imatonkatoo

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9/9/2017 Topic: Slabbed Books imatonkatoo	Oxbladder wrote: PGX's inner sleeve is Barex (a polyester film) CGC uses Mylar and CBCS uses another polyester film. Mylar used for comics and other paper is type D. Not all polyester films meet the archival storage needs. For CGC the reason they suggest reholdering books every 7-10 years is that the micro chamber paper will no longer be absorbing any gases past that period of time. edited by Oxbladder on 4/10/2016 How long have CGC been using Mylar? Just interested as I have some CGC older than 7 years. Don't think I will send them off to be reslabbed as it's quite expensive to post from the UK. Though I'm happy enough if they're in Mylar that'll do me.
9/9/2017 Topic: Slabbed Books imatonkatoo	Oops should have read on to xspider1's post.
9/9/2017 Topic: Slabbed Books imatonkatoo	BburgDaddy-o wrote: May be a dumb question, but does cracking the slab in any way affect the CGC grade or lessen potential value if sold with slab having been cracked open at some time? I'm sure I read somewhere on CGC that if the slab is cracked in anyway then the comic is no longer classed as graded by them. Something like that anyway. Read this many moons ago, so may all be different now.
9/9/2017 Topic: selling my collection? imatonkatoo	It's quite nice selling your collection individually. Bagging them up and shipping them off. Another excuse to go through them too and see them in the light again. I'm currently selling off my collection but only the ones I'm not too bothered about or the ones where I can't be bothered to complete. If I don't complete it's not a collection. I list about 20 every weekend, sometimes more sometimes less. can be a bit of a ballache, but when it starts feeling like that I put it down and go back to it another day when I'm in the mood. What do you guys do with the money? I found if I put it in the bank I spend it on other things. So now I'm just keeping it in PayPal to let it build up to buy something bigger collectable wise. I have nowhere near as much as what you have though. So a bit easier for me. I couldn't sell the whole lot in one go though. that would feel like a waste of my collecting over the years to do that. Good luck with it anyway, and I hope you get what it's worth. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/9/2017
9/9/2017 Topic: What are you currently collecting? imatonkatoo	Stephen King or Joe Hill stuff. Oh and Clive barker tings. I think I have them all apart from Creepshow. Nearly got it but was out priced. Not really buying the Spider-Mans or Batmans anymore. Ultimate Spider-Man was my last collection from that genre and that ended a while back. Going to start back on the new Constantine got to number 6 and stopped buying that too. Got all the Hellblazers and nothing has really peeked my interest of late. Just purchased the full run of The Vision (the latest ones 1 to 12 set) and that is quite a fun and quirky read. I think I just got sick and tired of the saturation of it all and I lost interest and just couldn't keep up with it. I'm a completionist and if I have one of a copy I have to have them all. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/11/2017
9/10/2017 Topic: If you lookin comics imatonkatoo	You can actually sell your comics through this site.
9/11/2017 Topic: If you lookin comics imatonkatoo	Donnie1986stanley wrote: How and I have to many,,it would take god knows how long to put them all on here.lol there are hundreds Have you got your comics catalogued on this site already? if so it is easy to list them for sale. If not, start cataloguing them. Though I do believe you have to be a paid member to catalogue more than 50. That's how it used to be before I came back from four years or so away. Also I don't think people will keep emailing you asking if you have this or that. They will just look elsewhere. Good luck whichever way you decide to go anyway. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/11/2017
9/11/2017 Topic: If you lookin comics imatonkatoo	rixmaxx wrote: Donnie1986stanley wrote: How and I have to many,,it would take god knows how long to put them all on here.lol there are hundreds You can do it, I have close to 7000 and it took less than a week. Blimey, I've got some catching up to do.
9/11/2017 Topic: The Vision imatonkatoo	Never heard of The Vision before. Purchased the 1 to 12 set with his family on a whim and quite enjoyed the quirkiness of it. What else is out there like this? Is The Vision always a bit quirky? Quite a bit sadistic too which was quite funny in a way. Wont spoil it if you haven't read them.
9/16/2017 Topic: Comic Books for kids in hospitals, cancer centers imatonkatoo	Brilliant idea. Well done. Nice site too.
9/16/2017 Topic: Why Do YOU Collect Comics? imatonkatoo	I have no idea. I started when I was about 39. Just said to my wife one day I wouldn't mind starting collecting comics. She bought me some at Christmas and that's when I found out I was a completionist. She got me Ultimate Spider-Mans in no particular order, Hellblazer, and Rising Stars. No clue why she got them but then I had to complete the runs in those. I then started noticing others I might like when I was looking. Plus things like Hellblazer lead me onto Swamp Thing too. You kind of learn other characters appeared somewhere else first or have started their own title so then I like to get those too. Though I mainly collect Stephen King, Joe Hill and Clive Barker stuff as it comes out. In between those days they haven't brought anything out I like to browse for older comics and have had a cheeky bid on 90 silver age at the mo. If I win I will post them on here. Nice little bundle. Don't know whether to keep or sell on individually. Will see if I get them. Never really read comics as a kid. Dandy and Beano but none of the super hero comics. Can't even recall seeing any in the shops over here when I was a kid but they must have been, but probably just wasn't interested. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/16/2017
9/17/2017 Topic: Web Of Spiderman??? imatonkatoo	Bumping this as just realised the first link I put on just took you straight back to the CPG home page.
9/17/2017 Topic: Autographed comic imatonkatoo	Same here KDS. I quite like the personal touch. I really like the, what's it called when you have a blank cover and an artist draws on it? A sketch cover I suppose. Like you said, Picasso and all that. Though I loved it when I got my first Stan Lee sig but now can't be bothered with that and selling some of them. He's totally saturated the market with his sigs. Feels like he will sign anything. Can't blame him though if he's making money from it.
9/17/2017 Topic: Dunkirk imatonkatoo	Excellent film, but I wish they showed the French & Belgians a bit more instead of it just being the British point of view. There was also Indians there from the Royal Indian Army Service Corps. Though there's not a mention of these brave men either. Proper true warriors they are. When we watch American films us Brits always complain that they only show the Americans and they distort the history in the film. Though I do understand why as it's just a film, but I find it quite disrespectful on the people that took part or who were involved. If you're going to make a film about somebody or about an event then make it as real as possible or just don't make it if it's going to be boring without distorting what happened. Entertainment rights I know but it does get my goat a bit. And now we've done it too, it's quite annoying. Take these films for example where us Brits have whinged on the inaccuracy. Objective Burma Errol Flynn's paratroopers overcome the Japanese with barely a Brit in sight, although it was really they who won the battle. The press and public, some of whom had fought in Burma, were so outraged that the film had to be withdrawn. The Great Escape Steve McQueen played a leading part in a mass escape from a POW camp. In real life, 76 got out of Stalag Luft III, but only three made it alive; 50 were shot and 23 recaptured. No Americans among them. Braveheart Mel Gibson as a charming William Wallace - not the real man who wore the skin of an opposing general as his belt. Wallace fathers a son by the Princess of Wales who really gave birth seven years after his execution. Titanic First Officer William McMaster Murdoch is remembered as a hero in his Scottish home for saving passengers. He froze to death in the sea. The film shows him shooting passengers in a blind panic. U-571 Harvey Keitel and other plucky American seamen pull an Enigma code machine from a sinking German submarine and change the course of the war. Except that it was the crew of British HMS Bulldog. The Patriot Gibson again as a pacifist provoked into joining the American War of Independence when sadistic Brits herd women and children into a church and set fire to it. Nothing like that happened. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/17/2017
9/17/2017 Topic: THE DARK TOWER MOVIE...... imatonkatoo	Did you watch it? I loved the film but like I said in a previous post, I can disengage from book to comic to big screen. (pity I can't do this as easy on real life films ) Doesn't matter who plays Roland as long as he portrays Roland. I think Ibris did a fantastic job. I really hope they carry on with this. I so hope they get Locke & Key on the screens one day too. Whether it be television or film. Loved these comics.
9/17/2017 Topic: The Moon imatonkatoo	Has anyone watched this? I absolutely loved the film but my mate said it was the worse film he has ever watched. I loved everything about it. From the scenery to the story. Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q edited by imatonkatoo on 9/17/2017
9/17/2017 Topic: Dunkirk imatonkatoo	colbalt91 wrote: There was a British film released about three months before the Dunkirk movie that dealt with the publicity machine of the British Ministry trying to make a positive of the Dunkirk retreat. This film was called "Their Finest." It was a small budget affair and did not do that well in the United States, though it was an excellent film. In this movie, it showed that the British had interred the Italian population of Britain in internment camps like the US did the Japanese during World War II. edited by colbalt91 on 9/17/2017 Nice one Colbalt. I will have a look at this one. Just had a quick look on IMBD and it looks interesting.
9/22/2017 Topic: Comic Books for kids in hospitals, cancer centers imatonkatoo	redhood wrote: imatonkatoo wrote: Brilliant idea. Well done. Nice site too. Thank you. The rewards are amazing. And, if there is a hospital near you that you want to get involved with, just let us know. We will work with you and even get you comics to give to them. I'm in England so the shipping might be a bit too high. I'm involved with my daughters charity. Which is a hospital that I could ask. She was born with a big hole in her heart (13 years ago now) and the hospital that looked after her were amazing to both kids and the parents. edited by imatonkatoo on 9/22/2017
9/22/2017 Topic: Dunkirk imatonkatoo	Oxbladder wrote: I thought the point was to give an idea of what it was supposed to be like in those days? In that respect does it really matter whose POV was used? This was largely about the effort to get the men off the beaches and it was great that they showed that there was a huge civilian representation in the effort to save the soldiers. I felt that the film must have been fairly accurate as to generally what went on. Yes, they could have done more to show that there were more than British there, they could have given more props to the French who fought like hell to give others a chance to escape. They could have shown that, yes, a large number of French were rescued and not left to die or be captured. In general though they did a decent job of representing the chaos and fear that the men felt and the utter desperation. Keep in mind that, in the end it was pure chance that they got a chance to save the forces at Dunkirk. First the German decision to let the infantry come up and then the weather really are the only reason that these men even were saved from utter and total elimination. And that.
10/2/2017 Topic: What are you currently collecting? imatonkatoo	Currently chasing American Vampire. Got 1 to 5 and just purchased a mixed bag of these. Will have a sift through which I have and go after the rest of them later. Nice little read so far.