Black_Adam

18 minutes ago, Dark Knight said:

 

Not everything though is gravy in the cars world. Some out there are trimming their cards to achieve 10s. PSA and BGS for some reason cannot catch these trimmed cards and have been caught grading what once were 8s or 9s are now 10s.

Aren't cards a standard size? Can't the grading companies just measure them? 

2 minutes ago, shadroch said:

In my neighborhood, Colors were where the action was. Sort of like War. You put down a card and they try to match the team color. Match it and you win the whole pile. 1969 Topps had all sorts of variant colors.which made it interesting. Some Reds were almost Orange and there were.different shades of several colors. I remember a fight breaking out when someone had a red Yankee and the other guy had the same players card but more orangey than Red.

We mostly flipped. I'd flip a card and the other guy would decide if his flip matched or was the opposite.

Flipping sounds like a safer bet for anyone wanting to actually collect the cards. Many of the cards used in knockdown would eventually become so beat up and rounded from hitting the wall over and over that they became basically impossible to shoot with any accuracy and we would just throw them away.

7 minutes ago, comicwiz said:

Is topsides the one you flipped and you could call front face or back facing? I loved farsies, but knockdowns was where you could make the most cards on a win.

Never played a game where landing on front or back mattered but we would have if we'd known of it! And yes you could make a ton of cards at knockdowns, especially if it was a Montreal Canadiens team card where you could demand any shooters be at least ten steps back (and, of course, ban any kids who were known sharp shooters and might knock your card down with one shot). But if you really wanted to make a ton of cards you just had to convince one of the few girls hanging around with a stack of shooters to play, they were always terrible shots! 

This may make me sound old (and Canadian) but I liked it best when there was only one company releasing cards each year (i.e. O-Pee-Chee hockey, Topps baseball, etc). I was swept up in the 90s craze but the only cards I have kept are my hockey cards from when I was a kid in the 1970s and we used to *trade* them by leaning a hot card against a wall (called the set up) and having other kids shoot common cards at it from about five feet away with the first kid to knock the set-up card down getting to keep it, while the kid who put the card up against the wall got to keep all the shooters. This game reached such a fever peak at my elementary school in North Vancouver during the late 1970s that the school finally had to ban it before a fourth-grade brawl broke out due to the constant disputes between players. And, yes, I still have a Gretzky rookie card found in my pile of shooters from those days (I can't even imagine how many I would have fired against a wall - we thought Montreal Canadien and team cards were the only keepers, no one wanted any Oilers). We also used to play topsies - you would take turns flicking cards abut five feet forward with the first player to land a card on top of another getting all the cards that had been shot. Now that's card collecting!

Unsold comics have been moved back into the vault. Thanks to all who looked and, more importantly, bought!

Just now, johnenock said:

 

 per PM. Thanks!

House of Mystery #204

Take 15% off all listed prices!

2 hours ago, N e r V said:

 

Now THAT'S thread crapping! 

Take 10% off all listed prices!

One more newcomer to the thread, not technically EC but definitely inspired by them. A Wrightson gem - only eight higher-graded copies known! Scan is from my archives, can provide new scans if so desired.

House of Mystery #204 - $395   SOLD!

7 minutes ago, mstrange said:

Take

VoH 35 Northford

Thanks for looking. That's all for now! 

Vault of Horror #39 - $525

Haunt of Fear #28 - $595

2 minutes ago, greggy said:

Where were you hiding this show?

Had to miss this one: options were spend day with family or go to comic show and I was outvoted. 

Haunt of Fear #24 - $550

Haunt of Fear #14 - $550

Haunt of Fear #11 - $325

Due to a financial crunch, reluctantly parting with some of my ECs Now, the rules:

o   No Probies or Hall of Shame members.

o   Payment via Paypal.

o   Shipping: $15 for slabs (in any quantity) in USA and Canada. US shipments will be sent USPS priority post and Canadian shipments will be sent by Canada Post (from the north side of the border). Overseas shipping at cost and only to established board members with references. I normally ship in 2-3 days.

o   No returns on graded books unless I have missed something major.

o   References: Have bought a ton of stuff (probably too much) on the boards if that counts for anything. Also have a Kudos thread:

Black_Adam's Feedback Thread

I agree with all those above who said send it back for a full refund, And for what it's worth, I would never buy any comic - slabbed or otherwise - from a seller with that feedback profile. I don't mind a low amount of feedback, but I like to see some feedback in the last 12 months and, hopefully, specific feedback re: shipping comics i.e. "perfectly packed!" or "comics arrived safe and sound."

10 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

We were at wrestling nationals in Virginia Beach, and we ordered that - they gave us a puzzled look. 

When we finally got our pizza, it was plain bacon and pineapple. 

I don't know if they ran out the back to go pick up bacon or what. 

Apparently there is no such thing as Canadian bacon there.

There is no such thing as Canadian bacon here in Canada, either. We call it back bacon (at least here on the West Coast).

8 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

Hey if its gonna happen may as well be on that one! It could of had a coupon missing resulting in a green  

I say glass half full! 

I am saving the qualified green label for when I get my GL 76 graded (hoping it looks as sweet as this one - not my comic btw).