Badger

Wow, oh, wow! That is an incredibly cool book! NIce grab, Sagii!

"Close Call" to "You call that Clothes?"

touch to getting touched up

This is a crazy beautiful book!

Really didn't buy a whole lot this year. Thought I was going to land a moderate size fish but it slipped the hook at the last second. These 3 are probably the cream of the crop for the year.

take it

Flash #125 $250 includes shipping USA. Add $25 for international. SOLD! All proceeds to JimJum.

Strapped down to tied up

I have 2 books that I really should get the conservation removed but I am too "afeared" as they say.I had removed two tear seals on an internal page that did not affect the grade one way or the other but that is as far as I have gone with removal. Not saying I never will have color touch removed but I haven't yet. You are right about the difficulty to predict a grade after restoration removal. That is why I say they could put an "estimated" grade with their usual caveats about how their grades do not mean anything.

Totally agree. CGC should state both grades on the green label and an "estimation" of the unrestored grade. That would help pricing restored books tremendously and would hopefully stop some of the wild variations I've seen in pricing.

Dispatched to angry gargoyles to wrestling with Octopus

There was an insane dislike for restored books among collectors waaayyy before CGC was even a pipe dream. I'm not sure how much the purple label played a factor with collectors who were around before CGC. Still, it is an interesting thought experiment: what if CGC had chosen green as the restored label and purple as the qualified? Would green be hated as much as the real life "purple label of death?" Green certainly does not seem to help the qualified books, currently, so

Really disappointed I was stuck in OK and not in Dallas to see your collection. Absolutely stunning as always!

Outstanding!

Nice! If you only have one that's a great one to have!

That is really cool and cheered me up a bit! (Blondes do that to me. )

The one that got away. I had consoled myself for missing the Dallas Collector's Summit this year by buying the last USA Comic I needed to complete my 6 through 17 run. Or at least I thought I did. They cashed my check back in November and told me that it would take a couple of weeks to clear; now MyComicShop tells me they sold the book to someone else and I bought it before they could remove it from their website. *&^&*%&@$#$$! Just heartbreaking. No real blame on Mycomicshop just looking for some shoulders to cry on.Do wish they had noticed it was sold before they cashed my check though.

skull to skull

Same here!

13 to 14

shock SS to Schutzstaffel

Look behind you to look behind him

The slightly brittle book is a head scratcher. I bought this book raw through Heritage as a VG. I agreed that it was a VG and page quality was cream to off white (is that still a thing?) Read it with no flaking and did not notice any soft spots.