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I agree with yet! 📉

And this is the top tier stuff, not the garbage level stuff that I rant about.

Thank you so much for sharing this effort with us.

Aw, I was trying to be you know...nice...but now...no I'll refrain...for now. 😷

A slight tangent...

It'll take about a year and a half right now, no joke. (unless you're using an expedited method) https://www.cgccomics.com/submit/services-fees/cgc-grading/

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Technically, yes they do, and I have no clue what that process is if they botch it, sorry, I just know that Joe Blow probably isn't going to have any plan in place if he screws up, as opposed to CGC which more likely has a way of legitimately addressing such a concern...one would hope at least.

I'd highly suggest checking out Immaculate Comics as an alternative.

It's through CGC, you just mark it on the form. (technically they're called CCS, but it's through the CGC submission process.)

It's actually one of the most divisive issues in the comic world! In the hands of a true expert, neither pressing nor dry/wet cleaning is really risky. What's risky is using someone who isn't insured, so it often makes sense to entrust the press and dry clean to the grading company to cover yourself in the event of a mess-up.

Most people are not experts at grading and many don't even know how to view potential defects let alone identify them. People typically press with a submission in order to squeeze out whatever benefit they can from the book, and I'd say it's the norm because everyone wants the best grade possible. Since nobody knows why CGC grades the way they do, then at least you can say you tried your absolute best. On the second question, technically no one's supposed to know whether a comic was pressed or not, graders included, so there's not really a question to be answered beyond what grade the two books actually are. More important to know is that even if you sent in two books where one was a literal clone of the other, there's no guarantee they would get the same grade. Good luck! 🏆

Frightening, even at the minimums

What were the circumstances?

I always forget to mention these other benefits while I'm fanboying: 1. You essentially get to sell on Bay anyway because MCS puts your listing on Bay anyway! and... 2. MCS lets you store your entire inventory for free in a secure and insured warehouse! I've seen a couple of shops there with at least 1,000 slabs, one with 1,500. That's a lot of space you can freed up at home or wherever. And MCS only starts charging rent after 12 or 24 months depending on comic value...and only if you won't first either reduce the price bit by bit or just put it in auction. And you can always just pay the return fee if you really want the book back. Wow, if you've been overpriced for that long though then maybe you've just...checked out. 😵

Thanks for the details, that sucks but at least it's only occasionally. Thinking about it now, I guess I just don't consider the money real until the check arrives. Like you've said a lot of us aren't into these comics for much, so it's more of being disappointed at having to deal with the damn book again rather than being late on a house payment or something.

Are these expensive books and at auction that are being skipped out on?

Some big weird stuff will never go back down, just ask Rifleman #10.

great list, thanks for sharing

Great list! FWIW, the marvel supers I usually mention are those that, when considering the sales information only, would provide easy justification for shelling out $100-200 for a poor or even an incomplete at this particular moment. This may seem a cold criteria, but I'm usually making critique of the market and these values prove a solid demand over the history of the hobby and currently an immediate and more legitimately justifiable value range with serious liquidity. For Marvel these are all silver age except for about 10 bronze, which makes sense because the original, uncommon, universe establishing material has held up the best. They transcend the trends (fads, but that doesn't rhyme).

I understand what you're saying. I believe that the 70-100 Marvel Super Keys will always respond as their own category because they will always be in legitimate demand regardless of the market. It's the rest of comicdom that stands to crash, all of the unjustifiably high-priced non-key books that Fools overpay for at garage sales and the "forced key" books that go viral after a youtube video or social post claims them be so because of some imagined movie cameo etc. The six Hulks will always be coveted no matter what price they're going for. (Hope this is what you meant?)

Ah yes, the Comilluminati; if those guys are still around surely they'd be dumping now. And where are these magical climate controlled warehouses that only store key comic books missing from the market? It's true that warehouse finds do get found, and historically people have decried the books' lack of perceived rarity over books that haven't been found in warehouses! I doubt anyone's aware of anything they may be sitting on at all, let alone doing so for any reason that concerns comic book enthusiasts. ex. A shunned book.

I use Eternals #1 9.8 as my ultimate movie POP! example as the prices went up until the moment of the release date...then waited for the weekend enthusiasm which didn't come...and then began the decline. Had a $3800 high on May 10, 2021; Most recent sale $900. Is there really enough legitimate interest in a 1976 Kirby Eternals #1 to justify even $900? I don't personally think so, not exactly an uncommon book, I just see in that price someone's hope for an Eternal's future. 🤷‍♂️ And speaking of common books, the thing about comic supply is that it can only INCREASE. Unless we go all Ray Bradbury, where are these books gonna disappear to rather than keep getting brought to market? Eternals release date: Nov-05

My comment was definitely tongue-in-cheek about buying at a theoretical all-time top since you could only lose, but I also mean people getting in at the top of bubbles...and most bubble Fools aren't the spider fund type. 🕷