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OK, sorry. In fact, I did not say short answers are not answers. They just need to be enough clear. English has become de facto an international language, and we are on an international forum, and no matter the language, I always try my best to be clear.

Just kidding… although I’d love to see some of your books scanned. I know you don’t have a scanner. Here Susan is in a less comfortable position – and the villain is suspended in mid-air!

Do not hold your expectations too high! In the meanwhile, scan your new #47…

First one: I hope I did not post this one already…

And no picture? Shame on you! OK, I have to go ahead and scan my collection, little by little. Stay tuned…

You’re Cool anyway. In fact, you’re 1Cool.

You can do whatever you deem appropriatw with the offer, but now explain me what your first sentence means. It doesn’t sound exaggeratedly good, or respectful. It's English Claudio - as in British 'speak' . It's not your first language so understandably, you don't get it. Perhaps PM next time, and I'll explain it to you. It's not as if we don't have one already going on. I see the slang – no matter the language, it’s not respectful at all.

Being sarcastic is a luxury he should not afford, given how – more than often – he replies.

You can do whatever you deem appropriatw with the offer, but now explain me what your first sentence means. It doesn’t sound exaggeratedly good, or respectful.

People who are not familiar with CGC grading think CGC grading is too tight. You hear it all the time: "Thought this would grade higher" "They were tight on this one" "6.5 looks like a 7.5" (thumbs u All clear now, thanks! Which are often not answers, and wrong and partial. :shrug: Take a poll Now maybe you are exaggeratedly intelligent compared to me, I don’t know, but what this SHOULD mean? Please. :shrug:

A VF+, very pretty nice anyway – wouldn’t worry about higher grades on these… (thumbs u

People who are not familiar with CGC grading think CGC grading is too tight. You hear it all the time: "Thought this would grade higher" "They were tight on this one" "6.5 looks like a 7.5" (thumbs u All clear now, thanks! Which are often not answers, and wrong and partial. :shrug:

Not sure I follow your explanation about being "too tight"… Who is too tight? CGC grades are good for more expensive books (I picked one lately): if they have to be shipped abroad (my case) you can’t rely on CGC graded books for all the books in the $1 - $90 range – you just expect fair grading skills from the seller. :shrug:

P.S. It is clear that now we have in most cases the opportunity to judge from pictures, but that is not an excuse for lousy grading. :shrug:

Roy, I can’t see why you should have graded differently. If I assign a grade, I may be even far off from it, but it’s that grade that I would assign. If I become too tight, or too loose, it may depend on how much better I learn to grade, and how I see the general expectations out of a given grade are from the majority of people, but that’s all. Grading has a subjective gray zone, but it can’t bee too large. Hey, you have agreed on such a good thing as grading standards in the USA (we don’t have them here) and now all of a sudden they become so subjective one can change them so heavily we can no longer agree upon them? Opinion, OK, but whatever an opinion is (it seems there is a bit of confusion), the opinionable part is relative as long as you have decent grading skills.

The words in my post mean exactly what they were chosen to mean. I believe that the only thing you don't understand is the grin, which is meaningless by definition. That is ridiculous. You have seen what I have asked, and your post is not intelligible as you think it is. If you want to reply, good, otherwise I think I will pretty much skip your "smart" posts from now on. I do agree with Bobo, but mostly because if I am convinced of a grade, that is the grade I believe it applies. When I post in the PGM is when I want to fine-tune it or have doubts I am either undergrading or overgrading.

Anyone who claims that he is "supporting his family" on his comic sales will tend to stretch his grading skills beyond their limit. Fact of life. Not my cup of tea. What is "not your cup of tea"? "Stretching one's grading skills" (whatever that means) or claiming publicly that you are "supporting your family" with the comics sales? Really curious david, because your "grin" emoticon does not help at all in these cases…

Done, sorry – but Hector's comment now is no longer there: all the following ones are useless…

It hurt a bit when I had to let the book go (at the same price I paid it, BTW), but it was the only issue I felt I could sacrifice, as it was the most valuable I had and the one I was less interested in for my focus (except for London: I’d have loved to keep his first appearance).

Here’s London (the first british superhero) by Jerry Robinson. (first appearance from Daredevil #2 – I no longer have that issue… )

Well, in that case it would have been grabbed immediately. But it’s affected for the first two pages (two wraps) – the other two wraps missing are the center ones. If it was a Timely I would very likely grabbed it, it’s cool nonetheless. (thumbs u

Is Jerry Robinson the artist in the early Batman issues? Still nice and "rough" – I have some of his work in early Daredevils…

P.S. Stanley, the Woodgod thing is not about the joke, it’s about minor Marvel characters, which are in danger of extinction. Look at what they did at poor Daimon Hellstrom and his family…

No one complained about the value so far. :shrug: Maybe too much fantasy football? @uchiha: you messed up the tags when you posted the offer text: you may want to edit the message and leave just the offer, without quote tags, so Harvey can address the post.

You know this could cause an operating system crash on older machines, right?