DougC

Controversy of modern shenanigans not withstanding CGC is actually very good at identifying and labeling facsimile/reprint books and can generally be trusted to supply such information.

I would recommend specific comic boxes (high sides with lids) which can be bought cheaply off amazon. Storing in low sided boxes can result in damage to the top of books as you walk through to room at night, carrying something and misjudge distance, spilling/dropping something. Obviously many of us have stored books just like you are (and some still do). This is fine for now, but once you start picking up more expensive books I would recommend at least a short box.

Do you have a picture of the books, Cert#, or title (there are a lot of spider-man books). You said you purchased a "1st edition", then say you purchased a facsimile... Is this ultimate fallout #4?

Modern Slow Shipped: 5/5 Delivered : 5/9 Received: I am expecting delays due to additional content that might need to be validated; I expect them in the system by 5/22.

My longest slabbed run is my X-Men (1991) Registry set: X-Men V2 Set My longest raw runs are: X-Factor 1-149 Sgt Fury 2-130ish (never picked up the first issue, now it's a bit to pricey) A bunch of 1-50ish runs of a lot of 90's books.

If you guys are Jack Jadson experts I could use a hand. I have the following page (will update a better picture tonight): This was purchased in 2005, it is on the back of Marvel art board and was titled as being from the Might Thor (it is not). I can say it is not from the following books: Vampire Girls: California (1996) The Experimentals (1997) Lady Death/Bedlam (2002) Jungle Fantasy (2003) Lethal Instinct (2005)

Effective May 16, 2023, CGC has updated its Mechanical Errors policy for clarity and consistency. The uncontrolled QC issues have reached such a breaking point to our bottom line that CGC will now blame and charge the customer for our own wanton mistakes. For clarity and consistency going forward any "mistake" will now be considered necessary and the standard of product production. seriously stop trying to blame us for not doing what we claim to, it really makes us look bad.

I think a better response from them is that they do not keep an active customer searchable register of what has been annotated on signature series books. This is quite close to something I asked about 15 years ago when I was curious about finding the serial numbers of books on the census to find which copy was graded first. CGC has and can pull up this information but chooses not to share it on the client side as it does not hold enough value for them to implement. On the other hand they might not be able to implement this type of search feature due to just how old the framework of their database is. As it has aged it has become less and less intuitive functionally and they do not seem interested in upgrading its infrastructure in any customer beneficial way. As more and more pictures of books are added can you imagine the following: Census Data Base: Search: X-Men #1 1963 9.8 Result: X-Men 1963 (Parent directory) X-Men #1 9.8 (2) (result) Select the number in parentheses and you are directed to the following serial numbers: 0631963001 0000000000 (i don't have the # for the second one) You can then click on the serial number and go right to the certification look up with all the books information. A nice clean searchable data base would be great and something no other potential competitor currently has, though beckett has feelers out currently (survey's) to select customers asking about more integrated (searchable) data base options for all of their products.

Thanks, I've been looking at that one and another one in the archives trying to get spacing and templates correct (generally just cutting a pasting to mash things together).

a very important point also is that you cannot have a custom label on a pedigree! It is one or the other and if you remove the pedigree designation you need to make sure you still have the HA COA documenting it as such or it will be not be able to get it back in the future. Edit: You can submit this for any SS signing like the Claremont that just happened and it will get the yellow label and keep the pedigree. Overall I am generally against SS Pedigree's and do not see much of a value bump over regular SS. The collectors of these two are vastly different, but if I was going to get a pedigree signed Savannah would probably be the one, lol.

Finally got all the pictures and descriptions loaded for my X-Men (1991) Jim Lee set still trying to figure out the myspace era html for a cool set intro/description.

"The" CGC only grade books, they do not sell them as a business. You would need to contact a consignment/auction house to sell these for you. I would recommend the following based on what you have: Comiclink.com Mycomicshop.com Both have commissions less than ebay and are easy to work with.

A non-key issue of a modern comic isn't intrinsically valuable outside of a 9.8. Did you base your pricing off of ebay sold listings or just what was listed with BIN? In any case, we would need to know what issues and potential grades to know "value" but I don't see much change on GPA over the last twelve months some of the titles you posted.

Directly across from Nicole Kidman's head on the spine looks to be two color breaking ticks, there could be another one lower (or lint).

I missed out on this Incredible Hercules #122 page by a couple months; Clayton Henrey was going around conventions with stacks of his OA from this series and Spider-girl. When he came to St. Louis this was the first page I asked about and he sold it for $75 at the start of the con season without knowing how much of a meme it had become at the time

Not only comics but on original art as well! I have received a number of pages with art on the reverse, signatures, color or shading notes. I never understood why they would not add this information.

I like to guess just how terrible I did by the emoji Mike uses...

I think you are selling this short as collectors very much care what is on the inside of a coin and one of reason to slab a coin in addition to verify its grade is to also verify that it is real! There are a lot of fake Morgans coming out of china being sold for $2 a pop on wish. Instead of that 90% silver that is contained within they are cast from various pot metal but can look gorgeous. If only outside looks mattered then you wouldn't be bothered with a shiny 1878 MS-68 chunk of lead and zinc added to your collection, right?

I am not familiar with new DC books but unless there are first appearances or major events these books outside of a 9.8 slab will be of minimal value. Even in a slab the value is likely cost + willing buyer - availability. Let me try and explain using my registry set for the 1991 X-Men books which are entering the 30+ year old territory. The majority of the run is worthless and only holds general value in 9.8 slabs for dumb people (like me) who are completing a full registry run (and that is very minimal). Some of the books are worth quite a bit surprisingly but they are still very plentiful and easy to obtain in high grade raw copies so you are not hitting even the bronze age "key" value. A good story is a great selling point for a trade paper back when it is collected and marketed but doesn't really factory into collectibility of single "modern" copies of books that are likely to be picked up in dollar bins specifically for that story.

While not a manufacturing error it is from the process, comics unlike cards are not "generally" graded on centering.

emphasis mine. Unfortunately charging customers for CGC's mistakes cannot be explained away with an article. Once CGC starts this there is only one way it goes; stricter enforcement of monetary penalties for the companies own mistakes. I guess this is one way to stop people from asking for new holders for newton rings... not the correct one but it is technically one.

This is a bad policy by CGC. If they adjust the tier due to FMV the insurance on the book should also be adjusted as the original invoice is no longer correct or potentially valid. Might want to reach out to Collectibles Insurance Service and see if they can provide short term site-to-site coverage or just set up a policy with this as a starting point.

Unless the person forged the full JSA letter, it isn't.

I don't know what I saw on Tessie, Daredevil, and FF but I can assure you, my shame knows no bounds!

I am sure CGC has at least tossed this idea around but there are to many negatives for them to assume the liability. If that 33k book sold and you had to use a CGC escrow/payment system/block chain and find out that it was all a scam that charge back is hitting the CGC payment system first. Paypal and Facebook have had to deal with this fallout and changed the way payments are held but still get caught holding the bag sometimes.