seanfingh

It's possible that I am conflating some of the details of the ff48 find with the big 1950 ME find from around the same time that had MULTIPLE copies of Ghost Rider 1 and the Frazetta Durango Kid books in UHG.

Pontoon is thinking about something different - he may be completely right about whatever he is talking about, but it is not the FF48s from Utah. Or I am the one who is suffering from memory loss, which is what I am starting to come around to at this point.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

75% yes

I accept your apology.

via Imgflip Meme Generator

It's nice to actually be involved in a legit CG thread . . .

That was the guy whose family had a newsstand in the 70's or they knew someone who had the newsstand and they were liquidating the comics. He showed stacks 10-20 deep of Dynomutt, TV Stars, Flintstones, etc. along with tons of other stuff. I had a PM with him about whether he was going to sell the H-B books or not. I have no idea what happened to that motherlode.

In my experience the drop will be to no less than 7.5. I had some signed books early in Celebrity Authentics existence where they put the authentication sticker on my book. The store sticker will be treated no better than that, and probably worse.

I can't recall. The 48 was a big book for me at the time. that's why it caught my attention.

This wasn't a case. It was a twine wrapped bundle with brown paper around it. If memory serves, there were two. One they pieced out and one they sold whole.

That's the one. If it's not too difficult, would you drop a scan in the thread? I would love to see one of them again!

Does anyone remember when there was an unopened bundle find of FF48 in Utah and they were Ebaying their copies for days and days? I bid on 20-30 of them and never won a single one. I bet 90% of the 9.8s came from that jackpot. I would never pay big money for that book just because of watching all those untouched copies being auctioned for days.

Adkins worked mostly as an inker, but the times I have seen his original pencils, it is signed in a stylized block letter signature style. I suspect that was little Danny Adkins' personal copy that he bought at the drugstore in Ames IA with his paper route money!

Dutch74 has had an *ahem* interesting series of interactions on the Boards. Suffice it to say, I am shocked neither at the incoherence, nor the vituperative outburst.

Maybe you should pull off your tinfoil hat and lighten up a bit

There is not anything to "pull off." CGC looked at it once. Saw no trimming. Looked at it again and found trimming. It either is trimmed or isn't trimmed and absent any other information seems just as likely to be deemed either one. For the bump in value, who wouldn't resub? I would be the most worried that somehow the utensil used to open the inner well slipped and shaved the edge, turning a non trimmed book into a trimmed one. I have cracked several hundred CGC books and did it once.

We talked about this a little bit in the Star thread. The Star books (including the MOTU) are tougher in proportion to the super hero books. But anyone who was collecting/hoarding Star books on the if/come has tons of them.

Because it is a terrible idea, and runs completely counter to the concept of the Yellow label. Forged and mistaken COAs have plagued collectibles for years. CGC does not want to dilute the simplicity of the Yellow label with something as dubious as after the fact authentication.

Oh, you are a laugh riot.

I'm pretty sure when I slabbed, I had the one of the if not the 1st 9.8 copy, then it turned into this: http://www.myslabbedcomics.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=4417&GSub=627

It looks like a cut from a dull cutting blade.

<Insert Confused Baby meme>

Custom title thread FTW