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Sauce Dog
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On 9/19/2024 at 10:21 AM, Vince G said:
I have a one in a holder that's missing the centerfold and back cover. 0.5. Maybe CGC changed the standard since that book was graded. Serial number starts with 1 so it's been a while.
Yeah sounds like that might be the case, would be interesting to see a scan of that slab.
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On 9/9/2024 at 10:34 AM, Joseph Ragno said:
I believe if it has either a front or back cover, and at least half its pages, it can grade .5
Yup.
Basically a comic can be missing ONE major element and still get a 0.5. However, the moment a book is missing MORE than one thing...that's a No Grade!
Missing centrefold? 0.5.
Missing centrefold AND the back cover? NG.
Missing entire front cover? 0.5.
Missing entire front cover and back cover? NG FOR YOU!
edit: Coverless are my favourite, as it is easy enough to upgrade them to 0.5 by marrying a new back cover.
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I look forward to one day meeting @skypinkblu in person as well one day, as they are rather awesome and always pleasant to chat with (and patient with my long winded ramblings).
The person I've known from the boards longest, maybe a decade now, and have communicated with the most outside the boards (email, phone chats...) which I would have considered a friend I was happy to help out was Mike at Hero Restoration...
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On 9/15/2024 at 1:10 PM, Buzzetta said:
As soon as I saw that books were disassembled and parts were all over the place, I quietly questioned whether or not some people's books were parted out to become donor books to more easily restorable candidates.
Got a copy of AF15 that's a rag and has been remaindered? Donate that centerfold and two inner wraps to another book.
Until evidence of such a thing surfaces then it is just speculation that should be avoided at this point - no sense muddying the waters for the investigators. Personally I'm of the mind that any mis-married parts of comics would be due to dumb negligence since what we do have evidence for is him mixing up client orders and even returning the wrong books / parts to people because his projects were not labeled/organized well at all.
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On 9/14/2024 at 1:10 PM, vheflin said:
I believe this may become an episode of American Greed.
I keep joking (but serious) to my wife that she needs to prepare for the inevitable Netflix crime doc about this case so we should start pushing maybe Keanu Reeves' agent to have him to play me in the flashback reenactments ;) . We should also start workshopping names, something akin to Making A Murder....maybe, RESTORING THE CON? FROM HERO TO ZERO?
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On 9/13/2024 at 1:55 PM, atomised said:
There's not a problem, I've just never heard of him and unlikely many have unless you're tracking who wins Latin Grammys in this hobby
Dude, he is very prolific even outside of that. This is really more a you not knowing problem, and thinking if you don't know it then nobody else will. Anybody in this hobby who has even looked into famous collectors will know of him (Heck, most here will know of him anyways from Predator 2)
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On 9/12/2024 at 10:56 PM, atomised said:Vince is a good dealer and I like him, but come on - Ruben Blades?
He has a very impressive collection, has been very visible/vocal about it (one such interview already posted), and is a very prominent person (He was a presidential candidate! Many awards & accolades). So I guess your emoji is accurate, as it seems you have been asleep at the wheel when it comes to comic collectors
One of my favourites I own was his:
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On 9/9/2024 at 8:36 AM, DanJD said:
They turned off commenting on that post? What a joke. There are so many people that blindly defend this. I will never understand.
One of the admins had the audacity to comment on another users similar post that they should have pressed the book as it would have been a 9.9 without the spine tics as 9.8 are not perfect books (basically CGC's stance of all these spine tics are now totally acceptable for that grade) :P
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On 9/6/2024 at 4:28 PM, Rich_Henn said:I appreciate that---but even as an OG facilitator with 20+ years, I too feel like I'm screaming into a hurricane sometimes. After a while your voice hurts and you stop screaming. I didn't submit books at all between November and April (or May?) of this year for a LOT of reasons. But the last straw for me personally was when a year ago I received an entire case of slabs that had scuffs and scratches, wanted to send them back, and was told this was "minor scuffs or scratches are acceptable due to the high clarity nature of the slab." That's like saying the car that I got off the lot brand new had a tail light that didn't work, but that's "acceptable." I felt like my concerns were marginalized and trivialized, so I just stopped sending in personal books. That was the last straw on top of a few other things, but that was it for me.
Louder voices and deeper pockets than mine is what will eventually move the needle.
I appreciate you speaking up on this, as it is clear you handle lots of books as well and are very visible in the community. A voice like yours would do wonders on the CGC Comic Fans Facebook group, as anytime any of us other lowly collectors post something even remotely critical about this issue we get the mods insulting us and saying it isn't an issue because THEY haven't had any books themselves impacted (I've seen them accuse people of 'not being real CGC fans', 'hypocrites', or 'not real comic book collectors' and other ad hominem insults in the comments)
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On 9/6/2024 at 3:32 PM, Coverdeath said:
What the hell is that!?
It look so simple...
are these stuff expensive?
Looks simple, but it ain't. It can get very expensive, so should be limited to high value items that would benefit the most from that much investment.
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Not me! (I can't do leaf casting yet, though will start with minor spot-casting soon using a non-suction table technique). But seriously, you will be banned from the boards if you mention the name of who did it. No joke.
Here is the full video of the work in progress this other pro was doing - it's very hypnotic
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On 9/6/2024 at 10:57 AM, KCOComics said:
I always recommend working with Kenny Sanderson. He did some leaf casting work for me and he is fantastic.
@Sauce Dog who did that work?
Apparently I would be banned from the boards for telling you :P
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On 9/6/2024 at 7:22 AM, KCOComics said:
Do you have the missing piece? Or no?
You could have someone do leaf casting, but I'm not sure it would be worth it. It would look unnatural.
What is your concern with the corner missing?
Bad leaf casting maybe, but properly done you wouldn't ever notice unless you were really looking for it.
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On 9/5/2024 at 10:27 AM, buttock said:
Nova Scotia - I would imagine the GA portion probably can be pieced together. The later portion would be unlikely
This one might be trouble, while we can figure out a list I know I have a couple that are most certainly this Pedigree but CGC will not recognize them when I've tried submitting them (I don't have any other documentation for them unfortunately, but they have markings on the front cover, but these copies are low-mid grade Golden Age so not high grade like the rest I've seen)
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On 9/1/2024 at 4:16 PM, peakerjer said:
Large Feature Comic #1 2.0 cover detached. Tape on inside of front and back cover. $150
Same image on front and back cover. Price is on front cover only.
Before there was Superman, before there was Batman, there was Dick.
Dick Tracy that is!
This magazine size comic printed in 1939 is 72 pages of Dick Tracy comics strips that originally appeared in newspapers in 1937.
These types of books were progenitors of the style of books we have today. Cool bit of history to hold.
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Just bought a pile of raw books that will need grading before I sell em and a bunch of them are moderns (including 1st Hobgoblin, 1st Deadpool, 1st Venom, 1st Morbius, 1st Deathlok), so I'm going to wait until the two other books I have at CGC come back and I can see if those have warped inner wells.
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On 8/27/2024 at 4:32 PM, ramithard said:
so does CGC do this?....or where can I get it done????
Reach out to Phil at Phantom Restoration, this would be a fairly easy thing for him to do. https://www.instagram.com/phantomrestoration/
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Honestly, regardless of the mysteries 'back cover crease' that looks like a book that would be lucky to get 5.5, but no higher. Doesn't seem too crazy to hit this one with the grade it got.
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On 8/24/2024 at 7:45 PM, Domo Arigato said:This board member made a single post and never responded again.
At the time, I thought the story was just so crazy that it could actually be true.
With all we know now.....I believe every word of it.
It was crazy...but do you all want to know something crazier that will blow your mind?
Allegedly after making that post she went and robbed Mike's comic shop.
He shared surveillance footage with me from the building showing her go in and leave with several bags full of items (Mike's explanation is that she stole his extra set of keys, but the footage and his story sounded fishy so I ceased talking to him at that point due to this now being a serious legal mess I didn't want to get mixed up in - I told him stop talking to me and go to the police. He did say he was going to file a police report).
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On 8/24/2024 at 1:10 PM, crassus said:I have been following the thread throughout, and I remember others posting about suspected drug or alcohol abuse, has this been substantiated? I am not suggesting this has any bearing on responsibility or accountability, just curious as to the foundation.
He has had an alcohol problem going back many, many years. He has been in trouble with the law before for his alcohol abuse, and was even arrested last year for it. Him personally using METH isn't 100% confirmed, but in this case with being associated with several meth heads, and there being some other drug related stories I was given, there is so much smoke I would be surprised if there wasn't at least some fire.
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Yeah that 5.5 looks MUCH nicer than my other 5.5 graded black covers (I have a Thing #15 in 5.5 that has notable color breaking creases along the entire spine and rusted staples alongside many other obvious visible defects) I would honestly have had your book pegged at at least a 6.0.
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On 8/21/2024 at 2:57 PM, Neo "The One" said:
Yeah - this is everything I have from eBay:
You are missing the Justice League of America #1 and Hulk #181.
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On 8/21/2024 at 12:08 PM, Copy801 said:
I don't know if this helps, but this is a pic I received from Mike back in 2022 in regards to some books that he was restoring. I don't know if this has been posted here or if these are anyone's books.
Yes, we have posted that a few times in the previous threads. A good chunk of those books have been accounted for (Flash, Action, Tech, some of the AF15s, and my TOS39). I would recommend going through both threads (this one and the previous locked thread) to catch up if you are just getting wind of this development and are interested in learning all the ins-and-outs.
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I'm jealous of your #8, I hope to one day upgrade my 9.2 copy to one that nice.