joe_collector

And my Picture Frame want-list shrinks by 4, due to these beauties from Monkeyman. I've been looking for a HG, well-centered (lots of white border with this issue) copy of Thor 205 for a long time. Same with Subby 45.

Cuz speculators are stupid?

That story should be made into a movie.

Not to mention that MP 47 is much harder to locate in HG.

No way MTU 86 was in 1977. You might want to check the exact date. And on the subject of the GoG, MTIO 5 is a very underrated issue, as it's really the first appearance of the team, members, costumes, and names as were known throughout the BA and CA.

The AF 14 is by far the more significant book, and the better deal, but due to the high grade and relative scarcity I might go with the TMNT.

OMG, where is he going to sell all his PIF books now?

And for a few more months, it remains "a damn cool offer".

Excellent visual.

And then you bring pressing into the equation and it gets really crazy.

Roy, you may sell some great books, but you really should update the thread title to your new board ID, as I searched for a long while before figuring out it was probably listed under the old one.

huh? Everyone agreed that post counts are useless and far preferred a 6-month waiting period for PIF.

A 6-month board tenure is far more useful in limiting this kind of behavior.

Yep, intent and format rule. It doesn't matter if it's mystery boxes, mystery bags, mystery wallets, mystery cases, mystery whatever, if its multiple items and the contents are not equivalent and there are winners and losers, then it's a raffle. Don't get caught up in the "box" part, as raffles in boxes are still raffles.

Because I know your personality type and it's an anathema to me. Sorry, that's just the way it is, and has nothing to do with your "challenging" me, as I'm hardly immune to that on here. It's best I just put you back on ignore.

I'll buy you a clue - how you "view" yourself on here is definitely not how others view you, trust me on that.

You really have to be the craziest SOB I've ever interacted with, and you are personally the reason I stay away from the CGC Forums. You're one of these "got to be right 100% of the time" people that I walk across the street to avoid, and you *really* should see someone about this condition. Want hard, cold facts rather that your usual hyperbole? Spider-man 1 set a record for 1 issue comic sales, which was broken by X-Force 1, and then broken by X-men #1, the current record holder at 8 million copies. This is when mass, rampant, multi-cover speculation took off, and at only 2.5-3 million copies sold, Superman 75 doesn't even come close.

Do you even have the faintest clue what "multiple" means? Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual, element, part, or other component; MORE THEN ONE - talking to you is like talking to a little kid. Seriously.

I personally think that I'll live to see the day that "First Cover Appearance" is broken out, especially those books (Like ASM 50 - Kingpin) where the appearance is a glorified cameo of 1-2 pages at best.

Sorry, but that's insane and 20-20 hindsight. You can totally ignore all the major players of the Modern Age, like Valiant or what started the whole crazy era (Spider-man #1, X-Men #1, X-Force #1) in favour of some 'seminal event everyone remembers". It's very similar to the warped thinking that supports Amazing Spider-man 121 as the start of the Bronze Age.

By the time Superman died, the Modern Age (speculation, chromium covers, artists as rock stars, multi-million sellers, multiple covers, Wizard speculation, etc.) was well underway. And it's truly bizarre that people think that one of the major speculative players in history, Valiant, was part of the Copper Age.

Did Greggy recently have a board implosion, leading you to go into his kudos thread and attempt a rehab, vis a vis, "he has cool books" on a deal from such a long time ago? He just wanted to bask in the comic book glory that is greggy.

It's kind of crazy that whenever we discuss adding a new guideline/rule, everyone screams that "Don't rock the boat, the For Sale forums are only here by the grace of CGC and could disappear at any time", and then these same people run raffles.

If the raffle organizer/person/company made one penny from the proceeds above verified and audited book cost, then yes.

I knew that I couldn't be the only one that noticed.