IntrepidXC

One time price drop before these are off to eBay!

You should be able to see your credit balance when logging into your account.  Unless I've missed it this feature isn't available.  Here are some things I'd like to update from a technology perspective:

1. Credit balances should be shown in your account profile. 

2. The online submission form should be able to link to your account profile and calculate your real charges. 

3. Credit balances should cover the cost of grading and shipping.  I'm not sure why CGC won't allow credit balances to cover shipping. 

If CGC made a few changes to the way they handle/display credits they might convince more people to upgrade. 

Action Comics 283 Sold.   

Quick payment, great communication.  Thanks for the purchase!

1 hour ago, SkOw said:

Hulk 180  per PM. 

 

SOLD!  Thank you.

One book sold.  Open to offers on the others.

Action Comics, Strange Tales, Incredible Hulk

Selling a couple of books.  No HOS/POS.  Shipping is $13.65 for medium flat rate, or I can quote exact shipping.  Take them all and shipping is free. Open to offers.

Payment via Paypal.

Incredible Hulk 180 - CGC 9.0 - $400 SOLD

Action Comics 283 - CGC 7.5 - $60 SOLD

Strange Tales 135 - CGC 7.5 - $200 $175

BTTF 1 9.8 2xSig, Enormous, and Unity - One Time Price drop before they are off to eBay!

Selling a couple books.  Prices as noted.  No HOS/POS.  Shipping is $13.65 for medium flat rate or I can quote exact shipping via priority mail.  Take all three and shipping is free.  Thanks for looking!

Payment via Paypal.

Back to the Future 1 CGC 9.8 Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson Signature - $450 Moved to eBay

Enormous 1A CGC 9.8 comes with TPB #1 - $100  $75.00 SOLD

Unity 1 1:200 CGC 9.8 - $65 SOLD (surprised this went first)

I've sent two PGX books to CGC and left both in the PGX slab.  Fortunately, both came back as the same grade with no restoration, etc.

Anyone familiar with the Microtek series of scanners?  I've got a used Microtek i700 that works great, but it has a huge smudge on the interior of the glass.  I've tried taking it apart, but there is a step I'm missing and cannot figure out how to separate the front panel from the scanner.  Until I can do that, I cannot lift the top panel off and clean the glass.

Google has not been helpful.

Ideas? Anyone had to do this yet?

10 hours ago, FormerReader said:

FYI, The Divinity #1 1:40 print run was ~350 not 200.  The Savage #1 1:50 was ~300.  Dinesh has confirmed both.

Your right I had things mixed up. Divinity is 350.  I can't believe I forgot savage 1 1:50 either. Maybe it's because I couldn't find a copy.

Divinity 1 1:40 Variant ~ 200 copies

XO Manowar #1 (2017) 1:500 Brushed Metal Variant ~ 121

The Divinity 1 1:40 print run was confirmed by Dinesh.  The XO Manowar #1 Brushed metal numbers are estimates based on the 60,524 regular copies sold.  

These are some of the modern books that VALIANT collectors consider rare.  

On 3/11/2017 at 9:47 AM, Dreamsleep said:

Sorry Intrepid xc is has been sold already. It does have sold inputted beside the pic.

Yeah, I saw it was sold. I was lamenting not seeing the thread sooner.

On 3/5/2017 at 4:38 PM, Wipple said:

invincible 1

 

Great buy!  I'm kicking myself for not seeing this thread sooner.  Invincible 1 has been on my want list for a while.

BTTT

9 hours ago, valiantman said:

I recently shared this photo on the Valiant fan site and it freaked out a few of the guys.  

It made me wonder how often we let kids hold expensive comics, for whatever reason.

 

(1994 Bloodshot #0 Platinum, first copy ever found... only about 25 copies known.)

 

Show 'em if you've got 'em!

 

Greg, I was going to cross post this over on VF.com, telling you to post in it.  I opened the thread to see it was you who posted. 

BTTT, one price reduction before these books head off to eBay (don't make me do it!).  Prices reduced by 10%.

Up for sale are two VALIANT books.  The first is from the 90s run of Harbinger, specifically Harbinger 6.  The second is from the VEI run of Unity and is the harder to find Unity 1 1:200 sketch cover variant.  I am flexible with shipping and will offer two options:

Option 1: Medium Flat Rate Box @ $13.45

Option 2: Exact shipping cost via priority mail

If you select option 2 I'll need your address to calculate shipping costs.  Take both slabs and shipping is free.  I'm also open to trades or partial trades for items in my WTB list.  My WTB list and Kudos thread are found in my signature.  Thanks for looking!

Harbinger 6 - CGC 9.6 - $50 $45 plus shipping

Unity 1 1:200 - CGC 9.8 - $135 $121 plus shipping

1 hour ago, mgmgx2 said:

CGC did comment on the name. If you do a verification on the cert number, on the CGC website,  your name does come up. In my case I also signed the book so it says signed & colored by ....

 

And thank you for the kind comments. I took my time with the books though. Each book has about 15 to 20 hours worth of coloring. I figured its something I can leave to my niece and nephew in the future.

 

Yep, you sign a forum certifying you were the "artist".  Although my wife and I forgot to sign the books.  So dumb, but they still turned out great.  It's quite a novelty to have books with our names on them.  I was very surprised that mine graded a 9.8.  I wouldn't have thought it was a 9.8 candidate by any means.  

1 hour ago, mgmgx2 said:

Thank you! Prismacolor colored pencils. The 132 pc set. Although I only used about 25 different colors between the two books.

 

Your work puts my pencil work to shame.  I'll have to try and improve my game.  

What did you color your books with?  They look great!

My take on Batman 48.

My wife had a different take on Louis and Clark 4

This is a long shot but is anyone familiar with the Microtek i700 scanner?  I've owned a used one for almost a year, but I really need to clean the interior glass.  There is a smudge on the interior glass right in the middle of the scanner.  On dark color books, it creates a noticeable "swish" right in the center of the slab.   I can get the back of the glass panel off, but I cannot figure out how to remove the front section of the glass panel.  Google has been no help.  I suspect this is a long shot, but it never hurts to ask.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure it out.

Thank you!

I don't hate the new boards, especially after I found the themes area and selected the "beta" theme.  It's not perfect, but I think CGC will get there.  If you haven't done it yet scroll all the way down until you see themes on the lower left.  Select the beta theme and see how you like it.