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I have that as well. It is the closest I will get to owning an Action Comics 1.

I keep postponing my next MSL submission as I'm hoping to get the graded comic books back in 2024.

I don't expect to receive my graded comic books from CGC for my next modern slow track submission until the cows come home, leave, and return.

What the Hulk does in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas. Great books!

If the individual that assisted you is the one that always assists me with such issues, she is extremely helpful, clear, and courteous.

This is the copy I purchased around 1980 at my LCS. The price was too good to pass up.

Following-up, although clearly I am a Batman fan, $5.99 even with a pre-order discount it is still a steep price to pay for a comic book (even Batman ). Of course, the price of Detective Comics will rise to that level likely sooner rather than later.

So many other things to do with $5.99 times x, including saving it.

In 50 days I may no longer collect comic books.

With the current sale prices of this comic book I'm glad that I have my copies. Of course, as I always lament (joke?), when I decide to sell my copies they (not "it") will be worth the cost of _____________ (a loaf of pumpernickel bread).

Soon even my collection will be worth a few US dollars.

I will get my scissors and soon I will have many rare comic books to sell.

I still can't believe that eBay blocked the sale of pieces of toasted bread that resemble religious figures. Or was it that some ate them?

I submit straight, if you will, (no prescreen) to CGC and examine every comic book, Golden Age or otherwise, outside, inside, up, down, sideways, at every angle, and blindfolded ... no, not blindfolded (sorry, it is Saturday), for every submission.

Yes, are in-house signings temporary or will CGC continue them when comic-cons return? Since "money talks" I imagine in-house signings are here to stay although comic-cons may limit them, perhaps to the winter months, due to comic book creator's comic-cons, etc., schedules.

And here I passed on the raw ASM 300 guaranteed to be graded a 10 by CGC that my acquaintance Slim Cons wanted to sell me for a mere $1500 in 2017. I did not purchase it because he did not want me to submit it to CGC until 2027.

You are very welcome and TATs will always change. Granted, whether they will ever be as low as they have been depends on many variables. Perhaps primary among them is that CGC hires, trains, and deploys (I love the word "deploy") more graders. However, will more graders be deployed (yes!) to grade comic books from in-house signings and at conventions or "regular" submissions?

Based on my experience, there are no "normal TATs" as over the course of CGC's existence they have gone up, gone down, gone up, gone down, ... and while presently CGC is doing in-house signings before it was primarily comic-cons that lengthened TATs.

9 hours ago, William-James88 said: Did anyone get anything from tonight's Heritage auction? I placed a bunch of bidds and won 2 things: Diddly and Squat +1. Not ready to pay the multiples even the quiet little books in the weekly auctions now command Ditto. I bid what I'm comfortable paying and "let it ride."

No, I may, but I typically stay away from subsequent prints. The only second and beyond prints that I purchased in the last few years (Edit: that I recall) were for Something is Killing the Children. I purchased five plus copies of each second through sixth print; I lucked out, at least at current CGC graded prices for them. I also went big, for me, on all copies of the first print. Have graded a few of each cover, all 9.8.

I agree. I'll likely purchase a few more copies at my LCS to be certain that I have some 9.8 copies because, as we know, pre-orders from online retailers are not guaranteed to be 9.8 at the number that I ordered (50 copies, for example, yes, a few 9.8 will be present). If I can find the ratio copies at a good price and they are 9.8 at my LCS I may purchase some.

And here I just purchased: Radiant Black #1 Cvr A Cho DEC200009 5 Radiant Black #1 Cvr B Ferigato & Costa DEC200010 1

Below is one of two copies I purchased around 2003. It was obvious that it was going to be a CGC 9.6 because of the back cover. I have not submitted the other copy nor the, approximately, 15-20 (plus ?) copies that I purchased off the shelf at my LCS and newsstand.

Indeed, and despite how much I have overpaid in the past for certain Bronze Age comic books every single one is worth more presently, some quite a bit, than what I paid. Of course, when I finally decide to sell them they will not be.