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Agreed. It also breaks down from water bottles left in hot cars etc. Knowing nothing about the molecular particulars of all these different plastics (Barex, mylar etc.) I remain unsurprised that they are potentially shedding molecules and creating strange plastic-y scents.

Given the increasing amount of reporting on "microplastics" none of this is really surprising to me.

Have fun, bud. The story about the Robin Williams animation cel was awesome, too.

Imgflp deserves its attribution.

It's Ron Lim.

I wasn't sure that was him. Color me shocked.

Deepest sympathies.

Sho'Nuff was my first Board mancrush . . .

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This journal is Fingh approved - food, music, capitalism, mass insect slaughter, battered vintage matchbox cars, poker winnings-induced detention by foreign nations. You should be putting better booze in your system, though.

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It is easy if you have them registered - because you will get a notification and you can send CGC a reject notice. But if you don't have them registered and they are stolen, I would send Bree or whomever is in charge of the Registry now a PM or give her a call and give her the list of numbers and see if she can nip it in the bud.

The only way to be consistently successful is to have low basis books (i.e. an inventory of books bought long ago) and access to economically advantageous signing opportunities (i.e you can get a lot of them done yourself at cons or trade them out with other like minded collectors, and you are not paying robust signing fees). That is the old school market I cut my teeth in back in 2007. Conversely, in the current market, so much of the opportunity for profit is being gobbled up by price of the book, creator/celeb costs, facilitator costs and slabbing costs that there is very little margin at all. You had better be doing it for the love of the game, or you are better off investing in tulip bulbs.

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That was such a great time to be reading and collecting comics . . .

It depends solely on the grade. The difference between 9.4 and 9.8 takes a keen eye to observe and the price difference between a slabbed 9.4 and a slabbed 9.8 is HUGE. I would not even think about slabbing books like these without either getting better at grading or pre-screening for a grade that will insure profitability.

This is correct - If all I had was a slabbed book and Neil Gaiman was available, I would absolutely have him sign the slab rather than not get an auto.

This is only true for a certain type of sig - Dave Stevens, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko are the three that come to mind. There are no SS books with contemporaneous witnessing for these three (and I'm sure for others), so the Green label version with good provenance commands high values. If you look at guys that are available (Adam Hughes, J. Scott Campbell, Greg Capullo, even Todd McFarlane etc.) Green label books are waaaay below Yellow label books in price with grade being equal.

Within the last month or so.

WTB! If you are going to do a jam book, I would not suggest a 1972 Swamp Thing #1. Two reasons, (1) That cover has a beautiful ST image that would be obliterated by the sigs (2) some people will not sign books that they did not work on, and you run the risk of not getting the sigs you want. I would suggest one of two things - either get a Swamp Thing blank and work with that, or get one of the Swamp Thing movie comics. With either of those, you can talk to the creators about it being a jam homage, and they may sign it even though they didn't work on it. Just food for thought . . .

The chances of it going down in grade are slim. It's a 9.6 already, so that allows significantly more flaws than a 9.8. The way Liefeld's costs are exploding for sigs, I would look and see whether his sig adds as much value as the re-grade and his signing fees will cost you.

I'm only about half kidding on that.