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I still hope its his long lost twin brother, Steve Palpatine.

In my opinion, absolutely. And, while I'm not sure about CC's fee structure, selling with anyone like ComicLink who charges a flat 10% commission is actually more advantageous than selling on eBay up to somewhere between $10k and $11k. fleeBay may cap their fvf at $750, but you also have to account for the PayPal shakedown fee to receive payment. Whereas CLink is just cutting you a check for your net sale price.

Someone could certainly try the swap and return scam on other comic vendors, but they would be the ones dealing with it, not you as the consignor. And I would bet they already have practices, and lawyers, in place to deal with would be thieves. The difference with eBay is they: 1. Don’t ever have possession of the item, so they can claim ignorance. 2. Don’t give a chit as long as their EPS is keeping Wall Street happy.

I’ve had one book restored (a TOS 39), and it needed it. Probably went from a 1.0 blue to a 6.0 purple. Presentation and longevity both much improved.

Absolute thumbs up to Lou’s.

Had some co-workers come to town several years ago who were after the same one night, and were hell bent on getting it downtown no less (the hotel was in the south suburbs). The exchange went something like: Ringleader - "Yeah, I heard about this Uno's place we're gonna go to." Me - "That's a tourist trap. You'll wait two hours just to get a table. Go to The Exchequer on Wabash. Or the Connie's that's across the freakin' street from the hotel." Ringleader - "Yeah, but Uno's, I think we'll go there." Me - "Fine, I only live here." Suffice to say the whole crew came back disappointed in their Uno's experience.

Then you suck at baking frozen pizza. Rising is where its at

So your telling me that you'd be surprised if the franchise that gave us cut-in-half Darth Maul robot legs and Flying Space Leia would suddenly trot out a fully living, breathing Palpitating Emperor in IX?

Bottom corner = 9.8 tops. Though who knows, the pizza delivery guys at Proper Grade eXaggerated might give it a 9.9.

You highlighted the main problem -- the desperation. I still can't fathom how they let it get to this point. TFA is certainly not perfect, but seeing as how it set the US box office record, its hard to argue that it didn't give the franchise just a little bit of renewed vigor. TLJ was set up to make $3 billion, and instead we got 152 minutes of CSPAN. So now its just another nostalgia trip. "Hey look everyone - Emperor P survived his multi-story trip down the Death Star toilet! Isn't that so crazy and interesting??!?"

Dude, with all the nonsense we hear about in the Blocked eBay user thread, you know its bound to happen. Way too many snowflakes out there.

Playing devil's advocate to Iceman, cross grading would give you the added peace of mind of knowing the actual condition of the book rather than PGX's two bit opinion that was rendered between pizza deliveries. Yeah, the truth may hurt. BUT, say you re-sell the book in the PGX tomb. Then that buyer cross grades it with CGC and it comes back with a few surprises. That buyer could easily turn around and hassle you for selling a not as advertised book, even though it was PGX's screw up to begin with. Food for thought. And add my vote to the don't attach a repro cover camp.

With a quality clean and press, this looks like it may go as high as a 7.5. The 6.5 I just recently sold had several more color breaks.

For all we know, its going to singlehandedly (see what I did there) save the galaxy far, far away in Episode -IX-

Clearly no one or nothing dies in Star Wars, ever. Palpitation. Darth Maul. That melty Vader mask. Luke's lightsaber. Probably Luke's old hand. Greedo. It's maddening.

Didn't Ford Motors have to buy ford.com from some regular joe who had the last name Ford and had ownership of the domain name?

I also enjoy Voyage Home, that’s why I don’t want to see it ripped off like Wrath was.

per PM.

She keeps digging... “They’ll go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that’s a male genre,” Banks said. “So even though those are movies about women, they put them in the context of feeding the larger comic book world, so it’s all about, yes, you’re watching a Wonder Woman movie but we’re setting up three other characters or we’re setting up Justice League.” Guess we all just wanted to see that email exchange with Ben Affleckman in WW...

Initial steps to success for #4: 1. No magic Khan blood 2. No time warp back to 1988 3. No stolen Klingon warbird

This here. Or lots where poor photos are posted. It’s a bit more of a gamble, but those have paid off for me in the past.

Per Banks: “Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie too. This movie has to make money,” Banks told the Sun. “If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.” That should get the fellas racing to the AMC to drop $12.

Big Voice Guy didn’t sound all that excited, so we can rule him out as Rey’s father. Unless he’s trying to throw us off track...

That's a bummer, Lyle made some fine contributions to Maximum Carnage.

That's absolutely Jimmy Palmiotti's signature.