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This Week Back From CGC
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And the crown jewels of the set....

 

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(Ok, so the story behind this one goes like this: Starlin did everything on the book except edit it and letter it. -script, pencils, inks, colors, Starlin did it all. But in the credits on the title page, there are....other people...listed there. Why...? I'll let you figure it out. I asked Starlin if he could do this one for me, and he said "ok, but just this ONE, I won't be making a habit of this!" One was fine...it's not a 9.8, but it's close enough.)

 

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Little story on the Strange Tales/Warlocks. When I first started collecting, I didn't know anything about Starlin. But then, Silver Surfer, and then, Infinity Gauntlet, which was the huge #1 crossover of 1991. Huge.

 

So, by the time I A. had any money, and B. got around to it, all these Starlin books from the 70's were all $20-$30-$40 EACH. Ugh!

 

Fast forward to 1999...the comic market sucks, everyone's forgotten about Starlin again, and all these Warlocks that didn't sell are now back to reasonable prices.

 

Well, on eBay, Lange's Sports apparently bought a collection with multiple copies of all of these books...and started listing them....and I started bidding on them...and they sold for $3, $4, $5 each...but I was only willing to buy the "NM- or lower" copies, because the NM, NM+, and NM/M copies were selling for $10, $15, $30 or so.

 

All of the Starlins you see, with the exception of the #11s (and I think one of those was, too) I bought from them in the years 1999-2001. All of them..every one of them...was not graded better than NM-. In fact, many of them were VFs and VF-s (the #179 was a F/VF.)

 

Now, granted, I pressed these...but there's only so much you can do if the raw book has no potential. A Todd Lange 2000 "VF-" turned into a 9.6. A F/VF became a 9.4. Back then, it was simply magic, and if I hadn't been so cheap, I would have had a lot more 9.8s.

 

Those were the days....

 

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And last, for now, one of my most treasured sets...slowly but surely, finishing them off...one...by one...by one...

 

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So... much... Stan... Lee...

 

 

True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121.

 

:D

 

And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with... He is literally going to sign everything before he dies.... :facepalm:

 

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So... much... Stan... Lee...

 

 

True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121.

 

:D

 

And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with...

 

meh...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember...

 

 

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So... much... Stan... Lee...

 

 

True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121.

 

:D

 

And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with...

 

meh...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember...

 

 

:roflmao:

 

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So... much... Stan... Lee...

 

 

True...but at least he wrote most of them, and worked on all of them except Spidey #121.

 

:D

 

And MSH18 which he openly said he had nothing to do with...

 

meh...he was still EIC at the time, and he IS 92, so he may not remember...

 

 

:roflmao:

 

:cloud9:

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