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This is from the TV thread: last couple of pages certainly prove this point

Please share? -slym

I remember reading that the spinoff will have an all new cast. Could be wrong though.

When I went shopping for a slab scanner, Office Depot had some printer/scanner combos that were meant for scanning blue prints. Price was okay, about $180 on sale I think. Seems like it would do the trick.

That is about what I paid for my 8250 a month ago. It was used on Amazon. Works great so far.

Gotham Central.

Although, I find the results switched on mine. Paint looks better for me. First pic is paint, second is through HP. Same settings, though.

Justin, I agree the HP software looks a lot better than paint.

I agree that I don't know if there is anymore money to made hand over fist with a WD #1 9.8 (unless you happen to grab it at a low of 1600 ). I don't think you will see as much people successfully flipping it like you did last year.

Retro, Nice Abe page. Very awesome. Re the slab. It might be able to press out? It looks a little hard, so maybe not. You should show it to joeypost and see what he thinks. If it can only press to a 9.6, then I don't think its worth it to crack, press and resubmit.

Retro, any chance you can crack your 9.4 and press it to a 9.8?

My counter would be that a sale of 1725 is only one date point, and doesn't indicate a trend. True, average sales price fell over the summer and reached a low of $1625. However, 90 day average is $2203 which is $100 over the 12 month average. 2011 average was $630, 2012 average was $1581, 2013 average is $2178. I don't see any more huge jumps in prices, and at the same time I don't see a large drop in value.

Awesome photo!

Hey JD, I'm not looking to argue, but I don't see it falling that much anytime soon, not with it being renewed for another season and a spin-off series coming. What is the writing that you see on the wall that indicates to you the precipitation of WD #! 9.8 prices?

I tend to agree with mschmidt. I feel that comics that are harder to get/more costly to get/rare in good grades should be worth more points. I think that makes sense in system that is meant to be competitive. This system also encourages slabbing in general, so it would behoove CGC to assign higher points to slabs that are more costly to do - as an incentive to pay the additional cost. In that line of logic, I think SS books could be worth more points than they currently are.

You should be penalized for not collecting yellows, you fool! :-) ive heard that before! In my not so humble opinion (IMNSHO), you should build registry sets for the following reasons: 1) You think it's fun (that's the only rule that really matters) 2) You care deeply about a book 3) You want to pay tribute to the book by collecting it all in whatever grade you like and love CGC enough to collect slabs Sure, having the most points is fun, but caring about the book and putting together the collections that make you happiest are what's most important, whether you go through the registry or not. Again, just my NSHO. +1.

At the end of the day, I am going to slab the comics I collect, so adding them to a registry set is just another way for me to show off my collection and/or keep track of it. Seeing that that point difference between 9.8/9.9 and blue/ss is so marginal, I'm not going to spend exponentially more money to get a small increase in points.

Jeez, I hear that I agree, this may be the only reason later prints get slabbed. Although there are a lot of people who collects slabs that dont participate in the registry. My goal was to have a complete run of 9.8 Walking Deads, and I didnt know about the registry until a few months into it. It's fun and adds some competition to the hobby. I dont view it like that. I dont see how you are penalized for collecting blue labels any more than collecting 9.6s over 9.8s. In fact, the difference in points between a 9.6 and a 9.8 is larger than the difference between a 9.8 and 9.8 SS. From what I have seen, SS only gets you a 10% bump in points. For example, a new Walking Dead blue 9.8 is 32, a SS 9.8 is 35. A blue 9.6 is 20.

Oooo, that is very nice looking.

Ryan bought a WD slab from me. He paid very quickly and let me know when it arrives. He is a great boardie, and an asset to the boards. Thanks!

Cool. I'll shoot you a PM!

Here you go, Justin:

Justin, I bought this same scanner a month or so ago. I used it to scan the Preacher 9.8 that you bought from me. I'm not at home at the moment to look at my settings, but I use Paint to scan the comics. You make a custom settings for DPI, Contrast and Brightness. Someone did post their settings in this thread, and I used those. When I open Paint, I click on the menu, select "from scanner or camera", select the 8250, click custom setting, make the adjustments, then select "scan" (not preview). With the scanned slab now in paint, I crop it and save it in JPEG. It will default to PNG, but I find these files to be larger and thus longer to upload to photobucket and the registry. Hope this helps.

I appreciate the post, and welcome to the boards! I like data driven articles like yours. Do you have any experience with regression analysis? I have a comic project that may interest you

It's the bindery tears on Saga #1s that keep them from 9.9 and above - Saga #1 was hot straight out the gate. I know that most (if not all) of the run has those bindery tears (at least every copy that I have seen), but I didn't think it was that hot until early this year. Maybe this was just a local phenomenon, but I was picking up first prints of #1 off of the shelf at local shops as late as Feb '13. /Saga Discussion in EoW Thread. Sorry! Question: who else is building a registry set? Other than vikingreed, who looks like he will have the number one spot, dammit.