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On 10/6/2021 at 5:11 AM, John R said:

First appearance of Marvelman (Miracleman) in UK comic Marvelman #25 is hard to find and of some value.  Issue #26 sold for $4000 on Ebay in 2014.

 

On 10/11/2021 at 7:01 PM, Randall Dowling said:

Are you saying that Warrior 1 isn't the first appearance??!!    

What the what?.. does this mean then? Is this based on Moore's retooling of the character?

On 10/31/2021 at 8:44 PM, kav said:

Some guy bid on a book then paid with cats.
cant remember names but watch out for this guy-total scammer.

catburglar ?

On 10/12/2021 at 4:49 PM, joeypost said:

Just had a magazine submission finished from 1/19. 

That's 2 days ahead of mine so I should see my magazine ship by Friday.  I just looked it up earlier today and my magazine started the grading process with delivery to you for pressing in early September of last year. 

My magazine submission from January (this year) hit the 8 month mark and has disappeared from my Submission Tracking page. Had to go back through records and figure out the submission # and then do a search. If the magazine wasn't part of a bigger order I wouldn't have been able to figure out the number. Why can't orders that have not shipped remain on the tracking page? I would think that's an easy fix.

On 9/22/2021 at 12:06 PM, Ryujin said:

Modern magazine  from 02/08/21 shipped today.

My 1/22/21 Modern Mag still GEI  

On 9/21/2021 at 4:36 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Sold mine about 7 years too early 

 

Sold my 9.6 copy almost two years ago; too early too.

On 9/21/2021 at 10:38 AM, X_Phile said:

It is. Now if only they can find my MFT sub that was opened and marked as received on 6/22. They have been trying to look for it in the slow track going on 3 weeks now. 

A couple of my books were "misplaced" last year. I would call weekly and eventually they were found under a different order #.... So keep calling because they will forget about it. The books may eventually show up at some point but who knows how long that would take.

On 9/19/2021 at 12:48 PM, Bird said:

I just made a sale, so logged onto my ebay active listings. I do give grades on most of my stuff listed but not all. I think photos show things I can't see with my own eye, so if I photo it up and describe it well we are good to go. I am not confident enough to grade but adjust for it with the rest of the listing/sale.

Customer services is the way to go anyway. Not that I get many complaints either though. 

I've had happy buyers while selling with or without a specific grade and when I was being specific I always undergraded a bit. 100% + feedback..... last feedback I received "Most beautiful book I’ve ever received from an EBAY purchase! Thank you so much! 5 Starz***** and then some!". Fast shipping and solid packaging also make buyers happy.

I stopped giving a specific grade on ebay and instead use a narrow grading range, a plus and minus, and supply lots of photos and a description of even the smallest flaws. I once had a picky buyer who purchased about ten low value books and then proceeded to send me pics of one of the books with circles around a few very minor flaws which were, in my opinion, acceptable with the grade given. He ended up using a "not as described" return on half the books, which was total bull, and my only choice was to refund and let him keep the books because I would have lost money on the return shipping. Ironically, in his auctions he basically states that grading is an opinion and if you disagree with his grading, too bad.

On 9/17/2021 at 3:48 AM, Vrishnak said:

Is it possible to have this graded by CGC?

 

If you want an accurate grade and higher retail value.....

On 9/16/2021 at 3:10 PM, tvindy said:

It is definitely true that I have thousands of worthless comics. 

Just give it some time...

On 9/15/2021 at 5:29 PM, littledoom said:

Grendel’s been cold for decades. So you shouldn’t kick yourself 

True and thank you.... 2019 was not a great year for me; when I started downsizing my 1980's collection. I let too many books go that have since exploded in value, especially with all the movie releases. I just shake my head every time I see a post like this one. I've learned my lesson and pay a lot more attention to these forums and sites such as GoCollect.

Sold my raw NM 1983 copy of Grendel #1 in 2019 for $140. ....

On 9/5/2021 at 4:29 AM, Wolverinex said:

Great book.   Pick up some copies if you can find it chea/

I did; half dozen copies almost 30 years ago....

On 9/3/2021 at 5:52 PM, Drink2mny said:

Awesome reply. Thank you. I think from here on out I will be taking photos before they go.

I started taking photos after two incidences of damage (not SS). Both were graded 9.8 so damage was post grade. Luckily one was fixed without further damage, the other, they insist is still a 9.8 despite a small back corner piece torn off.

On 9/3/2021 at 11:57 AM, Ninja0215 said:

I had an invoice filled out but I wasn't sure if I should pull the trigger....I'll work on it this weekend. 

The longer you wait....

On 9/3/2021 at 6:30 AM, BrntWS6 said:

I dont understand why the huge backlog with magazines.  I called and asked if they were graded in a different department or something and she said no.  I have been waiting since March and I saw someone else received in January.  

Did she say anything encouraging at all? ... Such as; they're currently working on magazines from such and such submission date?

On 9/2/2021 at 8:22 AM, greggy said:

Looks like they are working on getting rid of their magazine backlog but why didn't my two mag modern subs from June 28th move? 

Could be that the backlog is backlogged....

......  160 work days ..... a good month to go to reach the current 207 day estimate... wonder what the estimate was back in January???

On 8/30/2021 at 3:43 PM, littledoom said:

Starslayer 2's disappearing off ebay

Wonder if Pacific Presents #1 will show some movement as well.

On 8/30/2021 at 5:21 PM, littledoom said:

Disney+ Movie coming ... long underappreciated/undervalued book

I agree... big fan of Dave Stevens and the Rocketeer

On 8/30/2021 at 3:43 PM, littledoom said:

Starslayer 2's disappearing off ebay

Sent my old copy to CGC about a month ago. Any reason, besides the obvious, for the current interest?

On 8/27/2021 at 6:30 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Heard that all the way out in comicfornia!

Thanks again for posting cause now I'm like its definitely me and I can be more patient with cgc, who is tired of telling me the same thing hahaa

It's just unbelievackable

Hard to be patient when you see other submissions jump the line... for whatever reasons. Just looked and magazine turn-around is 207 days, twice that of modern comics. Last time I checked I could swear it was like 187 days. Wonder if this t-a-t applies to books submitted in the early days of 2021.... time bending ahead of us, wondering if we'll ever catch up.  

On 8/27/2021 at 6:20 PM, wombat said:

For the love of god tell me you are joking.

Close... it's with two i's..... jokiing