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If anyone else is interested in the reproduction of TMNT #1 going on sale this Saturday at the TMNT:A Collection site, you may want to go and check out the page linked a few posts above. I'd recommend reading through the description all the way to the end.... ;-)

Awesome. Hope I'm lucky enough to grab one next weekend.

Nice grab. I've been bidding on 3rd prints recently but haven't won one yet at a price I'm comfortable with. Really I think I'd be better putting the money I'd spend on one of these 40th Anv reprints towards a 1985 3rd print.

Damn, I missed Rich's version. But looks like the Portsmouth site doesn't ship to Canada anyways. I saw a WhatNot sale of Rich's go for around $260 last night and the Jetpack for over $200 also. Hoping Rich will have more for sale on his own site and I can catch one there. His site ships to Canada...although shipping gets very expensive.

Thanks for the info. I will keep an eye on your site.

Is there any way to buy the Rich version with the original cover art online? Thanks

My LCS in Victoria BC said they had only ordered 5 copies to begin with as no one had wanted any at FOC. They got shafted and got no copies.

I appreciate everything you have contributed to this thread. I've read all 390 pages and have followed all your discoveries with great interest. You've gone above and beyond anyone else in this whole scandal. In the end, what I think about the AC situation is meaningless. All I believe is that the explanation he gave makes sense if your original comment(s) did indeed have a URL in it. Still doesn't mean he is telling the truth but YT does auto-delete any comments with URLs and they don't notify the content provider when they do.

I remember. FWIW, Ryan addressed that in a subsequent video and gave his side of the story. Believe him or not, I found his explanation genuine. Ryan is correct that YT auto-deletes comments with links in them which as you can see from that linked post Comicwiz's comment on Ryan's YT video had.

Guy is a dope. We've already seen that he, as Automatic Comics, stole info from comicwiz in his comments, deleted them,, and stated it was his discovery Automatic Comics (Ryan) and Sticky Goose are two totally different people and totally different YT channels.

Thanks for sharing that GPA data. I don't subscribe to GPA anymore so was using GoCollect and most of those sales are strike-through best offers on GoCollect so I wasn't getting a fair picture of the recent sales. It was interesting that a lot of the recent sales were on the 350 list.

ASM 300 in 9.6 sold for the lowest it has since ~July 2020. $750.

Prices were certainly down on most 181 and 194s yesterday at HA. Although a 194 had sold a bit lower in November. Hard to separate out the continued general decline in prices from any effect the scandal may be having on them.

I guess if they do have scans of all graded books going back for years then they could just compare covers of the questionable books to the scans without opening to see if the MVS or tattoos are there. The MJI you should be able to see from the side without opening. I know the 99newstand mentioned there is another way to tell if a book is MJ without opening it.

Just saw on IG that GoCollect has the Cert Lookup feature working now so you can type in the # and see all sales of that cert with the usual high-res photos!!

I assume this is a different "Comic Station" 9.9 did talk about all this way back in the beginning on one or more of the Davengers YouTube live shows.

$72,000

So far results at Heritage today show the market is very strong. Record sales on many books. Certainly no indication that this CGC scandal has had any effect on premium buyers. Even H181 sold strong although being a 9.8 probably helped as there has been no evidence of that high of grade involved in the scandal. Biggest takeaway.....early DC Batman and Detective are where to put your $$.

I also noted on their IG an image of a ASM 300 that has the CGC# photoshopped out. Yet most (all?) of their other slabs still show the serial #. Hmmmm....odd..... I wish the photo with the 6 ASM 300s had more resolution to read the numbers. The two with custom labels especially.

"Any fraudulent sales can be reported directly to GoCollect for removal from our database" That is the line I and others have issue with. Not the "remove the threat" line. Edit: I see GoCollect has responded on IG to Comicwiz and they state: "We agree these kinds of records should not be deleted. They will be segregated and removed only from impacting the valuation of a particular item" So all should be well.

I don't think so. Comicwiz thought there had but then corrected himself later on. He had missed it in his search by not including the hyphen in the search.

Very true. I'm not sure how GoCollect will figure out which ones may have been shill sales. If they want to pull all the affected books on CGC's list from FMV calculations then I do hope they still allow them to be searched and high quality photos retained.

I understand people wanting fraudulent sales pulled out of FMV calculations on GPA and GoCollect....like when someone shill bids up the sale and it never really completes. But in this case the sale price on a lot of these are still a valid sale. Even if the book inside was a Green label H181, the sale of the "Blue label H181" reflects a fair sale of a blue H181 in said grade. Could still be valid in an FMV calculation.

I really hope GoCollect doesn't pull the records. Maybe notate them as a known fraudulent book but don't destroy some of the only evidence out there. A lot of the investigating on this thread relied on the high quality photos of old sales that GoCollect has.

All I've heard is on Thoro's stream he said the store rhymes with "nation" and he said he isn't referring to Epic .....so take that as you will.