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Mephisto
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Comparing the art posted for Eerie 1 to the actual published comic there are too many fine details that don't match up. I don't see any way the art being offered is going to turn out to be the actual published art.
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On 5/15/2024 at 1:28 PM, PhilipB2k17 said:
Who’s Terry Sunday? And why do they need a date?
No, no, no, the date with Terry is on Sunday. They need help planning what to do on said date.
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On 5/14/2024 at 6:23 AM, Matches_Malone said:
Was that the Thanos painting by any chance?
Correct. There’s really only one buyer at that level so I laugh when I hear people talk about how much that stuff now brings. I guess that just illustrates the whole it only takes one buyer argument for people to put 🦇 💩 prices on things they are okay keeping.
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A few years ago put a piece up for sale on CAF for a really inflated price of 50K as I didn't really want to let the piece go but figured why not. A few weeks later I got blackout drunk with a few people and listed it on CLink one Saturday night for 69K...a price I don't even remember entering but an indication of the amount I had been drinking. I wake up the next morning to an email that the piece had sold (buyer did pay for it).
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On 4/2/2024 at 4:37 PM, G.A.tor said:
never seen it?...earliest surfer cover I know is beschara and ff 72...fishler has 74, and clink auctioned 77 about 10 years ago...Ive not seen 75....never seen SS 2 or 3 cover...1,4 up seem to have been out there
Many, many years ago Philippe Queveau had the original cover to Silver Surfer 3 posted on his CAF.
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I just don't care because Rey became such a trainwreck of a character in the last trilogy along with many of the other characters. I have no desire to see anymore of their stories.
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On 1/8/2024 at 2:14 AM, MyNameIsLegion said:
imagine dealers at a show pinching themselves over the good fortune of making a trade for a swapped out blue for all their qualified greens and purples that have been languishing in their back-stock. No records, no scans. Totally laundered out into the universe. He's probably doing it right now. Sure, he's gone offline, but he could continue swapping books and simply not reholder anything at CGC. He can easily make a 6 figure income and never sell online again. Just like micro-trimming DD who's trolling this thread. He didn't go to prison either now, did he?
Well he did...it was just for fraud with sports memorabilia.
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On 1/3/2024 at 10:32 AM, Junkdrawer said:
Back in the dawning days of VHS stores renting tapes out. They were expensive and the “unscrupulous” would open/tamper the plastic shell and remove the original and replace it with either a copy, a blank, or whatever. The good guys put a security label that was tamper evident. CGC simply needs a tamper evident sticker.
Are there really good ones? The eBay authentication ones for cards are a joke. I've had ones that I have peeled with no care at all that peeled perfect with no damage to the sticker at all.
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On 12/30/2023 at 12:12 PM, NewWorldOrder said:
But great for reholdering cash grab.
See they win in the end. House always does.
Yup same they did with not being able to get the card end of CGC correct from day 1. The cases themselves are very nice but having a CGC brand and CSG brand along with 3 different label changes in just a few years was mind boggling stupid business. They were at least able to get loyalists to take advantage of all the holder changes with specials to get all their slabs uniform. Not to mention they changed their grading scale a bit further getting people to reslab their card.
i just couldn’t get over how poorly run the card division was form the start. I said from the start it never made business sense to have CGC and CSG as separate companies. Well that was obviously a correct observation because it didn’t take all that long for the two to combine. Nice clear slabs weren’t enough for me to look past all the obvious incompetence. I also happened to notice the CGC card end of the business being publicly involved with someone that is super shady in the collectibles arena and that was the absolute final death knell for me not put their slabs in my collection.
However, I can’t tell you the number of people I saw on message boards (not the CGC boards) talking about how they would take advantage of the limited time special to upgrade to the current labels.
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On 12/30/2023 at 12:01 PM, MAR1979 said:
LOADED Weapon > Lethal Weapon . IMHO by a lot!
I think my favorite is Always Sunny’s Lethal Weapon 6.
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On 12/30/2023 at 11:49 AM, NewWorldOrder said:
If those are proven to be compromised and its CGC fault they will pay.
still not a lot of money to them.
Worse case scenario is what many have said happens sooner than expected and Blackstone finds they’ve made what they can from this CGC acquisition and it’s no longer as profitable as they like and dump it. With a nearly $160 Billion market cap Blackstone can dig CGC out of whatever mess this winds up being as long as they actually find it profitable in the end to do so.
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On 12/30/2023 at 10:19 AM, namisgr said:
That's throwing out a whole lot of babies with their bathwater.
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On 12/30/2023 at 8:22 AM, shadroch said:A former dealer member named Brent had a group of HG Thors that he sold. He kept HQ scans of them, and the books appeared in slabs with trimming that was only obvious when the slabs were compared to the scans. CGC banned Ewert from the business, but not his deep-pocketed partner nor the Florida-based auction house that seemed to have been caught red-handed trying to sneak some books in after the announcement.
It’s all about previous high quality previous images existing. Before Ewert there was the Batman 11 on Heritage I posted was a nice resin that saw a small bump in grade and big jump in sales price. Being a Golden Age boom it was easy to identify it was the exact same copy. Hammer pointed out the book was missing some of its edge compared to the previous auction image. CGC determined someone had trimmed it and then aged the trimmed edges to hide the recent trimming. I think one of the theory was throwing a blow dryer on the trimmed edges. I had been collecting Golden Age Batman and Detective books and after that incident I actually did jump ship after that incident and moved on to art.
If you ever play on the sports card section of the Blowout forums there are numerous threads outing sellers who trim and bleach cards and submit them to grading companies undetected. The boards do a good job of identifying the cards in previous slabs with now shorter boarders etc. The vintage cards are easier to identify as the card board on the backs of them often have tell tale marks to basically prove it’s the exact same card that is now rocking a shorter boarder. There is one collector that runs a database so you can search for a card and check the cert number of any previously identified manipulated cards before making any purchases.
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Sigh these boards lag terribly.
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On 12/29/2023 at 8:40 PM, NewWorldOrder said:
I am from Philly burbs originally. I moved from one s-hole to another. This one just has better weather!
I know Bel-Air has nicer weather but is it really a S-hole?
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On 12/29/2023 at 3:08 PM, William-James88 said:Firstly, turns out that Punisher book was resent to CGC, so I was wrong on that, and it's the same scam at play. As for the part I placed in bold, I would always suggest that regardless and I have always acted on "buy the book, not the slab". That rings more true now than ever of course. It's also why I never really got into the 9.8 game and stuck more with GA issues with CGC at least letting me know if a book is restored or not (or to which extent). As for books missing a MVS or a Pin up, sadly CGC has missed those in the past too regardless of this scam. But inserts go beyond CGC certifications and to the broader idea of slabbing a book since you can never truly know the inside of a slabbed book until you remove it from its slab.
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I just meant if I was going the raw buying route Bob would be at the top of my list. He’d check to see if the MVS was in a Hulk 181, probably do just as good if not better restoration check as any 3rd party grader and every raw book I have ever bought from him has had spot on grading.
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On 12/29/2023 at 12:30 PM, shadroch said:
I'm sorry about this. It seems obvious the scammers are consistently in front of CGC, and one of the main reasons for buying a slabbed book has been rendered obsolete. I can no longer buy a third-party slabbed book and have confidence in what I'm getting.
I do no know how they solve it, but twenty years' worth of their product now has to be looked at differently.
I wouldn’t have said this in the past but I’d actually feel more comfortable not buying a slabbed book especially if it was from someone like Bob Storms. It’s just going to take too much detective work hunting down old photos or hoping the graders notes can prove a book wasn’t swapped. The online scans on CGC just haven’t been around long enough. Buy the book not the label is a good starting point and one I agree with however the issue now does lie in not being able to check the interior. Knowing someone could have swapped out a book with a MVS cut out or even a centerfold missing is too much of an issue for me at this point. I can’t justify paying a premium on a CGC book only to have to crack it out to make sure it’s complete inside.
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On 12/29/2023 at 11:56 AM, THE_BEYONDER said:
I don’t recall the inner well ever being open on one side
I stole this from @delekkerste the king of OG slabs.
The yellow highlights I recall being sealed the light blue above the label I don’t recall being sealed.
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On 12/29/2023 at 11:39 AM, jeffreyk said:
So in the 1st and 2nd Gen holders, the labels were at the top of the inner well, but the inner well was not sealed at the top? Interesting.
From what I recall at least one version was. I’m sure others can remember better or may have more recently cracked some older graded books.
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PGM M-G-M's Lassie #1 (1950)
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Best offer accepted on the CGC 4.5 was $150.