Corvonie

On 5/30/2024 at 10:46 PM, Vegabomb said:

WOW that is a gorgeous book!

On 5/30/2024 at 9:19 PM, SeniorSurfer said:

I remember you subtly implying this over the course of some sales as you would try to put the price out of reach and (probably) breathe a sigh of relief when it made it through the month.  Also on another note, I agree with @gunsmokin:  Who are those questioning queefs? I've got someone that wants to meet them...

 

Immediately adding “questioning queefs” to my lexicon, thank you.  The soundscape evoked by it is priceless

On 5/30/2024 at 3:54 PM, sfcityduck said:

Speaking of teenagers and sex, here's a classic but little known gem: Army & Navy Fun Parade 54 (Harvey, April 1952) featuring the most outrageous story that Dr. Wertham never mentioned: "I Joined a Teen-Age Sex Club!" (reprinted from First Love #13 (Harvey, July 1949). Also includes pin-ups of Ruth Roman and Virginia Gibson as well as many racy cartoons. Great cheaper way to get a classic story. Price: $90 $70 but will consider offers.

That is SUPER cool

On 5/29/2024 at 5:55 PM, scburdet said:

Looks like a standard miswrap to me, which is only downgraded 9.0-9.8 depending on severity. I think there are enough other issues that the miswrap is ignored. Looks like a 7.5/8.0 to me. You can find my most recent returned book (Nick Fury 7) that has the staples misplaced a couple of cm onto the front cover off the spine fold. Still a 9.4. 

I’ll take a look thanks SC.  And congrats on the 9.4!

On 5/29/2024 at 4:34 PM, Okguy said:

That's a very interesting technical difference, however if someone is not interested in buying the book, then they need to mind their own business. As you can see this has now created a negative vibe on my listing.  I have never gone out of my way to poke at someone's listing. There should be no reason or motivation to encroach on someone's ability to sell an item.

I get that for some reason you’re upset by the correction.  I’ve gotten similar corrections on my sales threads, and part of their function is helpful veterans of the community telling you how to keep your thread from getting pulled for lack of information or inadvertent misrepresentation.

I read the first two comments and only thought “cool, now I get to learn about the difference between a provenance and a pedigree!”. Then I read your response.

It looks like you were getting interest on the book and now you’ve pulled the listing and - honestly - come off as somewhat unreasonable and hard to deal with.

So it seems like you’re working against your own purposes.

Best of luck with the sale if you don’t relist it here.  It sounds like a great book!

On 5/29/2024 at 4:14 PM, Point Five said:

Oh OK, fair enough. Assuming no trim -- maybe that overhang is just pushed up a bit and looks worse in the pic? -- it looks like a standard higher grade book to me, like 8.0 give or take.

If there were a 'severe' spine roll I'd think the cover and pages would be misaligned but they look to me to be aligned well.

 

Ah! I finally understood what you were saying about an overhang.  Here’s another (hopefully better) view than one side the book laying on a table

On 5/29/2024 at 3:38 PM, Point Five said:

Great freshness. The book has lots of nice qualities, but I am concerned about trimming. That top edge overhang looks pretty rough. 

 

Thanks!  I am VERY confident in the book’s provenance and lack of restoration.  So you don’t think CGC sees the semi-extreme miswrap as a spine roll?  Basically, these books were stacked in boxes w/o bags and boards for over 50 years, so I’m even trying to figure out if I’m looking at a miswrap or a spine roll that got flattened into place over time 

Hi board, looking for some of your expert advice on another head scratcher for me.  This one still needs some work on the spine ticks and a general dry clean and press, but I’m specifically wondering whether CGC considers this a miswrap or a (flattened) spine roll, because of the staple placement.  Thank you, as always, for your insight!

On 5/28/2024 at 9:20 PM, Dreamsleep said:

A++++ seller. Easy transaction, bomb proof packaging, and quick ship. Mike completes transactions with care, integrity, professionalism, enthusiasm, friendliness, respect, and attention to detail. My first transaction with Mike on a 5 figure book should command confidence amongst his piers whom he deals with in the future!

Oh and for those that didn’t see the pic here it is. And thank u for tastefully deleting pics and price however it’s going to the vault so I have no problem sharing.  Thanks Mike!

Fantastic copy!! 

Hi all, looking for a grade on another black cover.  Thanks!

On 5/24/2024 at 12:43 AM, Xatari said:

Not about keeping secrets, but it’s nobody else’s business once the deal is done. Just trying to be respectful of the buyer. They are welcome to do with it as they wish or share (or not) whatever info they decide. 

I primarily deal with original comic art, and in that hobby, buyers often prefer not to have their info or thumbprint left on transactions. Just a courtesy thing. 

One of my favorite things about buying on the boards is the discretion of deleting sold prices, etc.

Hi all, 

Trying to figure out how the rough top of the front cover on this book affects grade.  Thanks!

Hi, looking for a grade on this copy of x-men #39. Thanks!

On 5/22/2024 at 7:31 PM, gunsmokin said:

Take please

NIIIIICE grab

On 5/20/2024 at 6:11 PM, ThePreacher said:

I will take her - thank you for the opportunity.

YESSSSSS - what an awesome cover.  My two cents on conservation - attitudes are changing, evinced by, among other things, the creation of the specialized label.  I think we're on the way to conservation being viewed VERY differently from restoration.  And personally - in or out of the slab - if someone wants to shore up my book structurally or seal tears so they stop growing, all I would say is THANKS.  So happy for you, Preach!

Cavern Hulk to out of the cavern Hulk

Literally just came in about an hour ago.

yellow to yellow

Yellow to yellow

On 5/14/2024 at 8:37 PM, LordRahl said:

I just got back 8 boxes of books. I've opened 4 of the boxes and all the slabs seem to have warped inner wells where they are concave in the middle, like I'm sure many of you have seen with backing boards. So, since the inner well is bent, it's bending my book inside it, which is of course putting stress on the spine. I've looked through a bunch of older slabs and they don't have this problem. Is anyone else seeing this with recent subs or did I just get "lucky"?

That sucks, but it seems like CGC is aware and prepared to make it right.  And I guess it wouldn’t be surprising that you got so many if it was a bad run and they’re just taking wells off in order.  Sorry that happened.

On 5/17/2024 at 9:00 AM, Stefan_W said:

I can think of four of reasons aside from trolling for suckers, which has already been brought up and is likely the most common reason. 

Sometimes seller buy too high are have a ton of cash sunk into a book. Good examples of that would be books bought in 2021-22 when the market was still at its high water mark. In the cases the seller can chose to just take the hit and move on, or they can just list it high and hope the market eventually catches up again. Ebay gives people 250 free listings so it costs nothing to sit and wait for a rise in the marketplace. 

A second reason is sometimes sellers may use big books to draw attention. There was a local pawn shop that had a few slabs on display including an X-Men 1, but everything was priced 4x or more actual value. I asked the owner about the pricing and he said it draws people into the store and led to extra sales on other items, so he didnt really want to part with it. For Ebay stores a similar thing would apply because high ticket items draw in followers who may buy the cheaper stuff along the way. 

The third reason is sometimes sellers are not really comic people, and they dont really get how much comics are worth. A local person had some slabs left to her when her husband passed so she listed them on kijiji as well as on Ebay. I spoke with her a bit and offered to help since she was asking 2x value and nothing was going to sell, but she was not interested because she trusted what her husband told her was the value ahead of what I was going to say. I dont blame her since there are less than honest people out there, but he kept her books for at least a year before the listings eventually disappeared. Not sure how that story played out in the end. 

Fourth reason I can think of, and that I used myself, is that Ebay shows images way better than sites like Facebook. A few years ago when I listed all of my slabs for sale on my Facebook group I uploaded them to Ebay with prices no one would possibly take, and then shared the link to my page along with a list of the real prices with my group. People were able to use the scans with hover-over blowups to examine the slabs closely and when I made a sale in my group I would just remove the listing. I eventually decided it was more of a hassle to keep up than it was worth, but it worked well while it lasted. 

Yes, I would add to this that, in the end, its supply and demand.  As an example, I have a REALLY nice FF #31 soon to be going out for grading.  If I list it, I would probably list it at a premium - not only possibly based on lack of recent comps - but also because sometimes you have something that just doesn’t come up often even if it’s not a grail, so you can see if someone wants it badly enough.  These prices, in the end, are only based on how badly anyone wants a particular book.

Another initially confounding example might be ff 12, where I might pay a premium for a 7.0/5, as long as it was less than an 8.0.  Reason being that even though it’s far from the highest grade, all I ever see is 4-6 or 8-8.5, and 7.0/5 is my preferred grade for my PC

On 5/16/2024 at 1:52 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

Probably the same mental midget mindset that makes someone send me a $10 offer on a $200 item.

Dain bramage?

Oh maaan this one took me back to being like 6 years old. Bob Nelson!

I had a link in here but then I watched it and I didn’t even remember how off-colour it was!  The things we were exposed to as kids (actually pale in comparison to what our kids are exposed to).

Thanks for taking me back!