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about 30 pages in and have to take a break for some errands. Can't wait to dive back in. folks this is a really, really good book. Hats off to you, Mr. Newbold.

sure

The Forensic Comicologist: Insights from a life in comics. Foreword by Michelle Nolan. McFarland Press, 2018. Cover is terrible but inside looks very great and very interesting. I'll give you my review shortly.

would OP share in profits if it was resubbed and was complete, no resto and graded 2 grades higher?

All kidding aside (or is it) about being in mom's garage, curious what the history of PGX is. Not interested enough to go research it myself and separate fact from fiction, curious if someone's got the Cliff Notes.

gonna be interesting.

Sorry this had happen to you When I was first introduced to 3rd party grading/slabbing at some comic shop and didn’t know anything There was a CGC slab and a PGX slab and I thought the PGX seems so cheap. The font of the “3-D” PGX logo, all of it. Just reeked of cheapness.

I jest. It was sorta a riff on someone's market report in the latest OSPG in which two pages were spent on the entire Tattooz drama of does it make the comic complete or incomplete. Don't know what's sadder that someone someone spent two pages on the subject or that I read those two pages transfixed. Calls to Robert Overstreet were made yet the dilemma continues: Without the Tattooz decal is the book complete or incomplete

nah, neirborhood kids broke in a stole my scanner

it's like this circular riddle that can never be solved: generally speaking kids today don't care about comics, yet back issue prices are beyond insane so who's gonna buy our comics we hold so dear? I don't mean the obvious winners like AF15 but what about my copy of ASM 238 complete with Tattooz decal someone removed from FF 252 and placed in my ASM issue to increase value which SHOULD not increase the value because the decal's slow degradation will eventually effect paper quality inside my ASM. ASM 238 WITHOUT TATTOOZ DECAL IS NOT INCOMPLETE! IS IH181 INCOMPLETE WITH A MARK JEWELERS INSERT? Oh these kids today drive me insane

first convention i went to after 30 years out of the hobby was the Stan Lee Los Angeles thingee. first dealer table I went up to there was a heated customer speaking loudly to a calm dealer. Customer was, I don't want to say throwing books around, but placing them back in the dealer's stacks firmly saying, "But the customer is always right! THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT!" The dealer looked sort of overwhelmed and was saying. "I just can't do that deal." Dealer and I made eye contact as customer repeatedly said, "BUT THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT" eventually storming off like a child who got told he can't have any candy. At that point I kinda fell in the camp of the dealers. I'm sure there are dishonest dealers, in fact I've met a few. In fact there was a guy in NYC at a store the ripped me off hard cause I was an eager newbie. Went back about 6 months ago walked through his store with a pocket of cash. "You wanna see something from the wall," he asked. Nope. "You Sure." Yeah I'm sure. but man, that customer at the Stan Lee thingee. I'm sure for every bad customer story there is a bad dealer story. I buy from the same guys over and over. I trust their grading and ignore some of their grumpy traits knowing I'd be a million times more grumpy if I had to deal with comic collectors. Dealer turned out to be Brad from Fine/Very Fine. Great guy. I bought a HOS 92 form him and many books since. And I'm gonna buy some books from him at a LA con on 8/12. I dunno know what my point is? Do I ever have one?

just occurred to me that the title of this tread sounds like the title of a country song!

have two 94s. one squeezed to a 9.4 the other, the other i'd say its a 7.0 - 7.5 raw. got that from a boardie that doesn't care for pressing so I'm sure that's not pressed. other's I got from a reliable dealer that says' they aren't pressed but who knows, right? They look natural and normal.

About his years and years of collecting and selling?

I was putting a HG (9.2 - 9.6) raw unpressed Xmen 94 - 150 run together to read. For some of those issues it's tough to find them A) not in a slab, B) not pressed, which in a way made the hunt more challenging and fun (?) as it's f - ing impossible to find someone that hasn't tried to squeeze that last extra $ out of a key book. Stumbled upon a large well know mail order place (not MCS) and asked for some xmen issues in the run that weren't pressed. Their response, "Oh we press everything. Even the 5 dollar books. We like the look of pressed books." I got an xmen 94 CGC 9.4 that looks unnatural it's pressed so flat.

as someone who was a quasi-caretaker of an elderly person for about 5 years or so, sometimes it's hard to know exactly what they want.

will they ever come down? Prices, I mean. Will the superhero film genre go the way of the westerns and just vanish and the convention crowds thin out? Will the Funko-Pop-Os become like the Benie Babies? if there any hope for us normal pocket guys?

I guess this hobby just takes a lot of money these days. I was lamenting about that the other day and just decided to buck up and pay more money because I really enjoy the comic book hobby. Suppose I just buy a lot less. Maybe leave a con with one or two books rather than 10 or 20. Not to hi jack the thread but a question that's kinda in a similar vein: Do you go to a convention knowing you're broke and can't buy anything? Let's say it's a con with no panels, just an old timey show in the banquet room at Holiday Inn?

i was just responding to your post asking about investing in books for investment reasons. books with big gains to sell, oh forget it....

i dunno know. was i close? I ain't reading that. puts me to sleep

many thanks. i own all those books.they are how i became familiar with Hanks. wanted an original hanks comic

like i said, others know more than I. Better they give you specifics. I think Comic Coin never made it to fruition

HA! Was just thinking about the ComicCoin debacle jus the other day. It was slightly before my time but I believe it went something like this: Everyone would put in some money to buy a book, let's say Spiderman 20 CGC 9.8 for this example, The book costs 15 grand let's say. 15 people would put up 1 grand each and they would all technically own the book together. One person (the grand wizard who dreamed up the abortion of Comiccoin) would have the book and issue everyone a coin that would be a percentage of the ownership of the book. So you would say, "I own 10% of such and such book while only owning a neat looking Comiccoin." while ComicCoin wizard would have the actual book. Yes, it was that stupid.

F -it. I take it back. I don't have the fortitude for such a thing as speculating in comics. I'd rather spend the money I'd have to put aside for this dumb idea of mine on my own collection and since I collect what I like, it just ain't gonna work. The urge to get rich off speculating in comics is engrained really deep in some (many) people and probably indicative of much deeper issues. No matter how much a more experienced person (i'm not saying I'm super experienced in this field but many of you are) warn of the foolishness of such an idea as speculating in comics, folks line up for the slaughter regardless. It's like warning people of the dangers of heroin. No matter how much you say it's a bad idea, a really bad idea, people poke and jab for the mainline.

don't know why i thought it was Planet. Thanks. Prolly gonna have to get a coverless