Doktor

Has anyone else encountered this? Sold a book to the customer who immediately initiates a return and claims the book is counterfeit because CGC decided to slab it in a thicker case than he/she is used to.

 

Not a big deal but annoying. eBay user: velgor

 

 

I actually had concerns the first time I got a thicker slab due to lack of experience with them. I don't think everyone knows until they've encountered it. Just explain to them that books with a certain number of pages are encapsulated in a thicker slab and refer them to the certification verification page.

Good call.

Got mine Thursday. Should have my B&W version on Monday

Beautiful book!

I need some better/newer pictures but we've kinda covered about 2/3 of the house in comic-themed decorations.

 

But here's pretty much everything. We have 1 room that is our designated nerd room & the rest are hallways & staircase walls & whatnot.

 

Landing & staircase outside the nerd room:

 

 

 

 

Our nerd room...

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the basement:

 

 

 

And a dresser that my girlfriend wanted me to re-finish for her. She's a huge batman junkie, so she wanted a batman themed dresser. So I did this for the bedroom:

 

 

 

I plan to re-do the room in the next few weeks. Moving furniture in the nerd room & painting as soon as the weather breaks. Because I think I need to add another filing cabinet & I'm going to be out of space if I put it next to the existing 3. So we'll be re-arraging it.

 

It's great to have 2 roomies & a girlfriend that all love comics. There's more stuff in the living room & front entry hall that I don't have pics of yet, but it's getting there. Slowly

The Nerd Room is (and maybe some of the hallways, staircases & other spaces) are getting a makeover...

By this time next week, I should have a whole new layout & everything. It's going to be great.

Red/Black/Light Silver color scheme.

Actually, I've never gotten an e-mail notice on shipping of any of my orders from CGC. Granted, I've only done like a half-dozen, but still... hmmm...

 

This was the first time, as I had made a post to be posted in the "Ask CGC" section that never was answered there, but I did get a PM answer that said they were working on doing just that, so maybe this is the beginning of implementing that suggestion.

 

 

 

 

-slym

I'll keep my fingers crossed. I just had an order that switched to "shipped" yesterday but haven't gotten anything, so who knows.

Actually, I've never gotten an e-mail notice on shipping of any of my orders from CGC. Granted, I've only done like a half-dozen, but still... hmmm...

Not in my experience when I didn't have a paid account. Or even when I didn't have an account.

Everyone is still disregarding the potential for growth in the hobby due to not only mainstream acceptance & female fans joining the regular collectors market with purchasing power.

I think we'll see fluctuation and market normalization on some prices, but we're also going to keep seeing rises at least commensurate with overall inflation or likely outpacing it. Because, while anecdotal, I can count dozens of female friends that I have that have jumped into not only becoming fans of comic movies because of the movies, but have even started reading comics as a result. Now, they may not yet buy big-dollar books, but they buy books. Given time & some price normalization, you'll start seeing them jumping deeper and deeper into the back-issue market, spending more & more money there as well.

I mean, us long-time collectors didn't jump in from reading a couple books a month to buying multi-thousand-dollar key books. We worked our way up to those kinds of investments. You'll also see it with the newer female fan contingent of the hobby as well in time.

this is such an apples an oranges argument.

Most of the crashed tech stocks were vaporware or other things that had no method of monetizing itself. People woke up & realized they were investing in cool company names and not future production/dividends & the market tanked.

Comics are tangible assets. If you want to make a comparison, compare comics to commodities markets.

I'm really holding my tongue on trying to compare the comic market to the stock market & its fiat-currency-inflated post-2007/2008 status.

Tat's some pretty nice looking stuff. I dig it for the art alone.

Invoice 1

Standard (Coupon submission)

Received - 1/30/15

Verified - 2/2/15

Scheduled for Grading - 2/17/15

Graded/Quality Control - 2/23/15

Shipped/Safe - 2/24/15

Invoice 2

Modern (slow)

Received - 1/30/15

Verified - 2/24/15

Wait... we need time travel now to follow shill bidding? Oh god... we've reached a new low.

This is just silly

 

How is this silly? What's silly is some of the stuff on the modern ebay thread. X-Force?!? Really?? Copycat?? Come on man, that is silly to me.

Something else like X-Force 19 & Copycat also being silly does not make this topic any less silly. It just proves that multiple things can be silly at once.

Invoice 1

Standard (Coupon submission)

Received - 1/30/15

Verified - 2/2/15

Scheduled for Grading - 2/17/15

Graded/Quality Control - 2/23/15

Invoice 2

Modern (slow)

Received - 1/30/15

Pretty sure it's just the same guy keeping his own rumor alive.

If you are interested in that Alias Omnibus, let me know.

I wasn't sure if that one was signed by Bendis or not. Couldn't remember if it was that AND Powers he signed for me, or just Powers. It was just Powers (he did personalized signatures when he was signing that time).

Garfield was a good spidey (kept the mask on, was sarcastic & joked a lot, etc) but as Peter, he was too much of a & too "cool". While on the other side, Tobey was the better Peter. He did the awkward thing better, but he was a bad Spidey. Even his "so lame they're kinda funny/charming" jokes didn't go over for me.

Problem is we've had a good Spidey and a good Peter but never in 1 movie. I think Marvel sees that too & aims to correct it.

Worse...

 

 

Lemmy vs. The Punisher.

 

Tough call.

Trick question... Lemmy IS God.

Sell them back at a big markup.

It would be a catastrophic mistake to use Miles Morales IMO.

 

Finally we get the amazing opportunity to see the Avengers stand side by side with Marvel's most iconic hero, and now we are forced to see the knock-off version that's only been popular for the past 2 years?

 

Woo-hoo! Sign me up for that!

 

+1

 

Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Marvel didn't go through all this trouble to use a largely unknown miles morales. They've been champing at the bit to get Peter in their movies. And that's who Spider-Man will continue to be. Anyone who seriously tries to suggest otherwise has copies of UF 4 they're trying to sell.

 

-J.

 

Looks like the AF 15 club has made its way to the modern forum

 

Nah I like Miles too. In the Ultimate title. Marvel has already said they're not doing "origin stories" in the movies anymore so they can (and will) easily drop a new Peter Parker into the movies without even skipping a beat. He's their top selling solo character in comics, and has carried at least one solo title for the past 50+ years. I think we'll see Miles Morales in a cartoon on TV long, long before we see him as "Spider-Man" in a movie. (thumbs u

 

-J.

 

So Ms Marvel, Black Panther, Deadpool and Dr Strange are just going to drop out of thin air?

Deadpool isn't a Marvel Studios film, so they can't comment on that. However, the other 3 you mentioned... yes, they're either going to "backdoor pilot" them into the continuity in other films before getting solo films or throw them onto the audience fully formed & reveal origin details in flashback most likely.

I always wanted to get an homage of this cover to get commissioned. But replace Wolverine with Tony the Tiger & replace Kitty with one of the Rice Krispy guys and throw all the cartoon cereal character faces up on the poster in the background.

I just thought it would be awesome & ridiculous.

This just isn't true. The moves in the dollar have been substantial, but they are tiny compared to the moves in gold. There has been massive speculation in gold in the last ten years.

 

Look at a long term chart of gold and compare the spike in 1980 to the recent spike? They look an awful lot alike don't they?

 

A bubble formed and has been popping, IMO.

 

In fairness, the primary reason gold has risen is a weak US dollar and the only reason it's dropped recently is because of the relatively weakER Euro that makes the US Dollar look more stable to the market.

 

And as the US hasn't done much to improve the value of the dollar with the monetary policy, it's more of a case of other currencies just doing worse than the US Dollar.

 

At least that's my opinion on it. I know a lot of economists that disagree with me on the US Dollar's strength.

Maybe I over-stated a little bit. I didn't mean to say that the rise & recent slide in gold is ENTIRELY because of the weak Dollar, but it's been a big part of it.

A weak dollar, over-spending/debt and rising energy & commodities costs started the rise in gold. The rush/speculation to hedge against that with precious metals has since created a bubble that's in the process of either popping or regulating at present (and over the past few years).

Not only that, but there's been a demand on gold for actual products as well beyond intrinsic or numismatic value. The increase in small device (phones/tablets/etc) production has impacted the price nearly as much as the speculation. There's a lot more electronics out there with gold/platinum/silver in them than 10 years ago. And recovery from end-of-life devices is increasingly difficult both from the safety/environmental side, more regulation on over-seas superfund-like sites where companies can ship devices to have 9-year-old kids in the 3rd world pick through containers full of old phones to recover a gram or 3 of gold, and the regulating of the price making it less desirable to recover that gold as well.

But at the end of the day, a poor US dollar had a lot of impact on gold prices & a WORSE Euro value in recent years with defaulting economies has made gold prices come down at least somewhat by making the US dollar the lesser of 2 evils.

Okay, thanks!

You selling yours... haha?

My omnibus? I'd consider parting with it. Let me check it when I get home later to see condition & a few other things. It's the original printing.

I never read Alias.

 

I need to pick it up. I've heard nothing but good things.

I picked up a nearly-full run the other day for like $30. If the #1 is anywhere close to a 9.8 candidate, I made out like a bandit.

I bought the run when it came out & sold the whole series off a few years back in a purge of about 2000 books just to clear some space & make a couple bucks back. I didn't think ahead when I sold it & figured "I have the Omnibus" already" so it didn't bug me until recently.

If you aren't worried about resale value, I suggest grabbing a used copy of the Omnibus. It's a great read, if a little unwieldy to hold at times.