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What consensus? Gerber published the number of estimated copies in existence of every single book listed in there. If he didn't think it existed, he would have made note of that. This book was listed as an eight, meaning there would be 10 to 20 copies estimated in existence.

Interesting, thanks. It's removed from their sales history, but every other issue is there. I'm curious why.

Comicconnect? I couldn't find it in their archives.

Looking back through this thread, JB posted the Church copy, so he must have kept the book. Here's my copy:

But in this case, and most all others, its existence was known.

A Gerber no-show didn't mean anyone thought it didn't exist, it just meant he couldn't find a copy to photograph.

Buy what you like and don't treat it as an investment.

Blissard just listed a 4 favorites #5 on ebay. Can't remember the last time I saw one of those available. It's a beater, but should be interesting to see what it goes for. There wasn't even a copy in Berk's collection!

I'll take this

Fighting Yank 13 IIRC

Science 2 has been in demand since the 1980s. Always considered a classic. 1 holds more sway in OSPG, but nowhere else.

I'll address that when the auctions finish.

My local library had old OSPGs, including this one. It blew me away at the time. Having it sit next to the Porky Pig one is a pretty stark contrast.

As a kid, the Action or the Top Notch.

Awesome! Definitely spent a lot of hours I was supposed to be sleeping looking through the guide.

I disagree. As I've already pointed out one of the books that they damaged was a white paged pedigree high-grade golden age book. They popped the staple and the pop did not occur at the spine where it should be most fragile, this was popped at the portion of the staple coming toward the front cover. My other book was popped at a similar area. this would imply that the problem is with the process, rather than the book itself.

So the onus is on the least informed to determine whether or not the book will be damaged. Makes perfect sense. I'm going to start using this in my practice. "Well if you didn't want any organ damage you should have paid more up front for my opinion." If this is true, it's even more of a reason not to use CCS.

Yeesh. Seems like an epidemic.

I have to say, I don't think I will use CCS again. I don't see myself doing a whole lot of pressing, but if I do I will use someone else. I don't get the feeling that they have any interest in doing a good job, just pushing the books through. Now for problems unrelated to pressing, I think that they did a good job. But that was maybe 7 or 8 books.

Mine was 15, and it ended up in about 20 pieces just like this. My favorite thing to do was to imagine that I could have one book from each page, and then figure out which one to choose.

I found out that another of my CCS books had the staple popped, which explains the drop in grade.

My favorite time was when auctions were the default listing and you had to click to another section to go after BINs. I found so many great books stashed away in the BIN section because people were too lazy to go looking in there. now the BINs that are mixed in with the auctions are all priced at 10 times what they should be.

Good question Mark. I've been buying on eBay for 20 years, so I've seen a lot of changes and maybe I'm just old and grumpy. I think eBay ran off a bunch of collectors with all of their new rules and fees, so the buying pool is smaller and of lesser quality. There are also so many more flippers that there is more competition. That means prices are higher, which makes me less willing to take the risk to buy uncertified. Also, my tastes have changed, so the type of book I tend to want is going to be in different venues. Lastly, I have less free time to browse so it's hard to sift through all the junk.

I have the worst luck in the world with him. I know everyone rants about his grading, I'm probably under 50% with him.

I think it varies on a number of factors. I would imagine that it's also a function of what they have coming up in consignments. I had a pretty strong list, IMO, so I simply asked for a fair cut.