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Either that or the question may be too mundane for this forum...

Let's take this one step further; If instead of a WRONG BC, let's think of the same book with the correct BC but with significant amount of piece repair. If professionally done, would the books restored grade jump due to it's APPARENT good looks?? BUT, at the same time get the dreaded EXTENSIVE resto notation?? Still perplexed in Pennsylvania...

Hadn't revisited this thread in awhile. Some really good questions have gone unanswered by the GA community. 1. How does a book with color touch, pieces added by tape, all 3 sides trimmed and the WRONG BACK COVER get graded as slight/moderate? 2. How does a book get a restored APPARENT grade of .5 that looks pretty darn good?? 3. What happened to this book that got sold for $10,800, then shows up a month later being sold by the same seller for $14,500?? Inquiring minds want to know...

Anyone surprised that the .5 slight/moderate restored copy on EBay finally sold for almost $11,000? And how does a "Wrong BC and 3 sides trimmed" in addition to color touch and tear seals get slight/moderate?? Thoughts??

Please tell Me this is tongue-in-cheek...

So,So many, but that Avengers 4 has to be among them...

I "meant" to buy 5 copies of Daredevil #1. In fact some 20 years later I went looking for the multiple copies and could only find the single copy I bought (which did grade out years later as an 8.5). Subsequently bought an 8.5 and a 5.0 which I've kept over the past 15 years... So actually I've never bought a multiple copy of anything off the newstand...

Ok, since no one has guessed at the owner of the anti CGC comments, I'll go out on a limb and say it sounds like a certain guy who always seemed to have a lot of Birthday Money to spread around but rarely did...

Congrats on 15 years... I have a guess as to Who the "loser" you mentioned was, but need to read the rest of this before naming him...

That is one HELLUVA way to complete a title - WOW...

I can't get an opinion over in the Grading/Restoration thread so i turn once again to Gator for an informed opinion. I'm pretty sure that a book with serious missing story art (1/3) page would get a dreaded .5 Incomplete grade - true? I'm thinking about that Flash Comics 1 on ebay that was graded .5 due to an incorrect back cover. BUT, what if the book looked like a 7.0 or so, and had the missing artwork professionally restored? Would it be deemed "complete" and receive an apparent grade (taking into consideration the quality of the artwork)?? Here I'm thinking about the ton of books where large pieces of the cover have been replaced with the necessity of new artwork and have restored grades based on the "apparent look" and overall condition of the book. Your opinion (as always) is greatly appreciated...

Missing artwork vs restored artwork Simple question; (maybe not so simple...) A GA Key (very) has a third of a story page missing. If the book looks otherwise like 7.0 what's the approx grade? Same book, with the same issue but a restorer repairs the page with his/her artwork. what's the apparent grade? Any/All thoughts greatly appreciated...

Just a great selection of books all around...

All of Sid's books were in two large magazine racks. (Probably 12 feet wide by 6 feet high altogether). The comics were relegated to the lower right hand quarter, so about 6 x 3ft). Men's magazines, photography, woman's stuff, sports, you name it occupied the other 3/4's. Pocket sized books were in two spinner racks. (I bought all of the ACE Burroughs books with the Frazetta and Krenkle covers there). I'd heard of Cap and Subby but had never seen them before (except for Strange Tales #114 where "Cap" and the Torch did battle on the cover). Cap turned out to be the Acrobat but it set the stage for Avengers 4 in another 4 months. And then in another 9 months Cap teamed up with Sgt Fury. Marvel mania was rocking by then... I have scans of all the books but not on this laptop. Maybe soon...

I have to agree on both of these. I had to search for months to find a copy of FF #4 back in 1962. I was able to pick up the Avengers #4 off the rack a couple of years later. I'd also have to add Amazing Fantasy 15, which was and still is a huge favorite (in part because I bought it and JIM 83 at Sid's on the same day in early summer of 1962).

It's been so long since I dipped into my old stash on photobucket that I couldn't remember how to use it. (That and the new Boards, that is...) As you likely recall these were sold off over a dozen years ago (except the #9 which is in a 9.0 slab).

That's it for now...

May have the hang of it now...

One more time...

let's try this again...

Hep; as usual beautiful copies... I'll see if I have any already scanned...