Glassman10

to be brief: Bigger Pie but way more people want to eat it.

Computer graphics made all of this stuff work. Lord of the rings really got a foot hold but for comics, in my mind it was Raiders of the Lost Ark which made made all of this movie stuff work right down to the maps tracking plane trips across the continents-. but for comics. Marvel humanized it down to the depression of teenagers. Who does one think bought comics in 1967? ( dumb bastards like me) . If Rogosfsky was buying them, there was a man with the vision of H L Mencken.

well, Rima, Jungle Girl but it was really bronze....

I stick to the original reason for Spiderman's popularity, a neurotic kid who needed love and had a great guilt trip relationship with his remaining relative. Neurosis made Marvel. Superman never did that. As long as that theme doesn't get dumped. the zit covered kids of America will keep embracing the concept. The adults of America will check their portfolios and keep buying the book. Show me a single moment where the support for the ASM has waivered.

I occasionally make my own single malts. It comes off the lyne arm at 160 proof in the runs right after the foreshots. Once it's below 140 proof it tends to taste like cardboard and chuck it. You would too. I reduce it to 120 proof or it can't be drunk without burning out the entire inside of your mouth. ANother dubious hobby.

irrational as it may seem. life is short. get what you believe in.

I have had my AF15 for almost fifty years. It was only this winter that I had it pressed and slabbed . It's a 5.0. When I found it, it had a street price of about $80.00. Every time a recession has hit in that fifty years, I thought of selling it, probably the first time for under 1K but I never did it. Recession after recession the book was indeed unloaded by people needing cash and following that recession, it came back strong. Now it's a curious thing because it isn't rare like action #1. I think there are about 800 copies above the grade 5.0. The big difference is that the number of people collecting comics since my little find in 67 has virtually exploded. Everyone is convinced that this latest 1990's book will be the next iron man 55 and maybe there's one of those books a decade. Experience tells me that the 2008 crash couldn't break it's value but as in the stock market, some people simply had to sell. The ones that still had the the capital to buy did really well. CGC has monetized comics to where they're reliable as buying VISA or MASTERCARD, maybe more so. Credit card companies are interesting. They don't lend money. They just shave the transaction. It may be the case that some books lose the fancy of short term memory loss collectors but the keys appear to me to be indestructible. Suggesting that they may crash probably makes them even more valuable.

Thank you. That essentially confirms what BlazingBob told me in a PM.

I am going to put my AF15 on the market late this fall. It's a 5.0 CGC universal graded in January '17. Slab case is pristine. I would love to hear some opinions about where it would be best to market the book- excepting ebay, I won't do ebay.

So this is what appears on the "restored" screen in CGC census for AF 15 as the top line. I am hoping it will cut and paste. It represents about 750 restored copies which leaves about 1242 graded unrestored below 5.0 and 439 above 5.0 and 269 in signature series, in which it's worthy to note none exist above a single 8.0. Maybe someone didn't want to deface a valuable book. What I don't understand and can't find the reference for is what all the letters mean crossing this post. I just want to know what it means. A-1 A-2 A-3 Apparent Apparent EA Apparent EP Apparent MA Apparent MP Apparent SA Apparent SP Apparent SS Apparent SS EA Apparent SS EP Apparent SS MA Apparent SS MP Apparent SS SA Apparent SS SP B-1 B-2 B-3 B-4 B-5 C-1 C-2 C-3 C-4 C-5 Conserved Qualified SS SS A-1 SS A-3 SS A-4 SS B-1 SS B-2 SS B-3 SS B-4 SS B-5 SS C-1 SS C-2 SS C-3 SS C-4 SS C-5 Total

Thank you, It does help. Unfortunately the downloadable pdf link no longer works,

I have had the very unlikely experience of finding an '09-SVDB in a coin roll in Marion Ohio that still had traces of mint luster on it. That was in 1959. The assumption we had was that someone intentionally put the coin in the roll. Then I found my AF15 5.0 in a box of comics in a junkyard. Pretty strange. I sold the coin to my brother for $75.00 and bought a three legged buffalo nickel which I kept for a time yet it never appreciated. I'm prepping to sell the AF15 before Christmas. I can always read reprints. The artwork was terrible.

that certainly makes sense up to a point. If it is the case that chipping is not really viewed as a defect in a book because it was not due to poor handling by the reader why is a book graded down because of centering issues and stuff like that which were also part of the manufacturing process or is that really only the case when differentiation when being nitpicky in grades above 9.0 Does anyone know where to point me on the census question?

When I look at the CGC census section and hit the qualifier for restored grades, a long line of Caps letters runs across the top of that census. So far , I have not found that explained. So, I'm not new but I'm not educated entirely either yet I do want to know what it mean since the restored section on such books as the AF15 take up a lot of space in the census. I am already assuming they would not get a universal grade but I would appreciate help with this issue. I have a 5.0 AF 15 universal grade which I will be selling in the fall and I'm trying to understand the relative scarcity of the book as well as what qualifiers reduce value in a "restored" book . A second question is my continuing confusion is over "Marvel Chipping". Is this just a poor excuse for condition that folks jut try to explain away? I see books, (one today actually ) with no chipping at all rated but otherwise in very marginal shape well below books just snot full of it at higher ratings. I really don't get it. Is this a flaw that gets its chops busted or not, and if so, why or why not? Ink? Paper? Does anyone actually know why the conditions were that created the chipping and why it seems like the bad tooth fairy touched one book but not the other? And if this needs remanding to the dumb question board recently created, I'll just retire.

GPA does CGC Slabbed books. It will show CGC slabs at Ebay as well as at auctions. It is incredibly handy if you're watching trends in sales. If you are looking for sites with non slabbed books, Google comics in general. Sites like Metropolitan, or Southern California Comics buy and sell raw books as do many others. Get a copy of Overstreet as a fair starting point for pricing. The Grading at Overstreet can mess with you. It's frequently low as to prices but it gets you in the door as to whether something has any real value at all. It also has ads for many dealers you could contact. Do keep in mind that slabbed books have essentially defined the monetary value of a book so disputes are far less frequent as to value. Slabs are no guarantee but it indeed helps that way. The downside? You can't read it unless you bought it for the ad on the back cover.

the trouble with "Tacking Vs Tracking" is that spell check will have no problems with either word. I actually type fast enough that I don't quite depress the keys on my laptop firmly enough. I have to go back and fill in the blanks. I do think that posts should be proof read however. Demon Spelling at work. It never sleeps ( or sheeps, or sleeks)

just claim you're using an optical scanner. Phonetics is the new Esperanza.

6.5

We used to say that an expert is someone 25 miles from home with a briefcase.

I'm at a 2.0 but with a bunch of questions that could drive it down. What about the centerfold? The back cover top looks really chewed on. Does that top cover roll penetrate all the way to the front cover? Is the back spine showing the tape or what is going on there? As I do this, my grading wants to drop but I see a lot of books that are really in terrible condition in my mind still getting 1.5's. If you sell it, I think you'll be happy. Interestingly, there's no Marvel Chipping.

Intimidation is a genuine obstacle to learning. Everyone got their very first Book at some point. Most had their very first book slabbed at some point. Some people are learning what "Slabbed " means. I actually think that Bomber Bob's answers were really good. I have gone from knowing nothing to knowing very little in about a six month period. Some people have been remarkably kind here and some not so much. Having a space for the equivalent of a "No Fault" question in my mind is really good for everyone and raises the tide around all boats eventually. Most of the people here sell books. View this as an opportunity to sell more books at the least and an opportunity to educate at the best.

What I really miss is a Kenner's Hydroelectric set from the early sixties. . If you had two of those things you could really damage some nice wooden floors. Comics at least did not damage anything but the minds and morals of youth- hard to prove. Something about preexisting conditions

you left out the Mom's of America throwing out all that mind rotting trash found under the beds of teenagers and younger most everywhere in America. Mom's made stuff scarce. By the time we were up to the bronze age, even Mom's had figured out that they shouldn't throw this stuff out. Too Late! Suddenly it was all being kept carefully . Beyond a few comics in the 70's, most are static. The values related to the memories of the kids of those Mom's caught up but really not until fairly recently when it became respectable to "Invest" in comics. I have an AF15 and I paid nothing for it. I got it back around '67 and it had perceived value then of about $80 bucks, a lot of money for that time. It wasn't really until around 2004 that it began to shoot up . Most other books around it did but not very much and AF15 is not actually a rare book. I think there's around 2000 of them . It doesn't matter if you're good if you're first. Stamps and coins remained static in all that time for the most part. Coins have done better lately. Mom's I notice never threw out coins. My Pogo Books, which I adore are fundamentally worthless.

I can explain it. 13 year old boys.

" He could get the book pressed and submitted for around $65.00 sending it in Economy. If he is in a rush add $8. If you have little to no experience cleaning books send it in to a professional. It would be easy to make a $200 mistake on a book like this. ****************************** With that estimate, do you include shipping and insuring both ways?