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Wow. That's a lot to digest.

This thread is a bit of a dicktease.

It also looks like you dropped it.

George is as rock solid as they come. Always has the goods and always super easy to work with. Sense of humor is drier than the Texas sand so beware!

I can't wait to get Sweet Tooth SS!!

Good work to all involved.

Yes, the seller sold it to his friend. Not a biggie, as I'm waiting for the Hulk 181 Are pm's okay for this batch? Sure, but you'll get the same answer. Once you go Hawaiian, you'll walk away cryin?

Did someone pre-cherry pick the ASM 129?

Love the Monster Hunters!! I had Joe Staton do some Eman for me for SS a couple of years ago. He is great.

I`m fully aware of that. If you go back and read threads from 2004 and 2005, I actually made posts saying that not every ultra-HG book was a press job, particularly BA books, because anyone who had been collecting for a while would realize just how many pristine books were sitting untouched in collections. However, the sheer volume of pressing over the past few years has caused me to change my tune, because it does seem like whatever COULD be worth pressing does end up getting pressed at some point. What makes me sad, and one reason I crusade against pressing, is that the pressed books have tainted everything else, since we don`t know which books are pressed and which are genuine and end up just tarring everything with the same brush. I emjoy reading your posts, but I believe you have become paranoid about presed books. I press books here and there, and usually end up sellig them for whatever reason. But ever since CGC changed the BA/MA tier dates I would think there are less BA books being pressed, since profit on many "average" books are barely worth slabbing alone, so adding extra shipping and another 10-15 bucks doesnt make sense from a business standpoint. And I am sure there are plenty of 9.8s to be had out there, this book is from the age of bags and boards and collectors. There will likely be another 9.9, IDK if pressing will help it though. Like I said, I like your posts. But I think you have become paranoid about rampant pressing. I am not anti-pressing, at all. But I would be willing to bet that more books have been pressed in the last 24 months than were pressed from the delivery of the first copy of Obadiah Oldbuck forward. Here, let me fix that for you. "I would be willing to bet that more books have been pressed in the last 24 months than were pressed from the delivery of the first copy of Obadiah Oldbuck to that point." As it stands, both contentions are to the present day, which would make your hypothesis incorrect. ROLFMAOOMGWTFBBQ. Chainnball says "suck it and he loves you." Owned by a giant dork. Happy Christmas.

I`m fully aware of that. If you go back and read threads from 2004 and 2005, I actually made posts saying that not every ultra-HG book was a press job, particularly BA books, because anyone who had been collecting for a while would realize just how many pristine books were sitting untouched in collections. However, the sheer volume of pressing over the past few years has caused me to change my tune, because it does seem like whatever COULD be worth pressing does end up getting pressed at some point. What makes me sad, and one reason I crusade against pressing, is that the pressed books have tainted everything else, since we don`t know which books are pressed and which are genuine and end up just tarring everything with the same brush. I emjoy reading your posts, but I believe you have become paranoid about presed books. I press books here and there, and usually end up sellig them for whatever reason. But ever since CGC changed the BA/MA tier dates I would think there are less BA books being pressed, since profit on many "average" books are barely worth slabbing alone, so adding extra shipping and another 10-15 bucks doesnt make sense from a business standpoint. And I am sure there are plenty of 9.8s to be had out there, this book is from the age of bags and boards and collectors. There will likely be another 9.9, IDK if pressing will help it though. Like I said, I like your posts. But I think you have become paranoid about rampant pressing. I am not anti-pressing, at all. But I would be willing to bet that more books have been pressed in the last 24 months than were pressed from the delivery of the first copy of Obadiah Oldbuck forward. I mean how many people opened their own business pressing books in the last 24 months. Before that who was doing it for others other than Matt? Oh mess. Did this just become a pressing thread? Screw you, Hui!

I don't have a problem with any person buying a label. And it's clear that some collectors do. I've heard more than a few say "I collect 9.8s" or "I collect 9.6s and above." Sometimes it's followed with "I collect 9.8 (fill in the blank)s" but it's clear that it starts with the label. That's all fine. Though, people who do so should be aware they are collecting labels and not books. Or, at the least, labels first and books (possibly) second. I am surprised, however, that people who do focus so greatly on the label #s don't make a greater case for improving the case, or the slab. The more you feel a business should be focused on infinitessimal differences between one book and another, then it seems to me that the more you want the slab itself to present zero or near-zero danger of altering the book that's encased in it. When I see supposedly minty books floating freely in slabs or even bowing in the middle, I get a bit frustrated by it myself, and I generally regard the top several tier grades as interchangeable. I can only imagine how frustrated it would make me if I were someone who obsessed over infininitessimal differences to the point of feeling a 9.9 was worth a dozen times a 9.8, or a thousand times as much as a 9.4. . So, you're saying buy the label, not the book?

3. A 10.0 Batman the Cult #1 from my 1st modern submission evah. Pulled from a 50 cent box during a "make your own longbox for $50" sale at the LCS. And two CPG #1s at 9.9 that i got directly from the creator himself, so there wasn't a lot of shipping around the world. They probably should have an asterisk.

You should start a "How many 9.9 and 10.0 books have you subbed" thread.

So, you are saying buy the book, and not the label?

Time has already told. I'd suspect Hulk 181 is one of the most commonly pressed books for upgrade, as evidenced by the expansion of the 9.8 census population over the last 3-5 years. No new 9.9s have surfaced. That's a bingo.

But pressing isn't "new" starting today. It's been going on for a while. You don't think people have been looking at Hulk 181s for the past few years? The reality is, pressing a book into a 9.9 isn't like just turning the press to "11" and watching the magic happen. Books that can grade out at 9.9/10 are FREAKS of preservation, to find a book with a slight, pressable flaw that could turn into a 9.9 is probably just as rare as finding a true 9.9, just because it's got to be an uncanny combination of issues. + infinity to the part in green. What normally gets perfectly preserved books a 9.8 instead of a mint grade is almost never pressable. Tiny bindery tears, tiny flecks of white at a corner, tiny, nearly imperceptible spine tics on otherwise perfect books. I would love to hear anyone post a "press to 9.9" story, because I don't think one exists except for people that are pressing moderns.

True 1 of a kind:

it makes no difference...just have fun with it (thumbs u 40,000 posts I may not have a lot of posts, but I'll bet, word for word, I beat 'em all.... That's nothing to be happy about. Brevity is the source of wit. Pfffffft. Go get some sun, GZ. Albino jokes? Et tu, Amadeus?

it makes no difference...just have fun with it (thumbs u 40,000 posts I may not have a lot of posts, but I'll bet, word for word, I beat 'em all.... That's nothing to be happy about. Brevity is the source of wit.

These Boards are an amazing smorgasbord of comic buying opportunities. We owe it to one another to not let our eyes get bigger than our stomachs, or our wallets, as the case may be.

So if somebody wanted to buy a book/s and you offered them one, sent them scans when requested, offered a price and they agreed, they asked for time payments and you agreed, then finally they said 'I'll take it', you wouldn't consider that a sale? If the guy then never bothered contacting you again, didn't even PM you to say 'I've changed my mind' or 'I can't afford it', you wouldn't bring it up? Especially when you know the same person has done exactly the same thing to other boardies? You think that you would be deserving of going on the probation list if that happened to you? So if somebody wanted to buy a book/s and you offered them one, sent them scans when requested, offered a price and they agreed, they asked for time payments and you agreed, then finally they said 'I'll take it', you wouldn't consider that a sale? That's not what I said. I said if something was agreed upon on a WTB, you're pretty much on your own. Sales Threads have rules and contracts, WTB threads don't. IF I agreed to sell a book, and the person agreed to BUY said book, but after six months nothing happens and no one bothers to initiate communcation.. Then who's on the hook? The buyer or seller? I disagree with the highlighted statement as much as is humanly possible. To me, it is all about the agreement. If an unequivocal agreement is made, it does not matter where the conversation started. Breach of an agreement is wrong no matter how it originated. If the two parties did not reach an agreement or there was a mutual mistake or a mutual forgetting, then no harm, no foul.

No one ever thought that it would be anything but his classic sig. It was a HUGE shock when we found out. But it is growing on me a little. Lots of guys have different sigs. Sienkiewicz has two different sigs that are so different it is funny. And many artists change their sigs over time. I am just thrilled that we got him to sign.