TheMightyJohn

Are auction format FS threads required to list a BIN price?

 

yep (thumbs u

Where is this rule listed at? thanks

Really wished there was OA for the covers, because I couldn't spend my money fast enough if there was.

Maybe Fiona will sell you a flash drive with some covers

Not really hard to find, plenty of slabbed 9.0's and above starting around the $150-200 range.

1 of 2 back today

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Traded a slabbed Batman #2 yellow label for a couple Justice League slabs! Fast shipment and no problems cross shipping.

 

Safely home.

I would love to see the grader notes on this one!

Just got my first cover a couple weeks ago!

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A pleasant surprise when I came home from work tonight; thanx to Nick Pitarra:

 

Nice books!

Will CGC now refuse to accept books from other pressing companies?

If so,is that an illegal restraint of trade?

Before announcing this,a set of answers to the obvious questions would have been helpful.

If PGX had a brain - they would sell to an independant person.PGX would then rename and be top dog in 6 months.

 

PGX is tarnished forever. Doesn't matter who owns it.

Thats why I said to change names.

 

Personally, I wouldn't be interested if I knew it had any ties to the old PGX

I 100% agree

CGC will now offer restoration services then the books go straight to slabbing. That's what I picked up from the link. Time to dump some graded books

Guess that whole impartial part of being an independent grading service is going out the window... It will be interesting to see what happens long term, the next year would probably be a good time for a competing grading service to enter the market.

On modern blue label submissions I am usually pretty anal and try not to miss any details. If i find the tiniest flaw then I wont submit it. So far my results have great. I use a tactical led light since it's white and bright as hell; and check every inch at an angle as well with it. I also seem to get better results from covers with a lot of white or lighter colors as well.

I think most of the DC SA keys are undervalued compared to the Marvel keys. Most of them are also scarcer - especially in high grade. So regardless of the success of a JLA movie, I believe it's wise to look at aquiring a Brave and Bold 28

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Just a friendly discussion of this Silver Age

 

Problem I have with Brave and the Bold 28 while it is actually from my experience a harder comic to find than say an FF #1, X-Men #1, or an Avengers #1 it has always had some negative appeal to me for some various reasons.

1. All the superheroes in this comic had their origins in other comics.

2. It is not the first DC Superteam

3. It is not the D.C. comic that launched the Silver Age for D.C.

Couldn't the same be said for say Avengers #4? The re introduction of cap in marvel continuity hardly counts as an origin imo

The book obviously is a little hard to find and I think a lot of the more casual collectors overlook it because they simply don't know it exist as the 1st Justice League and instead are more worried about the marvel boat that left port years before the avengers movie was cool.

Being primarily a DC collector I am glad most collectors in our subculture are chasing marvel keys IMO B&B28 is a smart investment right now.

Multiple Copies!

Variants will eventually kill of the industry.

Pretty sure publishers will stop creating variants when people stop buying them; either way the industry won't die

I'm just getting into OA for the first time and wanted to ask a question regarding OA with speech bubbles and lettering already "drawn" in - if that makes sense...

 

I've seen OA which has no lettering or speech bubbles and other OA that has them. I guess my question is: why do some pages have bubbles and letters and others do not?

 

I'm looking at buying a Batman page from 1980 where the bubbles and letters look to be integrated into the artwork itself, and just want to know a bit more about why it's like that. Most of the artwork I see for sale has no bubbles or letters.

 

Thanks. Gotta start somewhere

 

For the simplest explaination computers are the reason you don't see word ballons and text on more original art pages today.

 

Ah, that does explain it. So, for a page from circa 1980, did the artist just give the letterer the completed page and then the letterer just hand-drew (or maybe stenciled?) the bubble and hand-lettered the letters on to the original page?

 

Yeah and they would also sometimes paste the completed word ballons on the page.

I prefer the look of older pages I hate how original covers and title pages don't look complete today.

I'm just getting into OA for the first time and wanted to ask a question regarding OA with speech bubbles and lettering already "drawn" in - if that makes sense...

 

I've seen OA which has no lettering or speech bubbles and other OA that has them. I guess my question is: why do some pages have bubbles and letters and others do not?

 

I'm looking at buying a Batman page from 1980 where the bubbles and letters look to be integrated into the artwork itself, and just want to know a bit more about why it's like that. Most of the artwork I see for sale has no bubbles or letters.

 

Thanks. Gotta start somewhere

For the simplest explaination computers are the reason you don't see word ballons and text on more original art pages today.

I don't recall the name but does anyone remember these little space guys about the size of j.i. joes with magnets on their feet? early to mid 80's

did anyone get their late may economy books back yet?

I called today and they are grading economy books from early June as of today.

For me it depends if I like the artist and if it is one of a select few titles. Even then I usually wait a few months for prices to drop.

For most of my monthly books I won't ever consider purchasing variants.

I just received these books back from CGC. I was expecting the GA to score a 9.6 but was suprised the NM didn't score a 9.8. Oh well..

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