Westy Steve

Hey guys. The back and inside of this book are nicer than the cover. The riffle on the right edge should press out nicely. No tears or hidden defects. What do you think it will grade after a press?

A nice Headlight cover impulse buy at Megacon.

After seeing the movie, I couldn’t help but think most every avenue speculators took for this movie was a dead end. If you bought a book on spec, you likely got screwed.

I don’t think you’re the only one. That book had issues and did not deserve that grade at all. And somebody needs to take that CSS and resubmit it. Me and a couple of my friends independently graded it at 3.5.

I agree. Wondering if that submariner number eight is for sale for 8.0 money. The spine on that book was gorgeous

Pichelli variant

I’m willing to bet the median grade for the FF 48 was lower than what CGC gave it. That was a gift grade.

I did exactly the same thing

My copy

The other groups have “clubs” for various key issues. Seems that we should have at least one for modern Comics. My apologies if this thread exists elsewhere. Post your modern “Grail*”. Something in your personal collection and not your dealer inventory. I’ll start us off. *note: yes, I’m using the term “Grail” loosely. If this makes you want to fight about it, you’re kind of a weeny.

I collect Coins, currency, video games and comics. Arguably, townhouses also. I feel your pain. But this calendar year, I decided to focus on comics only. It’s going better than I could’ve hoped. By focusing, I think I found more deals and made better purchases I’ve been more in tune with what the market was doing. Maybe consider this approach? oh, a word of advice. Never sell one kind of collectible to buy the other kind. Only buy comics with money obtained from selling comics or fresh funds from the bank. That way, when you see a comic increase in value that you used to own, you can’t kick yourself over it because you bought other comics that increased in value during the same time frame.

How is that for acronyms. Just picked this up. I didn’t purchase it thinking that I would press it, but looking it over it seems like squishing it would really help it. How would you grade this with a press?

My bad. I made a last minute change that I did not record correctly. I was calling the Batman 6.5 until the moment of truth.

Hi. It appears that my score was miss calculated. I was only off by one grading point on one book. And 1/2 grade on another book. Otherwise three bull’s-eyes. Therefore my score should be at three. Not a four. Thanks

So what kind of score do you need to be in the hunt in this contest?

I do wonder what happens when 95% of the people guess that the grade is X.0 and the grade on the slab is X.5. Would that mean that the people who guessed X.5 “correctly” are right?. I presume that the sample size of the number of books is large enough to where that won’t matter, but it is an interesting question.

I’ll be set up there. Not too far from Tampa and Orlando. Smaller show, but focused on comics. 21 comic dealers on the vendor list https://brickcitycomicandtoyshow.com/about/

This. You guys keep comparing this book to Spiderman 300 and NM98. There are so many copies of those books printed, graded, and for sale it’s crazy. Popularity alone carries them. Not knocking the books because I like them myself. But price is a function of supply too, not just demand.

Good buyer and a nice guy. No problems.

Lol. And ironically in later issues his hair was yellow but not this one.

I want in!

I used to have one of those in 9.0 before the hype. After a while I decided to trade it for something else. I brought it to shows as trade bait. I just about couldn’t give that book away. Of course I traded it for peanuts right before the announcement.

Lol. After writing this, I began to wonder if Jessica Jones ever met the Hulk. Interestingly, this was my first Google hit: (it’s old though) https://movieweb.com/she-hulk-krysten-ritter-jessica-jones-disney-plus/