KCode98

Can you put in comments or requests when you submit books?

My ASM 11 has a tear or rip at the bottom of it and when you put it down in the sleeve it automatically goes into this position. However if you have it in hand and fold it down the tear or rip becomes all but invisible. I'm wondering if when CGC seals the book, do they take attention to situations like this and make sure it is folded down or what?

Nice!!!!

I'm very beginner'ish here but I want to put in my opinion before others. With the stains and mark on the spine I would say 6.0

How much does the weird stapling take away from the book? Staples look for sure to be original and clean as a whistle, I looked over the cover closely and see NO signs of tampering, and the inside of the book is nicer than the outside with very tight pages. Overall I'm really excited about this one and wondering what CGC might grade it as? This will be my earliest ASM to date!

It has stains on the number on the cover. You can see it if you look closely and is more apparent in person.

Have a chance to grab this one. It has been on my list of ones to get, Avengers meets the X-Men! Would you guys go for it @ $600?

I don’t want to be rude and ask the store to allow me to take detailed pictures of their book without buying it. It’s the lower right hand corner and about 1/2 an inch or 3/4 max.

Hmmm what is a fair market value for a 7.5 X-Men 94? This one looks very nice.

Well it’s a hole in my collection and this copy of 94 is pretty nice except for a small corner stain on the lower right hand side. I’m new to collecting and I’m curious how big of a deal is staining to both collectors and cgc when grading.

Thanks, I also while I was there put a really good condition X-Men 100 on layaway. And I agree with above, yes it is nice to help the local shops, but there is NOTHING like finding a nice book you want out in the wild to where you can put your hands on it before buying it.

Went into my local comic shop to pay on a layaway I have and was looking at their wall. I saw these two up on there and knew they weren't there last time I came through. I have been wanting both so at $50.00 each I grabbed both. You guys think I got a deal, fair market, or overpaid? Only $50 each, 2 books I've wanted, and got to give to a local shop vs online, so I'm ok anyway it falls.

I understand that some people wish to argue just to argue, but that isn't me. If you like putting comics on the wall as art I won't say a word about it. But that doesn't change the fact that 99.99999993% of the population would choose only 1 of the bottom two "art" to put on the wall of their house. And that is what determines value.

No, it most definitely isn't irrelevant in determining the value! In fact it is a major contributing factor in determining the value and whether a market for it exists and to what degree.

This cannot be argued.

Why? The ones I have are bagged/boarded/and then put in the top loaders. Seems to just be that extra layer of structure

I meant sitting around the house in the waiting line.

Yes, pretty new to collecting and a good bit of mine could use these until being submitted to CGC

Thanks wombat!

I know this has to be a very basic question but I noticed 2 sellers from eBay sent some comics to me in a nice hard case with an open top. Does anyone happen to know what brand and where to get this might be?

1992...Too McFarlane...Seems like it has the ingredients to be successful. Why isn't this series more collectible? Will it ever see success with value?

No...It's no where near as bad as the photos show. Spine looks like plenty of 9.8s I've seen. Remember a 9.8 isn't a 10.0

Why would there be no future market if there has been a market since 1939? Same logic you applied could be applied to that as well, no?

This is an internal struggle I'm really having with myself. Half of me is saying "Any key books, there are people sitting on THOUSANDS of NM+ copies waiting to floor the market. So no, there will never be any long term value" The other half of me is saying "That is ignorant to think that anything new cannot be valuable going forward long term" But hear me out, I see any new books as being sold of knee jerk reactions and trends only to eventually die out and be pennies. OR new books are gaining value due to the movies but will only die out after the movie is old. Also at this point collecting is far solidified, encapsulating comics is here, and that leaves countless copies to always stay NM+ which will kill the supply part of the "supply and demand" and we need both to have value. Example would be if in 1963 countless people were collecting comics at 12 cent and pressing them all in books to never see the light of day until today, a NM+ of X-Men 1 would be worth half of less what it is worth now. And that isn't even taking into account the countless different "variants" that are out there for each book. I know if you could see in the future it would be easy but I cannot wrap my head around what could be potential long term investments with ANY new books!

It's a modern book and never been opened. The rest of the book looks new and mint. There are 2 corners that I'm questioning if they will knock it from a 9.8 to something lower. Please give me your opinions here. Pictures make it look worse than it is but I want to hear opinions.