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I can't see why they wouldn't. But ask in the "ask CGC thread".

Alternatively, there's at least one Australian rep who handles CGC submissions, and who might offer better shipping rates because of bulk. https://www.ozcomix.com.au/cgc-grading-serivices

Caveat: I have never used the service.

Maybe some Australian boardies who slab books could chime in. @Beige?

On 1/7/2024 at 2:44 PM, Point Five said:

I just DM'd you another 50 scans. Can you get them up to GCD by Monday? And make sure the resolution stays the same this time. I wasn't that happy with the last batch.   

 

I keep telling you that we'd get a better result if you just sent me the books instead of the scans. You'll get them back just as soon as the dog has finished digesting the baby chickens.

Fine, I'll add them since I have a little time on hand. I've just submitted Real Clue #5. The Brazilian FG is tricky - I think I know which series it is, but is there an issue number somewhere? (The scan metadata suggests #17 - is that right?)

Edit: also submitted Linda Lark, Lark, Laaaaark

On 1/6/2024 at 10:15 AM, Point Five said:

Now THAT'S a thread title!  

 

I do not care much for it.

Still looking for matches in that photo. The two Pecos Bill issues had me stumped, but they seemed to be imported comics from the UK. When I saved the photo to rotate it and enlarge it, I saw that the title is "London schoolboy with comics", so in fact this might be a photo of Australian comics on sale with a selection of British comics. There are other British comics in the mix as well, like these two Pecos Bill issues. It's odd, though,because they they differ by 8 issue numbers, which I wouldn't expect in their home market, but could happen if they arrived in Australia in a bulk lot? The series started in 1951, so #8 could be 1951 or 1952, and #16 1952 or 1953. The Australian comics in the photo seem to be dated from 1951 to 1953 - quite a wide range!

Likewise, there is a copy of Little Sheriff #18, also a British publication, as well as two other issues that don't appear in the GCD - numbers 19, 20 and 21 are among the missing candidates, which seems about right. Also visible are Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders. I spot #10 and one other that isn't in the GCD (maybe 7 or 9 or 12).

The D*ck Tracy  #21 and the Phantom #65 and 67 are all Australian. The Phantoms are early 1953.

The kid seems to have his left hand on 'Amazing Detective', which clearly has a UK publisher logo pricing, but I can't find it on the GCD.  Maybe @Get Marwood & I has some thoughts?

Oh Boy! and Wonderman is a UK title that seems to have escaped anything but a bare bones mention in the GCD. The Kid Colt should be easy to find because we can see almost the whole cover, but doesn't seem to be in the long running UK series of the time by Thorpe and Porter. There were also three issues by Miller around the same time (no images in the GCD), so it might be one of those. It's not Australian.

The Pirates issues are these two UK editions (nn and #5)

Confusing me even more, the Casper issue (top left) seems to have the cover of the Harvey US edition from December 1952. It's not the 1955 Australian reprint of that issue, which had 'March 1955' in white on the TLC. It's either the US edition, or a UK reprint one-shot but again there's no GCD image to check. Here's the US cover - the one in the photo looks like it has a darker background.

The Felix the Cat issues are UK editions, numbers 7 and 8, both dated 1953

There are a few others, but I'll leave it there. But this photo gives us a really interesting snapshot of the UK/Australia comics market. Apparently comics could be found on sale for quite a few months after publication even in their home market, and up to a couple of years later for imports! What I first thought was a photo of comics for sale in Australia that included some British comics turns out to be comics for sale in the UK with some Australian imports. Fascinating stuff, at least for those of us who find it fascinating.  

On 1/6/2024 at 10:35 PM, 1Cool said:

I’m #1!  Contest is over - you can all go home.

I'd take my 5th place if I could lock it in now!

I don't have any comics that aren't on the GCD. You see, I'm a fine community-minded person and upload scans of ones I have that weren't already there.

Sign me up before you go go

Merry Christmas everyone!

On 12/24/2023 at 10:22 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Stark in a park

On 12/24/2023 at 1:52 PM, Math Teacher said:

Woodchuck(s) on a puck!

'Duck with a puck' was my thought, but yours is better!

So if you pay 2 x $25 shipping and only one package turns up, is there anything you can do to cause him grief - or at least get $25 back?

On 12/10/2023 at 11:31 AM, Robot Man said:

Best Christmas comic ever!

Agreed. If I had to point to a Barks story that hooked me for life, it was either this one or The Golden Helmet, both reprinted in Australia in the late 60s.

On 12/10/2023 at 1:50 PM, Point Five said:

How many times do I need to tell him: THIS IS NOT FOR SALE AT ANY PRICE.
 

On 12/8/2023 at 2:53 PM, Point Five said:

With golden age books a missing centerfold is not uncommon at all, particularly the 1930s/1940s ones... they were 64 pages each, and that many pages can get stressed at the staples and it's common for a centerfold (or two!) to loosen and/or pop out. 

Jon is right. And it's worth adding that many comics published during WW2 had a single central staple. Those are even more prone to having missing parts.

I've done a fair bit of mathematical modelling over the years, and I think the comic market would be doable to an extent, but of doubtful utility. You'd need to have variables for the valuation of major market segments, and the rates of change of those could be pulled from data. You'd need to model couplings between market segments and estimate those ... blah blah blah.

Or you could just look it up here.

Edit: having skimmed the paper and reading key bits of it, they haven't approached it the way I would. But they are from a mathematics and statistics background and I was in the physical sciences. I'd be more interested in the market as a dynamic system of coupled variables, while their approach looks more like statistical regression at its heart, though with some dynamics through inputs such as 'deterioration rate' and even 'death rate of original purchasers' (!). In any case, the results are so-so (as I expected).

And just like that another thread goes off topic to talk about Hollywood dynamics.

On 12/7/2023 at 9:38 AM, the blob said:

Never crack anything out. Future problems solved.

 

You can't stop me. I love a good crack party.

That said, I have a couple of slabbed books that I thought got generous grades, and those are staying entombed!