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swharr Posts: 1
6/9/2016
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Hello - I saw a post somewhere recently where people were scrambling to put together enough money to get as many books as possible signed by Stan Lee or whoever... Sometimes not even anyone who actually worked on that particular comic. What I'm wondering is... Other than for people who really want Stan to sign their 9.4 Strange Tales 110 (ouch!!), what is the appeal here? Doesn't having a name scrawled across a book destroy the value for the most part? Is this an investment, is what I'm asking, because it seems to me that it is not, and it's possible that the trend will die off, leaving people with books reduced several grades for 'autographs' .. And the rest of the world has one less Strange Tales 110 as an appealing option. (By the way, I get it if you love the artist and you are doing it for you... I got an X-Men 108 signed by Byrne as a kid and I'm ok with it because of the personal experience.)
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
6/10/2016
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Some will not consider a signature as damage, others will. Personally I think a grading system is pretty screwed up if you say that a signature/writing is and isn't damage. Why people cannot be happy with a signature/writing always being damage but still valuing creator signatures I just don't get. I do not have a problem a signed book to be a lower grade BUT valuing more than a book in that lower grade would normally go for.
Comic collectors are a weird and stupid lot.
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kds_comics Posts: 686
6/14/2016
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swharr wrote:
Hello - I saw a post somewhere recently where people were scrambling to put together enough money to get as many books as possible signed by Stan Lee or whoever... Sometimes not even anyone who actually worked on that particular comic. What I'm wondering is... Other than for people who really want Stan to sign their 9.4 Strange Tales 110 (ouch!!), what is the appeal here? Doesn't having a name scrawled across a book destroy the value for the most part? Is this an investment, is what I'm asking, because it seems to me that it is not, and it's possible that the trend will die off, leaving people with books reduced several grades for 'autographs' .. And the rest of the world has one less Strange Tales 110 as an appealing option. (By the way, I get it if you love the artist and you are doing it for you... I got an X-Men 108 signed by Byrne as a kid and I'm ok with it because of the personal experience.)
Would you get a baseball player to sign a sheet of paper of a baseball card?
Really boils down to your choice. I like signed comics. Add creator's personal touch to finished work.
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genuine_article_comics Posts: 44
6/27/2016
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kds_comics wrote:
swharr wrote:
Hello - I saw a post somewhere recently where people were scrambling to put together enough money to get as many books as possible signed by Stan Lee or whoever... Sometimes not even anyone who actually worked on that particular comic. What I'm wondering is... Other than for people who really want Stan to sign their 9.4 Strange Tales 110 (ouch!!), what is the appeal here? Doesn't having a name scrawled across a book destroy the value for the most part? Is this an investment, is what I'm asking, because it seems to me that it is not, and it's possible that the trend will die off, leaving people with books reduced several grades for 'autographs' .. And the rest of the world has one less Strange Tales 110 as an appealing option. (By the way, I get it if you love the artist and you are doing it for you... I got an X-Men 108 signed by Byrne as a kid and I'm ok with it because of the personal experience.)
Would you get a baseball player to sign a sheet of paper of a baseball card?
Really boils down to your choice. I like signed comics. Add creator's personal touch to finished work.
And this is truly the best answer. It's all about personal choice.
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Finley2020 Posts: 43
12/3/2016
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Way late to add my $0.02, but I've never cared for signed books. I understand the appeal but I always felt they ruin the book and it's something I can't shake. To me CGC's holy anointed Yellow Label doesn't make it any better because it's treated like a speculators "add-on". Oh well. They're just following the invisible hand I guess. There are a few exceptions in which I'll buy a signed book but it's only because I'll never sell it AND I have a similar unsigned copy in my collection as well. I know, I'm weird.
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tarn kronos Posts: 45
12/4/2016
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i'm going to be a bit more positive about signed books for a minute. I think people are buying signed books when encased in Plastic. One might say that they even sell for a higher price (sometimes) than non-signed books. So, if this is true then the market has already answered this question. When I got my Strange Tales 110 signed by Stan Lee i was not worried. My memory was great on this...I got to meet Stan the Man and I thanked him for all he has done, and told him my life was better because of it...his response was "and on the eighth day i created the"...lol he has a good sense of humor. My experience was great and i would have never had it if I did not seek out to have him sign the book. To top it off the CGC gave me a 6.5 for the book unrestored and even gave me the elusive grade that you almost never see for this book of "White Pages"! I had my son with me and he got to meet stan too so we have a great book preserved in plastic signed by Stan and we have a great Memory!
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