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Amazing Fantasy 1000 D23 variants are going for insane money right now.

Exclusive Tron #1 comic at D23 from the Tron panel. As it wasn't a comics panel, I'd expect these to be rarer than the AF1000 variants.

Come Jan 2023 I won't be surprised if they go for around retail.

It's fake. There's audience in there and the event wasn't even open for the day when this was posted.

What are the grader notes? I'm guessing if you have a lot of 9.0s, then you probably have light spine rolls.

What surprises me is that the system doesn't automatically spit out a yellow label if their "signed by" form is filled in. Also that Spiderman UPC is on point for this.

Two things: 1.) This is not new. They've done they on exclusives before. 2.) There will be raw copies eventually for sale. Probably not many. Artist copies and whatnot. Heck, maybe somewhere else as long as BTC isn't "selling" them.

Have you not read any of the numerous stories correlating happiness with working less hours? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/shorter-workweek-people-happier

So 18 year old doesn't need a liveable wage to pay for schooling, rent, books, car, etc?

I understand as a doctor, health doesn't work a 9 to 5, but this honestly sounds like people just not wanting to sacrifice their life to the job.

How many magical 9.9s and 10s do you think will find their way out of CGCs headquarters?

I have a stack of moderns that I graded a while back that I know will appreciate in a year or two due to movie spec. That being said they take up a lot of room that I'd love to get back. I have no attachment to them other than they are funding my PC collection. My eventual plan was to ship them to MCS in a year, but if someone wants to hold them now for me, I'm interested.

Yeah, this is one of those instances where you should absolutely hire a design firm.

I don't actually mind their cases, but CB*S's font and font size always bugged me. There's just too much dead space on their label and it looks weird.

I hate when people say this garbage. There's not a labor problem in this country, there's a wages problem. If you pay garbage wages, you're going to get garbage employees. A full time CGC submission specialist makes $15-$17 an hour based on the CGC job listing. That's about $2350 a month minus taxes (approximate). A 1 bedroom apartment costs about $1300 a month in Fort Lauderdale. That's 54% of living expenses just in rent alone. That doesn't include school, food, gas, phone, bills, outings, family, etc. CGC can pull in almost $1000 alone with just one 25 modern FT submission that takes what? maybe three to four hours of total labor from start to finish? So yeah, I wouldn't care either if I was being paid like that. (Apologies for the tangent, now back to our scheduled post.)

I've had a book with very deep reds displayed unprotected for years under non LED bulbs. The red is still sharp as ever. The book gets no direct sunlight.

Well, this email was sent out to retailers, not artists, hence the wording. I think any artist would think twice about doing something like this as being blackballed from Marvel would be a potential career killer for many.

Mike, so just to be clear here, is CGC saying anyone can do this and it be considered a blue label? Would this also apply to adding paperstock to make it a sketch cover?

My money is on they actually will reverse their stance. I don't think when they announced their support they thought of the enormous can of worms they're opening doing this. This can easily be heavily abused to affect their credibility (and bottom line in the long run).

For those who want to start printing their own variants to submit: https://www.ezeeprint.co.uk/print/acetate-printing/

Where did Marvel say they had no idea about this?

It's pretty unlikely it was stolen within 15 minutes. Chances are it was misdelivered to a different address. If they scanned it delivered at the doorstep, they should have it geotagged. I'd suggest checking other buildings with similar numbers to your address if you haven't already.

I'd say maybe contact CGC and see if they can allow them to be dropped off to a FedEx location.

Is it me or does that guy's copies look really wavy?

My S&H was $30 from Comic Link for 4 slabs last month. What I found slightly ridiculous though was they just bought shipping directly off the USPS website with no discount. There's tons of places that you can buy postage from for 20-40% cheaper. Like why buy it full price?