago, Mr. Zipper said:

That's the operating theory many share. I don't know who it was, but it certainly wasn't Jack in my opinion.

I'm 93% sure that Roz was doing a lot of the signings in the last 2-3 years, if not more. She was realllly good at it, too.

I'm a little torn. It was Roz, after all...not Joe Blow.

But yeah, you have a valid point. 

[RockMyAmadeus]

26 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Found annother Woody!

That's really nice. As others said, Woody's tough. Too bad life got too hard for him. He might have still been with us. But the last couple of years...yeesh.

[eee91]

Brilliant thread. I'm in awe of what you guys have. Rarest sigs I've got are probably D**k Sprang, John Stanley, Dale Messick, Archie Goodwin - and creators who left us too young, like Dwayne McDuffie and Gene Day. 

Just my experience: John Buscema and Marie Severin rarely seem to come up for sale - feels like people who have signed books by them are holding onto them. 

Edited December 4, 2019 by eee91

[Pirate]

Steve Ditko and Pope John Paul II

[tv horror]

1 hour ago, Pirate said:

Steve Ditko and Pope John Paul II

That's nothing I once had a comic struck by lightning I wonder does that mean it was signed either by Odin or Thor?

[Wipple]

Finally got around to bagging this book. Been unbagged since issued. Glad I peeked inside. Aparo i believe. 

[James J Johnson]

On ‎12‎/‎3‎/‎2019 at 5:58 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

I'm 93% sure that Roz was doing a lot of the signings in the last 2-3 years, if not more. She was realllly good at it, too.

+1 She was doing most of it. But it's all clearly identifiable as Roz because Jack wasn't signing in that manner as the end of the line loomed closer (late 80s, 90s). It's a decent secretarial, anachronism aside.

[LearnedHand]

I guess autograph rarity partially depends on personal experience. Growing up in NYC, I used to see and get autographs from some of these perceived "rare" talents at the large NYC shows, such as Bob Kane who even kissed my mom's hand when we met him.  I suspect that 3 of the rarest (if not non-existent) autographs are those of Mac Raboy, Bert Christman, and perhaps Matt Baker.         

[ADAMANTIUM]

18 minutes ago, LearnedHand said:

I guess autograph rarity partially depends on personal experience. Growing up in NYC, I used to see and get autographs from some of these perceived "rare" talents at the large NYC shows, such as Bob Kane who even kissed my mom's hand when we met him.  I suspect that 3 of the rarest (if not non-existent) autographs are those of Mac Raboy, Bert Christman, and perhaps Matt Baker.         

Cool that you were able to have experiences 

I'm lost when it comes to such  as most of my personal legends stopped signing seemingly just before I got the hint that time was running out. I was able to get Claremont and of course he's still ongoing, I got Len Wein the year of his passing, but Herb Trimpe and others were beyond my grasp!

 

[Hollywood1892]

On 12/4/2019 at 1:44 PM, tv horror said:

That's nothing I once had a comic struck by lightning I wonder does that mean it was signed either by Odin or Thor?

Or Palpatine 

[Robot Man]

21 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Or Palpatine 

Or Lightning Lad

[ADAMANTIUM]

5 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

27 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Or Palpatine 

Or Lightning Lad

Or, just or, anyone with old treasure maps and a dagger! Anyone feeling the Sith Festivus?

[dkuther]

I'm not sure how rare a signature it is but earlier this year my son and I were able to meet Art Spiegelman and he signed our copy of Maus for him - "good luck in the comix racket" and did a little sketch

Edited January 5, 2020 by dkuther

[alexgross.com]

Neal Adams! has anyone ever seen one? jk

[oakman29]

12 hours ago, www.alexgross.com said:

Neal Adams! has anyone ever seen one? jk

Even rarer has anyone ANYONE seen Neal Adam's in something other than a blue shirt?

[davidtere]

Not rare...but in 1990 / 1991 Kitchen Sink produced the Batman 1943 - 1946 Sundays and Dailies (reprints of the classic Batman newspaper strips). While the regular editions were (and still are) common and affordable; KS also produced them in a signature edition of 500 (with tipped in plates). Hard to believe that this was 30 years ago. 

[Bronty]

On 11/28/2019 at 5:37 PM, AlexH said:

Martin Nodell doesn't have too many SS.

The rarest one I have is Fred Kelly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Kelly_(comics)

Pretty sure I have the only one done by him. 

Fred Kelly!   I’d love to see that if you care to share

[Robot Man]

22 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Cool that you were able to have experiences 

I'm lost when it comes to such  as most of my personal legends stopped signing seemingly just before I got the hint that time was running out. I was able to get Claremont and of course he's still ongoing, I got Len Wein the year of his passing, but Herb Trimpe and others were beyond my grasp!

 

I got lucky. Took me two tries to get both...

Won’t ever have it in a SS slab but I don’t care a bit.