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JMoses

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  1. JMoses

    Help! What is this?

    By JMoses,

    I am a collector of Superman One-shots, but I am stumped by this one:  Superman: The Album nn
    This is not a slot for Superman: The Wedding Album -- that's already accounted for.  Nor is it a slot for the "Superman Record Comic," a comic that accompanied a 1966 LP.  There's already a slot for that, too.
    I'm stumped.  Looked on-line for some ideas, but came up empty.  There evidently are some -- at least one -- graded copy(ies) out there.  Anybody?  What is this?
     
    A census search comes back only with Superman: The Wedding Album.  So maybe a mistaken entry?  Maybe it doesn't exist?
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    The Clutter!

    By JMoses,

    People request sets, then don't fill them.
    Have a look at this list:
    Adam Strange (1990)
    Adventures of Captain America
    Adventures of Kool-Aid Man
    Adventures of the Jaguar
    After the Cape
    Alabaster
    Alarming Adventures
    Alf
    Alien Legion (1987)
    Alien Legion - Mini-Series
    Alien Pig Farm 3000
    All-Famous Crime
    Alpha Girl (Image)
    Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
    Amazing Spider-Man Canadian Price Variants
    Amazing Spider-Man 129 Foreign Editions
    Amazing Spider-Man UK Editions (15-120)
    America's Funniest Comics
    A-Next
    Andy Devine Western
    Angel Spotlight
    Annihilation 1-4 w/ Variants
    Animal Mystic
    Annie (1982)
    Aphrodite IX Volume 2
    Aquaman (1989)
    Archie #401-#599
    Archie Digest First Issues
    Archie's Pals 'N' Gals
    Arion Lord of Atlantis
    Avengers UK Editions (1-100)
    Avengers Forever
    Back to the Future Harvey
    Bat-Hound (Ace)
    Batman 227 Foreign Set
    Batman Beyond (1999)
    Batman: Manbat
    Bat-Mite Set
    Bat-Woman and Bat-Girl (Kathy and Betty Kane)
    Beautiful Killer
    Big Questions
    Bionic Man (Dynamite)
    Black Adam (2007)
    Black Panther (1998)
    Black Summer
    Blackstone, the Magician
    Blaze Carson
    Blood of the Demon (DC)
    Body Bags (Dark Horse)
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    Brian Pulido's Lady Death: Lost Souls
    Brian Pulido's Medieval Lady Death
    Brightest Day
    Bubble Funnies
    Bullwinkle and Rocky (Marvel)
    These represent 55 set requests added to the Register under "A" and "B" which are absolutely empty. None are marked "new" or "updated."
    I'm sure the list from C-Z of requested sets with nothing in them would be quite long. Here's my question: Why request a set, then put nothing in it? Are people requesting sets they themselves have no intention of dealing with? If so, Why? Think of how much time and effort was wasted in creating these 55 empties -- and that's just under A and B. There are hundreds of other empties as well.
    The moral of the story is this: request sets, by all means, but don't waste everybody's time by having sets created that you yourself aren't interested in. Without a doubt this would cut the set creation time down dramatically. Food for thought.
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    When you buy it, it's yours!
    On more than one occasion I have made a comic purchase via ebay in which the seller of the comic refuses to relinquish ownership (i.e. in the Registry) until the comic has physically arrived in my hands. Despite my emailing them personally with a courteous request to remove the book from their set, nothing happens until after the tracking info shows a successful delivery.
    This is nonsense.
    When a person buys something -- anything -- it is the property of that person from the moment the money changes hands. When my cash goes into your Paypal account, it becomes your cash. At that instant, the comic is mine. I have paid for it, and you have accepted my payment. Where the comic is physically at that moment is irrelevant. I now own it. It is now your, the seller's, responsibility to deliver my property to me safely, but it is not your comic you are shipping, it is my comic.
    Think of it this way: when you've checked out at the grocery store, your groceries belong to you. They no longer belong to the store, and people cannot come by and shop from your cart as you make your way to the car. Once paid for, the groceries are yours, despite the fact that you're still in the store.
    The same principle is at work with CGC comics, with a car, a piece of furniture, with ANY purchase.
    The moral is this: Be courteous to your fellow collectors: when you've sold a comic from your set, and the buyer has paid, release the cert number so that the new owner may put their new comic in their set. It's just common courtesy. Remember: once you've sold it AND it's been paid for, it is not yours, no matter where it is.
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