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Batman #1 or Captain America Comics #1? 1st Catwoman vs 1st Captain America? A scarce in grade book versus a semi scarce book? Captain America, by a hair....

MMC #9, definitely... (thumbs u TEC 38 marks the line where my GA Detective collection would stop, if in fact I could afford to have any...

Great looking book. I bet the interior art is pretty awesome too? Yeah, man... maybe, if I get a chance, I'll scan a few pages tonight after work, and post them here

Finally got this one... been on my wantlist for years, just never found a decent looking one... The Origin of Rip Kirby, by Alex Raymond (and when I say "by", I mean cover to cover, no ads... even the back cover is part of the story ) and it was CHEAP!!! Feature Book 51

The final preliminary sketch for the 1997 Catwoman Annual cover by Doug Beekman

I've been going through my boxes the last couple of weeks... found some books I forgot I had

My favourite pirate/clipper ship cover... It is awesome to see the juxtaposition of the two eras of travel, the meeting point, as it were, of the ancient world and the modern... Air Stories v02n09 (1929-04)

Which, of course, is why it was set up like that in the first place. Meeting adjourned What should we blitch about next?!? How about profanity masking. Fox that!

I was born the day Cyrus the Mede conquered Babylon... but, having skipped a lot of those years, I will be 40 this year...

My one and only Silver Age book...

I posted these in the CG Christmas cover thread, then I found this one... think they might fit better here...

Nice book, nice price! pssssst... all-caps is internet shouting... please unclick your caps tab...

Best book for a Stan Lee sig I've seen yet... Congrats!

This is a very good point. Often we take a short sighted view to restored books, mainly because a lot of the books that we want can be easily obtained in unrestored shape. Books that have been restored/conserved (deacidified, rehumidified etc) may end up outlasting their unrestored counterparts. This is definitely the case with some comic books that are old and rare just as it is the case with old documents and literature. R. Creating our very own "What If?" scenario, I wonder what would have been the case with restored books/values if from the very start CGC gave a PLOD only to those books that were not professionally restored, or had trimming? I.e. professional restored books still received a blue label with the details of the restoration/conservation undertaken. I've been arguing this for a very long time. I'd love for restored books to be in a blue label holder with resto clearly outlined as it is now and maybe one grade as being the apparent grade (left side) and another grade representing degree of restoration (right side). Totally agree, as this would give a fairer representation of the book. As it is now... there is rampant slabism dependent solely upon the colour of the label

This is pretty much my own feeling... The only thing I would add is that the extensiveness of the restoration should play a part in determining final value, i.e. Professional, slight = 90/100% of Universal Professional, moderate = 60/90% of Universal Professional, extensive = 40/60% of Universal Amateur, slight = 40/80% of Universal Amateur, moderate = 30/40% of Universal Amateur, extensive = 10/30% of Universal And then there are types of restoration to factor in, like, tear seals (+5%), colour touch(-10%), deacidification (+10%), pieces added (-20%), etc. The above numbers are straight out of my arse, so are subject to change, derision, and revision at any time... but, they are my precise feelings on the subject of valuation of restoration. Here's an example... Marvel Mystery Comics #9 CGC 9.2 Restored, Professional, Moderate Overstreet Guide Value is 58,000 Moderate restoration....... 52,200 Restoration includes tear seals (3).................. 60,900 colour touch................... 54,810 pieces added (2)............. 43,938 staples replaced............. 41,741 deacidification................ 45,916 as the final value OK... there's a basic flaw in that math... my apologies! I had done it taking the percentage from the price above, which would give a different total depending on the order the restoration was listed in Here it is again, with the precentages being constant from the Moderate (P) mark... Overstreet Guide Value is 58,000 Moderate restoration....... 52,200 Restoration includes tear seals (3).................. 60,030 colour touch................... 54,810 pieces added (2)............. 33,930 staples replaced............. 31,320 deacidification................ 36,540 as the final value

This is pretty much my own feeling... The only thing I would add is that the extensiveness of the restoration should play a part in determining final value, i.e. Professional, slight = 90/100% of Universal Professional, moderate = 60/90% of Universal Professional, extensive = 40/60% of Universal Amateur, slight = 40/80% of Universal Amateur, moderate = 30/40% of Universal Amateur, extensive = 10/30% of Universal And then there are types of restoration to factor in, like, tear seals (+5%), colour touch(-10%), deacidification (+10%), pieces added (-20%), etc. The above numbers are straight out of my arse, so are subject to change, derision, and revision at any time... but, they are my precise feelings on the subject of valuation of restoration. Here's an example... Marvel Mystery Comics #9 CGC 9.2 Restored, Professional, Moderate Overstreet Guide Value is 58,000 Moderate restoration....... 52,200 Restoration includes tear seals (3).................. 60,900 colour touch................... 54,810 pieces added (2)............. 43,938 staples replaced............. 41,741 deacidification................ 45,916 as the final value

What are those strips that you are using? I assume they have grooves... where are they available at?

Your friend sold it for a good price (thumbs u Next time pm me if you run across any other "friends" selling CGC SS Turner books Brian Yeah...friends don't let friends sell cool Turner sigs on ebay...they let them sell their cool Turner sigs to me and Brian (thumbs u Cimms GF, or you can just give them to me because I'm so nice and loveable, and new at this collecting thing, and you wanna help a newbe out... Post -script, I kind of envy and hate you a little right now...

Very nice!

Man... dark sides are just mean!

Super tough to find with the colours that nice! Congrats on the pick-up! Jealousy urges me to hope that you paid through the nose for it, but I will try to contain that dark side of me...

Man, half the entertainment of these boards is the arguements and hell raising, and sheer spoonery... Leave the *spoon* alone!

Considering I sold a beat down, craptacular copy for 90 bucks... that one looks like a steal at 250 (thumbs u

The black Freighter was one of my favourite parts of the original story... I've skipped all of the previous editions just waiting for this all-in-one... Can't wait!

Are you doing the fair thing? i.e one of yours, one of hers, one of yours, one of hers...