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You can stay (with nobody else there but the dog) another month for free, but you'd rather be homeless? I don't get it. Why not just stay and use the free month to plan your next move instead of making a quick decision which is clearly going to make your life infinitely more difficult?

That is also likely a QC issue. CGC slabs a lot of books. As Vintagecomics keeps reiterating, ANY glue on a post-1950 book, regardless of perceived intent, is an automatic PLOD. Same goes with colour touch. Any SA book with "small amount of colour touch" on the label in a blue label has also slipped past QC (I have seen a handful of those as well). -J. Pretty sure that you're wrong on this. Color touch, yes. Glue, no. If you can show me where it says this anywhere on CGC's website, I would really like to know. It took ten seconds to find a half dozen examples in Heritage's archives on SA books. Consistently "small amount of dried glue" was blue label. No results were purple labels. And it spans back to as early as 2005. It's not that I particularly care one way or the other. But put yourself in the shoes of the buyer who just dropped 36 grand on his copy. That could've been his life savings and his holy grail once in a lifetime purchase, and you are on here saying it's tainted and it should be a purple label if not for CGC's QC dropping the ball. If I was him, I would be furious. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-incredible-hulk-1-marvel-1962-cgc-vg-40-cream-to-off-white-pages-this-classic-first-issue-from-marvel-features-the/a/15092-17418.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Hulk 1, 2005) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-avengers-1-marvel-1963-cgc-vg-40-off-white-to-white-pages/a/121620-13189.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Avengers 1, 2016) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superman-104-dc-1956-cgc-vf-nm-90-off-white-pages/a/7007-93320.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Superman 104, 2009) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-flash-120-dc-1961-cgc-vf-85-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/110074-14260.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Flash 120, 2010) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/wonder-woman-97-dc-1958-cgc-vf-75-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/110071-11419.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 (Wonder Woman 97, 2010) I understand what you are trying to say, and yes, if I look I can find examples of other QC problems with labels, ie, wrong titles and issue numbers, artist names mis-spelled, etc. Feel free to contact CGC yourself to confirm. SA + Glue = PLOD. There's a reason why the book went for a third less than all other sales in grade this year. People knew what they were (or weren't) bidding on. -J. Occam's razor. Scenario A: CGC's QC absolutely blows, and they consistently got it wrong. Every. Single. Time. Scenario B: Small amount of dried glue is supposed to be a blue label, as every example shows. You say A, I say B. I'll agree to disagree.

That is also likely a QC issue. CGC slabs a lot of books. As Vintagecomics keeps reiterating, ANY glue on a post-1950 book, regardless of perceived intent, is an automatic PLOD. Same goes with colour touch. Any SA book with "small amount of colour touch" on the label in a blue label has also slipped past QC (I have seen a handful of those as well). -J. Pretty sure that you're wrong on this. Color touch, yes. Glue, no. If you can show me where it says this anywhere on CGC's website, I would really like to know. It took ten seconds to find a half dozen examples in Heritage's archives on SA books. Consistently "small amount of dried glue" was blue label. No results were purple labels. And it spans back to as early as 2005. It's not that I particularly care one way or the other. But put yourself in the shoes of the buyer who just dropped 36 grand on his copy. That could've been his life savings and his holy grail once in a lifetime purchase, and you are on here saying it's tainted and it should be a purple label if not for CGC's QC dropping the ball. If I was him, I would be furious. https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-incredible-hulk-1-marvel-1962-cgc-vg-40-cream-to-off-white-pages-this-classic-first-issue-from-marvel-features-the/a/15092-17418.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Hulk 1, 2005) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-avengers-1-marvel-1963-cgc-vg-40-off-white-to-white-pages/a/121620-13189.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Avengers 1, 2016) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/superman-104-dc-1956-cgc-vf-nm-90-off-white-pages/a/7007-93320.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Superman 104, 2009) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/the-flash-120-dc-1961-cgc-vf-85-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/110074-14260.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515 (Flash 120, 2010) https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/wonder-woman-97-dc-1958-cgc-vf-75-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/110071-11419.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515 (Wonder Woman 97, 2010)

There are other examples of (Silver Age) blue labels with dried glue on the cover. So I think the whole comment on this being a QC issue by CGC should be revised. Here's one: https://comics.ha.com/itm/silver-age-1956-1969-/amazing-fantasy-15-marvel-1962-cgc-vg-40-cream-to-off-white-pages/a/7152-91164.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515.

Howie Mandel used to have hair?!

that's a great cover, never noticed that one before!

That makes absolutely zero sense Gabe I'll rephrase it then. I was taught to buy low and sell high and also to buy things on the down trend so that when it goes back up I'll make money with a bit of waiting. Buy low, sell high .. good. Buy things on the down trend & wait for them to go back up .. bad! Especially on these hype books. The time to buy is before the initial pop, or before they reach their peak and everyone knows about them -- after they have peaked and started to crash, they don't tend to go back up in price any time soon.

Those guys listed a bunch of auctions the other night, all starting at $1500. Many got bids and were then ended after a few hours -- then the books were relisted at the correct prices. The FF1 is in their eBay store at $9500, so that auction (which only lasted six hours) was clearly not an actual sale. They probably messed up and posted them as auctions and cancelled them when they realized the mistake -- probably got crushed with high eBay fees for ending those auctions early like that though.

OK - stupid question...how do you tell whether this is a page from Action #1 or Superman #1? In Action Comics #1, the artwork is on the reverse side. So page 5 of Action #1, that features the famous car-lift scene, is printed to the right of the book's spine. In page 7 of Superman #1, that same page is reprinted to the left of the spine. Exactly -- and because of this, the reverse side of those pages is different, so it's easy to tell which is which if someone tried to pass off a Supe 1 page as being from Action 1. I had some loose pages in the past and one of them was the car-lift scene and I thought I struck gold and had an Action 1 page, but it ended up 'only' being from Superman 1!

"The Brave and the Bold and the Beautiful"...??

I'd love to know the details of that bogus 8.0 auction because I doubt it could've been completed via PayPal, at least not in one single transaction. And if you split payment up into several payments, I believe PayPal won't protect you. And of course, paying outside of PayPal, eBay isn't going to give you any protection either, so hopefully the buyer just never paid.

Man if I knew there were comic references in The Accountant, I would've seen that instead of Deepwater Horizon today! It was pretty good though.

So, 81 year old David Prowse bought your mid grade Star Wars 1 That's pretty cool, but I bought John Voight's car Just when I was about to give up on this thread, the Seinfeld reference pulled me back in! One of my favorite episodes ever.

I think it's safe to say that the couple of top Marvel guys who could/would shell out $500k+ to have the top Hulk 1 wouldn't be buyers of the top Showcase 4, so I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison. I've always felt that comparing the more commonly sold, mid-grades from book to book was a better comparison, as it removes the "highest graded copy" premium, but I can see where both sides are coming from.

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I wonder if they "accidentally" released it earlier this morning for an hour or two, to see how people reacted (like they did on the pilot last year). At least with this one, it seems to be very positive reaction whereas the pilot was more split between hating it and loving it.

The "Superhero Fight Club 2.0" video is pretty cool! I tried to put it on here but they keep deleting it from youtube. The video works on this site, not sure how to do the fancy preview video though Superhero Fight Club 2.0 - Extended Promo

Yeah I'll fix that sentence and I tried adding a back cover scan but it said it went against their policy, What I mean but scuffs and scratches it exactly as is sounds it's not something that requires re casing but something I put for all my slabs just in case. It's a really minor detail and not a big deal, but just to give you my perspective as a potential buyer -- from reading your sentence about it having some scuffs and scratches (and a blurry fc scan with no bc scan), I'm instantly thinking "I guess I'm going to have to pay to get this thing re-holdered, wait months for CGC to get it back to me, etc." I get that it's just to cover yourself with a picky buyer, but I would consider just leaving that one line out of future listings unless there really is a noteworthy scratch or scuff.

Not to pile on, but you should really add a back cover scan, GET RID OF the sentence about the 11% off thing (eBay won't like that), and I would clarify what you mean by "the case has some scuffs and scratches" -- if it's something minor, then say that, but the way you have it now, I could see someone taking an additional $50 off of their offer if they think they will need to ship it to/from CGC for reholdering -- you already have so many things working against this sale with it being out of the country, a common book, etc. -- you are just making a sale less and less likely.

5.5 Bat 1 just got added to Heritage too!

Give it an hour or two before we get the old "my account was hacked earlier" damage control tweet. But I'd be fine with any choice at this point. It seems to keep getting pushed back further and further, so any news is good news!

Looks like HA is gonna be competing with CC for early Detectives in their upcoming featured auction. Tec 28 2.0 Tec 31 6.5 Tec 33 1.5 Tec 34 6.0 ® Tec 35 3.5 ® Tec 38 6.5 ® By far the nicest Tec 31 for sale in many years, right? Best one Heritage has ever had was the 5.5 Crippen ten years ago. Should be a fun auction to watch!

I finally finished my season two binge, now I can read this thread! I saw all of season one "live", but I lost interest at the start of season two on tv. I enjoyed it way more on my second attempt, watching them all at once, with no commercials. But I'm hooked and can't wait for season three next month.

Please don't get sucked into the clean/press/resub game. The odds that a high grade slabbed key ON A DEALER SITE (!!!!!!) is not already maxed-out (or not worth the money to take the gamble on) are so slim, and you are going to get killed on all of the shipping to/from Canada. Not to mention tying up all your money in a single book which you won't be able to sell for months. Finding good deals and flipping them has a shot at succeeding; trying to press & flip keys with almost no money to spare is a totally different ballgame.

Sweet! Maybe we finally get to see Brainiac?!