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Yeah, that’s great, Mike, but clearly inaccurate. I just had modern 25 book subs turned in 5-7 days, as have other boardies, judging by recent posts.

Bah. Still over a year, huh? I was hoping it was easing off…

Can I toss one in that probably shouldn’t qualify? John Byrne did a terrific six page stand-alone backup story in Superman 9 that is a perfect character study of the that is the prototypical Lex Luthor. Not a stand-alone in the true context of this thread, but…

Anyone have regular Economy feedback?

Fan of The Killing Joke here.

That’s the book I was referring to in my above post, yeah. It looks pretty reasonable as a stand-alone. You’d need to twig to the odd corners.

For sure, if you were the first guy buying, and didn’t have a legit slab beside it, you might not have listened to that little voice in the back of your head. Or if you were an inexperienced or infrequent slab buyer. That’s why threads like this and the long-ago Ewert thread are so beneficial to the hobby.

The capital ‘H’ in Hulk has different proportions, as well.

No, just angry yelling by Bob that stopped everyone else in their tracks that were close by the area. And woke you from your nap in the booth?

That drives me nuts. It’s also likely what happened here. The buyer didn’t bother to look at anything beyond ‘CGC 9.6 Sig Series’. Any miswrap or ‘bad seating’ is clearly visible in photos.

My favorite cameo is Hulk 180, bro.

The market is irrational. Long winded collector entreaties that insist the market should see something differently usually end up being tilting at windmills.

Not discussed but significant is the amount of blunting at both top and bottom of spine, especially the top. The area at the top of the spine also has significant scuffing and color loss. That effect also seems to be present at the right edge of the cover near the top. Multiple color breaking spine stresses. Likely creasing at the top edge as noted. There’s general wear issues that all conspire to limit the grade.

Probably a function of approaching our 20 year CGC Boards anniversaries.

Someone points out exactly why the book got the grade it did, and this is your response? Might be the snark in the explanation? Just pointing out the crease would be enough.

I’ve always just assumed she’d eaten some chili.

Inexperience: arguing a market outcome based only on supply.

They’re trying to get some fluidity into JR Jr’s art.

@kimik is my show partner. I can attest that his posts are accurate. My philosophy is like yours - I’d bring a load the size of Santa’s sleigh if I could. And, like you, I try to bring some of everything.

Don’t be lazy.

Meh. I’m lucky if I get a say in what’s for dinner.

To me, there’s a dead period between the end of the Copper Age (early 90’s) to the early 2000’s when Ultimate Spider-Man got going, that feels like its own age.

Yep. And X-Factor 23/24.