Jaydogrules

No one has said that ALL the errors are faked. I think you miss the point. The point is that the foil CAN be removed and copies CAN (and have) been faked. To varying degrees, depending on the extent of the degradation of whatever embossing process was originally used. I'm not saying the foil can be removed on EVERY copy either. I'm saying that it CAN be removed on many copies. And I know for a fact that CGC has graded faked ones because I know someone who sacrificed a couple dozen copies or so of what he thought were good "candidates", and made 6 of them and got them ALL graded over a year or so period. No one, not even CGC, is able to tell which ones are real and which ones were made 20 years later. Which is why none should be graded IMO. -J.

You are correct that was a video of a guy doing it on YouTube, long since deleted, utilizing a method very close to the one I linked a couple pages back. -J.

Wrong again, dude. The remaindered foil is pretty much always random, as can be seen here on another faked one. God only knows how many faked ones CGC has graded, I suspect, given the hundreds on the census and counting, that the number is not in-substantial. -J.

All good. -J.

We're just bustin yer chops. -J.

-J.

Uh yeah no. I guess you missed the ten+ page lecture-thon and name calling in this thread from that guy against anybody who dared to say anything remotely negative about this movie. Check it out. It's good for a laugh and an eye roll or two -J.

"Wrong" about box office projections? "Wrong" about not liking a movie because of a horrifically miscast actress and a cheap retconned plot device? So people are "wrong" about opinions and guesses now? Lol You're simply hilarious dude. Biggest proselytizing troll the CGC boards have to offer. But keep being you. We love you. -J.

Ugh. Semantics. Get over yourself. Okay, WHATEVER "adhesive" was used during the embossing process to make the original books. -J.

Yes, it has. They do not own the rights. But believe whatever you want, I have nothing else to say on the matter. -J.

That has been widely reported for years. -J.

Twinsies! And right there with you. I doubt anyone would. I would imagine best hope of getting a copy for less than that (or even in the ~$30k a point range) would be to wait for another auction (and we all know how those can go). -J.

So you think that after spending 80 some odd billion to buy back the rights to all the other X and FF heroes and villains, they will go out of their way to use a(n) obscure character they don't even own? -J.

Disney doesn't have the rights. There may be some funky shared rights thing with Universal, but either way to say that Feige is going to do some kind of "Wakanda vs Atlantis" thing, right after Aquaman basically doing the same thing already, and write a check to Universal for doing so, takes the term "wishful thinking" to a whole new level. -J.

People have been spec'ing on the submariner for an awfully long time now already. With the MCU going cosmic now, I'm not sure where he would fit in to cause a major surge in his books, even if Disney did get the rights back. -J.

#nobodycaresaboutrottentomatoscoresanymoreforjustthisreason And... #855to455worldwideistherealembarrassment -J.

Ah okay. So Captain Marvel opens against nothing, has nothing open against it in week two, and immediately drops to #2 in week three against the very first major release of any kind (as opposed to Venom which opened against a major release and had a second one two weeks later), and your point is....? How about I call you in week four when the second major release comes out against and it drops to #3? Or in week five when it will be #4 or #5? -J.

Given that CGC has graded known faked copies, I would say their "opinion" is beyond debatable and buyer beware on that book (as it has been for two decades now). Lol Peace out playa! -J.

You recall incorrectly. Venom opened against A Star is Born and still went onto smash October records anyway. Captain Marvel opened against.... Nothing. And in week 2 had competition from.... Nothing. And then got taken down by a buzzy low budget horror movie in week 3 (kinda like Venom). And I would hope for the sake of Marvel this would make more money than that given it had twice the all-in budget. -J.

I knew someone who did it to at least about a half dozen copies as well and had them graded. He probably ruined a dozen or so other copies at the same time. I think it is easier to do with some copies than others, depending on how the well the glue was originally applied and to what extent it has degraded over the years. I personally have never tried it and I never would, as I find it unethical. To @RockMyAmadeus point, no one ever said the Ebay seller himself faked the copy he sold, he may have bought it that way himself. Back to my original (and final) comment on the matter, I don't know why CGC grades these because it is simply impossible to tell which ones were legitimate "manufacturing errors" and which ones were homemade years later. -J.

Lol I love how you seem to believe people spitballing about box office predictions is somehow a test of intelligence. And yet simultaneously you fail to a knowledge that most if not all of the success this movie is enjoying so far is based less on the quality, and more on being the last chapter before the end of an 11 year story. To your point, your comparison above were summer movies. This is not a summer movie and it does not have even a fraction of the zeitgeist of Black Panther (not sure why you even tried roping that in, this will not even sniff those domestic numbers). Captain Marvel got taken down by a low budget horror movie in week 3. Right now this is actually following more like Venom (but with twice the opening weekend, obviously). -J.

Well in fairness, the 3.5 has restoration notes.... A 3.5 with no restoration notes sold for $102k back in November. -J.

With a $300MM all-in, it might break even by the end of the weekend. -J.

Most recent sales I know of are the 7.0 for $243k ($34k PPP) and a 1.0 I believe I read earlier in the thread went for $50k. -J.

Maybe if you came up on that pie-in-the-sky $25k per point offer.... -J.