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I collected Marvel Tales as a young teenager as well. Also Spectacular Spider-Man. Switched to Amazing Spider-Man around 2000 because I was better able to afford them as an adult.

I've got the whole run in high grade and have all new issues through about a year ago. Aside from the Lee/Kirby and Byrne runs, my favorite is the Waid/Wieringo run from a few years ago, those were fantastic issues.

I wasn't clear as to whether Josh bought those books or the original owner consigned them--I thought it was a consignment, in which case Josh probably convinced the OO to pay for the reholdering. Either way it was probably worth the cost.

I believe CGC started recognizing the pedigree part way through C-Link auctioning off the runs. Some of the runs had the pedigree notation from the time it was first certified. But also, if you sent a RM book to CGC for re-holdering and the cert number matched up, CGC would add the pedigree notation to the label. So many of them are just new slabs, not re-subs. Yea--didn't mean to imply they were mostly pressed. I think Josh himself sent a lot to be reholdered to get the designation on there.

CGC didn't recognize Rocky Mountain back when they first sold. If you see a CGC label with Rocky Mountain on it, it's usually a resub.

Agree--that's why I took my avatar from that cover.

I am not amused in any way... CAL who is serious 99% of the time... Your particular lack of amusement is fairly amusing.

Mike, there is nothing that Arch can do except ban a current account. All anyone has to do is create a new name with a new email address and anyone can join. How do you stop that? Yea you really can't stop it...even if he did something as drastic as ban his IP or all IP addresses coming from his ISP, which is a hugely wide net that could take out other boardies with him, he can just use a proxy to post through (freewebproxy.net, web4proxy.com, hidemyass.com, trycatchme.com, etc).

Easy there BUTM. The search function on the boards isn't exactly easy to use. 1) click search 2) type in "sparkle city" 3) set the date range to a year 4) click submit 5) read a wealth of info about sparkle city Which of those steps is the tricky one?

Which of your books sold for the most? I vaguely recall your AF15 being a 7.0, so I'm guessing that went for the most, but what were the top 5 or 10?

Was that me? I think I offered 4 or 5 thousand back in 2004, which was before any at all had sold publicly above the 8.5 grade.

Wow, cool story! That's quite an appreciation on that book for you, from $37.50 up to $1100-$1500...around 15% increase per year for 30+ years. Anyone would be hard pressed to beat that much of an annual gain on investment, nice job. (thumbs u

I'm thinking grandfathered in. Do some copy and paste action--and get it in here. I don't like being the highest or lowest grade in a thread, so I post this in hopes that someone like Ghost Town will come in here and post his to blow mine out of the water.

I suspect the lack of appreciation on Spidey #14 has more to do with fact that the issue is relatively common in high grade...for some reason it's much more available than the issues around it like 11, 12, 13, or 15. Here's my copy, it's around the 8.5 to 9.0 range:

I agree with you on this. (thumbs u It is the 2nd most important book in the title. I think it's in the top 5 of ALL SA Marvel books period. I remember getting into a discussion here on the Boards comparing FF #4 to AV #4, and I picked FF #4 over AV #4. Some Board members didn't like this. There are reasons why it trumps AV #4, namely because without this book, I don't think Captain America would have even been revived. It is way more important to the Marvel Universe than giving credit for IMHO. FF5 trumps it by a mile--Sub-Mariner is a B-list or C-list character, Doom is an A-list villain and even transcended the Marvel universe by serving as a major part of the inspiration for George Lucas's design of Darth Vader.

Am I grandfathered into this club after having posted my copy in the Amazing Spider-Man collecting thread?

ME LIKEY. You don't collect Fantastic Four, so I demand that you give that book to me. I'll love it more than you will.

I think the LT/OW PQ was probably holding it down. The triangle that was missing was the other thing. There was hardly any spine wear, and no Marvel Chipping! I sold it at a very fair price too. I'm ready to have a nice, solid mid grade FF 5. The 5.0 I bought is beautiful! Page quality only knocks a book down to a certain level if it is otherwise high grade--it's not affecting that book at all. CGC gives books much higher scores than that with light tan pages. I forget the highest I've seen, we've posted about it in the forums before--I think it's 8.5 but I forget, it might be as low as 7.0. I do recall the highest grade I've seen on a book with "slightly brittle" pages is 6.5. That missing lower-right corner is the majority of the reason for the low grade, no doubt about it.

I haven't heard it specifically, but let's just go with that as being the truth.

I don't let anyone near my back door. Yeah, but I hear the postman always rings twice. Plus I've had multiple boardies tell me the opposite is true.

Ever since I started playing volleyball and dating a girl like this, I've become fixated on tall, thin, busty female forms, the type often described as "Amazonian" that we'd all like to see play Wonder Woman at some point. There aren't many women like this in the public eye, but a few include Uma Thurman, Elle MacPherson, Claudia Schiffer, and Mick Jagger's girlfriend L'Wren Scott (pictured below, Jagger is 5' 10"). If anyone knows of other celebrity Amazons please let me know who they are.

In sum, Rudd likes spanking girls who like to be spanked. Never tried it or thought much about it, but there are some other common fetish situations I'm into. The majority of people have some sort of object fetish--boobs, butts, stomachs, arms, legs, whatever. An object fetish I have I've talked about here before is height--I've dated four tall (6' or more) girls including my current girlfriend--and I think it's tied to another common situational fetish I possess (submission) that manifests itself in various types of situations. And like most guys I've got a boob fetish.

i thought i was into weird stuff.... Not terribly weird. TONS of fetishes revolve around taking control of another person or losing control to another person in situations that they've experienced in their lives at some point. Looks like he may prefer the idea of taking control, although it's possible he secretly identifies with the women in those panels and would prefer the roles to be reversed but lacks sufficient examples of that in Golden Age art. It's fine as long as it doesn't cross into violence, non-consensual behavior, or encourage other unhealthy states of mind--it's usually impossible to make a call on a fetish being unhealthy for any given person without knowing them exceptionately well.

I'm not assuming anything. As you pointed out, the term "high grade" doesn't just apply to comics. Do you know anything about classic Porsches? I don't, but let's assume that you do. If I saw a classic Porsche that looked to be in spectacular condition and called it "high grade" from my amateur perspective--which is the primary audience for these dumbed-down terms, something that gets continuously ignored in this conversation--only to have you as a Porsche expert tell me I'm wrong because that particular year of Porsche is common due to a few thousand of them being stored in a warehouse somewhere--I'm going to smack you upside the head for being a know-it-all nerd by warping the language to assume that "high grade" implies "rare" when the language I used was precisely correct and I wasn't trying to comment upon rarity, only grade. And you know how you, as the listener, was supposed to know I was only referring to grade and not rarity? BECAUSE I DIDN'T PUT THE WORD RARE IN THERE!

No, he means the ENGLISH language--the one where those of us who cling to precise meaning and literacy in the words we choose to say exactly what we mean and don't assume mess like you are. If you want introduce the concept of rarity into the term "high grade," then put the word "rare" in there explicitly--it isn't simply assumed. This is a case where your greater level of experience with comics is erroneously causing you to take a term that's intended to be simple and used by noobs and make it more complex by extending it beyond what the exact words themselves are communicating. This "should or shouldn't rarity be implied in high grade" issue is in the top five dumbest debates in the history of the forum. At the moment I can't come up with a dumber one that is debated this frequently, but I'm sure there MUST be others. Pressing debates are tiresome, but at least the issues are easy to see why people get confused about them...this "high grade" debate is such a waste of time.