Yeah, I know right.

I don't think there is such a thing as a stupid question. If you want to know, go for it, and stone the crows.

I read almost everyones post, even if I'm not terribly interested cause sometimes you start reading and you get interested. I will say that I read some posts that I think are lame or rather melodramatic I should say but maybe I'm just too cynical. If I wrote a post about my Dad or how I got that very first comic and someone made fun of me I would probably laugh, especially if it was funny. I guess what I'm saying is that I don't tend to post things that are so emotionally close to home that I couldn't laugh if it inspired others to do so. I come here to have fun, and laugh, and be laughed at too. I feel like some people are getting so emotionally wound up over a journal entry it borders on the ridiculous. I mean, cats are going ALL CAPS and putting under_lines where they don't belong and all other manner of the profane. I mean, if you went to Comic Con and you ran into somebody who thought Power Pack or New Mutants was lame would you fight them? Power Pack is that serious? Lets keep it light and civil and laugh for goodness sakes. I've been on the site for a little over a year and already I've had threat of bodily harm from RonnyLama and a hard dis from SW3D. Over comic books!

Someone asked what OAK stood for and I responded One of A Thousand ( as in 1K ). Its cheap I'll admit, but I like bad jokes, the badder the better. I think a good bad joke is so bad that it falls through the floor of being bad and comes through the ceiling of being good. What was funny too me was that people responded to it like, " How could that be, I always thought it meant One of A Kind, what is the basis of your assertion ". Dude, I really didn't think people would take it that seriously. When I first saw someone on here say OAK, I didn't know what it meant either. For like 2 minutes until I looked at the context. I also find it funny that we talk about OAK's when I'm thinking, " Didn't they print like 150K of that comic ". But when you got it triple pressed quadruple signed, then yeah, I guess it is an OAK. If you've got the God Slab with a 10 grade or even the Jesus Christ Slab with a 9.9, then yeah, you've got an OAK. If you've just got a 9.8, well then you've got a One in A Thousand basically.

As far as the mathematical formula to determine the value of CGC vs ungraded books or creating a graph, good luck. Lets get personal, when I was a kid I remember bragging to my mom about how much my comics were worth and I remember her looking at me without missing a beat like, " Are you out of your F*&$ING mind ". Her exact words were along the lines of " The only person those things are worth that much too is you. They're only worth what someone is willing to give you for them ". Thats the GOLDEN RULE OF COMIC COLLECTING, your comics may carry whatever value you give them for whatever reason but as far as money goes, their only worth what someone will actually pay you for them. If you don't believe me, try and sell your comics to a dealer like Metropolis or HighGrade and start about what GPA or Overstreet values the book at and see what they tell you. See what dealers pay each other for books and what they'll pay or sell it to you for. Mile High will take all the New Mutants and Power Pack issues you've got slabbed or not for 0.20 cents on the dollar. Have you ever looked up a price on GPA and it said the book was worth $50 then you look on ComicLink or eBay and the cheapest you can find is $100. Or vice versa, you see it listed as worth $100 on GPA then try to list it on eBay and the most someone will offer you is $20. Don't mean to sink anyones battleship but lets be real when it comes to the dollars and cents. And I've got an embarrassing number of issues of Power Pack and New Mutants by the way.

Lastly, the best thing about the original post after I almost fainted after deciphering SW3D's hard dis was this line about 18 posts in from Bag of Fleas:

" I agree with X-ray Spexx... "

I know right, who cares about what.

I agree with X-ray Spexx 2% milk makes me gassy

I agree with X-ray Spexx ( you fill in the blank )

That coming from Bag of Fleas is like it came from Tnerb as they shared the same womb, maybe even the same egg. Instant street cred. My stock is rising. Some people post for years before getting such props.

Stay Trippy

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