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GWAcrylics. I think he makes / made the ones for them but not too sure. I buy mine directly from him, might want to ping him and see what he has available. I have all my Joes and TMNT in stuff from him. https://www.gwacrylic.co.uk/

Both is always an option as well

I'm in, I will update this post when I have details on the prize.

Picked up a couple golden age books @ 50% off. Quick shipping, good communication.

Question for everyone that has had books delayed for sometime now and still have no clear date on when they will be delivered (maybe this is better as a poll?). Will you use the CGC service again after the long wait and lack of clarity on when the books will be returned?

@followtheleader or anybody else who might know TMNT variants. I am trying to determine if I have a "pink face" / "soft head" variant of Bebop (1988 10-back). All the ones I see on eBay that mention this variation have the "Assembled and packed in Macao" and not just the Hong Kong / China text. Is this a good way to know? The lighting sucked when I took the pictures so sorry for that. Mainly wanted to show the text on the one that I had.

Beautiful books! GLWTS

I'll take this @ 50% off

I'll take this @ 50% off if you still have it

Nice grab!

#5 or #31 by chance?

Ill take this one as well

Take this one

So is it safe to say that ads are directly linked to a "print"? Or is it possible the print run stays the same but the ads change? So for example 5,000 are printed with ad x, 5,000 with ad y but both have indica that state "print 1"?

Trying to keep up international relations .... at least that is what I learned from Top Gun

I remember when the original came out for the PC .... spectacular puzzles and visuals. Some of the stuff rivaled RayTracing images I had seen not long before it.

I have a few: X-wing vs Tie fighter Duke Nuke 'Em Crystal Caves Indy 500 Need for Speed (PS One) Smash T.V. Secret weapons of the Luftwaffe Age Of Empires Aces of the pacific Silent Service Secret of Monkey Island (or any of the Monkey Island series) Myst Shinobi Red Wolf Tekken Doom (the original) Quake II Madden football games Starfox Super Metroid Watch Dogs Red Dead II

Seems to be a trend that when a new grading market opens up, new record sales prices start to pop up and they are discussed in the main stream news outlets. With the fairly recent history of things, it always makes me wonder who is really buying those "graded items" and how it impacts the perceived value and the rest of the market.

Interesting. Matt is openly talking about the interesting nature of AI and how it might apply to the CGC workflow in the video shared above FWIW.

Thanks for that. Interesting discussion .... the desire is certainly there. Reading between the lines it seems like the grading process might be the last leg of the process that it would apply to but other things are "lower hanging" fruit.

Agreed, the technology is still growing and much of its success is dictated by not just the strict financial investment one needs to acquire the equipment but the additional cost of training the AI and running a competent team behind it as well. The points you mention are exactly what got me to thinking about it. Consistency and scalability are things CGC has to be thinking about quite a lot as of late. Seems like the automation offers a platform for both? Scaling a pool of graders is hard enough when you have location constraints I imagine, let alone keeping consistency amongst the pool as it grows. Small growth is manageable but with the stratospheric growth of the "graded" industry (all things not just comics) I suspect things will change to satisfy investments and what not. Managing customer expectations around quality and TATs is a tricky thing. Balancing retention, attracting new customers and profit margins is even trickier. All that said, I just got to thinking about it after seeing a bunch of threads lately with issues that seem like it would be hard to happen after multiple reviews by humans at different levels of the grading procedure. Was curious to know if there had been cases where some forms of automation had already been implemented

THEY ARE KILLING IT!!! I need to get another job I guess

I was pondering the QA threads I have been reading lately and I got to thinking. It seems with the "checks & balances" that are in place during the grading process there would be a very low chance that 2 or 3 humans looking at the book during the acceptance, grading, QA and shipping process would not catch errors like wrong book being encapsulated or mismatched titles / issues on label (not even talking about under / over grading issues). From my experience, systems that are used to enhance throughput of sorting and routing tend to use some type of computer vision and/or AI to identify, route and track things throughout the product lifecycle at the warehouse. I was wondering if anything like that is being used (at any point) of the books stay at CGC (acceptance / sorting, grading, encapsulation, shipping, etc.) . Is anybody aware of any type of this technology being used by CGC (or competitors)?

I thought that was what the whole "Golden Age" section was for

I have a few proof prints from Canton Street Press. Really cool stuff ..... I would love to see more as well! http://www.cantonstreetpress.com/category_s/1838.htm