CGC says "GOOD MORTY" is 1st appearance now.4564

Originally Posted by Logan510
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Originally Posted by shrewbeer
Fewer assumptions made = anything in a fake case is fake.

Anything beyond that is, although possible, speculating conspiracy

As I have mentioned before, there are very sophisticated bootleg operations in Hong Kong that are basically used as money laundering fronts for organized crime. This is not speculation, it is fact as one of the more well known anime bootleg fronts was busted by Interpol within the last 10 years. They have professional quality equipment and produce professional quality results, so it is not out of the realm of possibility nor nearly as difficult as some people would make it seem.

Originally Posted by conditionfreak
Wait. What?

Did you just say that criminals are laundering illegally gained money through illegal enterprises?

Originally Posted by jrs
People are very imaginative in this thread.

Originally Posted by jrs
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Originally Posted by shrewbeer
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Originally Posted by jrs
People are very imaginative in this thread.

I'd bet they're the type of guys that read comic books

And wear tin hats.

Originally Posted by shrewbeer
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Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
Also, the apparently bootlegged sets ( blue plastic inside of the book with a re-writable DVD (which has a black background)...and a lighter tone of inks on The Good Morty book included....could just be that Roland was trying to save money on production costs on a percentage of the 1st pressing in 2014, after charging a premium on the first part of the run, which he promoted as randomly inserted signed copies of Good Morty.

This would make good business sense on Roland's part.

Using rewritable discs and cheaper paper stock/lower ink quality, saves money.

OTOH:

I have a good friend who worked/wirks as a 1st pressman for the past 15+ years.

He has ran off a couple hundred backing boards, using much thicker paper stock than regular backing boards, at the shop he works.

He still has his job.

So yeah....a press Man could do this, in quantities...say a 100, to play it safe.

Good info cak.

It's not too far fetched to think that a press shop could be in decline in this day and age as well. People do things they wouldnt normally do when presented with money problems.

I can certainly see a pressman and the shop manager collaborating on a big run to make a quick buck on thousands of bootleg DVDS... More probable than theft of the print run, and certainly not "sci-fi intriguing" or "completely improbable" lol

Originally Posted by Foghorn_Sam
Where can I see and read the actual story in this "Good Morty" tract/mini comic or whatever you want to call it outside of getting a copy for myself? Is it posted somewhere?

Originally Posted by DocBrown
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Originally Posted by CopperAgeKids
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Originally Posted by joephizz
@DocBrown I have been thinking the same thing as more info about the actual comics comes to light. I wouldn't be surprised if there were multiple sources for printing, each with a slight difference.

Another thing I've noticed about almost all the comics is how precise and straight the staples are. I'm perhaps being naive but I imagine anyone bootlegging the comics (back when they were thought to be worthless) would be stapling the books by hand and therefore we'd see at least some books with wonky staples.

Anyone bootlegging the DVD or Blu-Ray would have access to equipment that would staple the books via a machine.

Basically, anyone who works at a print shop, who is an experienced 1st or even 2nd Press Operator ( the trade term is 1st or 2nd Pressman) could produce the apparently bootlegged DVD/Blu-Ray sets with the apparently bbootlegged Good Morty.

The problem with that scenario is who is in control of the original art? If you don't have access to the digital files of the original art...or the original art itself, if it exists in physical format...then you're going to have more problems than it's worth to "bootleg" these tracts.

Again: there was no financial motive to do so. So, those of you in the "fake copies" camp are going to have to come up with a plausible motive for why anyone would do it...and "total authenticity" isn't plausible, because it's more trouble than it's worth, just to include something that is basically a throwaway insert before last week.

Think about it: why do you think bootleg DVDs almost universally LOOK "bootlegged"?

It's because someone used 2nd generation scans of the finished DVD case, which resulted in degradation. And, in addition, they used cheap, re-writeable DVDs...not "official product" DVDs.

If that's the case with a bootleg DVD...it's certainly going to be the case with a bootleg tract. If the bootleggers didn't go to the trouble of making a high quality copy of the original, enough to fool even sharp eyed observers...why on earth would they go to the much more trouble of printing off Good Mortys...?

Originally Posted by DrWatson
I would rather have the real comic book... if Rick and Morty didn't suck.