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  1. Best2u

    #1 cover in my collection

    By Best2u,

    Here it is. My favorite cover that I own.
    Check out my past journals to see my other top covers. From E.C. Comics in Jan. of 1953 comes Frontline Comics #10. This cover grabed me from the min. I saw it in the CGD gallery of covers for Frontline Combat. I do go there a lot to look at covers I'm missing from series I collect. Some of the finest artists in the comic kingdom worked on this cover. J. Severin did the pencils, B. Elder did the inks with M. Severin on colors and B. Oda on lettering. Now I've never read this comic due to the fact I can't find a cheap reading copy but the first story in the book is titled "Baby" so I'm hoping it's about the cover. I love the colors on it. Everything come out clear as a bell due to the great color mix. I love the little bit of yellow used on the smoke to show there's a fire some where close with out really showing the fire. The little kid crying as the focal point is great. I also love the detail of the ruins laying about the child. Well, I'm glad I got that out of my system. Next week I'd like to talk about collecting Pedigree comics. Oh ya, mine is a CGC-7.5 off-white pages from eBay in May of 02. Cost was a nice $95. To bad theres that writing along the top edge. Don't know what it means but it says- 5-9-10.

  2. Best2u

    How low do you go?

    By Best2u,

    Is there a bottom grade that you never go below with your CGC slabs?
    I recently decided to start collecting more of the GHOSTS series other than the first 15 which have a different design to thier covers than the ones after issue #15. Now, its a long series with 112 issues and a few specials listed in other series. I decided to collect the first 15 issue because they are so hard to find well centered. After issue 15 they becomes a bit easier to find well centered. I've decided to still only buy well centered issues with no design elements cut off, but where as on the first 15 issues grade wasn't that important, on the next 97 issues I had to set some kind of rule as to how low a grade I would buy. I decide on the following. Issues 16 to 49 would have to be CGC's 9.4 with OW/W pages or better and issues 50 to 112 would have to be 9.6 with white pages or better. I'd love to have gone with 9.8 but the price gets to high at that grade, around $90 compared to $35 for 9.6's.
    Where is this long rant going? What's the bottom grade that you accept? GHOSTS is a 1970s-80s series so there seem to be plenty of copies out there in high grade, with I'm sure, many more to be graded. Should low grades be lowered as the issues get older? Series from the 60's are around in high grade but not that often placed in the marketplace. Do you lower you grade so that you can own one soon or just wait till a high grade comes along? I've kind of set my low grade for silver age stuff at 8.0. That all leads to the golden age. Some of these issues just never come up for sale so do you just buy them no matter what the grade is? I do. They still have to be good looking for the grade and come at a price that the grade dictates but if you don't think you're ever going to see one again, I buy it. Would you? Let me know what you concider the lowest grade you would buy for a modern, silver, and golden age comic. (See one of my lower graded comics below. I have one graded lower but can't find the picture of it. It's a SHOWCASE #20 in CGC-4.0)

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    Must be nice to go to ebay and find the series you're collecting/looking for in CGC holders.
    Yeah, that's right, I'm feeling kind of jealous right now. Of who you ask. I'll tell you. All you people that collect all the popular series of comic books. Yeah, you know who you are. All you who collect Amazing Spider Man, Batman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and on and on I could go. Must be nice to do your eBay CGC search and see hundreds of hits for your series there in front of you, what excitment you must get seeing that. Thinking you could find that issue you need or maybe just a up-grade of a issue you already have. Sure, you may not find one but at least there was the feeling that you could out of the hundreds to look at. What would you people do, if say, you ran a search for X-Men CGC and you got no hits. You'd be floored. You'd check your search box to make sure you typed in X-Men CGC right. If that was right, then you'd check to see that youe computer was not frozen. If that wasn't it you'd redo it all over again thinking there could've been a ghost in the machine. Still no hits and you'd start praying. Well, welcome to my world. Every day I'll run a CGC ebay search for the 8 or 9 series I collect and chances are I won't get more than 2 or 3 new hits. Go ahead, try running a search for "Headline Comics CGC", see how many hits you get. Now hold on, it's not that I'm mad at you guys, I'm just jealous of your excitment. Think of it like this, you collect Amazing Spider Man and you need a copy of #1, there are 1,631 grade (CGC) issues, you know every time you look for it at ebay there's a good chance some body has listed one in the last several days. How about #129, ready, 3,320 graded CGC slabs out there, my guess is that a new one gets listed on ebay every other day. I can go weeks with out getting a new hit for some of my collected series. Okay, why don't I collect some series that gets listed all the time. I've tried. I started to collect Batman from issue #200 on. Lost interest in a month or so. Just don't like the Super/Action hero type of comic. I did latch onto the Gold Key Star Trek series, but they only come up every few weeks or so. So, I guess what I'm saying is, I wish I got the feeling you guys must get when you look on ebay everyday and see all the choices you have for comics you need. Some times I see issues so seldom that I have to buy them raw and send them to CGC myself as I did with the copy below which came back as a 8.5 with white pages. Good luck to all in finding what you need, even if it's some what easy to do.

  4. Best2u

    I'm a COMICLINK loser.

    By Best2u,

    I won a auction lot, then why do I feel like a loser?
    After to going through all the lots in the latest Comiclink auction I had picked out all the Thrilling Comics lots to bid on. I was going to win one of those lots if it was the last thing I did. It's been a long time since I had added a comic to my set on the Registry and here was a good chance to do that. My main goal was to get either the #43 or #71 as they were the highest grade of the lots. Things started going bad as soon as the first Thrilling Comics lot sold. It went about $30 higher than I was thinking. After a couple more, that went higher than I was willing to pay, I knew I'd have to put a pretty good bid in to win the #43 issue. I had set my limit in the mid $200 range but now knew that won't do it. Okay, so it was, kill the budget time. I put a bid of a bit over $300 on the lot with about a min. to the end. I was halfway hoping to get out-bid as it seemed way to high to pay for a mid-grade Thrilling Comics. In fact, I was hoping to get outbid when there were a few seconds remaining. , I won the lot. I'm now the proud owner of a #43 Thrilling Comics that I feel I overpaid for. I'm happy I get to add something to my Thrilling Comics Registry set after a long dry spell. I'm happy to have seen so many Thrilling Comics come on the market, as I rarly see more than one or two a year that I can actully afford. But still, somehow, I feel as if I was a loser instead of a winner at this auction. Oh, and here's the bad news. I still have about 10 other comics I know I'm going to want to overbid on in the next few sections of the auction. Wish me luck or beter yet, don't.

  5. Best2u
    A few journals ago I gave my predictions, let's see how I did.
    Following is a copy of my journal when I predicted what the grades would be, I'll let you know what they came back as after that journal. I just shipped off 6 comics to CGC and as always I write down what I think the comics will grade at when they come home. I'd like to share my predictions with fellow journal watchers. When they come back we'll see how good a grader I am. So without futher words here they are. 1.- Midnight Tales #5, Mass. Copy, super hi-grade inside but the cover has a small scuff which shows up a bit on the black cover. My guess-9.2. 2.- Space War #12, Circle 8, nice copy but for a little edge wear and a slight bend to one corner. My prediction-8.0. 3.- Space War #13, Circle 8 pedigree, really nice insides and front cover, back cover a bit faded. My inkling-9.0. 4. Space War #14, Circle 8, a touch of spine roll and some scuff around staples but real faint. I'm thinking-8.5. 5. Space War #32, I've been looking for a gradeable issue for 3 years now and this is the best I've seen so far. Feeling I'll get- 8.5. 6. The Return of Gorgo #2, Vintage Collectables had this as a 7.5 in thier auction and could well be as there are spine breaks. I always buy raw auction comics thinking it's at least a grade lower than stated. I'm going with- 7.0. That's it. When they come back, could be 2 months, I'll repost this and the returned grades and we'll see how bad a grader I am. Best2u, Ed
    Okay, so here is what they came back as, 1. Midnight Tales #5 Mass. Copy, I predicted a 9.2 it's back as a 9.8, guess I was a little off on that one, but I did say it had a super high grade inside. I guess the little scuff wasn't that bad. 2, Space War #12 I predicted a 8.0 and it's back as a 6.5, Wow, that hurts a bit. That little bent corner must have been bigger than I saw it. 3. Space War #13 I perdicted 9.0 and that's what it came back as. I knew it. That's right, I'm the MAN. 4. Space War #14 I guessed a 8.5 and once again I'm the MAN. It's CGC-8.5. 5. Space War #32 I predicted a 8.5 and do you believe it, it's a 8.5, Who's the Man, I'm the MAN. 6. Return of Gorgo #2 I said a 7.0 and it's back as a 8.0. Okay, so I'm not the Man but at least I was wrong on the low side. Not so bad on my grading I'd say. I had 3 right on the nose, 2 that I undergraded, which is always better than overgrading. I was really only off on 1 book and only off by a 1.5 points. Ya, guess I should have spotted that. I'll give myself a B+. See ya in the Journals, Best2u.

  7. Best2u
    When something comes along that's to good to pass up do you bend your rules a bit.
    When I start to collect a series of comics I plan it out and set a bunch of rules to keep me from getting carried away. You know, rules like- only CGC slabs, only grades between this and that, off-white pages or better, issues 1 thru whatever, and on and on it could go. An example would be my collection of "Ghosts". Rule #1 was issues #1-15, rule #2 is well centered copies with no elements cut off, rule #3 was CGC copies only 8.0 or better with C/OW pages or better. Bingo, I'm within all my rules for years, and then, Dingo, I went and broke them. Quality Comix had a nice auction going on and I spotted a great copy of Showcase #20, first Rip Hunter, that would have been a nice upgrade for my set. Wouldn't you know it, there were also some high grade Ghosts issues that didn't fit my rules, not within issues #1-15. I kept telling myself no but I ended up telling myself I'd bid on then and if I won I wouldn't put them in my set on the Registry. That's a little bend of the rules but now that I won them I just had to put them in my Registry set. So I broke all the rules, big deal, I'm happy and it did move me ahead of one other collector in the Registry. I do hope I don't feel the need to now go after the whole set as then I'd have to make a whole bunch of new rules. You know what they say "The more rules you set the more rules you get to break".

  8. Best2u

    I agree with Tom!

    By Best2u,

    What were they thinking?
    Not even asking how we felt about this change, or at least posting something about it a month or so ahead, so we had time to comment would have been nice. I do like the look of the new format but they could have at least kept the larger pictures when you went to enlarge the tumbnail pictures. I feel sorry for Tom who had the best Star Trek pictures in the Registry. Let's hope CGC learns to get some input from the people who use the Registry for viewing other peoples comics and those that like to share thier comic cover with others. Below is a nice book now at CGC for grading. Hoping to get a 7.5 but would settle for a 7.0.

  9. Best2u
    After writting about pedigree comics in a past journal it was time to submit these comics to CGC
    I just shipped off 6 comics to CGC and as always I write down what I think the comics will grade at when they come home. I'd like to share my predictions with fellow journal watchers. When they come back we'll see how good a grader I am. So without futher words here they are. 1.- Midnight Tales #5, Mass. Copy, super hi-grade inside but the cover has a small scuff which shows up a bit on the black cover. My guess-9.2. 2.- Space War #12, Circle 8, nice copy but for a little edge wear and a slight bend to one corner. My prediction-8.0. 3.- Space War #13, Circle 8 pedigree, really nice insides and front cover, back cover a bit faded. My inkling-9.0. 4. Space War #14, Circle 8, a touch of spine roll and some scuff around staples but real faint. I'm thinking-8.5. 5. Space War #32, I've been looking for a gradeable issue for 3 years now and this is the best I've seen so far. Feeling I'll get- 8.5. 6. The Return of Gorgo #2, Vintage Collectables had this as a 7.5 in thier auction and could well be as there are spine breaks. I always buy raw auction comics thinking it's at least a grade lower than stated. I'm going with- 7.0. That's it. When they come back, could be 2 months, I'll repost this and the returned grades and we'll see how bad a grader I am. Best2u, Ed

  10. Best2u
    Does collecting mis-matched pedigreed comics from mis-matched series make a collection? Would it be possible to get one of each?
    I love to collect pedigreed comics that fit into the comic book series that I collect. It's so cool to spred out a series and see a White Mountain or Bethleham pedigree comic mixed in with the other unpedigreed slabs. I mean, how neat is it to have a Mile High Or "D" Copy pedigree book and to be able to think that Edgar Church or Davis Crippen held that book in his hands and then sit it aside and now it's owned by us. I get such an extra "POP" when I look at my Gold Key Star Trek collection and see my Star Trek #2, White Mountain pedigree copy. Over the past few years I've felt a real tug to buy more pedigree copies for those series even if I already own a nice unpedigreed copy of an issue. As I said before, I understand the want of owning a Church or Crippen comic or any other pedigree comic that fits into my colleted series, but as of late, I find myself wanting pedigreed comics from series I don't collect, And I don't know why. Why should I feel I need a Carson City pedigreed comic of Twinkle Comics when I don't even know the full story of the Carson City pedigree or had never heard of Twinkle Comics, but when one was offered on ebay I purchased it. As a little side note, when is Pedigree Comic Book (comicbookpedigree.com)ever going to publish that book on pedigrees that they've been talking about for 5 or 6 years now. I tell you, it's been so long ago that they said it was, coming out soon, that I've lost interest in it. Okay, back to my main point. I've found myself buying these random pedigree comics more and more and I keep telling myself not to, but I can never quite do it and then, there's a new pedigree comic I own. Looking at the CGC site they list about 50 diffirent pedigrees that they slab of which I have 14 and only 3 of them are not in the series that I collect. Now here's the problem. I've all but talked myself into trying to collect one comic from every pedigree that CGC slabs. Seeing that I already have 14 different pedigrees that would mean getting another 35 or so. There are even a few pedigrees that CGC hasn't put on thier list yet, Circle 8 for one. Hold on, what about some of the collections, like the Nicklas Cage collection, I'd want one of those too. This almost seems like to big a project to do as some of the pedigrees on the list I've never seen for sale, Hawkeye, Salida, or Twilight amoung others. Thanks for letting me vent about this as I try and come to a plan about what to do. Send me a email and let me know your thinkings on the subject. Best2u PS-a scan of a White Mountain I own.

  11. Best2u
    Could I have just discovered a new variety for a Batman comic?
    Well, it took me awhile to find this, it's been sitting in the collection for a year or two, but take a look at the picture below. When the Aurora Comic Scenes hoard started coming to the market I decided to get one copy of each. After getting 5 of the 10 issues I notice that the other five were not coming up for sale very often. I did a CGC pop. check and found that the Batman(15 graded), Tarzan, Tonto, Spider-Man, and Lone Ranger had very few graded copies. I kept trying to get all of the issues and ended up with all but the Tarzn, still trying, and even started to buy more than one copy of the low pop. issues.
    Just recently I started to update all my collection on the Registry. The Aurora Comic Scenes came first and as I was scaning pictures to upload, I notice the new variety, if that's what it is. When I look at both of then side to side it sure looks like it's an entirely different book. It doesn't look like they ran out of ink during the printing. I don't think it was a mixup in ink because both copies have the person with the yellow shirt toward the right. Both of the front covers on my issues are exactly alike as is everything else but for the tree colors on the back. I may put this up on the Chat Boards just to see what other people think.
    I know it doesn't seem right but I would like to name the two different varieties Yellow Batman and Green Batman. I guess that sounds kind of lame, lets just forget the naming for now.

  12. Best2u

    Second on my list

    By Best2u,

    Getting close to the #1 cover that I own. But 1st #2.
    Well, here we are with my second favorite comic cover that I own. If this is your first visit to my list of favorite covers of my collection you may want to look at my other journals to catch up. When I saw this cover on eBay I knew it was something I needed to take a closer look at. There before me was a copy of "Mystery in Space" #116 from Feb. of 1981 in CGC 9.4 with white pages. The cover was by Jim Starlin and with art by Ditko and Craig I knew it would be worth looking at. I had never heard of the writers of the stories, DeMatteis and Barr, but at least I knew the art would be great. The red cover locks your eyes to it and then the green aliens beg to be looked at. As with all great covers you then are drawn into the center where there sits a skeleton of the U.S.of A. spaceman. I love that word, spaceman, takes me back to the days before I was born. After you look at the cover and see the title of the story, BURNT OFFERINGS, you get an idea in your head what the story is about, but you most likely would be wrong as MIS comics are known to have a few twists in their stories. After winning the lot from eBay seller MAGENTALIN, along with a copy of Rip Hunter #21, I went to the local comic shops and found a reading copy. When the comic arrived I got out the reading copy and read the book from cover to cover while I worshiped my new slab. The stories turned out to be as good as the art and I was one happy collector. This all happened in 2005 and I still get this comic out and read it while I fondle the CGC slab. Next up, my favorite cover that I own. Best2u

  13. Best2u
    Black cover and orange lettering should be plenty to start getting you scared.
    Very rarely do I buy a comic that isn't in one of the series that I collect. With my limited budget I need all he money I have just to try and finish the series I collect. Every once in a while I see a cover that makes me want to read the comic inside the cover. This comic is one of them. "It's Midnight... The Witching Hour" #84 has a great cover by Luis Dominguez one of the best cover artists of the 1970's if not of all time. He's a very under rated guy considering all the covers he put out. I don't know if he was involed with the color choices on this cover but thier outstanding. Some how the cover made me try to think how nobody knows about the skull and witch on Mt. Rushmore. I mean, it's got to be there, right. It's just really well hidden and this poor mountain climber stumbles right into it. Check out the eyes of the witch. You just know she's looking right at you. I've never seen the inside to this book and have never read any of the stories. That's fine by me, it keeps the scaryness of the book alive.
    My copy is a nice CGC-9.2 with white pages picked up on eBay for a whopping $8.50 plus $10 S+H. There is a little scuffing on the top right corner but other than that, nothing. The picture shown is not my CGC copy. I can never get a good scan thru the slab.

  14. Best2u

    My 4th favorite cover

    By Best2u,

    Thanks guys. Now what can we do for you?
    Here we start with the countdown of my 4 favorite comic covers that I own. Here we have, as number four, a great Alex Schomburg cover from Thrilling Comics #50 done in Oct. of 1945. This cover is as American as apple pie. Let's start by checking out the bottom right corner to see the band welcoming home the boys back from WWII. Center bottom, above the DO NOT PASS sign, you get to see the proud parents who seem to have a look of relief on thier faces just seeing thier son made it back alive. There's also a couple of lovely looking wives mixed in the crowd waiting to see their husbands. Alex has thrown in 5 flags and a total of 10 planes, in formation, to help with the welcome. Next up is the main character, Doc Strange, giving a manly a handshake as there is. Keeping with Doc, Schomburgs real smarts shows with what Doc has in his hand. Several pamplets he's waiting to give the G.I. as thanks for what they've done. The G.I. gets his job, Home Loans, and even more, we just can't see what they are. Now on to the G.I. himself. Check out how he gets to carry his gun off the ship. Looks great but I don't know that they were aloud to do that. I think Schomburg liked to place swastikas when ever he could, as we see one on the nazi helmet the G.I. has tied to his backpack. I like how he put a dagar sticking into the helmet. We even get the little BUY WAR BONDS... flag on the cover. The scene looks like it takes place in New York. Let's hope all the present day G.I. get the same treatment. My copy is a nice CGC-6.5 C/OW pages from the "D" copy pedigree. Check out my other journals to see my lead in for this one and look in next week for my 3rd favorite cover.

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    Best cover that I own.

    By Best2u,

    A few weeks ago I promised my favorite cover. Here they, I mean, it is, well, take a look.
    In one of my journals I'd said I was going to show my favorite cover of a comic that I owned. Now, there are at least 100 covers that I like better than the ones shown below but I know that I'll never own them. Just to expensive or hard to find. Anyway, below are my four favorite comic covers that I own. Now I know what you're going to say, their so small, the titles aren't shown. That's all part of my plan. Over the next four of my journals I'll tell you why their my favorties and show you which comics they are. I wonder how many of you can figure out what the titles are before I tell you each week. So until next week, when I tell you my forth favorite title, have a Merry Christmas. Best2u

  16. Best2u

    What do I read?

    By Best2u,

    11 inches of snow and nothing to do.
    Okay, I'm here in Michigan with no job and 11 inches of snow on the ground in the last 2 days. Roads are slick with ice and it's about 14 degrees out side. What should I do with my time? okay , I'll read some of my favorite comics series, but which ones?
    After a little thinking on the subject I think I'll start with Maus 1 & 2. These graphic novels are a bit heavy reading for 8 am but we all need a little kick in the now and then. Second in line will be the complete series Route 666 by CrossGen comics. Written by Tony Bedard with art from Karl Molin and John Dell it's a great fun read and scarey read. This is one story line that should be made into a movie. If you've never read it it's well worth it. Let's see now, what to read next. How about Bone, to long. How about Boneyard by Richard Moore, no, the last volume is coming out soon, I hope, and I'll read it then. How about Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows, now that sounds right. If you ever need to just sit down and laugh for awhile this is the comic to chose. Start with the vol. 1 book Eden and read all the way thru vol.4. It's worth the time. Scan of Boneyard because Liberty Meadows wouldn't fit in my scanner.

  17. Best2u
    Don't blame me there is no spell checking. Star Trek #1 needs fixing.
    First I'd like to say "Sorry" for all the bad spelling that happens in my journals. I just got done reading a few of my old entries and saw how many misspelled words and typos there were. I don't know how to type, I just pick, and sometimes spend 20 seconds looking for the right letter. There is no spell check for the journal and I'm to lazy to go back and correct them all. Once again "Sorry" and I'll try to do better.
    I'd like to take a look at the rarity of the Gold Key Star Trek #1 issue. I was recently looking at the auction lots at Vintage Collectables where they have a Star Trek #1 photo back up for bids. The auction discreption calls this-This copy has the rare variant photo back cover, the most valuable version of the run's most valuable issue. Ya right, the photo back version is the least valuable of the three variants. There is a variant for the photo back, I've never seen a picture of it, where something on the front cover is differant that has only one copy graded, a quaified CGC-5.5. Then there is the ad back, which I've seen but never up for auction which has only 20 copies graded, three are CGC-9.0 and two CGC-8.5s. Then there is the photo back that you always see up for sale and listed as rare. There are 161 graded copies with 1 CGC-9.6 and 6 at CGC-9.4 and a bunch more in the mid grades.
    My guess is that every dealer that has ever sold one of these photo back issues knows that it is very easy to find and not rare, maybe scarce, at all. I think it all started with Overstreet calling it rare many years ago and never changing it. Shame on them.
    I'd love to have one of the ad backs but it's hard not to like the photo backs the most. I mean, William Shatner as a Pin-Up. That's hard to beat

  18. Best2u
    Big news makes me change my plans for this weeks journal.
    I really don't know if I lied. Last week I said I was going to show you my favorite cover from a comic that I owned. I just can't do that as I won a lot in the last Heritage auction that I just have to tell about.
    Besides collecting the series I have in my registry I also am putting together a set of all the different pedigrees that CGC lists. Now this is a very hard task to do for a man with a very limited budget. I'd like to thank my wife Evy at this time as she is the main donater to my budget, I'm out of work. When a nice pedigree comic comes up anywhere the skin on the back of my neck stands up and almost jumps off if it's for a series I collect. I always try to bid a little bit more for something like that. CGC now lists about 50 diff. pedigrees so this may be a collection that will take the rest of my life or maybe a bit longer. There are a few pedigrees that I've never seen come up for sale like Twilight, San Francisco, or a Hawkeye among others.
    One I do see come up all the time is the Egar Church Mile High Pedigree. Now this is where the limited budget comes in. Seem like all of the books in this pedigree are so high on the grading scale, and the fact that everyone would like to own a Mile High, I've always been priced out of the market for them. That is until now.
    In this weeks Sunday night Heritage auction they had a Headline Comics #60, a series I collect, up for bidding from the Mile High collection. It was a low to mid grade (CGC 7.0) copy with white pages that had sold in 2006 for under $70. There is no longer any hair on my neck. This comic was going to be mine. I watched this lot every day to see if I was going to be out priced for the book before the auction day even came. On Sunday, with about 10 hours to go, I came up with the amount I felt was the most I could bid. With an hour to go I started sitting in front of the laptop watching and updating the current bids to see if I still had a shot. I was still in it with 5 min. to go. I typed in my max bid of $105 and shut down the computer and went to bed. I guess I was thinking I didn't have a chance of winning the book due to the fact that every other Mile High I've bid on I've always have been out bid at the last second. By going to bed it gave me a whole night of thinking I may have one.
    Waking up the next morning I ran to the desk, booted up the machine, and low and behold I had won it for $65. What was I thinking a $105. Hey, you know what, I would have been just as happy paying the $105. I now own a Edgar Church Mile High pedigreed comic. Now if I could only find a Allentown pedigree comic book, a Aurora pedigree, a Big Apple, a Central Vally ...

  19. Best2u

    My new weekly Journal, #1

    By Best2u,

    Two things that kind of make me mad.
    This will be short and sweet, and nobody get made at me, it's just the way I feel.
    The first is. People who use the Registry and sign up for ever series of comic listed in the Registry. Not only that but then they never list a issue in thier set. What's up with that, make you feel good that you've got the highest graded set when you don't even have a comic listed in it. I'm thinking CGC should delist any set that doesn't have a comic in it within one month after it's been created. That goes for sets that have all thier issue taken out and are now empty. Good Knight, if you aren't going to put something in you set, take it down.
    The second is. The Registry needs to creat a catch-all set listing for all the comics that will never have thier series listed in the Registry. Example, Doctor Graves #73-75. This three issue series is a reboot of The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves some three years after it finished its run. I don't think CGC needs to list this set in the Registry, as it's only three issues from the mid 80's and only one has been graded, and why the hell didn't the Registry add them to the end of the Many Ghosts of... set, anyway, I'd love to show off my Dr. Graves #73 in a catch-all set in the Registry.
    There you go. My first weekly journal. I could have gone on a lot more on these two subjects but maybe later. Hopefully this little venting will make you think about how to make the Registry better. I think next week I'll show my favorite cover that I own.
    Thanks and best2u.
    PS- keep on writing in the Journals
    PSS- photos of Many Ghosts... #1 and Dr. Graves #73

  20. Best2u

    More Journals needed.

    By Best2u,

    Come on people, write.
    I love checking my CGC sets every day to see if anythings changed, my rankings, or to add a tid-bit of info to some set. Before I even start to do that I look at the 3 most recent Collectors Journals that have been posted, which are listed on the left hand side of the screen. Over the last month or so I notice a hugh lack of new journals. Sometimes the same journals will stay as the most recent for 3 or 4 days.
    Come on people write more in your journals so I have something to read. It could be about anything to do with comics, new buys, new info on a series, anything.
    Okay, okay, I've only written 1 journal myself if you checked. That will change as of 11/15/09. Starting the week of the 15th I'll write one new journal a week and include a picture of something related to that weeks journal. It may just be a cool comic I saw listed at some auction house or some issue I just picked up myself. It could be a ? I have about some comic related issue or I may just put in some cool info I came across.
    Well, thanks for letting me vent a little and I hope some of you will hop on the wagon and add a journal.
    Thanks and Best2u.
    P.S. - Can anyone tell me what comic book cover this is from. Hey, there's no prize here, just knowing that you knew should be enough.