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On 12/6/2022 at 12:18 AM, lou_fine said:

Just imagine that if you had brought the Salvador Mundi painting for a mere $10K back in 2005 and then sold it for $450.3M 12 short years later in 2017, you wouldn't need to worry about insignificant loose change amounts like only a few thousand dollars.  

It's all relative, right? 

I dunno, is this considered a stamp or a sticker?

It's probably just an ink dot from the printing process since some books have it and some do not. There's a similar printing dot, only in this case it's ink loss on some copies of Fantastic Four #48. Some copies have it and some don't.

I once stole a picnic basket full of Golden Age comics.

I used to write my name and put my own date stamps of the day I bought them on my books.

Are they calling that printers crease a “light scratch center front cover”?

On 12/1/2022 at 11:36 PM, s-man said:

Dirty comic secret, eh? 

I once paid a lady of the night with a comic book.  She was so good I gave her a near mint copy of Cherry Poptart #1.  I thought it most appropriate. 

In turn, she was so impressed by me that she gave me a copy of The Riflemen #10. 

"He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that!"     John Mellencamp, Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) 1996.
 

After looking into that sale back in 2015, it looks like the seller was trying to sell it as a "Green River" even though it was not designated as such on the label. It looks like the book was just re-graded in Sept. of this year and the old label must have been turned in because nothing shows up in the "verify certification" using the old number from the sale in 2015. (The old cert. number was 0765779015.)

By the location and color of the date stamp, it looks like this book sold twice back in late 2015 and it did not have a "Green River pedigree" notation then. It must have been re-graded because interestingly, the page quality was cream to off-white then, but now it has off-white to white. I agree with Sal, the Green River pedigree probably did not have any Silver Surfer's in it because of the time frame of the Green River pedigree that stops in late 1967, early 1968, right before the Silver Surfer solo series started. Here's an image of the book as sold in 2015, not very good quality, but it seems to match the one you posted currently on ComicLink.

Posted this one in the "Show Us Your White Pagers" thread also. This is the book I posted raw over a year ago, finally got around to getting it graded. One of only 6 graded overall with only one higher at 9.0. Graded out about where I thought. 

Bought this raw off an ebay seller. Just back from grading. Came back about where I thought. A hard hit, one of only 6 on the census, only one grader higher at 9.0.

From my recent submission of mid Silver Age books, I thought I had about seven books that had a shot at 9.4. Of the seven, one got 9.0, five got 9.2 and one got 9.6. Of course, as you can see, none got a 9.4.  Oddly, the one that got the 9.6 is the one of the books I thought was the weakest of the bunch. Conversely, the one that got the 9.0 I thought was one of the strongest. Just shows you what I know.

Of course, it's hard to beat this as an entrance, the best, hottest reveal of the Silver Age.....

Sue Storm! She was actually the most powerful one of them all, but Stan and Jack never went there, a real disservice to the character they created.

On 11/23/2022 at 7:14 PM, DUMMO said:

Too stoned.

Ok, the Tales to Astonish #88 I don't get. It has a pretty good "dog ear" crease at the right upper corner of the front cover but not much else I can see, but I've seen books like that get 7.5 all day.

Why doesn't the world fit into the box I want it to fit into? 

Page quality is pretty fluid based on my experiences with re-submissions. I would say a good 30% come back with a different page quality with just about as many improving as not.

On 11/19/2022 at 9:05 AM, GrasshopperFF said:

You’re good. Does this mean the “stain” or “sun damage” or whatever occurred after the 2013 sale? Fark. 

Hard to say, it could just be some debris on the scanner when they imaged the book for the auction. 

After doing a little more research, the same book sold back in 2013 on Heritage and that image does not display what we are seeing the current ComicLink image.