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Posts posted by Old Fashion PB and J
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Awesome offer, im actually headed to see Madball and Fury of Five in a few.
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On 8/4/2024 at 8:26 PM, spidermanbeyond said:
Oh my God, I cannot believe I won. First of all, I have been participating in these grading contest since the beginning (even before CGC started sponsoring/running the current grading contests) when the board ran our own contests. I have been in the top 25 to 50% group and Honorable Mention Group but never ever been in the top 3 and not even close to the top 10 in any of the contests. I was considering not entering this time because I figure that I have no chance and why bother. I decided to enter again because the contests are always fun even if frustrating. So the lesson to everyone here, don't give up and keep playing, you know never know what is possible. What did I do different this time to improve and win? Honestly nothing changed. My advice is to go with your gut and 1st instinct and not 2nd guess yourself. Don't overthink it. Let's face it. You need a lot of luck to win this contest. My decades of comic collecting finally paid off and the right books/defects showed up in the contest. I think a lot of grading is based personally on the books we have seen and graded in our lifetime but can continually learn. We all have certain biases and influences that determine a comic grade for us. Thank you to the CGC Forum for making me a better grader.
Congratulations!
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On 8/4/2024 at 2:15 PM, ChrispyC66 said:Well deserved Pat!
Thanks Chris! I'm collecting custom titles like... comics
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- ADAMANTIUM, Point Five, CJ Design and 3 others
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On 8/3/2024 at 8:15 PM, newshane said:
Very. very well-done. This was a hard round!
I was one grading degree away on four out of the five. My grades:
War Victory #1- 5.5
Tim Holt #17 - 4.0 (maybe I was really
here)
Spidey #73 - 9.6
X-Men #97 - 9.0
Crossfire #12 - 8.0
I bombed in other rounds. This one I just graded in 30 seconds total and it went well. Maybe it was luck
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On 7/30/2024 at 8:34 PM, Point Five said:That TOS is like you took a 4.0 and backed a truck over it.
That is by FAR one of the worst grades I have seen. Books a 3.0 and 3.5 at absolute best, 4.0 is just wrong.
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On 7/30/2024 at 8:12 PM, Stefan_W said:
Sheesh, three bullseyes and I still managed to get up to 5. It seems like one book is torching me every round. This time it was My Great Love which I had as a 3.5.
I did as well and feel that and the TOS were over graded
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This is the worst I have ever done in one of these. Geesh
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Conan got me, gave it a 9.0... The rest were 1 point off minus bettie which was 2.
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bombed the weird mystery!
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On 7/15/2024 at 10:05 AM, Get Marwood & I said:
I'll post the final participant list after Mike has signalled that sign up is closed. In the meantime, there are
spaces left....
Participants in Alphabetical Order:
- 1Cool
- 2muchhorrorbusiness
- ADAMANTIUM
- aj_curated
- AJD
- apocalypse76
- ArcherC
- aszumilo
- Axelrod
- batcollector
- Batman Fett
- BlackOut21
- Bmattioli86
- Bob7891
- boron
- brumil190
- Cat
- Cerebus3000
- ChrispyC66
- CJ Design
- Cman429
- Cocomonkey
- comicginger1789
- comicstock
- Comics4All
- Cushing Fan
- Darwination
- davidking623
- Deputy Dan
- Doctor Dositheus
- Dormian
- EastEnd1
- eeb03
- flashlites
- frozentundraguy
- FSQIV
- GawkHawk
- genrlzod
- Get Marwood & I
- g-man
- Grendel72
- grendelbo
- Gsims718
- HighStakesComics
- Hudson
- iXr184
- jas1vans
- jbpez
- jcjames
- Jesse-Lee
- John R
- JohnH19
- JollyComics
- JWKyle
- KPR Comics
- Kramerica
- Krismusic
- KryptoMayor
- Lninefingers
- makeminemarvel
- Mavrick76
- Morganmi
- Motor City Rob
- Mr. Zipper
- musicmeta
- newshane
- Nschenks
- NY Roadkill
- Old Fashion PB and J
- old_dano
- Panda2
- paqart
- pastandpresentcomics
- PeterPark
- pmpknface
- Point Five
- Ride the Tiger
- sagii
- Sandflea
- scburdet
- silverseeker
- skypinkblu
- SNiPER
- spidermanbeyond
- SpidersComics
- Stefan_W
- Still Only 35c
- Supa-Bad-Mofo
- TC33
- TheGeneral
- TheTallGuy
- thingsofstuff
- timfinz
- tmac100
- Tom789
- topcat54
- topofthetotem
- toro
- TSwift25
- TTG
- vheflin
- Vince G
- Warlord
- WilliamLunt
- Wipple
- Yorick
- youfoundjake
- zzutak
- 2024 CGC Grading Contest Season 3 Spring Edition (#10) - 125 participants
- 2024 CGC Grading Contest Season 3 Winter Edition (#9) - 131 participants
- 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Fall Edition (#8) - 109 participants
- 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Summer Edition (#7) - 128 participants
- 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Spring Edition (#6) - 131 participants
- 2023 CGC Grading Contest Season 2 Winter Edition (#5) - 115 participants
- 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Fall Edition (#4) - 104 participants
- 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Summer Edition (#3) - 137 participants
- 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Spring Edition (#2) - 154 participants
- 2022 CGC Grading Contest Season 1 Winter Edition (#1) - 354 participants
Lets goooooooo
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I once again am IN!
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On 5/15/2024 at 9:34 PM, whisp said:
Congratulations on a great collection!
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This show is amazing! Start to finish I enjoyed every last minute of it!
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On 5/8/2024 at 4:26 PM, Martian Manhunter said:
You got that right. Trends come and go, and liking Marvel was exactly that, a trend. Personally, I never liked any of the Marvel movies at all. For the past 14 years, all Marvel fans did was troll and destroy anything DC on the internet, just to force Marvel comic values to shoot up. I honestly have no respect for Marvel, or their fans. In fact, when I was a kid, I liked both DC and Marvel, but grew out of liking Marvel. I just felt like it was for little kids, and just bland and boring.
I just like comics, good stories entertain me. For whatever reason you speak as if you are some elitist and look down on others because they collect what they enjoy.. You should probably look into just talking to people and not judging them over the most trivial krap.
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On 5/8/2024 at 7:52 PM, Cnight said:
@The Lions Den more just confused by what exactly is on that bit of the book? Whatevs; it be what it be!
Just curious what the flip it could be that would permit a 9.6…..
Its more likely to be just some light discoloration or super light foxing which could have been what kept it from 9.8.
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On 5/4/2024 at 8:08 PM, Doctor Dositheus said:
How did I miss that crease in Web of Spider-Man?
Too many near mints in a row blinded me.
The other 4 I consistently graded 1 point lower.Same exact thing I did
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On 5/4/2024 at 1:35 PM, The humble Watcher lurking said:
I am not struggling as I am exactly doing pretty well. Most of the mainstream investors moved on. They will continue to move on. It wasn`t about cutting corners. Most people rather spend/invest their money on other things now. The Marvel movie spell hype is over. Wait a year when prices will be even lower. This is a great time to be a comic book collector, not a comic book investor. Let`s face most comic book investors have lost 50% or more these last few years. We are not talking 5 or 10 percent. The same thing happened with sports cards and other collectibles. People got smart as in they can make more money in the stock market or high-yield savings account.
As a comic collector and dealer I can say 2 things with absolute confidence.
The stock market at it's best has never been able to duplicate profits I have been able to find in comics.
Coming in and trying to invest in comics while not knowing what you're doing is no different than if I came in and dumped all my money into a few stocks because some investing guru told me to. If you don't take the time to really learn comics (takes years), you will not be successful.
Are prices still climbing or have they eased up a bit???
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Take your logic elsewhere sir!