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There is nothing aggressive about breaking down a conversation and responding to each comment separately. It's internet debate 101. If you don't feel like replying in like manner then just say that, but he did nothing wrong other than address all of your thoughts cleanly and neatly. I respectfully disagree. The approach is a scare tactic and not necessarily a logical one. An argument is more that the individual sentences it contains. However, I did note that my frustration with him was encompassing more than this specific discussion. So when you have multiple points worth responding to you are saying someone can only respond to them all together? I don't understand. All he did was address your points individually. There was nothing aggressive about it. I am suggesting he uses it as a tactic to overwhelm the discussion, cause frustration and in many cases as a way to demean people by insinuating that their POV is inferior by breaking it down to a level where it no longer makes sense (almost a form of argumentum ad absurdum). That is what I am describing as aggressive. There are lost of people on here who enjoy debating and breaking down a reply is a very common thing on the internet in debates. It just makes it easy to follow lines of thought rather than muddying the discussion. If it's aggressive, it's only because someone is being zealous with their points. They are not trying to demean someone. Anyhow, I'm out.

There is nothing aggressive about breaking down a conversation and responding to each comment separately. It's internet debate 101. If you don't feel like replying in like manner then just say that, but he did nothing wrong other than address all of your thoughts cleanly and neatly. I respectfully disagree. The approach is a scare tactic and not necessarily a logical one. An argument is more that the individual sentences it contains. However, I did note that my frustration with him was encompassing more than this specific discussion. So when you have multiple points worth responding to you are saying someone can only respond to them all together? I don't understand. All he did was address your points individually. There was nothing aggressive about it.

There is nothing aggressive about breaking down a conversation and responding to each comment separately. It's internet debate 101. If you don't feel like replying in like manner then just say that, but he did nothing wrong other than address all of your thoughts cleanly and neatly.

I know, right? I thought that was how a discussion worked. You did it properly. I didn't see anything wrong with what you wrote. (thumbs u

Yup, the cream always rises to the top but the cream can change.

Broke? No. Lost their shirt? How about Jay Parrino? Bought the best of the best, key wise, and took an absolute bath on resale. Granted, it wasn't 20 years later though. While I'm not arguing against some of the points made here in the thread, that Jay Parrino incident was a very specific circumstance. Jay had money to spend and had someone running around with Jay's blank checks, buying books for him at a fee...and overpaying. It was a ridiculous situation that never turns out well. And that person has been known to burn people. And then Jay sold off everything early because he needed to finance another endeavor so he got out of comics. He did indeed take a big bath though.

Me too, but Buscema knocked nearly all of them out of the park in that series. #1, #3, #11, #12, #13 are terrific as well. I'm partial to #11 (Gene!) because I was always torn by his love for Shalla-Bal.

I hadn't looked at your copy closely until now. There seems to be a LOT of color touch on your book, so it must be that 1) the CT and glue must either improve the grade OR 2) if there is more than just a very small amount (and this is much more than a small amount) then it goes into a purple holder. Makes sense from CGC's POV because you need a provision where the book is actually being attempted to be improved on [greatly] but likely doesn't on incomplete books and NG books. So, a new amendment to my understanding of how CGC does it.

I believe CGC's policy is that the amount of color touch or glue determines whether it's restored or not. If the CT or glue increases the grade of the book, the CT or glue is considered restorative and the book goes into a purple label. If the CT or glue does not increase the grade of the book, the CT or glue is considered a defect, counted as a foreign substance and factored into the grade as a defect and the book goes into a blue label.

Congrats! I know you've been looking for one for a long time.

Thanks guys. I've had these for a few years but I don't know that I've ever posted them all before. Took a few years to put them together. I just realized that I don't have scans of the #7 or #20.

My 18 is one of the nicer ones of the bunch. Unrestored. Missed it on eBay a few years ago and then ended up buying it a few months later from a dealer at the Motor City show who was the eBay buyer.

Group shot.

I just realized that I own the same car Johnny Storm is working on at 0:48. Yes! Really? Yep! It's a Toyota MR2 from the 80's. She's been in the shop for a month. My car is out of the shop! Yes, I just responded to myself. I wanted to say MR2 but wasn't sure!

Captain Marvel is turning 75 in February of this year. In case someone wants to join in, I started a thread in Comics General

Quick draw with the Paypal!

Sure, make this thread about me!

You're saying there are not two different colour schemes from the publisher? Absent any definitive record from Sparta or DC that there were two printings, yes, I'm saying that the color differences people are pointing to here are the result of different scanning setups and/or different ink levels on press that day. The light blue can shift easily by either of those issues from blue to grey and even a greenish tint. It's definitely not different scanner settings. I've seen two consistently different colour schemes side by side more than once. Whatever the reason, I'm fairly sure it happened during printing.

I agree that structurally they look to be over graded. The 'Pedigree bump' is a very common thing, mainly because nice Ped books feel and smell nicer than an average copy and to a grader there is probably a psychological pressure to up the grade a bit just on that alone. I know people have made fun of me for saying this but I heard this first hand from graders that well preserved, utlra high grade books can actually 'feel' different in hand than just any old high grade copy. That's a quality that's tough to get across through a plastic holder but it's real. So when you are holding a 60 or 70 year old book that looks as fresh as the day it was printed it's tough to put it in the same holder as another copy in the same grade. The same graders told me that when the Vancouver copies arrived on the scene they thought until then that the Church copies were the benchmark standard for what a White pages book looked like. Nobody actually knows what a comic looked like in 1940 unless you have a perfect memory so the Church books were the benchmark. The Vancouvers were even whiter. They were apparently shockingly nice.

You're saying there are not two different colour schemes from the publisher?

You can't tell whether a book is undergraded from just a small scan of the front cover and you certainly can't tell whether a book is overgraded all of the time. You might pick out some of the major defects and say "yeah, that book is overgraded" but scans don't take into account many things include how a book feels, gloss, differences in scanner quality and a zillion other things.

Of course. But were any rules broken?

People will argue to buy the book and not the label but then they label all boardies the same. Well here's a tip, not all board members are the same grade.

Do you actually believe he was trying to give a bud a deal while snubbing everyone else when he could have done it in private? I don't. I think his intentions were genuine but people will always disagree and look for the worst. Last year I started an innocent thread in General asking people's opinions on the best way to run a long, discounted selling thread to prevent flippers from snatching up all the good books. I was genuinely looking for fresh ideas to make sure it was done right. The thread was yanked by mods ( ) because someone thought I was running a spam thread in Comics General. As if someone needs to spam the forums to make a discounted sales thread successful. As if the vultures don't smell them from a mile away. No, this place needs to lighten up a little sometimes. If someone like vaillant wants to put a book up for sale and then refuse all offers and give it to Johnny Homeless, that's their perogative, but if they're a quality poster that gives more to this place than just money and the refresh button then it's also their right, IMO.