Chip Cataldo

If you're talking about me, who said I didn't buy slabs?

...because every scandal that's happened has vanished with NOTHING affecting the hobby or CGC. This will be more of the same, yet most posting in this thread act like it's the end of the world.

Everyone still running around like chickens with their heads cut off over this nothing burger, eh? Lol. 350 books out of ten million graded...CGC will be gone by next week! Oh no!

I stand corrected on the total amount of graded books. 10 million, not 18 million. Still enough to make my point.

Lol. Hilarious. Incorrect on all aspects of your post. Try again.

There's a Facebook group called "Action Figure Identification" where everyone there is a wizard. Seriously. Take that picture and put numbers next to each piece. Post it in the group and within seconds you'll start to get replies. They really are amazing. If you'd rather do it yourself or don't have Facebook, download Google Lens. It's also a great tool to use to ID'ing figures & parts.

18 million books. Even if 10,000 people know about this "scandal" that's not even a blip on the radar of the comic collecting public. In the grand scheme of things, in the long run, as far as the future of the hobby...this means NOTHING. The only people that care are the 75 or so people that have posted in the few threads we have here and maybe a couple thousand between YouTube and Facebook. That's it.

How? 99% of them won't even know this happened.

Lol. No, it's not. 140 comments when CGC slabs thousands of books a week? This story is a non-starter to the collecting public at-large. They won't even know about it.

...and yet, nothing will happen. Nothing. This is a pipe dream.

No. No I am not.

...and this is why nothing will happen. CGC makes money hand over fist. This "scandal" won't stop that, so there's no incentive to do anything at all. Many months ago they were "caught" SELLING GRADES (twice) and nothing happened. Why would this be any different?

This is a comic book forum. More images are posted of raw books than slabbed books, by far. I've sold lots of slabbed books in the past, I don't hate them. I will just always prefer raw books to collect and appreciate. Plus, regardless of why the process was created, NOW slabbed comics are all about greed.

CGC isn't hurt by this at all. Their business is fine. This forum uproar and the YouTube "influencer" related outrage is but a blip as far as income that CGC would lose, as far as reach into the hobby. When it was last figured out, wasn't CGC getting something like 40,000 submissions a week? I doubt they'll even go down to 39,500 submissions a week because of this "debacle." They'll continue to make huge amounts of money because the majority of submitters won't ever even find out about this issue, just like they never found out about micro-trimming, pay-for-grades, or whatever other "scam-du-jour" is happening at the moment.

I only have raw books. To hell with numbers on paper encased in acrylic. I love comics, not plastic...unless she's cute.

There are, of course, exceptions to every rule or trend. I'll check him out, thanks!

This is what I'm talking about as far as most of the posts in this thread. "They'd BETTER come out QUICK to explain this!!!" Lol. They'll do no such thing, whether multiple people here demand it or not. They'll probably say nothing else, and life will go on as usual. I doubt they'll lose even 1% off their submitted comic total for 2023 going forward into the new year.

They really don't add much to the hobby at all. They're all about clicks and ad revenue. That's it.

...and Larsen's Venom is even worse!

The worst drawing of Doctor Doom EVER, by one of the worst artists EVER. Ugh.

Happy New Year, everyone. I wish you all a healthy 2024. Continued positive thoughts for @jimjum12 on his recovery.

All the "sky is falling" people in this thread are really cracking me up. Other than the perp getting caught & prosecuted and CGC making some vague announcement about internal procedures changing, NOTHING else will happen. The hobby is fine. CGC will continue to make gobs of money hand-over-fist, and slabs will sell just as well as they did before. 99% of the people that collect comics won't ever even know of this, just like they didn't know about all the other "scandals" that have happened.

I've always hated that issue. The fight should be over in half a second. Ridiculous.

You know who you're responding to there, bud?

Sorry, should have clarified I was talking about ARAH vintage. Apparently that was the thing...no one knew they existed until they popped up in this auction : Joe Auction