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So is this where the talk about real comics heating up is happening? The other thread has derailed so far I doubt the train ever gets back on the tracks.

How many pages has it been since discussion about an actual comic book heating up has occurred? Talk about a thread getting derailed.

So let's talk about books heating up! Lois and Clark 8 is already hitting $14.99 shipped on eBay on it's day of release! I grabbed the last two issues my LCS had. Got my wife grabbing a couple copies from a shop near her. I also picked up Supes 52 and Justice League 50. Just specs. But we'll see.

Do you have any suggestions on how they can speed up their TAT? You know they have competition for a reason. They were the only respectable grading company on the block for a long time. If you go back and look through this thread you will see that your complaint has been spoken a thousand times over for many years. Many times the next point was that CGC needed competition to help with TAT. Now they have it. I'm not trying to be a either. I've been in your shoes. I learned the same way that you are learning now that paying that extra $10/issue is worth it to get your books back in a timely manner.

out of curiosity i called and was told up to 6 more weeks on these. unbelievable. i understated backups and delays, these things happen . Completely unacceptable. It's late spring. Con season is in full swing. This happens every year. If you want your modern books back as quickly as possible, you need to be sending them fast track. for a person who doesn't know the ins and outs that cause its a con season or any reason its very deceiving. Its offering a service which is priced in a way where time is 50% percent and that's what the person would believe they are paying for. To be fair, they do post an estimated and current turnaround time schedule on their website. I don't think anyone is trying to be deceitful. 38 business days is almost 8 weeks for modern slow track. Turn around times are probably changing daily, again due to con season. There more than likely not going to be updating the current TAT that often because they will be changing quickly, which is largely why we have this thread. I'm not getting what you mean by pricing being relative to 'time is 50% percent'. CGC is going to try to ensure that fast tracks get out as quickly as possible because you're paying for their grading to be expedited. 2012 was a mess with long turn around for slow track AND fast track if I remember correctly. I personally submitted two books slow track in mid-June 2012 and didn't get them back until sometime around Thanksgiving FWIW.

So did Lois get superpowers or what?

out of curiosity i called and was told up to 6 more weeks on these. unbelievable. i understated backups and delays, these things happen . Completely unacceptable. It's late spring. Con season is in full swing. This happens every year. If you want your modern books back as quickly as possible, you need to be sending them fast track.

Not the action labs one, right?

Here's one that I've only seen on a con once. Should've bought it when I had the chance. Seen lots of Evil Ernie #1 and #2 but never this one. (I wasn't going to cons back when this was at the top of the Wizard top 10):

It's a Graham Crackers variant, isn't it?

Awesome! I think this will change alot of things for this book which was already on the up and up Curious. WHY do you think it is on the way up? Blue Marvel?! Ok Because there's not much more to speculate on. I think he may have a major roll in the new civil war? Probably just someone to face off with hulk Where the hell is the Sentry?

Came here to say this. I've also been on the lookout for the GI Joe 33 Michael Turner foil variant from DDP and have never seen one in the wild as well. Can't even find a decent image of it online either.

Spoiler - that story isn't that great. Awesome to know its a good seller though.

Yea, that last one is weird. The other 2 are about the going price. McFarlane did mention a screenplay a few months ago, which seemed to renew interest. That $10 I paid for my OO copy back in 94 is actually looking pretty good right now.

Pressed or no? That subscription crease though...

Every time I hear about Wizard World crapping the bed, I think of this and it makes me smile.

Let me tell you about turnaround times during the summer of 2012...

Squarebounds are tough to grade/judge IMO.

I'm down for it! And SSBII. SSBII will never be reprinted and will not be released digitally according to Eric.

Spider-Gwen.

I want my 127 2nd print back.

The bold part is the reason dealers are charging so much. WW, from what I've gathered, is an expensive con to set up at regardless of location. $1,100 per booth here in Cleveland. If you price your books at 10% over what you could get on E-Bay then (even factoring E-Bay fees) you would need to sell $6,000 in books before you are getting what you can get on E-Bay and that's assuming you have no other expenses. Its not physically easy to sell at Cons compared to online sales so I can see why people mark their books up 20% over E-Bay but then you have people start walking away with prices that high. Tough market to succeed in. I think this happened at Heroes in 2012 or 2013. Could've been the fact that Stan Lee was there, but prices were aggressive. I heard dealers complain. I couldn't understand it. They were pricing themselves out of business. I view WW as more of a 'pop culture' con anyway. As a dealer, I would bring diverse group of product - probably more pop culture items than comics. That's me speaking as an attendee though. Point is, I think you've got to know your market and clientele base before setting up.

The bold part is the reason dealers are charging so much. WW, from what I've gathered, is an expensive con to set up at regardless of location.

Martha Wayne is the Joker. That's what's happening there.

Bump for love. I'm also bumping it because I'm on the lookout for a copy of Famous Monsters 59 - classic Barnabas Collins cover by Basil Gogos. Would love a copy in the 7.5 - 8.0 range, although higher is always better. Raw is preferred.