Mephisto

This was legitimately one of the funniest things I have read on these boards. Roy has been on the boards for nearly 20 years and has over 100K posts. Sure he wears a tin foil hat but a shill…

It's semi-permeable, it's not osmotic, what it does is it coats and seals the comic and prevents the milk from penetrating it.

My exact quote to @delekkerste regarding this current CGC Comics situation. "I was looking at buying some comics but will probably just stick to trimmed sports cards for now." While about 5 years ago I sat out of vintage graded cards despite by growing interest due to the number of trimming along with some bleaching scandals. With a lot of collectibles you either need to get out or Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fraud.

@Bronty DESTROYS graded Magic Card cases freeing the cards.

I should have came into the this thread years ago. Once I would have read that all the What If stories are based on MCU movies I wouldn't have even wasted the time I did on the first two episodes. I really had to slog my way through the 2nd episode. Easy way to tell interesting using the vast Marvel Comics Universe. Instead it's more MCU. No wonder the saturation has caught up to Disney. No sure how this show gets so much love on these boards but it's trash compared to the majority of Marvel cartoons of the past 30 years.

Blackstone owns CGC not Blackrock. No one will care as mentioned. 20 years ago it was a submitter trimming and aging the edges of a Golden Age Batman book and getting a blue label. Then it was Ewert. Sports cards have numerous examples of cards from all the grading companies encapsulating cards with issues including trimming and bleaching and not much is done about it even with many of the issues being traced back to a handful of subitters/sellers. At best maybe an FBI investigation that doesn't amount to much. The first PSA card ever graded was trimmed and not noted as such...

No good was ever going to come from the TVA and variants. It’s messy in the comics and putting it on film wasn’t going to end well. Loki was one of my favorite characters of the MCU. I had been looking forward to season 1 of his show but it just didn’t hold my interest at all. My wife and I both found Majors extremely obnoxious as Kang. I had originally believed Kang would be recast for the big screen given his speech about all his own variants and obviously Loki had many variants that looked completely different…well Disney rode the wrong horse. The only reason my wife wants to watch Loki season 2 is for Ke Huy Quan, but there has been no rush to actually watch it. She knows I’m pretty much over the MCU. The same boring formula for every character has grown boring and stale for me. I’m not entirely sure why we decided to watch the Eternals but it was horrific. Why Disney decided to spend so much on a property that no comic collectors I have ever known gave two 💩 about is beyond me.

And officially fired by Marvel. Hated his performance in Loki.

This cinches it. Earlier I was thinking forget the suggestions of going to the local TV news and newspapers. This has all the makings of a good Netflix documentary. Obviously not Tiger King level but certainly some meme worthy moments like the dog ate my chickens excuse. When my friend told my wife and I his ex girlfriend was in a thing called Twin Flames in 2018 and we looked it up quick and said “Oh Yeah, that’s a cult!” never did we imagine not only would there be a Netflix documentary but that she would be in it. 😂 All of our coworkers had already seen that one before we had even asked. I know my wife and her coworkers would find a lot of what has transpired and even the fact it centers around the topic of comic book restoration to be highly interesting. Coincidentally they are all attorneys.

I kind of kept my out for a few over the years. I would imagine the Jusko was sold. I would not be surprised if Tom Palmer’s family still has his cover. When I spoke to him at a show about 5 years ago he still pretty much all the 80’s and early 90’s painted stuff I had asked about.

But 66 is the cover to infamous Boner issue!

I'd be a little bit worried with number 4 and sending books back if there is no response...only to hear from the customer months later that they moved some time ago, especially with how long ago some orders were placed.

I think my biggest take away from this thread is I can't believe anyone was dumb enough to expand a comic book pressing /resto business to the point of having double digit employees and multiple locations on two different coasts during the Covid boom of the last few years. 1. There was no way the comic book market was going to run as hot as it did during Covid for a very long time to justify that type of expansion. There was bound to be a significant drop off. 2. Factor in the comic movie fatigue that inevitably was going to come and now appears to be here. There is no denying what comic book movies have done to the market especially in more recent years. Now you have a lot more movies and shows not being well received. Even if a book was hot leading up to a movie they are dropping off hard when the movie isn't well received making the window to flip shorter. Hello Black Adam. 3. There was already well established competition (CGC, Joey) especially for pressing even before the Covid boom. 4. Every Tom, MR., and Harry going on Youtube in recent years talking about pressing their own books and even cleaning their own books and making those Benjamins doing it. Even multiple posters in this thread stated they bought their own equipment and have been pressing their own books. Why not cut out the middleman, save some money, and shorten the turn around time especially if it's a hot book that needs to get flipped sooner rather than later. I just don't see how this LARGE of an expansion was thought to be a good idea...at all. Never mind the potential issue of newbie employees coming in and doing shoddy work (which according to this thread wound up not being a potential issue but actually occurred) This business decision sounds like the PTON of Pressing.

It’s no longer in the bedroom since I sold it, but she had requested in that room in our last place.

I moved 9 months ago and still have about half my framed art leaning against walls in my office. I have the opposite problem in that my wife wants certain art NOT tucked away in rooms she rarely goes in but out in the open. She has yet to commit where she wants a lot of stuff to go 🤦‍♂️. She specifically asked for Mephisto drinking souls from a chalice from the Marvel VS System card game to hang in the dinning room and asked if I have any other art with characters eating or drinking…she wound up getting Wolverine vs Spider-Man from the 1994 Fleer Ultra X-Men set in the dinning room as the other piece of art in that room.

The Bagley piece feels like a product of being a pure play of having THE 90’s Spider-Man artist post Todd, especially given Todd’s prices. I was 11 when this came out. I remember buying a few packs of these and only recall one of my friends buying packs of these. Nothing really stood out to me with these cards or inserts other than the Suspended Animation which really weren’t that great. That same year my friends were more into Fleer Ultra X-Men which having the cartoon airing at the time really helped boost interest with the younger crowd. The Spider-Man animated series only had its premiere episode in November 1994 and wouldn’t get rolling until Feb 1995. When I first met my wife she talked up the Dark Phoenix being on the animated series. I was in a few Marvel trading card groups on Facebook for a few years and never really saw anyone collecting anything from this set.

There were a few new buyers that popped up the last few years but there is one specific buyer that if you have paintings from the right set will pay EXTREMELY strong prices especially if it's the right character. With that buyer dropping 69K and 70K each on 1996 Marvel Masterpieces paintings the lesser pieces wind up rising with the tide. A lot of the artists still had their card art 20+ years later but people never bothered to ask and that included Julie and Boris.

Ask Gene about the tales I send him of my friend that thinks he can just buy any baseball card or anything that is remotely a "collectible" and put it up on eBay. He just doesn't understand when I tell most of the baseball cards he's been buying are not going back up any time soon if ever again. He literally will buy a card on eBay and then list it again and two weeks later and it either sits or he lists it with a low opening bid (as in his mind a bidding war will start). Instead he almost always takes an absolute bath on the item. My favorite was the Retro Vintage aka produced in 2021 Super Soaker he put an offer in on for $28 plus shipping and then resold for the opening bid price of $9.99. Or maybe it was the Woodstock Poster with unused ticket he paid $318 for with recent comps from the same seller much lower. Lists it at $199.99 opening bid. Another bath taken. But wait seller contact him and tells him the poster is fake and not vintage and hits him with a neg and is sending it back. Then of course there is the Kobe auto he bought shortly after his death that he recently sent in to PSA which was rejected. So yes these baseball cards you bought over the summer are sure to kick back up in 6 months or less...completely clueless about any types of collectibles and does 0 research despite being given many tools and resources to do so.

One person bought all of Joe's 2016 Marvel Masterpieces paintings. at least it wasn't a dealer. I found the art drops for the 2020 Masterpieces paintings by Palumbo especially obnoxious and that was probably the final thing that really lead to my disinterest in adding any more paintings. There has been one big buyer who has been paying ungodly prices so with my disinterest, let a lot of stuff go. After buying a house two months ago I still haven't even got around to hang about half my framed art.

That is indeed Bob Larkin’s work and flipped for publication.

This is old so not sure if anyone commented further on. Joe only did issue 31. Issue 32 is actually Bob Larkin and Joe has commented he often gets asked to sign it. Issue 33 was painted by the late great Tom Palmer.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/364032154698?hash=item54c201dc4a%3Ag%3AAlcAAOSw5ypjXVr~&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoMb%2FYWgTwR8%2B1IS7JKrHvj%2BVUfaqOaIM5ERnGY6tGBS3u8CpSAEGSLHsJ8OPyMmpYEZ1CeYi0WYJ4UXDFUWYRLUZKy%2FVRBtQWvmLgCvoN3BIXPDpvosJ5BFQJbXxaNT74B8UcEodZcILEWUoKG9U4zZdvgojFNblhkfQGqg%2Ft%2B2H%2BOrspNNd1eJGRpjNwGqwNyspOuL%2FguI1g+OpEVkm1U%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_b62-mFYQ&nma=true&si=3OytNXTr3BVwLB%2Bsgd8inb%2F6IGE%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 WOW a 9.6 with the plain as day black line on the back must be worth about 1 million!. This person got a bargain at under $400!

I hope @delekkersteenjoys seeing this one everyday.

If Thanos is a bottom's fantasy...what is naked Wolverine? https://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?back=%2Fsearch.asp%3Fwhere%3Dsell%26title%3Dboris%26GO2%3DGO%26ItemType%3DCA&id=1617340