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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on August 11, 2014 at 3:56pm

Ray is a great guy, I had coffee with him once about 10 years ago to try and get him to do a signing, and then when he agreed to do his first show, 3 or 4 years ago. I worked with him collecting the cash and handling the send in stuff.  

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on August 11, 2014 at 5:27pm

Very cool Pete.  I figured that for $25 someone may be interested.  He also had a very small part in Superman: The Movie.

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on August 11, 2014 at 5:36pm

Was he one of the police officers?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on August 11, 2014 at 5:43pm

Yes.  He was credited as Officer 2.  Good call Bradford.

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on August 11, 2014 at 5:46pm

I love some me some superman. Most of my autographs are superman related.

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on August 15, 2014 at 9:18pm

So....why was David Ankrum the voice of Wedge??? It was a different guy that actually portrayed the character? A David Prouse/James Earl Jones thing?

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on August 16, 2014 at 3:58am

Aside from the major actors in the film, the entire film was redubbed here in the states. The costs involved of bringing all of these Brits back here to re do their lines in a sound studio would have blown the budget even higher over the original estimate. Add to that fact if everyone in the film had a British accent it would have been pretty weird.

 It is Cushing, Guinness, Ford , Hamill, Fisher and Daniels that you hear on screen, but the vast majority of the remaining voices that you hear are voice over actors recorded here in post production. The Rebel Generals and pilots as well as Stormtroopers and Imperials are friends of the sound department, ILM and voice actors including Michael Bell, David Ankrum, Harry Shearer(Spinal Tap & The Simpsons), Terry McGovern etc. 

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Permalink Reply by Bradford on August 16, 2014 at 11:12am

Thanks Pete. This is a nice piece:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141375163365

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on August 16, 2014 at 1:05pm

The slabbed comic concept still baffles me. Coins, comics, paper money, cards and even an autograph...sure!

But comic books, what good is that?

Permalink Reply by Bradford on August 16, 2014 at 1:12pm

It has to do with value. And today.....value is determined by grading.

Permalink Reply by Mike Shepherd on August 16, 2014 at 1:38pm

Pete, you are joking, right?  The whole idea is to keep them in pristine condition.  A collector can always have a comic book graded after they carefully read it with white gloves on.

Permalink Reply by Steve Zarelli on August 16, 2014 at 7:22pm

In general, Comic collectors have little education in autographs and zero trust in any autograph that is not CGC signature series. I have stacks of signed comics I got long before CGC signature series existed and they are all "suspect" now.

CGC did a hell of a job marketing their SS line and in the process created a tremendous amount of distrust in a genre that has relatively few fakes. Like who is faking Herb Trimpe and Dick Ayers?

You see a lot of Stan Lee fakes now and some Kirby's, but it is a relatively recent development. Prior to 2 or 3 years ago, there were very few IMO.

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