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ComicLink doesn't even recognize PGX as a valid grading company on their site. Any listings for PGX books basically go up as raws.

Hey, cut them some slack. Obviously a run of the mill ironing board counts as a "press", and an attached garage to a single family home counts as a "facility".

Fantastic Four #1 CGC NG Graders Notes: Counterfeit, book appears to be printed on some type of cracker. Inedible due to age.

Kind of sounds like what Wizard World is turning into. I think I spent 4 hours there on Friday last year (didn't go this year, family wedding) and easily covered everything that I wanted to see on the show floor.

Back to ACE, for those that attended -- @Drewsky and @KolmarAvenue for starters -- what did you think of Navy Pier as the venue? I mean, I live here and I don't like going to Navy Pier at all. It's a hassle fighting Lake Shore Drive traffic just to get down to the area, and then there's only one way in and out. Seems terribly inconvenient from an access perspective for an event that will draw a significant crowd. At least with C2E2, McCormick Place is right off of I-55, there's plenty of parking, and if you know the area there's several ways to avoid the inevitable jam ups on the exit for King Drive.

Yes, that's the one. Its small but still worth the price of admission. I went two years ago when (to my somewhat amazement) Larry Hama was one of the guests, and I scored some good books. Personal favorite is this one: I didn't go last year, but that was due to having already blown through my comic budget in a fairly significant manner.

That was fortuitous, same guy messaged me today about doing a deal for two X-Men books. Negotiations now cancelled.

I didn’t even realize this was going on, might have to check it out next year. An extra jaunt up 55 in this weather isn’t appealing right now. Looking forward to the November show in St. Charles.

It’s our own fault, we didn’t agree with his concise, well thought out assessment of CGC’s grading practices sight unseen.

Reminds me of my one and only interaction with Don Rosa... interested in doing a sketch? No? That’s cool, but let me just say thank you, Scrooge and the nephews and Donald were some of my favorites as a kid...oh, you want to snidely tell me that Donald belongs to Carl Barks? Even though Donald is all over your wall art? F you too.

C-shoulda used PGX. Minimum 9.6s across the board then.

“Hardly looked at them” is not the same as never looked at them. It doesn’t take that much handling, especially when you’re a kid, to de-Near Mint a comic. I still have many of my readers from 20+ years ago, and I guarantee none of them are 9.8s despite being carefully handled and stored. Don’t be bitter for long, chalk this up as your first grading lesson. We’ve all had them.

I'll do it for you -- they're idiotic. Honestly, who looks at the proposition of spending $10 to either save $65 or get absolutely nothing as a good risk/reward? If you're that desperate to gamble $10, sign up for a DraftKings account.

So let me make sure I understand this -- They took the same half baked Phoenix premise from "The Last Stand", tossed on what amounts to a coat of returned paint that was picked up for cheap from the local Menards, and expect this to somehow not to be terrible? Yo...pass that #*&t !!!

Look out everyone, @TwoPiece has got jokes now.

“Broken franchise”, that’s funny. I very much hated VIII, if you read any of the previous pages of this thread you’d know that. Unlike you though, I’m pragmatic enough to know my opinion won’t make a shade of difference in the grand scheme of the Star Wars franchise. The brand is going to keep printing money for the foreseeable future.

Thousands. Literally thousands. Sorry to break it to you Che, but a billion $+ movie won’t even blink if your little harem sits out Episode 9.

Wow. “Hundreds”. @Chuck Gower, you impressed yet? I mean, let’s face it, those hundreds could easily sink Episode IX’s rake at the box office.

Of course we can now also wonder if he even has the book, or just ripped off the image from somewhere. Looking at it again, it dawned on me that I bought a very similar looking 9.2 earlier this year (I've since sold it), but the cert number wasn't a match to this listing. But who knows, maybe this dude was the one who bought it (Greg Reece sold it for me, so I don't know who the buyer was) and tried to press it up (which would have been dumb, my former copy was, is, and will always be a 9.2).

I keep saying it -- Wonder Woman was so well received because its an awesome movie, not because it had a female character in the lead. If the braintrust thinks that simply femme-washing their superhero movies will solve all their box office woes without addressing the fundamental fact that every other movie outside of Wonder Woman has been terribly written, they're going to continue manufacturing more bombs than Raytheon.

Well why not? It certainly worked out great when they cast Michael B. as Johnny Storm...

Let's not kid ourselves, it had to be Al Cowlings. As OJ was to Leslie Nielsen, so would AC have been to Carrie Fisher. Opportunity missed...

Then its agreed -- Episode VIII needed Al Cowlings. Blast your lack of foresight Rian Johnson!!