Kriton: Batman , Gottfredson , Soap , and " Slabbing " !!!!!!!!!

WL Lilly liljerryandtheyadayadakiddz at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 17 22:05:34 CEST 2001


 
 ...To Kriton: That's EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! what it is !!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really , it's kind of insane -
US  comic-collecting magazines COMIC BUYERS' GUIDE
( which I subscribe to ) and WIZARD ( which I only
occasionally read ) have been endlessly hyping/playing
up sales of CGC-encased comics ( I should add that
I've never actually seen one , " up close and personal
" , just read about them . ) - Although , hey , then
again , if people are going to buy them - and , as CBG
endlessly documents , a whole lot of " slabbed "
comics
 have sold , on ( mostly? ) E-Bay auction , for high
prices - I guess it needs to be written about , and ,
since a lot of people have demonstrated that they will
buy them...The thing is , some not rare at all comic
books  , published in the last 10-15 years , have even
sold at astonishingly high prices , relative to their
" standard " collectible price ! I don't know , looks
like we could have a classic " bubble " going here .
Or  , a " tulip " operation ! Or , perhaps there's
still some people who have 
a lot of leftover dot-com money !!!!!!!!!!!  
  CBG's web site is through their publisher , Krause ,

at http://www.krause.com , look for a " Comics " 
( " Comics And Games " , I think ? click-on...)
 - I visited there the other day , and , they had some
stuff about CBG's listings of CGC'd comics , but , I
think the info is basically in the magazine
itself...Perhaps some other son of Uncle Sam (
or...the  maple leaf ? ) 
with greater computer skills/access than I ( Not
difficult ! ) can post more details . 
 As for Gottfredson in BATMAN , assuming it's true ,
most DC comics of that period had brief cartoon
fillers ( Varsity Vic , Casey The Cop , Super Turtle )
, primarily by an artist called Henry Boltinoff , who
, as it happens , recently died...Perhaps GOttfredson
did something like that . Or an advertisment .



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