NoMan

it's just my personal preference to have books non-pressed. in my opinion there's more $ to be squeezed out of a book if it's pressed which is why it's difficult to find keys non-pressed. people have hard feelings about if pressing is restoration or not, so again, it's just my personal preference to have a non-pressed book. If you dig pressed books, that's cool. No CGC does not notate pressing in any way, shape or form. While putting my xmen run together I found a large well know online comic store (not MCS) and they had a bunch of xmen books I wanted. I asked if they were pressed and the answer was they press every single book from a 50k book to a 5 dollar book. Some people like how books look pressed, I don't. I don't want to start a big ugly debate thread about pressing it's just that when it becomes difficult to find any key that's not pressed I just get bummed is all. I have to change my attitude and it bugs.

perhaps i need to change my attitude.

Trying to put a raw, upressed HG X-men run together. I'm not anti-CGC case I wanna read 'em is all in their original form. It's becoming a major headache to find the keys in HG that aren't already slabbed. I'm ready to cave and just get 'em in the case and break 'em out, which probably means they've been pressed.

I"m not that into signatures so you'll have to look for other opinions.

Sometimes it's tough to respond to new posters around here because they may be children or have developmental issues and you want to be polite and encouraging so as they don't leave the CGC boards or the comic collecting hobby in general. There was a "Tell A Stan Lee Story" thread recently that touched upon some of these issues and I think we all learned a lot from that thread and not about Stan Lee. With that in mind comic girl, I think your books are great and look forward to you sticking around and growing as a collector with all of us!

I'm half reading this post and half watching Dateline NBC about a golf caddy that may or may not have murdered the manger of a Burger King sooo I"m not exactly sure what claims you've made that you feel like you need to live up to. What did you claim? If those are your books, nice pile. Readers and HG copies. Way to do it!

No s h i t .

You very well may have more experience and knowledge, however, I'm a more than a little befuddled by your claim that your comic book collection is "superior" to mine. What makes one comic book collection superior to another?

and the image is gone from CL. Yeah, MC is terrifying. Gotham Kid was kind enough to link back to 2/18 in this thread where the "pre-MC" was discussed.

I miss hype boarding on absurd silliness. I'm not capable of creating hype myself although I can get really stupid on other points in life.

sold for $210,000 11/27/18 on CL

Thanks for taking the time/trouble to keep tabs of this for us. Yes, I missed it. Interesting.

Thanks. I looked. Do they have a history function. Do you remember what it sold for? I gotta write these sales down so as I can remeber.

When/where is the “first time” it sold? I think I looked up the serial # and it was graded in 2017. Edit: Graded on 8/22/17

what's the shop if you don't mind asking.

where in Pasadena if I may ask? Pasadena, Texas?

It's ok. Didn't see any GA. I think they own the comic shop in Santa Monica now, too. It's 4:09am here so I may be a little confused.

The Los Angels trash talk continues, I may have to hump that button.

Stan Ridgway is God. It's too bad he's thought of as a one-hit-wonder with Wall Of Voodoo's Mexican Radio. His solo albums are sooo good. His songs are straight out of an EC comic. Check out The BIg Heat.

Stan Ridgway is better for clues about Los Angels' People.

Please see singer Stan Ridgway's band Drywall for clues. Specifically the album Work The Dumb Oracle. Also Ridgway's film The Drywall Incident is helpful. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_XWwuCecfU

In discussing local Los Angeles comic shops we seem to ALL agree that House of Secrets in Burbank sucks giant musty hemorrhoid-ic King Kong testicles and Earth 2 in Sherman Oaks is nice and the owner Carr is fair, but what of BlastOff Comics on Lankershim Blvd in North Hollywood? Experienced opinions wanted. Thanks in advance.

Here it is. Thanks. I'm gonna get it. https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Million-Soldier-Still-Unsolved-Rochester/dp/1611688914

Title? The fact that Marvel's New Universe comes into play is the clincher.

I'm envisioning some kinda FBI shoot-out over this comic-box hoax capper. A sexy blonde dame and a Double Indemnity kinda double cross. A cross between a $1.00 box diver and a Cohen Brothers' film.