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Sauce Dog

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  1. Many are thinking that the studios broke down because of this upcoming bill that would make striking workers in California eligible to receive unemployment benefit - which means the studios know they wouldn't be able to wait out / starve out the strikers long term if they were all covered by EI. https://deadline.com/2023/09/california-bill-wga-sag-unemployment-state-senate-vote-1235546032/
  2. I posted this on one of the main comic groups on Facebook so plenty of people saw it, but I don't think there is much new here that those on these boards are not aware of. Lots of scammers trying to grade reprint pages as legit, so if you are in the market for one better to make sure it is graded by CGC as any other option might have missed the obvious tells (I was lucky enough to get a full refund by ebay for this though).
  3. Yup she is clearly in the trailer, all my money is on them killing her but wussing out regarding actually going forward with baby-murder. I hope that I'm wrong and this movie goes all the way with hitting Aquaman with a very dark, low point in his (alleged) trilogy.
  4. Finally watched it, thankfully with lowered expectations. It wasn't the worst DC fare we've got in recent years, but it wasn't that good. Was a slog in many parts and really suffered from what felt like an overload of forced humor and forced references. You could have cut every single scene talking about his caloric intake and food and it would have had zero impact on the film (would have made it better). Visually it was all over the place, had this been pushed to be streaming only I think it would have gotten far more leeway on visual critiques (but for a major theatrical blockbuster the standard is higher for getting the small things right). To its credit it was by far the best DC team up we've got so far (for Justice League at least, minor ones still outshine this with Suicide Squad) and did feel like a shlock comic book story arc event put to film (for good and bad) I found alt-Barry annoying at first, but that was the point, so it fit in well and I do like how they became so obsessed at the end it resulted in Dark Flash (maybe wish we had a little more screen time of him interfering, but was fine as-is). Ezra was fine, so in the end of all the problems I had with the movie very little had to do with them (overall they are near the bottom of whatever list of negatives hurt this movie honestly). 100% a better watch than Black Adam, but still only around a 5-6 out of 10.
  5. Totally just noticed I hadn't joined the club yet with my recent repair job. Cheapest way to get a grail that still has a grade AND looks decent for display.
  6. Damn, somebody got a great deal if that is legit.
  7. Now, now, there were plenty of people involved in this car crash of a movie to ruin this experience
  8. edit update: ebay seems like they are going to give me a refund, regardless of the item being opened and me removing the restoration already. crossing my fingers this is true when it is supposed to resolve by September 12th. edit edit: Refund approved. Even though it came in a certified slab which I cracked it out of AND 'damaged' it by removing all the restoration ebay still sided with me thanks to the evidence I provided (combined with the sellers complete unwillingness to engage the process or communicate)
  9. "The fighters" and "The oppressors" Nice to get covers featuring both the villains and the villains of the series
  10. Regardless, can someone please take a photo of their page 1/2 with a ruler for me (over the panels with Beast having ice on his arms like I posted on the previous page)? It would help prove that it is not authentic.
  11. Already emailed them, but ain't expecting much from that end. Either way...looks like I'm back OUT of the X-Men #1 club until I find a new page to complete this
  12. I am, and have instigated a return request but honestly I don't think that will go my way. I already have cracked the slab AND performed restoration removal on the page (I had no reason to suspect it before hand since it was authenticated...I only became suspicious after the restoration was removed and I noticed all the edge cuts were very clean and precise, not even like scissors but scalpel fresh to carefully cut out a specific part and leave the rest). I'm going to have to maybe go through my credit card to reverse the charges as I don't think eBay is going to help me here. When I contacted the seller the first thing they said, and only thing, was "did you crack it out of the slab?". Not "I didn't know! sorry!" or anything else like that. https://www.ebay.com/itm/285044643272?fbclid=IwAR3aw3dYLaih6-DQJM_J2qf6UVquD9yxlwEeYeJiUAdAMGY40KNvS6q4gkg
  13. Sigh. This is totally 100% a reprint from Marvel Tales #2. The eBay seller is even selling other loose 'heavily trimmed' original Avengers #1 pages...which were also from that very same reprint book. It would be a crazy coincidence that the eBay seller wasn't the one who had this slabbed and is scamming Anybody have a first page they want to sell me (or a first wrap)
  14. URGENT: Can somebody measure the width of the panels on a REAL X-Men #1 first page for me. The page I bought was restored, and when I went to remove all the restoration (pieces added to all sides) something wasn't sitting right with me. I compared the width to the rest of the interior and the panel art width is smaller. I fear I was sold a hacked up Marvel Tales #2 reprint page (with the reprint notice sliced off exactly where it would have began from the bottom and pieces added to make it look legit - it was in a VOLDY slab). I'm pissed off, to say the least (thankfully it was purchased off eBay only a few weeks ago, so I've instigated a refund request)
  15. It is hard for anyone to see a stain on that front cover with those images, could you take some of the back cover where it might be easier to spot the stain?
  16. Is it just me or has HA's shipping gone up again? The shipping for a single slab in the last auction has now come back to me as costing $100usd, while my previous single slab order of similar value last year was only $75. Yikeeess.
  17. I'll see it, but all that trailer did was remind me how much I really reallllllyy REALLY miss action movies using squibs "WE HEARD YOU ...except about the poor CGI blood and the janky green screen backgrounds, we're keeping those."
  18. The following steps are what I'll be doing on my side: Remove tape from front cover Remove restoration from page 1 (pieces added around the borders, slight CT bottom of the page) Remove reproduction pages from interior (the incomplete interior I bought had a reproduction cover and first wrap attached using double sided tape - ugh. CGC missed the tape and thought it was glue which would have been easier to remove) Harvest the new matching donor back cover from the other comic I have (Sgt. Fury #3, the rest of the comic will be used as material by Jerry to help make paper pulp for the leaf casting process) After all that is said and done it is going to be sent to the wonderful Jerry the Jitterbug on YouTube who has agreed to take on leaf casting the book back together. My entire goal is to keep the entire process to as far below the GPA last sale for a 0.5 as possible (Last sold in July 2023 for $3000), and so far if everything stays on target it looks like I should be able to complete everything for around $2400. Having this come back as a 1.0 Conserved would be the low end outlook - I'm keeping my expectations as low as my budget. To put this budget in perceptive; the most I have ever spent on a comic was $2000, and I have done this three times after much saving/haggling ($2000 for Adventure comics #48 first Hourman after having sold a BIG grail to fund the purchase, then $2000 for New York World's Fair 1939 first Sandman, and then I did a $2000 trade for an incomplete Wonder Woman #1). I'm not a high roller like many others on the boards (but am aware I'm very fortunate to still be in a position to spend such money on comics), so when I come into any big grails it is often from either building up a book like this from scratch, or wheeling and dealing other books I have (most that I got lucky in buying years before they spiked. A large portion of my comic-play money in the last two years came from me selling my first print TMNT #1 when things started to get crazy - part of the money from this bought the first Hourman I mentioned above). So this is now TECHNICALLY the most expensive comic I have ever 'bought'. As for turn around, Jerry won't be able to start on leaf casting until the fall - so I'll be talking with him in September about when I can send him the pages (once they are done on my end, which shouldn't take too long for me - only another 3-4 nights at most of casual work). This started when I bought the incomplete interior at the beginning of the year (it was already graded as a Restored NG) as didn't consider doing all this work until I ended up finding a local selling who had the front cover for sale. At that point it just seemed like a no-brained to go all out and actually try to make it a complete book (it honestly took little time to source the other parts. I wish I could have found an unrestored page 1, but the options were very limited and since I was already going to do a full leaf casting I bit the bullet and figured I could work with it)
  19. Was hoping to see it today (or this weekend) but the universe has seen fit to gift me with a fever (and alas, it isn't more cowbell)
  20. Big thanks to the amazing customer service provided by @CGC Mike . It is great to know the standards set by CGC for this sort of defect are clear, as these sort of 0.5 books are more important than most might guess; such books allow many of us on limited budgets to continue to build sets on the Collectors Society with confidence knowing even expensive grails can now be added too them while also serving as great display pieces thanks to the reproduction front covers.
  21. Love this issue, though ironically I prefer the ORIGINAL Golden Age Red Skull (Maxon, as I loved his brown jumper suit and the idea any man could take on the role when appointed the mask) but have not yet been able to obtain a pedigree copy of #65.
  22. Yes there are things that are rarer then pedigrees, but the point is when we are talking about comics they all have decent sized print runs (even high grade subscription variants there are multiples out there that could satisfy the criteria) so a pedigree is a very easy way to make that specific book effectively a pop 1 (there are a few pedigrees that feature multiple copies of the same book, but those are exceptions not the rule). That's it; it becomes a very easy marketable selling point for your book that would make it stand out from a sea of equal grade universal books if you choose to list it for sale (and as public awareness of pedigrees grows so will the demand, I keep seeing many people weekly who see the label for the first time with much curiosity and end up excited by this elusive label) - and the pop 1 mentality is something many new collectors are well aquatinted with (especially when we saw that influx of new speculators to the comic hobby during covid as they shifted from sports cards, this was also the case with MTG cards, everyone was looking at the census and crunching numbers about population reports)
  23. I literally JUST got this book in the mail this week, and it matches a few of your criteria though this one is the dreaded TRIMMED (which I am happy to live with if it means just getting a good looking copy of the book in my collection for cheap) Restored 7.5 (c-1): Paid $384 Universal 7.5: 90-Day Average $1559 (This super low as well, it was previously hitting a high of $2816 and typically you will see it listed online for at least $2000) So in your case it won't be as steep a price cut, and I would say around 2/3 of FMV for your restored GSX1.