Allen James

cool book! I've developed a fondness for the green one myself lately

Beautiful Eerie's Cheetah! Some fantastic covers in that title

Very nice! Congrats!

Very interesting and thought provoking thread!

I think everyone has an idea how CGC grades BUT there is still a grouping that don't care a thing about CGC. They don't submit, they don't buy graded books and they still sell a ton of raw books to folks that feel the same way. And to be honest I don't feel that is necessarily a bad thing as long as they are consistent in their grading and pricing and you know what you are getting. If you know Harley's 9.4 raw is only going to be an 8.0/8.5 CGC then it shouldn't be purchased in the hopes it can press out to his assigned grade. For me personally, when CGC first came along I spent hours and hours and submitted hundreds of books to learn how they graded and what counted off. A lot was pretty surprising because at that time I never even thought about some of those deductions on high grade books. It made me pretty successful at submissions but that's what I was looking for at the time. Some people adjust to change well, some not at all and some go along just enough to get by. I think as buyers we have some of the responsibility to know how someone else grades and then just be aware of that when we submit books. There's a lot of guys out there that are really fair though and easy to work with so I'll continue to buy from them just for that reason.

I have always found there is a big difference in the way some long time dealers grade high grade books as opposed to low to mid grade books since the adoption of the 10 point grading system. Many still look at a high grade book and eye ball it only looking for the obvious defects and not the defects that CGC would knock a book down on, such as non color breaking dings and folds. In their eyes a nice looking, truly high grade but not CGC 9.2-9.6, is still NM. The defects on low to mid grade are more obvious and thus easier to assign.

Great looking book! Reds really pop on that one!

Great copy of a seldom seen book; congrats West. I'm surprised Schomburg didn't label the "Death Drill" to make sure it was clear what it was. Toro's accuracy seems a little off; maybe he melted through the label. The "Death Drill" sign is probably on the other side of the machine so it's victims can read it when they come down the stairs. The "stairs" sign is up behind the wall. Nice book West (thumbs u Cool book West!! Congrats!

Wicked cover! Nice pick up!

Outstanding! Congrats!!

Nice Books! Great books! Particularly like the Prize, fascinating cover on that one

Very cool! I've never seen this one before

Your Batman 2 has beautiful registration Thanks! Colors are much better than this pic shows

sometimes I think it is harder to find a 2 than a 1! Way back in the stone age, that used to be a common thought; 2s harder than 1s, second appearance harder than 1st. I'm not so sure they are as hard to find as the excitement wears off after the 1 as does the interest. Either way you wanna go Bat 2 is awesome!

You've been very busy getting some great books These old eyes don't see the store stamp you referred to though, help a brother out I'll try and get a pic of the stamp but its on the edges of the pages themselves, says Jordans 510 E 5th, three times. Other book has exact same stamp

Another favorite, first time owning this bad boy and I love it!

Next best thing to a 1...2

Just a cool Bat! I consider it a moderate key

One of my favorite covers ever! Has a particular store stamp that I noticed on a particular book end book posted last year, would love to pair em up one day!

Couldn't get my scanner going tonight but I was needin to scan some books, might have posted a couple in the past but here goes anyway First time owning this book, the cover is just amazing! So much better in hand than any picture can do justice.

Being depressed makes me want to scan, sell and buy books so here's step one

Kick butt book to start with! Congrats!!

That book puts a smile on my face every time! One of my favorite pch books! Check out the story of the ship captain that starts chopping heads off his arms! Crazy story! It is a great book!