Aug. 8: The Doc's day with comic book nerds and perverted freaks

Mmm...pretty.

Who else will be there, Doc?

Our Comic Con is coming up here in Seattle, debating whether to go. It would be my first; but I have some rare books (the first Jonah Hex in Weird Western Tales from 1970s, for example) that I'd like to gauge the real value of.

 

Nice Doc, will they have onsight comic book grading?

And are there any artists appearing? I've checked out original artwork recently and it is amazingly expensive, it would be great to chat with an artist who made them.

 

Our CC was this past weekend...never mind.

 

Just shipping comics out to be graded is bone crunchingly expensive, seriously, adding in the insurance, shipping fees and Wizard's handling fees and 3 comics being graded will cost 100 bucks, or did, it's been awhile.

 

I wonder if any of the old-school guys who are still alive - like Neal Adams, Jim Steranko, Berni Wrightson - attend these?

 

I do believe Adams (Xmen, but his Batman work was awesome) and Wrgihtson (Swamp thing) are still with us, not sure about Steranko though.

 

YEAH! The one grading service has a virtual monopoly and their fees are exorbitant. I sold some original Conans a couple years ago, numbers 1-17 and remember that it would have cost me a fortune up front to have them graded.

I still ended up getting a fair price for each of them, but I could have gotten 3X more with the official grade, considering they were pristine.

 

Adams had his own brand for a while...Continuity Comics. Great art, but new characters, so no one bought them. Unfortunate.

Wrightson, I don't know if he's still illustrating at all. But his work in early '70s horror-genre was seminal.

I thought Steranko was still alive, but he would be up there; he was only slightly younger than the generation that preceded him, Jack Kirby and that lot.

 

Adams was phenomenal; his Batman work was amazing, but he re-defined Deadman and brought him popularity the character had not enjoyed until he was paired with Batman in The Brave and The Bold.

 

I have an Xmen Giant Sized one that was in mylar for 20 yrs, seriously it was not opened for 20 years, and even then, CGA....4.5...ditto a wolverine mini series 1 at 9.2, never opened in 24 years.

And that 100 dollars+ is not recoverable on resale, they move out just on the GCA grade...period...one can see the absurd situation of a comic selling for less then the cost of having it graded..

 

Deadman was a bit obscure even back in the 80's though, that is more of a conessiours book then one for general consumption.

Wow...George Perez on the New Teen Titans, Jim Starlin on Adam Warlock, J Byrne on the Uncanny, Frank Miller did some top notch work on first Daredevil then Batman, I wonder how many jr's even know who made the graphic novel "the Dark Knight" that was into the the recent film?

Starlin was my guy though, Byrne was #2, Miller #3, Adams was pricey even back in the day, the Brave and the Bold ran 50 bucks a whack even in the early 80's.

Adams had a arc with a vampire with a heart in the clock that I still recall even 30 years later, man that guy was skilled.

 

I am a huge fan of Michelle Rodriguez..and finding out she played for the other team was a sad or very happy moment for me....not sure.

 

Few know that Deadman started even before that, in the late '60s in one of the compilation titles.

Starlin was great, with a realistic style reminiscent of Adams. I often confused his work for Adams' on first glance.

But yeah, Adams was the ****. No one else came close to how good he was, especially when working with Inker Dick Giordano, where he did his very best work IMO.

edit: The Vampire, was that a Marvel title (Morbius)? Because that might have been Gil Kane.

 

Omelets! Que rico.

 

Nah Brave & Bold from the late 60's early 70's, Gustav Decobra.

 

I just read the title, so correct me if I am wrong. Did you just essentially say that you were going to be on this site on Aug. 8th?

 

don't act like you're too cool for school...

 

I'm an active member of this site aren't I (well, this week anyhow)? I wasn't giving myself an exception...

After saturday night, I can't NOT label myself a perverted freak...wait, what?

 

Make sure to go see Olivia Munn from G4TV

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=H3...4Ii2Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9

Thought you'd like this, Padre.

And this:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache...mpire+Gustav+Decobra&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

 

Is it me or does it look like she has a moustache?