cloudofwit

I had a transaction with Yannis not too long ago. He bought something and then went AWOL for a while. It was a runaround for a bit and I became miffed. When he got back with me, he seemed to minimize it and referred me to a few reputable Boardies that would confirm he's the real deal. He eventually came through with payment in full. But, for whatever it's worth, mixed feelings at best for the single transaction I had with him.

Muy bien. :hail:

So yeah I think the probation list should be called THE PROBATION LIST NO DISCUSSIONS - but whatever,

 

I added him like Marc Wolfe. Full name but also added his board member. If I did it wrong please LMK.

 

-the guines

Alphabetical order.

The discussion got a bit sidetracked from my initial question, which was about the basis for you putting someone on the PL if you buy a raw book from them, without a guarantee, and it turned out to be restored (and assuming of course that they were unwilling to refund). Personally, I don't think that would be fair - or allowed under the rules for that matter, since whether you imply one or not, there is no official board policy that books are unrestored unless declared otherwise.

 

That's fine. I have no problem with this. Just spitballing ideas here.

 

FAOD

 

Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorder?

Fudging acronyms overkill die!

Generally speaking, does a Forever People #1 in VG go for Guide these days?

I received fast payment from Nick on a batch of books he bought. No hassles. :thumbsup:

Does anyone know the page count for ASM 1?

32, I believe.

I remember back when we had scammers that really put in an effort. The kids these days, all in such a big hurry to scam, but too busy to take the time to do it right.

 

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Man Comics #13

 

$10

 

G +

 

Most defects are visible in the scan, but there is a 1 inch tear at the right front cover near the boot.

 

 

 

 

 

buncha wiseguys

Would that be #9? :shrug:

Its well loved but its mine. It is in route to me. Inside pages are nice compared to the rest. I posted more pics in PGM thread.

 

 

 

Pretty nice feeling to have an ASM #1. Congratulations, Jeremy!

:hail: The colors on both are popping off the screen. I don't think I've ever seen a #6 like that. And the reds on the #2 are outrageous. Absolutely stupendous books, Bruno.

Between your newly-acquired AF #15 and these, I'll say just this: HANG ON TO EM!

Had a good experience with I like pie. Prompt payment and nice fellow.

I bought one book from him with no problems, but the deal was done in person. We met at a con in San Jose. He was a teenager (I think he was like 15 when I met him and this was like 5 years ago) that had no business trying to hustle the deals he was getting into.

Maybe he and Cap Freak could hit the road together. They might be dangerous.

 

I got this a couple weeks ago. Only need #1 and #15 for a complete run! After that the upgrading begins.

Nice! Congrats indeed. What grade is it?

If you'd like, feel free to post this in the AF #15 Club thread (it's currently on p. 2 and in need of bumping). Welcome to the Club!

And having a complete ASM run is sweet. I completed mine last year--and then broke it up. Best wishes on landing the #1 and #15 this year.

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over 2,100 graded copies. You have to believe there are at least 10X that left ungraded, IMO.

 

 

That would leave 90% of all copies in existence raw.

 

I have to very respectfully disagree.

 

Over 50%, if not well over 50% of the copies we see made available are slabbed.

 

Very unlikely that 90% of all remaining copies are raw.

Don't know if you saw it, but over in the AF #15 thread, G.A.tor asserted that he wouldn't be surprised if there were 12,500 to 25,000 copies of AF #15 (5-10% of a reported 250,000 original print run). He's not the final authority on this discussion, but I think his opinion has value simply because of his experience in the hobby. IF he's in the ball park, then something relatively similar, it seems, would be going on with ASM #1.

CGC will be celebrating their 13th anniversary come January and even though that's a decent chunk of time, it's not quite even a generation. So I think after, say, 25 years it'll be interesting to see the figures (but I do think there's tons of collectors, as scooter99 suggests, that do not have their copies slabbed).

Incidentally, in January of this year I noted how many total copies of Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, and Amazing Fantasy #15 there were on the CGC census. In ten months, here's how things have changed: over 200 more copies of AF #15; 4 more of Tec #27; and 2 more of Action #1.

Wouldn't have remembered who it was except he was a character in One of my books

 

There is some poetic justice going on there, I'm thinking.

How long are you holding out with the emoticons, Rocky? :shrug: Ad infinitum?

A former student of mine's debut novel--"Origin"--just came out. It's in the Young Adult genre and has a print run of 250,000 copies. A figure 1/10 of this is a VERY respectable print run for a first-time author. Options for her book also recently got picked up in Hollywood. It's an insane back story, including how she wrote it last summer in 30 days.

Jessica Khoury is her name and she's only 22 years old. I just got a copy but haven't read it yet. Pia is the main character and she's raised in a compound by scientists in the Amazon jungle--and they're trying to make her immortal. She escapes. And the story goes from there...

Agreed. The picture of a real black woman and the final line 'they live among us, they vote, and they breed' is KKK worthy and indefensible.

 

I'm sure we could find some dumb Norwegian that has similar attributes.

 

Hey I resemble that remark...

 

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:hail:

Looks great.

A couple of recent board purchases

 

Sweet NM- old labels, Frank. You're on an ASM roll lately. Are you tracking down the first 100 or more?

Nice #4 Frankie! and CONGRATS on the run completion!

 

Now what'll you do??!!

:think: Upgrade, of course.

Congratulations, Frankie!

What better run is there? And that's a pretty sweet 4.0 #4.