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I agree ... the store is awesome !!! Although I travel to Houston frequently on business, I had never stopped by their shop on Westheimer but I was really impressed ... a class act for sure !!! I didn't get to meet Richard but really enjoyed chatting with Cmack ... first class guy. I'm going to try and stop in on a regular basis now. (thumbs u (thumbs u me too

Picked up this beautiful copy on CLINK recently. Sharp 6.5

WOW! And yes, the Westheimer Bedrock City store is incredible. I stopped by for the first time since they moved on Monday. Great store, great peeps...

Awesome book!!

must not have been a 9.8 was an ebay 9.8

Thanks for getting us back on topic! Can't wait to see the news coming out of SDCC over the next week!!

First off, page quality will sometimes be telling information for the condition of the interior covers. Books with toasted interior covers receive significant numerical downgrades, as they do for toasted front and back covers. Second, saying something over and over doesn't make it any more right than it was the first time it was said. At the least, it can be agreed that there are many long-time collectors who (i) seek out books with superior page quality designations, (ii) pay more for them, and (iii) notice that others pay more for them as well. ...and it can also be said that there are at least as many collectors who do not. I am struggling to understand why this fact seems to trouble some folks. -J. It doesn't. Your insulting collectors who disagree with your personal stance and insistence that page quality doesn't affect pricing do. Due respect namisgr, I don't believe I have insulted anybody, at least not directly. As I said a few posts back, some folks think they should pay more, some don't. The divide keeps prices fairly consistent for the books in grade, so to each his own my friend. -J. -signed, the OPQS..the original PQ snob...

That is such a fresh and crisp looking, white-paged copy! PQ snob...

Is that like "drek"?

Just picked these up from Bedrock City!

Just picked these up from Bedrock City!

:cloud9: :cloud9:

That may be fine for you, but denigrating others as PQ snobs and insinuating that they are buying the label and not the book is not only condescending, it is also inaccurate. It's pointless…he refuses to see any other point other than his own… As the poster who (accurately) posted "to each his own"… (thumbs u

Or "Spawn" across the top. BOOOOOOOooooooo…….

This is partially true. Not all drek is Liefeld, but all Liefeld is drek...

Not every collector is a "'PQ' snob". And some outright just don't care about it, understanding the arbitrariness of it (barring brittle, of course). -J. low pq tends to fall short of books with superior pq when it's time to sell. So yes pq matters. This does not occur on any verifiable or consistent basis. -J. Um, yes it does. Why don't you run a regression analysis on price and PQ for books in the same grade, during the same timeframe, and you'll see the correllation. After years of looking at GPA, LINK, E-bay, etc. prices, it becomes obvious that PQ does have an impact on sales prices. You are speaking in broad strokes. And this is simply not true. You cannot do anything more than provide anecdotal evidence to justify your opinion, and I can just as easily counter with anecdotal evidence to support the contrary position. If you don't mind paying more for that part of a label that is known for being notoriously arbitrary, more power to you. But as I said there are enough shoppers out there who it doesn't matter to, that negate whatever perceived price difference you think there may be. -J. Whatever. The evidence is there. PQ does effect price and you're only fooling yourself if you think otherwise. If you want to argue about CGC's consistency on PQ designations, that's a completely separate argument. Are you really going to sit there and tell us that the same ST #110 CGC 7.0 book with WHITE pages would sell for the same price as this OW copy? On any given day, absolutely. And you cannot state otherwise. That's the problem with anecdotal evidence....it cannot be tested using the scientific method. I understand that "PQ" enthusiasts love to look for that anecdotal evidence and say "A-ha-, see!". And a day or week or two later a CR/OW book sells for the same price or more even, and the room falls silent. "PQ" obviously matters to you and loads others, but it does not matter enough to enough others for it to truly and/or significantly affect price in the grand scheme of things. If a person makes a buying decision based only on "PQ", they are literally just buying the label, not the book. We are always told to do the exact opposite of that. -J. Actually, I have stated otherwise...anecdotal or not...it's a reality. I'm not a "PQ snob"...the primary reason it matters to me is because I know it matters to others...and impacts the market price should I ever decide to sell a book. And we pay CGC good money for their opinion on the grades and PQ of those slabbed books. Although sometimes their consistency leaves something to be desired, we cannot see inside a slabbed book therefore their opinion/label is all we have to go on. I think the "buy the book not the label" really only applies to the grade designation and visual appeal of the book, not the PQ.

Not every collector is a "'PQ' snob". And some outright just don't care about it, understanding the arbitrariness of it (barring brittle, of course). -J. low pq tends to fall short of books with superior pq when it's time to sell. So yes pq matters. This does not occur on any verifiable or consistent basis. -J. Um, yes it does. Why don't you run a regression analysis on price and PQ for books in the same grade, during the same timeframe, and you'll see the correllation. After years of looking at GPA, LINK, E-bay, etc. prices, it becomes obvious that PQ does have an impact on sales prices. You are speaking in broad strokes. And this is simply not true. You cannot do anything more than provide anecdotal evidence to justify your opinion, and I can just as easily counter with anecdotal evidence to support the contrary position. If you don't mind paying more for that part of a label that is known for being notoriously arbitrary, more power to you. But as I said there are enough shoppers out there who it doesn't matter to, that negate whatever perceived price difference you think there may be. -J. Whatever. The evidence is there. PQ does effect price and you're only fooling yourself if you think otherwise. If you want to argue about CGC's consistency on PQ designations, that's a completely separate argument. Are you really going to sit there and tell us that the same ST #110 CGC 7.0 book with WHITE pages would sell for the same price as this OW copy?

Not every collector is a "'PQ' snob". And some outright just don't care about it, understanding the arbitrariness of it (barring brittle, of course). -J. low pq tends to fall short of books with superior pq when it's time to sell. So yes pq matters. This does not occur on any verifiable or consistent basis. -J. Um, yes it does. Why don't you run a regression analysis on price and PQ for books in the same grade, during the same timeframe, and you'll see the correllation. After years of looking at GPA, LINK, E-bay, etc. prices, it becomes obvious that PQ does have an impact on sales prices.

Not every collector is a "'PQ' snob". And some outright just don't care about it, understanding the arbitrariness of it (barring brittle, of course). -J. Um, OK

No doubt So, I know you gents have an issue with me, but would it be possible to NOT krap on my book...you know, the common courtesy that everyone else gets? Thanks! XOXO

Unbelievable prices now on this one. $3,625 for a low PQ 7.0 is great! I'm getting reeeeeal close to selling my 6.0 W and 4.5 OW. May wait until the movie teaser shows up at SDCC http://www.ebay.com/itm/221482726934

Not bad. too much 9.6 drek

And you can Jedi Mind Trick CGC in to a gift grade too... Awesome book!

Those two are fantastic!! BEAUTIFUL!!! I've added them to my Heshka photo album….

That's a nice upgrade, my friend. Even the PQ is now acceptable for most SA collectors. And Superboy 68 is a notoriously difficult book to find with decent PQ. Congrats! (thumbs u Tough book! I was a Marvel Zombie for the longest time, didn't even want DCs in my collection. Now that I've expanded my horizons to DC books I've found that books like SB#68, Action#242 and 252, Tec#225 are waaaay harder to find in grade than any of the Marvel keys.