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Dump Kathleen Kennedy and Filoni.

Hire Tony Gilroy. This guy finally gets it right. I feel like Andor has the potential to be the best Star Wars anything to date.

Let's do a one time price drop to $550 for all 3. If no takers, I'm closing tomorrow and moving elsewhere. I may also be willing to break them up if anyone is interested in that.

Looking to make some money back from last weekend at D23, so here it is. I'm selling both D23 Amazing Fantasy 1000 Spider-Man and the D23 Tron Exclusive variant. Asking $595 for all 3 comics shipped. These are going for a lot more on Ebay, but I'd prefer to not deal with their fees and BS, so offering here first. Pictures below. Both 1000 variants suffer from a minor spine tick. These were manhandled by non-comic employees so it's sadly not too surprising. These were limited to one per person and only available if you attended each of the respective panels. I will say the pictures make the tick look a lot worse than it actually looks in person. There's also a little wave to each which every copy had. That should be easily pressable. I saw a lot of bad Tron copies, but this one is in pretty good shape.

Edit: Not sure why the message boards keep flipping some photos upside down. They keep doing it when I try to reupload.

Just to get this out of the way:

-Paypal preferred
-No returns
-No HOS or Probies.
-Posts takes precedence over PMs.
-Will consider offers or trades.
-Shipping Included

On 9/13/2022 at 6:44 AM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Yikes. I take it that was not submitted like that?

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.

On 9/2/2022 at 8:10 AM, Monster's Lair Comics said:

Every book in the sub was sig series, yet  I still got a blue label. It was with three other yellow label books, and the qc guy who had to inspect this was like, “yup, it’s good, send it out!” This proves that they don’t look at these at all. 

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.

On 8/30/2022 at 2:08 PM, Dr. Balls said:

That's fair enough. Do you believe there is something wrong with working 60 hours a week? I've not worked 40 hours a week since I got out of high school. 40 hours is kinda like, the minimum amount of work to put into life. Do you honestly believe that you will get anywhere in life only working 40 hours a week?

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

On 8/30/2022 at 1:55 PM, Dr. Balls said:

You are patently incorrect. 18 year olds do not need a living wage. And on the flipside, if you cannot work an entry level job and are not smart enough to gain experience, focus, work ethic and knowledge - the world does not owe those people who cannot function as an employee a "living wage". You are free to think that all you want, but that is an incorrect philosophy for any sort of successful, independent, strong and high-functioning society.

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

On 8/30/2022 at 1:45 PM, buttock said:

I'm a physician, we're expected to work long hours and be available because people's health matters.  Newly minted docs are coming out and don't want to take call, don't want to call patients back, don't want to get up early or stay late, don't want to work nights.  It's not all of them, but the trend is there and obvious.  Everyone notices it, but nobody knows how to fix it.  

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.

On 8/27/2022 at 6:18 PM, Dr. Balls said:

The numerical grade in Times New Roman looks terrible. I ended up with a slab of theirs and I couldn't stand looking at it, so I cracked it, tossed the label and left it raw.

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'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.

On 8/16/2022 at 8:27 AM, BoognishRises said:

Look how David Gabriel carefully chose to say no "retailer" may make changes after. No mention of an artist/creator. Remember what CGC said? They said the did what they did because it was created BY Clayton Crain. 

David Gabriel's memo might just be a warning to future RETAILERS to not get cute and try this themselves. But I'd bet anything they'd be on board if a well known artist/creator ran it by them first. They'll get the stamp of approval then.

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.

On 8/9/2022 at 11:07 AM, CGC Mike said:

Here is the official response from CGC regarding how we graded the books.

 

We apologize for the short response yesterday and wanted to follow up with an explanation of our thought process behind the grade assignments. We treated them as we would any other variant cover that's attached with an extra set of staples after the book was printed, and at times these books included the original cover as well.

 

There is a precedent for acetate covers being attached to a printed book, and then graded by CGC. An example is Stray Dogs #1 from last year. An acetate variant cover was attached with an extra set of staples, to which CGC assigned a Universal grade and a notation of “acetate cover” on the label. The extra set of staples were part of the manufacturing process of attaching the acetate cover, and not considered a defect.

 

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?

On 8/8/2022 at 6:42 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Agreed. 

Sad , not surprised, but agreed. 

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/