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A posthumous nod to Luxxcorp would be awesome.

LOL - yes. That was the consensus among a certain group of Boardies. :-)

It was addressed in their monthly newsletter - a different pressing defect each month. I was referring to the fact that the previous poster referenced a "press release." Those weren't really "press releases," but pretty close. They are definitely factoring bad presses into the grading. I can't speak directly to whether they are regularly listing them in the grader's notes, but it stands to reason.

They did this a while back - even going so far as to describe the specific damage - pebbling, staple impact, spine pinching etc.

No. F**k you.

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That made me LOL, you rascal. Hope you are doing great.

You mean the Seagate bags? Those are collector's items too!

I'm almost 50, grandpa. Don't spill your Ensure on the comics.

No, Spoon. No soup for you.

What is fascinating about this "debate" is that it is the confluence of several factors that have never been part of the classic comic collecting milieu: (1) The desire to have your slabbed comic say "1st appearance." In the old days, the market just sorted itself out - now people want to have the comfort of those little words on the right side of their slabs; (2) The instantaneous nature of information dissemination. Again in the old days, people would do research, write or read articles in Overstreet, CVM, CGB or *gasp* Wizard and again, it would, over time, sort itself out - now it is like an immediate blood chumming shark tank for every new character announcement; and (3) Media hype price explosions. You take all of these together and first appearance becomes more than what it has always been - the first appearance of the character in the context of a published, serialized comic book story. Now it is more of a "dive for the last of the musical chairs" type cash grab where you just keep going back to find something else that can be hoarded and cashed out when the character makes a cameo in "Devil Dinosaur 4." Historically, a first appearance is what it is, and don't forget, there has always been that old chestnut about "cameo appearances" a la Hulk 180. There can't be a cameo unless the character is already known, and thus a first appearance cannot be a cameo. So anyone that wants a first appearance to be anything else is going to be bucking the trend of historic collecting parlance, which is fine. Just don't expect the old guard to change. Personally, I wish those folks would find a new term and leave "first appearance" alone - call it a "Bingo!" or a "money shot" or a "dead president bonanza" or whatever.

This is what the Signtaure Section is for - according to the tagline right next to the name "Signature Room." "A forum to discuss everything to do with collecting CGC Signature Series comic books and unwitnessed signatures." This is exactly what the Sig Room is for. However, unknown people giving opinions on the veracity of screenshots of signatures is really nothing more than people kibbutzing - it's not authentication.

If they had Bizarro Boardie of the Year, or Reverse Flash Boardie of the Year, you would have won it every year.

I think Shin has won it before.

I think arexcrooke has the original greggy-9000. All you n00bs are cute.

Stan has a stash of these (or at least he did 5-6 years ago.) I made a pitch to him to help him get them graded in exchange for one of them. He politely declined. He is such a cool dude, but damn I wish I had been more persuasive that day . . .

I wore my Brady jersey in that video. I know that helped.

@Transplant I care so much it hurts.

I have never been a run collector. When I hand compiled my first serious want list from Overstreet #14, it was split into two halves - #1s and first appearances. "Keys" to me seemed like a nomenclature for books that had transcended into legendary status - Action 1, 'Tec 27 etc. I get that language has changed, and will continue to change - if for no other reason than that "keys" have a coolness factor that everyone wants to tap into, and not everyone is going to own an Action #1. I would just ask that some of the younger collectors understand that for many of us "keys" will never mean what it is morphing into today. No book that I have owned over 25 copies of is a key. It just isn't and calling it won't make it so. So I suppose this was my way of saying via Imgflip Meme Generator

@Transplant I don't know how that could be construed as me being mean. I am genuinely concerned for that guy. Andy's really mean to him.

Don't talk about Strahan that way.

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I hope you had a great time at the show.

For your $2500 you could either take 65 copies of IMSM one-shot, or fade a weeks worth of football picks. Your choice. Congrats!

And the People's Champion got the pernts. Suckas.