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Justice League #21 Fine+ 6.5 Asking $200 SOLD!

House Of Secrets #92 VF+ 8.5 Asking $1500 SOLD!

Fantastic Four #48 F/VF 7.0 Asking $1000 SOLD!

Amazing Spider-man #9 VF 8.0 - 1st app. Electro Asking $1000 SOLD!

Include $10 for shipping within North America. ROW I will split with interested parties. Who wins: Time stamp seals the deal as to who wins regardless of the form of communication (including PM, in the thread, text or phone conversation). A negotiation is not a deal until both sides have agreed on terms. If there is an unconditional posted (or communicated) it will trump all negotiations unless we have already both agreed to terms before the was posted. In that case, the will have been in vain. Except that it will give you street cred and look cool to passers by. No House Of Shame or Probationary members or any others of ill repute. Returns: I am considered a very good grader among my peers ( Here is a link to my kudos thread ) but since even CGC is inconsistent I will not guarantee a CGC grade. I will guarantee to be within one grade increment in either direction - so if I am calling the book a 9.4 it could go 9.2 or 9.6. If it falls outside of those parameters (and it does happen that they go in both directions), I will offer a refund. But I don't expect anyone to complain if I undergraded it. I will accept returns if item is otherwise not as described. Payment: Paypal, bank wire, check or MO.

If someone wants a sweet 6.0 at an undervalued price, feel free to hit me up.

On the contrary you also have lots of great sales at this time of the year because people have Christmas bonuses to spend. But it's great that you get what GAtor does.

I wonder why that is. I'm not being facetious, I'd really like to know. Except it's not true. SC22 is like a crack addict looking for his next fix, with price appreciation being the drug of choice. He said that Hulk #1 was dead in the water and yet it still continues to slowly appreciate at a reasonable (and historic) rate over all. He said AF #15 would never go down and yet now concedes that it went down. It's simply a correction. People need to slow down and relax and get some perspective. And that means maybe checking GPA once every few months to look for trends rather than refreshing every hour.

Again, price variations have ALWAYS been a part of the hobby. IMO the main problem with the onset of the internet age is that people over analyze prices on a daily basis, worrying about this or that. And that over analyzing of prices is what even causes some of these market fluctuations and volatility. A group of people holding a particular book see a book sell under expectations and this causes a massive panic with people dumping books because the sky is falling. It would be funny if it wasn't so negative. Market fluctuations are normal. What isn't is when books double and triple in price and all you are seeing is a correction as the mania subsides after a panic to get a copy this summer.

It did?

This is one my faves. Love the drama and energy that Kirby puts into every cover but this one captures everything in one IMO. And the concept of the Sentinels is just pure genius IMO.

I have seen a tiny chip on a CGC 9.6 and I've seen much more chipping on lower grades. It all depends on how much chipping there is.

All expensive books. The greater the price the greater the possibility of volatility due to personal preference on what people like and don't like on their comics. What you're seeing is personal preference and how people value certain qualities within each grade. A grade is not a price point, per se. A grade is simply an opinion on what shape the book is in. The market decides price points based on how they perceive the book. Prices have always varied on books in a given grade for various reasons.

Terrific cover showing how great Kirby was at capturing a mood. Doom standing in royal glory and the Avengers taken aback by his presence. You didn't see much of this back in the early SA.

I love that cover too. And another barren landscape cover.

OK, this explains your position. You think that it only applies to AF #15 and I would disagree. All the things discussed here apply to all books in my experience (and have for the entire 15 years that I've been back into comics after leaving for a decade). I'm not trying to fight either. Just trying to make sure that people clearly understand my position.

I still don't think you understand. You are asking grading companies to change their criteria based on fluctuating market values. I am telling you that it's not the job of the grading company to follow market values to adjust their grading guidelines because markets fluctuate all the time. Let's put Marvel Chipping aside completely. Centering plays a large factor in price when it comes to Bronze Age keys. As does page quality. A CGC 9.8 with a perfectly centered cover and white pages will command a MUCH stronger price than a CGC 9.8 with a mis-wrapped cover and cream pages. Using your logic, the grading standards should also change for CGC 9.8 Bronze keys because the values vary drastically? And they should change for any other fluctuations based on defects for all books, by extension. That's illogical because now you are not only changing what a CGC 9.8 or any other specific grade is, you will have to change ALL surrounding grades to accommodate for the changes being made to CGC 9.8 The grading scaled has been evolving and thought about for decades . IT went through a lot of discussion and interaction when CGC consulted dealers before it opened it's doors to get their thoughts. Personally I don't think the current grading standard is all that bad. It is meant to appeal to both collector and dealer, buyer and seller and it has found a reasonable medium. It's now up to the market to decide how they want to value those grade increments. And while CGC have changed in the past, they have generally changed things that were damaging to books to increase their lifespans. Two most prominent things being how they view tape (which is not as accepted now as it was a few years ago) and how they view restoration vs. conservation (because eventually ALL books will need some form of conservation to preserve them).

I was offered that book. Thought the seller wanted too much and passed. Going to be interesting where it ends.

My son is a fireman in training. So proud of him.

I have a soft spot for X-men #1 as this was the run I was putting together when I got back into comics over 15 years ago. I also have a soft spot for those barren landscapes of the 1960's. X-men #1, JIM #89 and other covers have them and they remind me of a more innocent time. I picture less population, open landscapes and highways and a more peaceful society. I never questioned the cover composition to X-men #1. I was probably in single digits when I first saw and always felt like I had to have a copy (along with every other SA Marvel). Sure, it's a little hokey in retrospect, but then so is the fashion, architecture and everything else from that era.

Yes, just show me "ONLY" the comics! As with all things cyclical, those shows are coming back.

I went back and reread what I posted just to make sure. I didn't write "I don't care about these things and neither should you". In fact, I thought I was pretty thoughtful about how worded my replies, with the understanding that everyone has different interests (or tastes). I did make a quip about comparing comics to fine cars but that was just meant to be funny and lighten the mood a bit (which most people who know me on here would realize). Anyhow, sorry if there was a misunderstanding.

It depends on what sort of books you are looking for. Common books? It's always been a buyer's market. But I would expect to pay more, not less when you are having a dealer come into your town to bring their inventory and allow you to hand inspect it before purchasing. As far as not haggling, it would be rare not to have to haggle whether it's at a show or the Make An Offer option on eBay. Very few sellers come out with their lowest prices on inventory. What if the 3rd party can't agree on a grade. CGC has variations. If anyone wants to buy a book with a CGC grade then they should avoid raw books. Grading is not a science, set in stone. As Bob said, NM- and 9.2 are two different ways of saying the exact same thing.

You sure are making a mountain out of a mole hill on this one. For any key book that has art elements occupying the very edges, people will notice and express some curiosity about how variations in the cover cut / wrap crop the image a bit differently. I don't see any evidence that anyone is valuing the variations differently, and (respectfully) I don't understand why you've chosen to harp on it when everyone else has dropped it. I'm not making a mountain out of a mole hill or harping (or criticizing for that matter). The example you focused on was one of many examples (I also included chipping and page quality, etc) which I used to show Glassman10 that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that everyone has different things they like and don't like about comics and that everyone values them differently. Are they not valued differently? If something about a book causes a bidder to drop out I would say it has an effect on valuation. Anyhow, I'm sorry that you took it as a criticism. It was not intended that way nor was it posted that way.