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Dan'el

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  1. Dan'el
    Updated to show FF 49 Sold
  2. Dan'el
    Updated to show FF #49 deal pending
  3. Dan'el
    Update to add FF #48
  4. Dan'el
    Bump
  5. Dan'el
    Updated to show FF Annual #8 sold
  6. Dan'el
    Updated to show deal pending for FF Annual #8
  7. Dan'el
    Cool, How do you prefer to handle it? I send a PayPal request for payment (need PayPal email address) or do you prefer to send a check? Last couple of buyers preferred checks but I am okay either way. Will be $118 with shipping. Thanks Dan
  8. Dan'el
    I am selling my private collection, all of which is Fantastic Four related. I will ultimately have one-hundred forty graded comics, most of which will be Silver and Bronze Age (some of which, like FF #1, are listed in Silver forum). One hundred of those are still at CGC waiting on grading. Thirty-two of the forty slabs I received back so far have been sold, both here and elsewhere. --------------------------------------- Fantastic Four V3 #60/489: CGC 9.4: Rare Price Variant---- $75 This is the very scarce $2.25 newsstand price variant. This comic may well be one of the rarest price variants ever, and one of the least known. The back story is this: In 2002 DC Comics published a comic with a throwback price of 10-cents titled, "Batman: The 10-Cent Adventure". That promotion was very successful. In response, Marvel published this comic with a 9-cent cover price. Those 9-cent issues are a dime-a-dozen. What makes the story interesting, is that DC Comics subsidized all non-comic book store sales, which means they ate the difference between what would have been the normal price and the 10-cent price. Consequently, all issues of the DC comic were 10-cents. Marvel chose not to do that. Instead they decided to issue a regular $2.25 priced comic for non-comic book stores like Wal-Mart, Walden Books, etc. Those major chain stores do not keep or sell old comic stock. If the comic does not sell within a certain time frame, they destroy them. That means the only copies of this price variant that exist are those that someone just happened to pick up off of the rack at one of the non comic book chain stores during the short time the issue was for sale. No one knows how many of those exist. Last I looked, there were only twenty-two total copies of this book in the CGC census. Fourteen of those are CGC 9.8. According to the Go Collect website, NONE of the 9.8 books has ever been sold on any of the public sites, so collectors are hanging onto them. This comic is just the 2nd to grade 9.4. --------------------------------------- PAYMENT: PayPal, Personal Check, or Money Order. I will send a PayPal request for funds (not an invoice) to a verified USA PayPal account for “goods and services”, and ship once funds have transferred successfully to my bank. Checks and Money Orders have to clear and be verified by bank before shipping. SHIPPING: USPS Priority Mail, insured, with tracking and signature required, to USA addresses = $18.00: Will be an additional $20.00, if you prefer Registered mail. (Items are insured through Collectibles Insurance, not through USPS. If you want USPS insurance also, that will be extra.) SALES TAX: INDIANA SALES ONLY! = 7% I do have to collect and pay sales tax on any Indiana sales. I am not required to report or collect sales tax anywhere else. That will be between you and your state. RETURNS: No returns for CGC slabbed items, unless there is damage in route. RESTRICTIONS: USA only at this time. No HOS or Probationary members. (NOTE: If there is any Fantastic Four comic you are looking for, slabbed or raw, let me know. I probably have it and could list it here.) --------------------------------------- This is a nice case. Slabbed April of 2022. I included images of the raw comic as well.
  9. Dan'el
    Updated to add two comics and remove a couple I am sending back to CGC for reholdering.
  10. Dan'el
    Updated to remove FF #52 reprint - will sell it elsewhere
  11. Dan'el
    Updated to show ASM #1 sold
  12. Dan'el
    Updated to add Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
  13. Dan'el
    Updated to show FF #3 sold and ASM #1 deal pending
  14. Dan'el
    Updated to add Amazing Spider-Man #1
  15. Dan'el
    Updated to add Fantastic Four #1
  16. Dan'el
    Updated to add Fantastic Four #52 Marvel's Greatest Comics reprint
  17. Dan'el
    Updated to add Fantastic Four Annual #6
  18. Dan'el
    Updated to show FF #52 as sold and FF #3 with pending deal
  19. Dan'el
    Sorry about that. Thought I added that to the list. Asking $1,800. Last CGC 3.5 sale on eBay was $2,075 (August 16th).
  20. Dan'el
    Added Fantastic Four #3
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    Topic closed
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    CLOSED
  24. Dan'el
    I originally posted this under a different topic but thought I would repost it here since this topic addresses this specific issue. Based on comments on the other post and the ones I see here, I am going to return any books with "puddling". When I discussed this with CGC, they did not discourage me from sending them back. The only reason I even hesitated is that some of the books are valuable (over 10k), and I would rather not put all the extra miles and risk on them. By the way, I was lucky enough to get a CGC CSR who had worked in QC in the past. He said this issue is likely caused by the machine that pops the case together applying too much pressure. Once hunch is they may have tweaked that pressure a little to increase the speed at which the cases snap together. A better hunch is they have changed the design and thickness of the case (perhaps to deal with Newton rings) and the new design is more susceptible to this type of stress deformation. He was also completely honest about the QC issues at CGC. He indicated they are training a lot of new people in that department and that he expected the issue to improve as this year goes on.
  25. Dan'el
    Is anyone else encountering this case issue and do you think it is bad enough to send back as a mechanical error? The issue is a stress area in the center of the back of the case. Some also have a stress area around the outside of the back of the case. You cannot feel it, so the stress is internal. You cannot see this unless you hold the case at an angle to the light and even then it is not always easy to spot. As far as I can tell, it does not distort the image of the comic when viewed head on. I had a number of these in another lot. All of those had other issues (scratches, splotches, etc.) so I returned those. However, I now have three where this is the only issue. Kind of hate to keep sending these back, but then, someone is going to spend around ten grand for this comic (Fantastic Four #5 CGC 3.5), so I want it to be right. What do you think. Bad enough to send back or not worth worrying about since you cannot see it when viewed head on? I attached a few images. I am not a good enough photographer (and do not have the right filters and such) toake the issue crystal clear, but I think you can see it. By the way, I did discuss this with CGC and was lucky enough to get a CSR who had worked in QC in the past. He said this issue is likely caused by the machine that pops the case together applying too much pressure. He was also completely honest about the QC issues at CGC. He indicated they are training a lot of new people in that department and that he expected the issue to improve as this year goes on.