Mystafo

On 2/5/2022 at 1:59 PM, Lumsifu said:

 

It's really hard for me to tell aside from color breaking and not fixable.   Been doing a lot of some research to see if this is common for this book.  

 

Under 10x

 

Joe is right, very common on this book.  I'm surprised in your search you didn't see any as I just saw 2 or 3 with it in a google image search of "hulk 181 cgc" (large size images).

On 2/5/2022 at 12:53 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

I mean, how much romance can the guy partake in?  I ain't buying that re-attachment horse doody.

On 1/27/2022 at 7:58 AM, KCOComics said:

My one word of advice is to stay away from Brittle pages. You don't see many bronze age books with brittle pages, but they are out there. 

Many collectors won't touch a book with brittle pages unless it's a rare GA book. So at an minimum it will hurt your resale opportunity. 

This but I'd personally add "tan" only because you can't check suppleness for yourself and it may be verging on "brittle."

I hate it when I see a book that's had a printer's crease pressed out and it exposes that tale-tell thin, arcing white line where the ink never landed.

On 1/20/2022 at 3:58 PM, supreme-comics said:

Hi guys, can anyone recommend good pressing services with reasonable turnaround times? Most of the big ones seem to have super long turnaround times now.

Thank you

Yea, I wouldn't send my books to someone who DIDN'T have a long turnaround time atm...probably not a good sign.

On 1/12/2022 at 5:34 PM, William-James88 said:

So great seeing this come from you

Thanks WJ but I must say I'm a little jealous, you know with the seeing and all....not gonna let it dim my spirits 

On 1/12/2022 at 3:07 PM, lizards2 said:

I keep my slabs in a centrifuge, to compensate and counteract the rotation of the Earth and the Moon's gravitational pull.

I must attain this sacred knowledge....

On 1/12/2022 at 3:11 PM, wombat said:

I'm working on a patent. 

 

A weapon to surpass Metal Gear...

On 1/11/2022 at 8:28 PM, Lord Gemini said:

And these people I just don't understand. If I want to read a high price book, I'll read a reprint or a low grade copy.

Unfortunately, the book can "de-grade," if you will, inside the slab.  Movement of the book inside the well and pages pulled away from staples caused me to first start storing my slabs flat, horizontally and then removing keepers from slabs entirely and putting them in my own mylar setup where those possibilities are much mitigated (if not eliminated).

On 1/8/2022 at 1:25 PM, lizards2 said:

My 'fair' rocks, and your 'fair' sucks?

Eets nawt fayuh!

The man loves his italics.

I've also had books where the flap of paper (that was still held under the staple body) was, itself, still attached to either the front cover or rear cover...like split parallel to the staple on only one side of the staple and for only the width of the staple, if that makes sense.

On 12/16/2021 at 11:09 AM, Buzzetta said:

Yo' Checkum.... My main maaaaaaan @PeteFromPetesBasement secured two passes for the Man Spider movie to be shown this afternoon. Non spoilery and spoilery reviews later dis' evenin'.   Boo-yah-kah-shah

 

Woah there, fella, you'd better check yourself before you wreck yourself.  Wagwan.

On 12/11/2021 at 3:22 PM, kav said:

are those bars across windows?  how he get past that?

Couldn't he just break the glass and put his hand through the bars turning the latch?  I used to have a key lock on the inside of my door but it was against fire code supposedly and had to get a flip latch inside.

On 12/13/2021 at 12:34 PM, CAHokie said:

Any business owners chime in, but I heard that if a claim is put it, some policies will be cancelled after or rates significantly raised

Not unheard of.  I have a pawn shop in Louisiana and a couple years ago a drunk driver with no license veered off the road and smashed into my building at 2:30 am.  My insurance company paid the claim (the only one I've ever made, mind you) and about a month later I was told they would no longer cover me.

*oof* hurts man....

On 11/24/2021 at 5:55 PM, MattTheDuck said:

The tragedy is that we aren't neighbors.

I'll drink to that!  Cheers from over here! 

On 11/23/2021 at 11:22 PM, MattTheDuck said:

I didn't take up smoking while watching "Mad Men," but I dramatically increased my already-prodigious whiskey drinking.

Ah, I see you're a man of culture as well!

But, given your preference in funny books, I already knew that....Matt! 

On 11/20/2021 at 2:34 PM, kav said:

yes

pm'd

On 11/19/2021 at 8:35 PM, Fisionbomb said:

Did I break the Leo game? Did I break the thread?

DID I BREAK THE INTERNET!?!

I have that issue, it sucks.

I love how 90% of youtube videos' cover stills have someone with their mouth agape!

On 11/18/2021 at 9:15 AM, comicginger1789 said:

Dehaan Green Goblin from the Garfield Spideys…a terrible character and adaptation and part of why that universe was ruined

Completely agree with you here.

On 11/18/2021 at 9:15 AM, comicginger1789 said:

because he is sick of just being plain old New

Yea, I hate when this happens too!

On 11/17/2021 at 6:21 PM, Buzzetta said:

James Franco ?!?!?!?!

 

Dis what I was sayin!

On 11/17/2021 at 11:07 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

There are two of them.