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WolverineX

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  1. Definitely good... forrnite made Keanu Reeves a mega star to gen z due to the john wick skin
  2. do you have the 35th anniversy edition?
  3. I love your new avatar...I wish I was skilled enough to make one myself
  4. Nice! I have a nm +88 newsstand. Wonder how much it would go for
  5. Wtf, what comic shop sells harbinger 1 for cover price...
  6. It's a seller's market right now. You overpaid on your house
  7. Yes, but Fantasy Quarterly 1 is the first appearance. Elfquest 1 was a reprint
  8. Agreed. @ghn999 had a grand entrance... Rapidly became a Black CAT member and then kept scooping up multiple copies of TMNT 1 first print and Albedo 2! Insane collection...
  9. Battle chasers....tons of image titles...what ever happened to seven to eternity...the next Saga...
  10. Honestly, the home wrecking story line did not really endear her to me. Yes the husband was a jerk, but not sure I condoned much of her actions...
  11. Number 5 was electrifying in the 2nd season too... What a great actor.
  12. Nice! Does a myler bag help at all around the slab? Or are comics already encapsulated
  13. So, everyone who owns this beauty, do you store this horizontal or vertical? Also, does the mylar bag help around the slab or is the comic already encapsulated in the CGC slab? @valiantman any advice? " "Just where exactly the belief originated that comic books are subject to less stress when stored upright and will inevitably show spine rolling if kept flat is hard to tell, but in all probability this point of view goes back to the era of pre-conservation consciousness when comic books were kept in the loose stacks mentioned at the outset. In such circumstances (for instance with large piles or comics of different sizes and weight) the fact that the spine side is thicker (accentuated by the two staples used to hold the comic book together) can create a lopsided U which will eventually roll the indivdiual comics into the same shape (hence the term "spine rolling"). There is, however, ample and informed information available which dispells the myth of the absolute imperative for vertical storage. The Northeast Document Conservation Center (a non-profit regional conservation center in the United States, founded in 1973 and counting amongst its clients the Boston Public Library and Harvard University) advised that although vertical storage in office files or in upright flip-top archival document storage boxes is acceptable for legal-sized or smaller documents, any objects larger than 15" x 9" should be stored flat. This is due to the pull forces which documents stored in an upright position are subject to, and it is safe to assume that what is best practice for larger size documents works out well for comic books as well." Source: http://www.panelology.info/StoringComics.html And some more nerdy stuff - namely that Mylar bags may help to keep an airtight environment for our dear magazines. According to E. Gerber, one of the leading manufacturers of Mylar, it seems that airtight encapsulation is preferred: "Isn't it bad to completely seal off the comics and make them airtight? The reality is that an airtight environment is the proper environment and by far the best one for preservation. By keeping out the oxygen, moisture and insects, and by keeping the temperature reasonably low, you can provide an environment in which your comics will become "Golden." For example, go to any library that has older volumes. Open any book and figure out why the pages are always browner at the edges and get lighter and whiter as you move towards the middle of the page. The inside of that book has not been in contact with any moisture, fresh re-circulating oxygen or light". Source: http://www.egerber.com/aboutpreservation2.asp Then there is the great stuff about temperature and humidity, should be about 18 degrees Celcius and about 30 to 40% humidity (better safe than sorry even with the Mylar), I can try to find a few sources on that also if needed :-) And of course the books should not be exposed to UV light - I try to treat mine as vampires, no direct sunlight! ;-) Guess we will see in another 50 years how different methods of comic book preservation hold up - especially on maintaining those pure white pages - and not moving too much down the ladder to OW-W, OW and worse..."
  14. Good idea... thinking about selling off more comics now.... I think the thing is that even if a fire happened, I would probably rather save old family photos and other personal heirlooms rather than comics...
  15. Let's see what happens with Albedo 2 https://comics.ha.com/itm/modern-age-1980-present-/miscellaneous/albedo-2-signature-series-signed-and-sketch-by-stan-sakai-thoughts-and-images-1984-cgc-nm-mt-98-white-pages/a/7234-92095.s?type=lotlink--bidnotice-tracked-dailystatus&fbclid=IwAR08zRsxWR9mCtIBYy1mG0zjsD_SaLl0_qTQCeTwLKaVPat9GmssLsZUlgE
  16. Looks about right.... im going to message him and tell him he underpriced it.. looks like a 9.9 and worth 10k