seanfingh

There is no better place to pick up accurately graded and (very often undergraded) Bronze, Silver and Gold in a two or three hundred mile radius. They also are always buying and often have a great stock of Independents and sweet Copper. Plus they really don't understand nor do they like slabbing so no cherry picking of the slabbable copies.

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There is the old Funny Farm in Vandalia. I don't know what it is called now. The guy who owns it is nice enough and they have some interesting books. But you can never go through the back issues because he has stuff stacked all over. This town lost a really good shop when the Bookie Parlor went down. Now it's down to maverick's and Bookery fantasy.

The main guy was a guy in his mid-twenties or so, seemed tall (but everyone seems tall to me) with a long blonde ponytail. He is still active in the Dayton comic market. Isee him at Mid Ohio and at Gem City every year. He may be affiliated with Bell Book and Comic in Oakwood.

I went to the 1 story Dragon's lair on 5th street a couple of times, but it has been closed for 5 or 6 years now, if we are talking about the same place. Decent bronze selection, but it hadn't been properly cared for. Never bought much there, some copies of Ms. Marvel 16 and 17 and some decent squarebound Marvels. I was not in Dayton at the time of the two story shop, but it sounds frickin' sweet.

Nice. Thanks. Some nice BA grey-tone. The thing I've always loved about this cover is that, besides its general level of coolness, it's an Ernie Chua/Chan, yet looks nothing like his work. Just a great creepy cover. That cover really looks like Jack Sparling to me. It totally doesn't look like Chan, but he may have had instructions to make it look a certain way. Hmm. I was always a bit confused by this cover, and agree that it looks like Sparling. But isn't that EC's goofy DC sig in the bottom left corner of the window? I am almost positive you are right. It is virtually identical to the one on the cover of Freedom Fighters #1. Is it possible that Chua did the top part and someone else (Sparling) did the bottom?

Nice. Thanks. Some nice BA grey-tone. The thing I've always loved about this cover is that, besides its general level of coolness, it's an Ernie Chua/Chan, yet looks nothing like his work. Just a great creepy cover. That cover really looks like Jack Sparling to me. It totally doesn't look like Chan, but he may have had instructions to make it look a certain way.

That book is awesome. Frank Miller is my white whale.

That 267 is sweet. That book is a miscut nightmare a lot of times.

You two dorks need to quit changing the thread headers. I can't tell whether it is a thread I care about or not. DORKS!

Pick me, pick me!!!! I forgive you. If I send you some more overgraded krap, will you stop forgiving me? I expect the overgrading. Just pack it better next time. I forgive you. He is now to be among you at the calling of your hearts Rest assured this troubador is acting on His part. The union of your spirits, here, has caused Him to remain For whenever two or more of you are gathered in His name There is Love. There is Love.

For the same reason that a dog licks itself.

Your kudos are in the SS thread, numpty. http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1234295&fpart=42 In your face, greggy clone.

Kudos to ArexCrooke for a sweet copy of a tough 20 cent Superboy. Thanks, buddy! --S.

Kudos to jonjesper for always hooking me up with ultra-high quality SS. Another package of sweet SS goodness arrived last night.

Kudos to the Skinny_White_Boy for four sweet slabs all the way from the great white north and Kudos to Namisgr for two spectacular Bronze slabs that look even better in hand than in their marvelous scans. Thanks guys, --Sean.

Kudos from today's mail: GACollectibles for two sweet slabs Annihilis for a box of sweet raw Copper and pirate for a knockout of a Bob McLeod Secret Invasion cover. Thanks, gents!

Educate yourself, dork: A gauntlet is “a heavy glove, often armored” or “a glove with a heavy cuff covering part of the arm.” To throw down the gauntlet is to challenge someone; to pick up the gauntlet is to accept someone’s challenge. A gantlet is “a lane between two lines of people armed with staves or whips, through which someone being punished is forced to run while being clubbed or whipped by the people on either side” (run the gantlet) and, figuratively, “any series of trials and difficulties.” To complicate matters, each is a variant spelling of the other. If you look up the words in a dictionary, most will say they're variants of one another. But there is a historical distinction.

Who is your expert grader? Does he have any chops as far as CGC grading "standards" are concerned, or is he someone that has been in comics for years, but hasn't done much with CGC? If so, chances are his grades are going to be off until he starts reviewing hundreds of CGC graded books. 1 and 4 are both notoriously hard in 9.8 because of production defects. Why did you get them graded in the first place? Are they for your collection? Or were you looking for the big 9.8 to flip for a profit?

greggy is not the only one!

What are you welcome for? I sent the check to NC.

Kudos to the Regent of Romance and forum legend, greggy, for three exquisite examples of the four color art (aka overgraded junk). Received as quickly as Canada Post could muster, and packaged so well that only my time as an apprentice field surgeon in the Foreign Legion allowed me to extricate it from its travelling tomb. Kudos to you, Greg.

Kudos to Skynwalker for a sweet ASM 300, perfectly packaged and speedily delivered. Thanks, Marc.

Masking is more effective if one utilizes it to titilate the imagination of the reader. For example: Go fist yourself, you -smoking squeezer.

Which book was that? I need to start grading more stuff. Yes you do. Prove it greggy clone.