Old Fashion PB and J

On 9/6/2024 at 12:03 AM, namisgr said:

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041015/how-do-interest-rate-changes-affect-profitability-banking-sector.asp#:~:text=Interest rates and bank profitability,profits they earn by investing.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Interest rates and bank profitability are connected, with banks benefiting from higher interest rates.
• When interest rates are higher, banks make more money by taking advantage of the greater spread between the interest they pay to their customers and the profits they earn by investing.
• A bank can earn a full percentage point more than it pays in interest simply by lending out the money at short-term interest rates.
• Moreover, higher interest rates tend to reflect a healthy economy. Demand for loans to businesses and consumers should be high, with the bank making better returns on those loans.

 Take your logic elsewhere sir!

Awesome offer, im actually headed to see Madball and Fury of Five in a few.

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!

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  

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

This is the worst I have ever done in one of these. Geesh

grades sent

Conan got me, gave it a 9.0... The rest were 1 point off minus bettie which was 2.

grades sent

bombed the weird mystery!

Grades submitted

On 7/15/2024 at 10:05 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Final bump from me 

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:

1. 1Cool
2. 2muchhorrorbusiness
3. ADAMANTIUM
4. aj_curated
5. AJD
6. apocalypse76
7. ArcherC
8. aszumilo
9. Axelrod
10. batcollector
11. Batman Fett
12. BlackOut21
13. Bmattioli86
14. Bob7891
15. boron
16. brumil190
17. Cat
18. Cerebus3000
19. ChrispyC66
20. CJ Design
21. Cman429
22. Cocomonkey
23. comicginger1789
24. comicstock
25. Comics4All
26. Cushing Fan
27. Darwination
28. davidking623
29. Deputy Dan
30. Doctor Dositheus
31. Dormian
32. EastEnd1
33. eeb03
34. flashlites
35. frozentundraguy
36. FSQIV
37. GawkHawk
38. genrlzod
39. Get Marwood & I
40. g-man
41. Grendel72
42. grendelbo
43. Gsims718
44. HighStakesComics
45. Hudson
46. iXr184
47. jas1vans
48. jbpez
49. jcjames
50. Jesse-Lee
51. John R
52. JohnH19
53. JollyComics
54. JWKyle
55. KPR Comics
56. Kramerica
57. Krismusic
58. KryptoMayor
59. Lninefingers
60. makeminemarvel
61. Mavrick76
62. Morganmi
63. Motor City Rob
64. Mr. Zipper
65. musicmeta
66. newshane
67. Nschenks
68. NY Roadkill
69. Old Fashion PB and J
70. old_dano
71. Panda2
72. paqart
73. pastandpresentcomics
74. PeterPark
75. pmpknface
76. Point Five
77. Ride the Tiger
78. sagii
79. Sandflea
80. scburdet
81. silverseeker
82. skypinkblu
83. SNiPER
84. spidermanbeyond
85. SpidersComics
86. Stefan_W
87. Still Only 35c
88. Supa-Bad-Mofo
89. TC33
90. TheGeneral
91. TheTallGuy
92. thingsofstuff
93. timfinz
94. tmac100
95. Tom789
96. topcat54
97. topofthetotem
98. toro
99. TSwift25
100. TTG
101. vheflin
102. Vince G
103. Warlord
104. WilliamLunt
105. Wipple
106. Yorick
107. youfoundjake
108. 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

Some stunning books!

I once again am IN!

On 5/15/2024 at 9:34 PM, whisp said:

Finally finished a 1982 Hawk figure so that I could have the OG 13 complete with all the 82 vehicles be it 1982/83 figures.  Been waiting awhile to fix my original Hawk and do this picture.  Just need one more of those UZi's to be 100% complete.

Congratulations on a great collection!

On 5/17/2024 at 5:35 AM, Bosco685 said:

What a surprise

  Reveal hidden contents

 

That was awesome!

This show is amazing! Start to finish I enjoyed every last minute of it!

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.

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. 

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

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.