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Cool! But I'm curious to know why the guy's ankles are skeletonized but his hands are not and why the beasties have skeletonized hands but not skeletonized faces.

The Sub-Mariner would have to be number one for me because he was protecting the oceans! He was the first super-eco-terrorist. Batman has stayed popular for a reason; he'd be a close second. (I don't really collect Batman or Tec any more, but that's because I sold my Batman/Tec books before they exploded in price, and I cringe at the thought of buying books for literally 20 times what I sold similar copies for 20 years ago.) Catman is a fav, too; the stories aren't bad, and I like the fact that he had a female sidekick. Girl power! Nobody ever mentions the Crimson Avenger, but his name alone puts him on my list. The Spirit hung out in an old grave-yard. How cool was that? The Spectre was a basically a ghost; he has to make the list.

Very nice! And if you lose your job, so what? I don't know about you, but I'd let my house get foreclosed on before I'd part with my comic books. I'd just find a climate-controlled storage unit to keep them in. I could sell my plasma every couple of weeks and come up with enough money for that!

Congrats West. That is a wonderful book (thumbs u It is a beauty! I thought about going "all in" on that book, but I would have been done for the year.

That book's so gorgeous I could kiss it!

Very nice! Wish I'd seen it first...

It went for $200, which was a premium over non-pedigree copies in the same grade, about a 2x multiplier... It'll be interesting going forward if the market treats the camp books consistently different than the non-camp books. (remember the Boy camp book went for what 10x a non-pedigree copy?) How has CGC been treating the writing on the camp books? Have they been downgrading much for it? original owner markings dont get downgraded (for the writing) as far as I know. Hmmm...if that's the case, I'll have to part company with CGC on the issue. The camp books are very cool, but writing on the cover is writing on the cover. (I guess I'm old school...I started collecting before "pedigree" was common in comic book parlance, and back then, writing on the cover--with the possible exception of a penciled arrival date--took a grade WAY down.) why would the penciled arrival date be an exception? if your stance is "non production marks on the cover are considered downgrades in condition" then any mark, pencil arrival date, a Larson "L", arrival date stamp should all be considered as part of a downgrade, the bigger the mark, the bigger the downgrade. It's not just about logic; it's about tradition, too. Penciled arrival dates (and distributor's marks) were treated like part of production (maybe because they occurred prior to sale, if your looking for a logical reason). Anything else written on the cover, like an owner's name, would result in a downgrade, sometimes all the way down to VG depending on the amount of writing. Ink was considered worse than pencil. None of the dealers or collectors I dealt with back in the 80s would have called a book VF if it had writing in ink on the cover. Granted, I dealt with a small pool of amateur dealers and LCS owners in the Detroit area.

It went for $200, which was a premium over non-pedigree copies in the same grade, about a 2x multiplier... It'll be interesting going forward if the market treats the camp books consistently different than the non-camp books. (remember the Boy camp book went for what 10x a non-pedigree copy?) How has CGC been treating the writing on the camp books? Have they been downgrading much for it? original owner markings dont get downgraded (for the writing) as far as I know. Hmmm...if that's the case, I'll have to part company with CGC on the issue. The camp books are very cool, but writing on the cover is writing on the cover. (I guess I'm old school...I started collecting before "pedigree" was common in comic book parlance, and back then, writing on the cover--with the possible exception of a penciled arrival date--took a grade WAY down.)

It went for $200, which was a premium over non-pedigree copies in the same grade, about a 2x multiplier... It'll be interesting going forward if the market treats the camp books consistently different than the non-camp books. (remember the Boy camp book went for what 10x a non-pedigree copy?) How has CGC been treating the writing on the camp books? Have they been downgrading much for it?

He says right on his eBay listings "The ONLY "slabbed" books I have sold or will sell [a few a year], are JOINTLY owned. ALL of the "slabbed’ books that I have purchased, are "LIBERATED" from the slab as soon as I buy them." As far as cracking out books and selling them raw (and re-graded) goes, I think that's a common practice. Metro and Worldwide both do it.

Inquired on one of his books. The guy is a totally off the deep end Well he has been known to be a tad irascible, but I've never had a problem with him. He does sometimes suddenly mark up books if he notices a high auction result. Is that what happened? Asked him if the book we were discussing could be CGC'd prior to deal closure. He flipped. To him CGC is like a red flag to a bull! I found him willing to negotiate on price, which is more than I can say for many of the consignors on CConnect & CLink, but his grading was much looser than mine on the one book I purchased. Basically, his 9.0 was my 7.0. (It was an inexpensive book, so I just kept it.) One area where he doesn't conform to current CGC grading is stains. We all know that CGC--particularly in recent years--hammers stains. He holds to the older view that takes a more lenient view of stains. +1 my one issue was stain related...but in his defense it is not easy to accurately judge the impact of a stain. In his case, he's not trying to judge the impact with CGC. He considers CGC grading completely invalid. If you want to buy from him, you'll have to learn his grading and make an offer accordingly. I understand his position with respect to CGC, but when he says something is a 7.0 there is a perception he is representing that would be the grade, regardless of whether it was CGC, another collector or another dealer doing an impartial review. I don't think he'd see it that way. I think he'd say that anybody who doesn't like his grading can go buy their books somewhere else. To him, his opinion is the only one that matters. That's my impression, anyhow.

Inquired on one of his books. The guy is a totally off the deep end Well he has been known to be a tad irascible, but I've never had a problem with him. He does sometimes suddenly mark up books if he notices a high auction result. Is that what happened? Asked him if the book we were discussing could be CGC'd prior to deal closure. He flipped. To him CGC is like a red flag to a bull! I found him willing to negotiate on price, which is more than I can say for many of the consignors on CConnect & CLink, but his grading was much looser than mine on the one book I purchased. Basically, his 9.0 was my 7.0. (It was an inexpensive book, so I just kept it.) One area where he doesn't conform to current CGC grading is stains. We all know that CGC--particularly in recent years--hammers stains. He holds to the older view that takes a more lenient view of stains. +1 my one issue was stain related...but in his defense it is not easy to accurately judge the impact of a stain. In his case, he's not trying to judge the impact with CGC. He considers CGC grading completely invalid. If you want to buy from him, you'll have to learn his grading and make an offer accordingly.

Inquired on one of his books. The guy is a totally off the deep end Well he has been known to be a tad irascible, but I've never had a problem with him. He does sometimes suddenly mark up books if he notices a high auction result. Is that what happened? Asked him if the book we were discussing could be CGC'd prior to deal closure. He flipped. To him CGC is like a red flag to a bull! I found him willing to negotiate on price, which is more than I can say for many of the consignors on CConnect & CLink, but his grading was much looser than mine on the one book I purchased. Basically, his 9.0 was my 7.0. (It was an inexpensive book, so I just kept it.)

$20 for a 7.5? Is that a key issue? I sold my late 70s/early 80s runs of X-Men raw for about a few bucks apiece about 10 years ago, and everything later than 77 or 78 had gone straight from the newsstand into a polybag, so they were all 9.4-9.8 unpressed.

In the M*A*S*H episode "Run for the Money," Winchester tries to mentor a stuttering private who reads comic books. I think the episode shows an issue of Captain Marvel Adventures, but I'm not sure which one. (Winchester wants the guy to stop reading comic books and start reading serious literature.)

I don't usually collect low-grade, but I had a little bit of credit with Lonestar, so I picked up this book. (I'll actually be able to read this one without wearing gloves or worrying about damaging it!)

The writings are typical distributor marks made by staff of the place selling the comics. The "D" indicates which distributor will receive any unsold copies and will reimburse the store their purchase price for each one. The second distributor was coded with a "C." The date is the day that the comics were received from the distributor or were placed on the newsstand. Some stores did that because the date printed on the magazine was the date that unsold copies should be pulled and sent back to the distributor. The final number is the quantity of that particular issue received from the distributor. Ideally, the store would be able to monitor for spoilage or theft. Thank you for clarifying. Have you ever seen a book with the coding from the store where Church purchased his books that are not part of the Mile High collection? It's clearly possible because there were so many different issues in the Church collection (and therefore on the newsstand) and because there are many issues with a large number placed for sale (ie. Fawcetts). I've not heard of any copy that has the proper coding but that we are confident was not purchased by Church. I assume you mean the double-dash style coding? Because the Aurora pedigree features the D from the same distributor as the Church books, although I think the double-dash style had been abandoned by the time the Aurora books start.

Just arrived today. It's a little different...I liked the colors.

I was in the mix on the Strange Mysteries bidding right until the end. Glad to see it went to a boardie. A very nice set of books! Same here! I might have bid more aggressively on it if CLink has sent me the back cover scan that I requested, but they never did.

PS - Here's a scan of the back cover. The image/stain is more apparent in hand, but you can still make it out.

Gator, I received a book that I purchased raw (but can still return) that has a ghost image of Chilling Tales #8 on the back cover (faint oils & inks). I purchased the book as a 9.0, and the front cover looks close to that range. How much would CGC knock off for that particular defect?

Isn't that supposed to be Stan Lee on the cover? That's just what I was thinking too! He looks a lot like J. Jonah Jameson. Was J. Jonah modeled on Stan Lee?

That is a terrific cover!

Thanks, guys! It's my first Superior. (Another should be arriving from FedEx any day.)