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The Irish version involves a Hurley at arms length  

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3 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Nobody likes a sloppy stripper. 

Speak for yourself 

6 hours ago, Kevin76 said:

On 2/26/2020 at 11:00 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

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Black is running too light, either the ink fountain is running low on black or the press operator needs to adjust the ink keys to put more black on the paper. 

How does black factor in to the missing exclamation point?

2 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

coffee connoisseur

I think he was banned.

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Does anyone know what the fing comic cover is? 

No, but I tend to like my birds mellow Steve. Type B women if you catch my drift. I can't deal with the high energy type.

3 minutes ago, comicparadox said:

Aqueous mixture of urea, chloride, sodium, potassium, creatinine is extremely effective. Spray package from approximately 3 ft distance. It's an easily accessible admixture to which almost everyone has access. (Exceptions of course are those with end-stage renal disease and the extremely dehydrated). 

Women may have problems with the whole 3 ft distance thing though.

9 minutes ago, steveinthecity said:

I think more along the lines of DC's Codpiece Man.

 

12 minutes ago, godparticl said:

Edit:...Well holy mess. Now I know why. The one they sent doesn't match the serial on the photo

eBay? Sounds like you need to return it for sure.

On 2/15/2020 at 1:58 PM, 1950's war comics said:

CGC 1.0  not worth grading on its own but if you had a batch of comics to send in it would be worth it , it would look great in the new CGC slab and would be preserved

Even if it is a 1.0 (I think it's likely a bit higher), it's worth approximately $300 according to GPA.

I don't think you're correct in saying it's "not worth grading on its own", unless he paid very close to that to begin with.

It could be a good candidate to sell raw, but I think you're just as likely to be steering the OP (who is new to this) wrong by saying it's not worth it. Just my 

Just now, Foley said:

I agree with you more often than not, but in the case of your first sentence, you'd have to add a 0 

And that's for a blue label.

3 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

Also: The comic you posted a picture of is worth, like, $200.

A foil comic being graded 9.9 is literally nothing new or rare. Wait until you find out how high lenticular covers get graded...

I agree with you more often than not, but in the case of your first sentence, you'd have to add a 0 

The back looks like moisture stains, and the marks on the front appear to be foxing.

Dry cleaning would not entirely remove either of these, but may improve them some.

Either way, CGC hammers stains from what I've heard.

However, there are others here with much more knowledge about dry cleaning than myself. They may be able to give you a better answer.

Try @joeypost

Can’t tell from one image of just the front cover. 

18 hours ago, Krismusic said:

increasing the restoration on a book generally drives the price down

Yeah, if you added more restoration and kept the same grade, but not sure why anyone would do that.

The goal of having the book further restored would be to increase the grade, and therefore the value.

What OP needs to find out is whether or not the cost of having more restoration done is less than the value added by a higher grade.

Again, not comic related, but since I already hijacked the thread with some Grateful Dead content, I'd like to show this off too. 

I had noticed a bunch of really nicely done street art in Cork City (murals on electrical boxes, article here: https://madaboutcork.com/gallery/street-art-electrical-boxes/) so I deciphered a signature off one of them and contacted the artist, Vincent Zara, and asked if he would do a portrait of Jerry Garcia for me. He said he would, then I didn't hear from him for 7 months so I kind of wrote it off. Then I got an email saying it was done, even though we never even discussed any particulars (including the price)  I'm new to this but I get the feeling artists can be a bit flakey? Thankfully it actually exceeded my expectations and the cost was very reasonable. The image doesn't really do it justice, it's much nicer in person. It's of the type that looks better from a distance than it does up close.

Here's another one.

I found it in this old CGC announcement: https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/4030/

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Introduction of the Conservation Scale
Specific repairs done to improve the structural integrity and long-term preservation of a comic book will now be classified as “conservation” and designated with a blue / purple label. These repairs include tear seals, support, staple replacement, piece reattachment and certain kinds of cleaning.

Looks like an early version of the now blue/grey format that they've since done away with. Perhaps due to the stigma of purple? That's just me guessing though.

@Brittany M. Can you shed any light?

1 hour ago, William-James88 said:

CGC Confirmed that there is such a thing as a blue conserved label. That makes things rather confusing.

 

 

 

All conserved labels are blue. They have a grey strip across the top that says conserved.

49 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

On 1/17/2020 at 2:04 AM, slym2none said:

Don't look, Jimmers...

-slym

Dammit Slym! 

I hate spiders 

On 1/17/2020 at 2:29 AM, Jimmy Linguini said:

 

Am I hearing things, or did she refer to 2 people named "right cheek" and "left cheek" about 5 seconds in?

7 minutes ago, Timely said:

New piece in...

Hot & sexy half splash of MJ from Web of Spider-Man!

https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1601619

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A very titillating page! 

Indeed