CitrusZ28

On 2/1/2024 at 1:41 PM, bluehorseshoe said:

You show me one person that can demonstrate damages as a result of buying a fake-slabbed book for more than a buck, and I'll show you a bunch of complex litigation attorneys putting together a class action Petition against CGC chock full of claims related to implied warranty and lack of good faith performance causes of action.

CGC is going to get the brakes sued off of them. 

bluehorseshoe loves Bluestar Airlines.

On 1/25/2024 at 3:23 PM, Black_Adam said:

Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #68!

Bought it off a comic rack for a quarter (my weekly allowance) from a little book store that I only visited once when I was seven years old (the store was out of business after only a few months and even now, decades later, I still recall it when I drive past where it once was).

The story was great! Richie and Cadbury are shrunk and have to escape a human body. I learned a lot about anatomy (and antibodies) from that comic and gained a lifelong passion for comics, reading, and Richie Rich!   

So Richie went on a Fantastic Voyage!

On 12/4/2023 at 5:52 PM, Silver Surfer said:

What exactly is Robin doing?

Tossin' the Salad.

Looks like what the printing world calls a "hickey", caused by any number of foreign objects i.e. dust, water small pieces of rubber from rollers, etc....

A new garbage disposal....

I would leave it as-is. I recently had my copy of FF #13 graded and it came out as 5.5, but in my MHO is better looking than this 6.0.

I've got one of those-

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10% off all listed books.

Batman #181 CGC 4.0 Off White pages. $800

Batman #69 CGC 6.0 Off White to White pages. $1,000

Batman #65 CGC 3.5 Off White pages. $1,200

Batman #46 CGC 4.5 White pages. $700

Batman # 40 CGC 4.0 Off White to White pages. $1,400

Batman #39 CGC 6.5 Off White to White pages. $1,000

On 7/10/2023 at 8:41 AM, CitrusZ28 said:

This is my first sales thread on the forums, I'll try to make it right.

Usual rules:

1. No HOS or PL members.

2. First     in the thread wins.  This supersedes any PM negotiations.

3. No returns on CGC graded books, please be sure that you really want it before buying.

4. U.S. sales and shipping only.

5. Payment is by USPS money order.

6. BIN price includes USPS insured Priority shipping.

Please note, I usually go radio silent on the internet from 4:30 PM Pacific on Fridays to 7:30 AM Pacific on Mondays as I have grandkids to watch on the weekends. This does not mean that I will be ignoring this sales thread, it just means that I have other obligations that come first. I will do my best to check during the weekends, and will most definitely be responding by Monday mornings at the latest. I will honor any time stamped  in the order that they appear, so please be patient. I will address any PM's as they come in.

 

Here they are-

 

Batman # 30, CGC 7.0 White pages. $1,900

Batman # 35 Off White to White pages. $1,350

This is my first sales thread on the forums, I'll try to make it right.

Usual rules:

1. No HOS or PL members.

2. First     in the thread wins.  This supersedes any PM negotiations.

3. No returns on CGC graded books, please be sure that you really want it before buying.

4. U.S. sales and shipping only.

5. Payment is by USPS money order.

6. BIN price includes USPS insured Priority shipping.

10% off all listed books.

Please note, I usually go radio silent on the internet from 4:30 PM Pacific on Fridays to 7:30 AM Pacific on Mondays as I have grandkids to watch on the weekends. This does not mean that I will be ignoring this sales thread, it just means that I have other obligations that come first. I will do my best to check during the weekends, and will most definitely be responding by Monday mornings at the latest. I will honor any time stamped  in the order that they appear, so please be patient. I will address any PM's as they come in.

Here they are-

Batman # 30, CGC 7.0 White pages. $1,900

Reposted from another forum-

Around 30 years ago I worked on drum scanners at several color houses, to avoid newtons rings when scanning transparencies we would apply a light dusting of scanning powder to the mounting surface of the transparency (Kodachrome or Ektachrome slides, 2x3 or larger professional transparencies) when mounting to the scanning drum. This worked quite well unless you were enlarging the scan about 300-400% then you would oil mount the transparency to avoid enlarging the powder grains. Obviously oil mounting collectables is out of the question, but since slabbed books are not going under a microscope perhaps a similar product could be used when encapsulating comics? I'm not sure if scanning powder is even available anymore as by the late '90's-early 2000's digital cameras pretty much moved drum scanning to the dustbin.

I am wondering if CGC could incorporate something similar, applying a light dusting of scanning powder between the surfaces of the mylar and slab to prevent Newton Rings, maybe CGC Mike could look into it?

2 words: Scanning powder.

On 6/7/2023 at 7:34 PM, comicginger1789 said:

Personally I’ve always viewed DC comics from the 50s through into the 70s as inferior to what marvel put out.

Back in the Day, a friend of mine's brother used to refer to DC as Dumb Cluck comics. He was obviously a Marvel fan. When I was a kid growing up in the 60's I really liked the DC titles, later as I grew older I gravitated to the Marvel titles.

I too have wondered about the Eldon pedigree, I din't realize that there were possibly 2 different Eldons involved but I was curious as to why some were signed in cursive and some signed with block letters. I bought this 3 Batman books back in 1984 out of an ad in The Comic Buyers Guide from a man named Charles Sawyer who was located in Boulder CO. I still have the box they were shipped in and had a mailing label with "Church" on it which brings to mind the famous Mile High Collection, not that these books were part of that collection but I wonder if there is some connection there. Sorry about the glare on the pictures, on the Batman #9 you can barely see the signature in cursive on the N in Batman.

Looks like the pressman was asleep and the bindery operator as well.

I had a copy of Hulk 181 that I purchased off the rack for a quarter brand new, sold it back in the mid-eighties for $30 and thought that I did pretty good. wish that I had a crystal ball for that one.