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Actually been looking for a nice copy... No brainer...,

I think we discussed this a few years ago and that it would be akin to ASM 238 missing the tattoos.

How big is the truck? I mean seriously?

When I bought the house I put forth a down payment of 40% on my house. I was lucky enough to have it at the time and my parents wanted to help me out a little as it would mean I would live in the area. They live 1/3 a mile away. My only sibling moved out west. Through eBay and selling off little stuff here and there over the course of the year, I raised the near $25k to completely gut and redo the bathroom... I sold off the GI Joe collection that I had just finished completing to take out a chunk of that... but it was a combination of $1200 here for a comic, $125 there for a comic, $100 for a figure and so on... it all adds up. I've been fortunate to continue working during the covid mess but it comes with a price to my own health and I dread the subways and the LIRR. Still there is something attractive of selling everything... but I would want it to 'mean' something. I would have to find a new job at the age of 45 that paid in the six figures+ a year. It would also mean receiving a fraction of the pension I would be owed if I could find a way to stick this out for another ten years... Lot of decisions to be made.

Of course.

Again, I could think of multiple ways to commit fraud under this game.

Strongly debating selling off the bulk of my collections to put a comfortable amount of Eff You Money in the bank and possibly leaving my job... Like If I sold all my Spider-mans... that's gotta be an easy $100k minimum. I would throw that at house.

You have some tanning or something going on above the boulders which definitely mutes the colors... but your copy kind of looks like mine near the same grade. With Golden Age I seem to find that the reds seem to pop especially on the Timely MMC and Caps.

When I saw what the ASM 151 9.8 and losing out on the 9.6, I immediately picked up the 9.4 I was watching on a dealer's website and grabbed it. I've wanted to grab a copy for awhile Congrats. Nice grab.

It's a fun read... you will like it.

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In case anyone else was looking for one. 6" Madalorian in Beskar Armor is back up on preorder at BBTS $22.99 It was sold out on Hasbro Pulse and sold out on Amazon. https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/125910 I broke down and bought a 6" Scale SW figure.

I see a MOC 25th Anniversary Duke and a SDCC Cobra Basilisk (Snow Cat Repaint) on the right. What is the big Omega Supreme looking arm thing in the center?

You when you saw that sign that said, "Do not push the button" there was always that kid that would push the button to see what would happen? Hi ! My deadline was July 15th. I am still selling. When I tried to directly list something for sale I was denied. So, just to see if I could, I went to sell a similar item... there was a similar issue as I was prompted to switch over. The day before, I sold something on Facebook that I had listed on eBay. I ended the listing on eBay... So I went to relist that listing and swapped out the information and pictures... It went right through. Then I sold similar listings... and worked from there. I want to see what happens. Once they completely stop me from selling I will switch over. They should have made it go into effect on January 1st or something.

You are seemingly unfamiliar with "Cal-Bot" it seems to seem.

Closing this tomorrow evening... invoices will be drawn up and sent out at various points throughout the day... So basically this is last call.

Well that is a half hour of my life I will never get back. Ok... removal of restoration or fiddling with a book to get it into a blue label. If we are talking about that, then that has been going on for years. I remember multiple times a certain board member would shake his head at me that I should submit a couple of Golden Age books that had a small amount of color touch to CGC to have the color touch removed. The process was to quite literally cut or scrape that section of the book off. Then there were talks over the years that if you have a trimmed book to take a tweezers and carefully rip little chunks out of the edge to disguise it as substantial Marvel chipping. There is no doubt in my mind that there are some people out there that are doing these things at home and probably more. I just accept it as something that exists that I would never be able to prove or catch. Some people are shady. I don't know what I consider worse, people passing off undisclosed restoration or someone taking a knife to a book to cut out restoration to put it in a different color label. Look at this way... how many basement pressers are there? I see them in the Facebook groups... they buy a T Shirt press and then next thing you know they are an expert presser cranking out 4.5's into 5.0's (sarcasm intended) and celebrating their achievements on Facebook. If Matt is offering restoration removal at a fee, then why wouldn't someone try that at home for free? PS Dylan should have disclosed the restoration.

I actually do it for product reviews... Unfortunately it starts off with them making a production out of opening the box. I have used those reviews from everything to determine what power washer to buy to which version of Megatron was the better of the two for my book shelf.

Cal-Bot?

I would assume that for a book to have tear seals, or pieces added to the spine or for the spine to be rebuilt that it would have to be disassembled. I remember when I first saw an article on comic book restoration that it showed Susan Cicconi's Restoration Lab featuring various books in various states of disassembly for the purpose of restoration. I always assumed since then that books that were professionally restored were disassembled.

10% Off ASM... 20% Off Spider-Gwen and Gwen Pool... 50% off All other books This is the final discount.

Adding it to the pile.

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