MatterEaterLad

Good lord. I have books in that I don't expect to see until early next year. I tell myself that's okay because they will have increased in value while waiting. Maybe.

Curious...does anyone have the record for the longest submission time? You could compound that with pressing (at CGC or elsewhere) and get even longer. Six months? Eight?

Thanks guys.

Good looking 3.5! If those stains come out you might get a slight bump, but may not be worth the $$. Total judgement call. I've had some books cleaned not because it increased the value all that much but because they're books that mean a lot to me. It's sort of like polishing a car. Sometimes you just want it to shine a bit.

Picked this up as part of a small collection. Anyone familiar with the initials on the cover?

This one breaks my heart. Beautiful gloss on the cover, with a terrible tear. The tear doesn't affect the interior pages. There is no tape anywhere.

Wow. So sad

1) Grading. I'm putting this at the top because I've had some good/bad experiences with resto checking. 2) Pressing. A lot of books can't be improved all that much from cleaning, so I'm putting this second. 3) Cleaning. See above. 4) Encapsulation. I know this is important, but this is the one area I DON'T want to have to worry about. The others are subjective and will have some variance. Encapsulation should not. It's like depositing my money at the bank and they try to upsell me on some type of fraud protection. If I have to pay extra for fraud protection from my bank, I'm changing banks. If I have to cross my fingers and hope the encapsulation doesn't damage my book, I'm going to hold off sending in books until there are some improvements.

Sent a comic in a USPS Priority medium flat rate box. It arrived crushed. Luckily the comic was inside an inner box designed specifically for slabs and there was enough bubble wrap around it. The outer box was trashed but the slab was fine, wasn't even cracked. First time something like that's happened. Could be a coincidence. Could be the horrible conditions at the USPS right now.

My favorite, naturally.

Didn't do much for me. I think I just have Bat-fatigue. I just don't care anymore. I get that it's a franchise property and they want to keep it making money, and maybe that's why I'm a bit cynical about it. This film seems less of a desire to put something new on the screen, to expand the world, and more of a basic retread for $$$. There just wasn't anything in there that was of interest to me. Another iteration of the same villains we've seen. Another dark batman beating on criminals and brooding. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. I'd hate to have Batman films become the equivalent of McDonald's hamburgers. They just crank 'em out. The masses eat 'em. I'm more excited by season 2 of The Boys.

When I see a slab with "Bondage" on it, I think of Wertham and Seduction of the Innocent and all that, so for Golden Age books it adds extra context to the marketplace, the world at the time, social norms, etc. So...I like the term.

I love the writing and the chops on these. When did you buy this? And was it raw?

I emailed him as well. He said: 354 (33%) are highest graded, of those 242 (22%) are one and only highest graded, and 71 tie with only one other book.

Sorry, I meant the Seattle store.

Do you know when he sold Golden Age Collectibles?

I was there in 1984. All thru the 80s, really. Also, you might have seen the email from CGC regarding the Chinatown Pedigree. That was acquired by the owner of Golden Age Collectibles back in the day.

Definitely not what it used to be. Now it's just a cool place for memorabilia, but comics, not so much. When I was in high school I used to go there and press my face to the glass staring at the Tec 27, AF 15, Superman 1, etc. I bought a JIM 83 for $80.

Next WISH will be selling Tec 27s. Signed by Bob Kane!

I would be flabbergasted by this book if it weren't for the one I sent in earlier this year that was C-1, had resto removed, and came back C-2 (with four more areas in the grader's notes).

I use an HP 8250 and Vuescan. Picked up the HP at Goodwill for $10. Has worked great for five years.

Got the book back. It turned out even better. I sent this in with a bunch of books and forgot that this was a Purple 9.4. Came back a Blue (Yellow) 9.6 Oddly, there are 4 pressable spine ticks that are still there. Either they didn't press it, or Quick Press is worse than I realized.

Okay, I talked (complained) to a good friend whose dad is our local Postmaster. She said it's been as busy as the Christmas season since March. Because of covid, more people are ordering online, ordering from places overseas, and they can barely keep up, and processing those orders takes manpower away from other areas. She said her dad's been working 7 days a week for 5 months, that it's the busiest she's seen the USPS in 23 years. She also said people are quitting under the pressure and that she's never seen her dad look so defeated. When I asked about all the reorganization she said that basically they're busier than they've ever been because of covid, so the timing of their budget cuts and consolidations is a nightmare. Evidently, the processing center where I live is slated to close and all that mail will be sorted three hours away, at a facility that's already overworked and can't keep up.

Nope.