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Damn, somebody got a great deal if that is legit.

Now, now, there were plenty of people involved in this car crash of a movie to ruin this experience

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)

There is neither good, nor evil....only worm.

"The fighters" and "The oppressors" Nice to get covers featuring both the villains and the villains of the series

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.

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

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

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)

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)

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?

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.

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."

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)

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)

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.

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.

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)

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.

She is getting those bonuses because she wasn't just an actor, she was also a Producer (So I would assume while others will see some bonuses they won't be doubled up like hers. I'm sure she had the most sway with contract negotiations as well on both sides)

A spatula, solvent, and a steady hand combined with patience

My comic reading nook overfloweth; This week saw the arrival of half of these trades (Inferno onwards), the other half arrived last week and I quickly devoured them as I worked to catch up on what is now clearly one of the best X-Men run I've ever read and possibly one of my top three rosters of the team.

All things being equal, yes I would always want a pedigree over a regular and happily pay a premium for it. At the end of the day even the rarest of comics of every era have pretty large print runs, so having something that effectively makes my copy 'unique' is always important and trumps so many other possible features (such as newsstand, signatures etc) This is specific though to books I'm not concerned about getting the highest grade to build a competitive set, in which case those I won't be holding out for pedigrees.

THE OPERATION BEGINS. All the tape has been removed from the cover (pieces holding chunks on), while this was by far the most delicate Silver Age paper I've removed tape from it went very well overall.

I happily buy Conserved books. Paper collectibles, regardless of hobby, need to be addressed if long term preservation is an actual concern (for most it isn't, as they just want the book in a Universal slab and then who cares what happens - it has the label and it's in there forever). If a book sits in a slab for decades I don't care if it's Universal, at the end of the day it will be suffering from deterioration from such things as acidity of the pages if not addressed. This is less about repairing a book and more of required maintenance. Likewise, I happily pay to have the most important older books of mine conserved (and in all cases the grades have gone up as well due to the work done. A low-grade grail book doubling it's grade is always welcome) Restored is a different matter, which mostly always comes down to price in relation to the work done on the book. I love CHEAP restored books nobody else would touch. I just bought an amazing looking (the color strike alone made it worth it! The cover was as if it was on an 8.5 or better copy) Golden Age More Fun #36 for pocket change on account of it having brittle pages and slight restoration (split sealed and cover cleaned) - it's now the oldest book in my collection at a price cheaper than many of the Bronze Age books I've bought. Same goes for key books I just want to own for fun, not as an investment, and wouldn't otherwise have shelled out money to own at high grades (bought the first Juggernaut appearance for $300 in 7.5 grade on account of it having a trimmed edge - oh no! It displays better than even other 9.0+ books I own but I paid basically the cost of a Universal 1.0 of the book). How well a book can display ends up being one of the most important factors to me - at the end of the day all slabbed comics are effectively just limited edition art prints one can show off like a gallery) The other side of Restored books is I buy them KNOWING I can either outright undo the work done (slight CT) or the slab pre-dates the CGC conserved label and I know it will be easy to convert it over.