ProcessedMeatMan

On 9/19/2020 at 11:55 AM, GAMBIT said:

 Back in the club! And this time "I ain't leavin'!" 

Just curious... why do a few copies have "beauty marks" on the woman's left cheek? I picked up a copy over the summer with one and somehow missed that. 

On 7/20/2021 at 6:42 AM, KirbyJack said:

 

Thank you. I'll close this one and post there!

All the other big Silver Age keys have their own club threads, but I can't seem to find one for Dr. Victor Von Doom. If one exists and is buried deep in the archives, please tag me in it and I'll dust this one. 
Never before has any one human being been as totally supreme, as invincibly superior, as Doom. Surely this issue deserves it's own thread!

**UPDATE**

Consider this thread dusted. Doom Lives! In this thread here:

7 hours ago, MGsimba77 said:

Not sure I'm seeing any discoloration there? Anyway if there's an eye appeal issue with GSX it usually involves the bottom portion of the artwork being too close to the bottom edge as in Wolverine's middle claw not fully showing. Another one is the spine showing on the front cover but being skewed in one direction. I actually prefer the text on the spine to show on the cover so long as its straight down and not skewing off sideways. 

There is some. Slight discoloration and browning is common on a lot of silver and Bronze books with white covers. It's subtle but noticeable. The other 9.8 didn't seem to have it. 

The discoloration in the center of the CL 9.8 book probably didn't help. Perhaps a little bit of "buy the book, not the grade" factored in here.

On 4/30/2021 at 3:20 PM, Domo Arigato said:

Just a heads up on using the taxex method to see what a book actually sold for.

George with GPAnalysis mentioned here that using this method isn't always accurate.

I don't know why it's not always accurate and didn't ask for clarification, but wanted to put that information out there.

 

 

Is this site accurate? I usually use this:

https://130point.com/sales/

3 hours ago, canickus said:

Just had to use the go back machine to see what x-men prices have done over the last decade or so.  

An x-men 129 just sold for over $9000.  It was a nice one and a newstand copy which drove the price, I think.

Those were not great deals in 2008.  They were good normal deals.  Today, they would be unbelievable deals.

 

I was very confused about that 129 result. Was it signed or Mark Jewelers or something? I tried looking it up again but can't find it. 

Would an actual receipt be necessary to prove a purchase or sale? 

I've tracked every comic related purchase I've made for the last six years in Excel. But I don't save receipts. I just mark what I bought, date, purchase price, etc and if I sell something, record the date, sale location, sold price, fees and shipping costs. I keep an annual tally with a goal of at least breaking even. I rarely turn a profit. 

I'll probably be fine with this tax thing, but I buy and sell a lot. Sometimes large purchases, sometimes cash. If I don't have individual receipts for those, I assume my little excel sheet won't matter to an IRS agent without documentation?

The money I earned from selling my duplicate copies of GSX1, ASM 129, Daredevil 1 was used to buy other books that are now worth quadruple what I paid for them. That's how I'm fine with it.

I picked this up for $600 raw last month. Read it a couple of times, then sent it off to CGC. Pressing did wonders for the presentation on this copy!

Why spine down?

On 7/26/2020 at 1:39 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

You're welcome. I'm not 100% sure which one is which myself, but CGC clearly aren't either, as they have graded the unnumbered copy as both US and Canadian. Good luck 

THANK you so much for your help! I notified CGC and they corrected the description. Whew! My hero!

8 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Found one:

Maybe show it to CGC as it looks like they're wrong

 

Great find! Thank you

7 minutes ago, Scrooge said:

Not an expert but I agree, this does not look like a Canadian edition. Indicia states: Printed in the US and the address for the ad on the back cover is US-based. Have you contacted them re: apparent mistake?

Yeah I sent them a message through the site. Hopefully they make the adjustment before it's too late...

Does anyone know how to tell the difference between the US and Canadian editions of this book?

I had thought the Canadian edition had No. 1 and 10c printed in the yellow beam under the "A" in "Mars"

I sent this copy to CGC for grading and they have it tagged as Canadian in the description. What am I missing?

Thanks for looking!

6 hours ago, paul747 said:

I started to notice some action in the FF inhuman books . I then found this  https://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/marvel-waiting-agents-shield-reboot-inhumans/  

Is this legit?

That site is pure manufactured garbage. Fake news, if you will.

I was gung-ho about snagging everything until the Vol 3 #1 had two bazillion variants. Now, I only grab the "normal" variants and the retailer ones that look cool enough to spend money on. I wanted to get all of the 800 variants, but stopped when prices started dropping. I'll probably revisit in a year or so and go back and pick up the leftovers. 

I did manage to get a Ditko B&W 1:1000 variant for cheap and had it come back CGC 9.8, so pretty excited about that one!

12 hours ago, Awax said:

Just go buy them from Dre. They are guaranteed to be a 9.8 and you have more time to roam whatever convention you are at. 

Who is Dre and how do we buy from him (or her?)?

1 minute ago, brianlake7 said:

Historically - on the show variants every morning he puts out X amount they sell out in less than and hour and do the same the next day. The idea is that everyone gets a chance each day, I also have experienced that they only allow 2 of each book per person of the show variants each day when they do that

Thanks. This was my first chance to buy from his booth at SDCC. Now I know!

33 minutes ago, ExNihilo said:

I saw one guy post that.  I'm guessing they must have only put out X number of books for sale on preview night and held back the rest for the actual con beginning today.

I also see someone running with the 1000 print run number, but again, no confirmation from an official source.

Yeah, they had plenty when I went this morning. Got my set!

Some resellers on Ebay are claiming the virgin covers sold out on Preview Night. I certainly @$!$%!ing hope not...