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Hey, what’s going on in here?

Great set and great topic!

On 3/19/2024 at 11:27 AM, Mayor006 said:

No one particular vendor, you just need to keep an eye out for what's coming out in previews or keep up with what is coming out and grab the ones that you want. A lot of online and brick and mortar places will order more and give a better price if they have the money up front. Otherwise you take the risk that someone walks in and grabs the one or two copies they probably ordered.

Blanks from the beginning of the sketch cover era are hit and miss. Avengers #1 was great quality but Gen 13 #1 was pretty horrible. Most of the manufacturers have heard from enough people to know to do better these days than a glossy blank. 

Image United and the Glossy Secret Invasion blanks were universally panned, but you would have to try and find those. Most everything that has been done from 2013 or 2014 on have been pretty good.

@AleLuque  We will need better scans in order to see the damage or lack thereof on your copy.

I would almost be predicting a subscription crease unless the spine is wrecked like the other example.

I do not believe that page coloration will affect grade

Keep them like that.  Those are absolutely super cool.

On 3/12/2024 at 4:19 PM, Point Five said:

Yeah, but you left out the part where he said to have a good one!  

 

Check again!!!

It is very similar to my Saviuk signatures. I believe it is real.

On 8/30/2021 at 8:31 PM, Sensei Ryan said:

Thanks for Tom for helping put this into thread form!  I think it's nice to have a catalogue/database of these things in case anyone wants to research it further (it gives a baseline as to how to start/track/estimate values at least...

I'd love to see an image of one of the SS 9.9's someday.   I've been a TWD collector for a long time and have never seen one of these surface.  Very mysterious for sure 

I think there is a good chance that all of the 9.9 SS book are owned by Tony Moore. I was with the Moore's and their rep when they submitted a bunch of his personal copies for SS.  I don't remember for certain and I don't have the picture evidence any longer, but my memory is telling me that all three were from Tony Moore's file copies.

On 2/29/2024 at 11:35 AM, Mr. Zipper said:

One could argue that there are tons of books without date stamps, yet they are not differentiated from books with them at the 9.8 grade level.

If they wanted to be consistent, the simple answer is that the FCBD stamps are too large and "not unobtrusive," so they would max out at Blue Label 9.4 or 9.6.  This would at least align them consistently with date stamps in terms of Blue versus GLOD.

The logic of your second sentence needs not the straw man of your first.

This is not exactly the same thing, but I think the market, at some point will differentiate between very clean sigs and sloppy or age-affected sigs.  The best example is Stan Lee. Most of his early sigs are clean and classic. As he got older, he moved into the phase where they looked like "Steadle" and then finally, "SBLOB."  So Stan's earlier sigs may do better, but it will be because they are cleaner.

On 2/24/2024 at 4:36 PM, LowGradeBronze said:

There's just no logical reason this is a green label. What's the difference between that and a date stamp???

I think it is because tons of these FCBD books are in the wild without store stamps.  CGC chose to differentiate between stamped and non-stamped.

On 2/22/2024 at 5:05 PM, dbcn said:

 

Very happy to have these in the collection, but also have the nagging feeling of 'why is no one else having these books signed...'  

 

 

 

It looks like you chose books that have covers prominently featuring the characters that the voice actors play.  That is very cool.  But it is not necessarily standard operating procedure.  I used to try to get the highest grade #1 or jam cover done and try to get as many sigs on one book as possible - to get the biggest bang for the SS buck. That is probably more SOP in the SS world. I would say that is why you are doing a lot of "1st done" celeb books.  

On 2/17/2024 at 8:03 AM, TupennyConan said:

This business about expanding demographics so as to outlive the aging fanboy is silly.

From IM1 to Endgame, Disney's MCU demographic expanded so far that it included all demographics. That was a remarkable achievement.

Post EG, we've all observed Disney intentionally demean and reject the aging fanboy demographic that created the original possibility for IM1's success. 

The result has been a destruction of their remarkable achievement. 

Today, no demographic wants to go to a Marvel movie. 

This post is on point. And it goes beyond losing the fanboy base. My nieces had female friends who were absolute MCU ride or die fans.  We are talking 12-17 demographic.  They have all moved on because the magic is gone.  Blame whatever you want, but for the kids, the draw and the magic is just gone.

On 2/11/2024 at 9:43 AM, Dcolborn said:

I have a comic that was signed and i had a COA sticker put on to verify the fact. How would that affect the grading process? Would it be worth grading? I really just want to get it slabbed to protect it, but was curious about the grading process.

Thanks to all

I had a book SS'd through Celebrity Authentics very early on in their collab with CGC.  They demanded that their COA sticker be placed on the comic instead of on the case as it is done now.  The book was a strong 9.8 candidate and it came back 7.5.  That, I believe, is a fair benchmark for what the drop would be - at least for a sticker the size of the CA sticker.   

RIP to one of my favorites of all time. It takes a special kind of talent to be able to air arm-wrestle with Arnold and also give Adam Sandler "a hand."

I don't want to get too far down the rabbit hole, but there is a distinction between licensing intellectual property like Conan and Godzilla - where the licensed character is part of an ongoing series of stories, some of which may be adapted from source materials and some are not - and obtaining the rights to make a comic book adaptation of a previously published story - which would be a "one and done." 

This is awesome.  The only thing better than the original RoadHouse is more new RoadHouse.

On 1/20/2024 at 5:46 PM, CAHokie said:

Just finished it. Overall I enjoyed it but I am glad that next season will be a solo season again. I always enjoy seeing the talented and beautiful Serinda Swan though. 
 
The lengthy car shootout scenes bother me a little bit. If you fire hundreds of rounds at a car door with automatic weapons, they are going through those car doors. 

Finished last night.  It felt like a 6 episode season stretched out into 8.  Good - I really enjoyed the backstory of the 110th especially - but not great.  And I felt like the way they dealt with the big bad and Swan were huge anticlimaxes.

I really have to disagree with Kojima's analysis of the flashbacks.  To me the flashbacks were the only thing that made this series not "ho-hum."  There was very little monster action so it needed to have something else - and in my opinion what it had was a great system of seeing three generations of the same family interwoven with the Titans and Monarch. I give it about an 85