KCode98

I'm going to make a new thread about the X-Men 4

Wow I just noticed that! It is a newsstand! Just looked and saw the CSS pressing. I'm going to send it off for that and grading. I would be happy with anything over a 8.5!

Really? I thought "pressing" was a trick done by collectors to fool CGC into grading them higher. CGC actually offers services other than grading and casing? I need to check our their site like you say

I'm pretty new to this stuff. I know I've heard of pressing and even people using erasers on the covers (?) to make them appear better. Anyways, I DO NOT know how to press a comic correctly. Any advice here? Is it easy or is there somewhere to send it?

This was one I got when I was a kid. Paid a whopping $11 back in 1994. I can't remember if it was a behind the counter book or what but I remember as a kid I tried to get cool first appearances if the covers were good looking. (I was and still am a cover art nerd. If it had an unattractive cover when I was little I wouldn't get it regardless what it was.) Anyways is this one worth sending in to get graded? What do you guys think it will pull? I figure a 7.0 maybe

I don't know if it was because I was an only child or what but yea...I had a pretty kickass dad. Not too get too far off track but my mom passed away when I was 18 so that left my dad and I by ourselves. We were always close before but after her passing we became all but best friends. Was bitter sweet but makes it that much worse when they are gone for good... In reality this isn't "the book" that I remember him by. That would be this guy right here. Story of this one was he was out of town in Houston Texas and anytime he would go out of town he would check out the comic shops. One day he called home and was using the comic shop's phone (1994 so cell phones weren't a thing yet) and told me this comic shop was closing up. None of them were in really great shape but I got a lot of Marvel silver age books from this visit. Anyways he told me they had X-Men 4. Of course I am thinking the 1990's version but he said "No, it's .12 original one" So we went back and forth and I pulled out my Wizard and he said they were asking $40 for it. I verified which it was any he said "Magneto is looking down on the table of X-Men" I couldn't believe it. Here I was a 9 year old and I was going to be the owner of the 4th edition of X-Men! Even back then that was a big deal! But yea, the stories are where the value is at. Man do I ever miss the 80's and 90's!

Well in the mid 90's comics were a big thing my dad and I enjoyed. In fact I have a clipping from a comic convention to where the local news was present and interviewed my dad and me there. He passed away about 10 years ago but I really hold close a lot of those times we had. So now that I'm older I'm going through my collection and I remembered this ASM. So after about 1999 when I got into Highschool I stopped collecting comics. But I remember sometime in 2007 or 2008 my dad and I drove by a comic convention by chance while it was going on and for old time's sake we had to go in. I don't know how I got zeroed in on this comic but somehow my dad ended up wanting to buy it and paid $200 for it. Anyways, long story short do you guys think it's condition would warrant sending it off to get graded? I have 0 interest in selling it as the sentimental value of it is much higher than it would ever be worth. But curiosity, investment, and wanting to keep it in good shape have me curious.

I'm new to collecting and was going through my collection of comics I grabbed when I was a little kid in the 90's. I came across my X-Men 266 and thought it looked pretty decent. Not sure what it would grade at but I'm trying to gather some of my old stuff that is worth sending off and wanted to ask you guys because I know I've read if some comics are in too bad of shape there really isn't much value in having them graded.

I'm going to start researching it but if anyone can guide me to this answer...What does the Go-Collect rating mean? For example if Go-Collect has the 9.8 CGC rated as "219 top 34.6%" how do you read that? I'm assuming 219 so far have been rated a 9.8, that is clear. But how do you take that information and turn it into a valuable tool to know if it is a good "investment" or not?

No I'm not looking at buying and selling. Just really picking up collecting where I left off. Only now as an adult I have to classify it as "investing" so the wife stays off my trail.

All have dried up. Every shop has closed and even my old favorite comic shop was completely demolished. There is one still around that I never went to but when I went inside it was mainly board games and some new comics. Not really any old ones...

Well this is where I'm catching up compared to most of you guys. Any advice?

Where do you guys find the best places to get your higher end graded books? I'd imagine surfing eBay would end up costing you quite a bit more than other options...

I'm strictly asking the same book, same grade, are they all the same or is there things to look for? A great example is a thread I just read here had a nicely graded early Avenger book but someone commented that it looked "pressed" or "overly pressed, hard pass". Now I know from reading in the past that a lot of people press and do things to books before sending to CGC to help grade the book better. Is the way the cover lays in the frame an impacting figure on the overall value?

Well I grew up in the late 80's and early 90's. In 1994 I bought my first comic, Amazing Spider-man 387 from Eckerd Drug Store. That launched me directly into some of the best and hottest comic buying times of all time IMO. Maybe it is because it was my youth but there was really no internet yet, comic conventions were HOT, and if you wanted a collectible item you had to go find it yourself. I remember cruising KB Toys and Toys-R-US weekly for comic action figures I needed. Going to the comic shops and flipping through all of their boxes of comics and awing at the wall of high end ones. I can't tell you how many nice Hulk 181s went in and out of my hands. But at the time $350 was a lot of money. So here I am, in my late 30's and I want to start investing in my first passion. I have every single one of my old comics and plan to send a good bit off to get graded. But I also would like to get into some 9.8 CGC copies of my favorite ones as my youth, mainly the bronze age comics. But my question is within the 9.8s I see some cost more, some are more sought after, and some are "stay away". What are some of the things to look for in a hand full of the same comic in 9.8 grading and what would make you choose one over the others?