Gary Strange

Good buyer, recommend. 

On 12/9/2021 at 2:59 PM, loganparker said:

Winner winner chicken dinner 

Incredible Hulk 449 thunderbolts. Gonna call this VF+. A press will definitely bump the grade. SOLD

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On 12/3/2021 at 9:36 AM, skybolt said:

Not if you're clumsy like me.  I can't tell you how many times I've had tape stick to the front cover of a book (as I pull it out from the mylar), or have stacks of raw books slide off a table when I'm not looking. 

Yeah, I don't submit enough books to justify that time/money investment, and would rather leave it to someone else who knows what they are doing.

Selling my 9.8 copy. White pages. Paypal only. Shipped fully insured to US. No returns on graded books. 

On 12/3/2021 at 9:11 AM, skybolt said:

The one positive about CCS is that I haven't seen any non fast track submissions skip the line yet. On the negative side, I'm super worried that CCS hasn't even gotten to the late April/ early May submittals (after the price change) and they're still currently sitting at a 196 business day turnaround time. Can you imagine the log jam when they start tackling these submissions in a month or 2, especially considering they were only charging $8 per book for quick press vs. $15 for new submissions. I wouldn't be surprised if CCS takes the same route as CGC and start expediting pressing for new submissions because of the higher charge fee.

Find a local presser if I plan to submit books, lesson learned.  Everything I submitted has already gone from hot to cold.

Shipped 04/15/21
Received/checked in by CGC 5/28/21
Charged by CCS 09/08/21

CCS in process ever since to this day

A HUGE chunk of my 7 month wait so far has been "CCS IN PROCESS", so they need to fix that aspect pronto if they want me to continue to use that service.

So they got simplicity esports for trading card submissions(?!) but shouldn’t they be looking for more comic submission locations?

On 10/3/2021 at 9:14 PM, blazingbob said:

I'll take the X-Men #12

 

Winnah! Thanks!

On 9/30/2021 at 1:49 PM, Petroman said:

Yep, I feel your pain, my membership expires today.  Turned off auto-renew a few months back so will let it lapse.  Will think of getting back in when/if the TAT's drop to a reasonable level.  They've been making decent progress in the box opening (!?!?) backlog, now its the week of August 23rd.  But unfortunately the improved box opening times don't really seem to have translated to shorter grading times.  The only thing I'd consider sending in now would be Express or Modern Fast Track, but I see no rush to do either.

I think the only thing I’ll consider is on-site grading if they ever do that again. 

Yeah, I just got my membership renewal notice from them a couple days ago.  Definitely not gonna renew when I can only get maybe one job back a year.

On 9/24/2021 at 9:11 AM, mustang33guy said:

Big Top Comics #2

Scarce book

(4.5)

$45.00

 

Take per PM

On 9/5/2021 at 12:05 PM, jfletch999 said:

Frankenstein Comics #2 CGC 5.5 with Cream to Off-White pages!  Beautiful bright colors on this classic Briefer cover!  $415 shipped! 

Take per pm thx

On 8/28/2021 at 4:15 PM, jfletch999 said:

Frankenstein #33 CGC 4.0 with Cream to Off-White pages!  Classic Briefer story, cover, and art!  This is the rare final issue of the series -- Death O'Clock!  $325 shipped! 

Closed thx

On 8/12/2021 at 7:23 PM, Bird said:

they plan the events out pretty far in advance so I would assume they will NOT be at NYCC

I doubt that they will make an announcement about NOT attending specific events

No I wouldn't expect that either but if they aren't going to be doing onsite grading at any event for the foreseeable future, that would warrant an announcement of some type

look pretty rough, maybe a 5.5

I wouldn't submit anything until CGC gets over all these private signings and their TATs get to a more acceptable timeline.