Kevin76

Why people put their comics in the basement is beyond me.

Do ebay store sellers qualify as a dealer to get the discount?

Go learn

Pretty much any silver age marvel key before 1965 in any grade is a safe investment in the long term right now.

It's a variant, of course it's gonna drop

This guy paid $404.61 each for those NYX 3's, he'd better hope all 26 come back 9.8 if he expects to make anything on it, if they do, and sells them for $800 each, he should pocket about $300 per book after all said and done. That won't happen though cause they all won't be 9.8's.

Why can't she buy it?

Most conventions aren't even comic cons anymore, they are all turning into pop culture cons, while 90% of the tickets being bought up cosplayers who have no interest in buying comics, instead they buy the t-shirts, action figures, posters, prints. Comic dealers are left with "How can I make money at these cons if I only sell comics?" You'll have to adapt. Expand your inventory to what people at the show actually buy. (start carrying other products that aren't comics) If you don't want to do that. Alternative is to mainly sell comics online. Otherwise, you'll be sitting at your $3,000 table, bored to death.

I'll take every Batman 436 if they are NM or better

Last one I sold went for $10 and it sat for awhile

You'd have to ask CGC how they would grade that. Production flaws are like saying "I hear a noise in my car" What's causing it? It really could be anything and the only way to know where it's coming from is to be working on the press, and since I wasn't there working on the press when they printed the book. I have no clue. Wolverine 35 could have been tearing from a belt, maybe something going on with the folder? Only the pressman knows and I'm 100% certain, he didn't collect comics

Answer to Question #1 This is where having a background in printing comes into play, "production flaws" don't suddenly "become released" pre se, it's mainly due to something happening while the press is running and books are saved, skidded and shipped to Diamond with bad quality and all. Comics are high quality and it's considered "commercial printing" much like HQ magazines...You're not going to pick up a copy of Men's Health and find that the register is so bad, you can't even read it. Answer Question #2 It really depends on how bad the defect is. I've saw a green label on a Spawn 1 because the cover had no black ink. While a missing staple on an ASM 40 got a blue label 9.2. "I don't know if modern presses even have roller pins" They aren't called roller pins, they are called "folder pins" and they are usually found on Heatset web press. I work on press called "Goss C700" Google images for that. Comics these days are usually printed on sheet fed presses. They are fed sheet by sheet, one at a time, printed, folded, trimmed and stacked on the other side all in one go with no extra equipment needed.

The writing is on the wall

Yes, since you touched the case with human hands and "pressed" it a little, it needs to be resubmitted back to CGC and receive a black label cause now the book has been damaged by "pressing". Seriously man, put the book back in your collection, there's nothing wrong with it.

Back in the day my avatar was 2 topless pornstars.

Pure flash in the pan, i'd pass on that

It really is, no mc was important to me as was PQ, got both, it's a little off centered but I can live with it, hard to find one with all 3. No writing or date stamps

Lot of great stuff in that auction, not just the AF 15

I like the one I have.

Found it at a show over the weekend, condition is amazing, 9.8 quality but then I found the 2 small blisters on the back cover was like "#&^%&@!!!!

Those are tears caused by the folder pins above the cutting rubbers, they are there to help pull the ribbons through the folder, they are supposed to get cut off when the books are trimmed but obviously the pressman was having a problem with that and saved the copies anyway, cause technically they are still good copies from a printing standard but not an OCD collector stand point.

no JSA classified 1 AH cover

Stapling was done by hand, usually women did this job by hand using a foot pedal and sitting down, so the book could be misaligned and then stapled cause someone wasn't paying attention.

Anyone know if 2 small blisters on a modern comic about the size of an eraser head has any effect on the grade? These are due to too much heat during the press run from the heatset oven to dry the ink.

Leave the book in the humidity chamber for 4 hours. 8 hours is too much.