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starlord86

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  1. 3 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

    Isn't that delightful? For absolutely zero consideration, you "get" to pay an additional $10...for nothing...if you want to submit your books to CGC. 

    Your books.

    Not Campbell's.

    Yours

    They belong to you. And what you do with your own property is no one else's business.

    And you don't get anything additional from Campbell. And CGC doesn't give you anything additional. And CGC isn't being paid by Campbell.

    I should charge HIM an additional $10,000 if I buy the books, rip them up in front of him, and light them on fire.

    Don't want them lit on fire? You'll pay my $10,000 ransom.

    IN. SUFFERABLE.

    :sick:

    I'm lost. If you buy the book from his table and walk over to the CGC booth, why would you need to pay an extra $10 for it...

  2. To be fair Marvel's books have been garbage. So I don't think it is a bad idea to reboot as tiring as it is. Their sales are falling off a cliff. Hopefully this is the end of all the SJW nonsense that has been jammed down our throats and good stories and characters will take their place.  HOWEVER, if that is not the case and it remains to be the same old then yeah ill change my tune pretty quickly.

  3. 14 hours ago, jason4 said:

    Some of it is sickening but like others said many collect for cover art and variants seem to almost always have the best artists attached. I have 90 percent silver and bronze stuff but 10 percent is modern variants and sometimes not variants if the art was great. Examples of some I have and some I'm waiting on below. In 20 years who knows how these  will be valued compared to old stuff? To not collect variants would be to miss out on some amazing comics.

     

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    Those are definitely nice books. Its not the artwork that I have an issue with. It is the blatant lazy cash grab. Ex: Cover A, Cover B VIRGIN, Cover C Negative, Cover D Different colors digitally filled in, etc. and don't even get me going on the ridiculousness about print runs. I would say that the examples you gave are some 'good' variants though.

  4. 1 hour ago, IntoAnother said:

    You are far from alone bud. 

    My suggestion, walk away from any variant that costs more than cover price and never look book. 

    No matter what the print run is, the story on the inside is exactly the same. It also doesn’t matter how many scumbag dealers are screaming “BUY MINE!” with some form of misleading wording, you don’t need them. So just walk away and save your money. 

    Very solid advice and I couldn't agree more. However, I have to imagine that this is already happening because there is no way people can financially keep up the pace. Like I said the turn around on the book is so short lived if you are even able to make a profit. Fool me once but not twice kind of thing. 

  5. I can not possibly be in the minority on the boards here that have noticed an absolute absurd amount of increased variants spreading through the comic industry like a virus. It is actually worse then the 90's IMO and my reason why is because back then the extent of it was (holograms, foils, chrome). Fast forward to today and we still have that and MORE. Every variant has not 2, 3 but 4! (some cases more: looking at you JSC)different versions of the SAME cover. We have reached an all time LOW for laziness with variants. Not to mention that literally 90% of these variants have tanked. I have no clue how these variants are still coming out. I wanted to bring awareness to this because as a collector the books are rapidly decreasing in value while the hobby is very expensive.

    So where do you see this craziness going? will it eventually crash?

    rantrant

  6. No Joke this was in my previous draft  that I never submitted 'As if there wasn't enough variants, now he is adding a 4th variant moving forward it appears, I cant blame him mine as well cash in while you can but my wallet is taking a pounding'

    As soon as I saw the #8 I completely lost interest. I wish that he spent more time on just ONE cover. I really hope that these don't sell out, cause if so he will be up to 16 covers this time next year.

     

  7. 1 hour ago, BeachBum said:

    The following book must be bought with the other books, the color & B/W, for you to get it. You can get the other two raw, or some form of graded but this is being sold in a sealed pack of three at the show with the other covers and not loose.

    Venom 150 Fan Expo MegaCon Franchesco Mattina Virgin Exclusive

    Limited to 700 made!

    (25 available) - must be bought with the other two covers.

    $80 raw NM+ or better

    $150 CGC 9.8 Fast Tracked

    $200 CGC 9.8 SS Fast Tracked (Includes Mattina's Signing fee)

     

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     all 3 SS please. 9.8 :takeit:

  8. 54 minutes ago, Rich_Henn said:

    REDNECK #1 (C2E2 Exclusive) s/s Donny Cates - $135

    I want to take a look at the stock this weekend on this book---I feel pretty confident in the 9.8, but what I would like to do on this particular post for this book is take a "interested" list of clients.   I'm comfortable with 10 spots to start, and upon viewing and purchasing the books themselves this week, I'm go from there.

     

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