Badger

Back to girl bondage

Wow, that's new, I think? That's actually fairly generous.

Mountain to Mountain

I would pay a premium and it would go into my Duckburgium vault.

My ranking dropped by ~8000 points this month because I sold my 9.4 copy of FC #147 to help buy a stupid house. Darn the need to have something to store stuff in!

Stuka to Stuka

I watched that and was so tempted. Glad I didn't bid against you.

I am sure its the foxing that brought it down; was the interior cover tanned? I agree that Heritage is usually pretty close but I have had a couple of surprises from them.

I think you are right, they did go back and forth for a while; although I'm pretty sure they have now decided that light sun shadows/dust shadows only preclude the book from 9.8 and higher. I seem to remember a conversation on the boards a long time ago over a FC #386 or FC #178 that had a significant sun shadow on the back cover but was a 9.0. This may be the book but I cannot find the conversation. Four Color 178

Given that it is a D Copy, known for foxing, and given the looks of that brown area on the cover are you sure its not foxing? CGC hates foxing and are harder on it than stains sometimes.

It is a factory miscut and that is very common on the Exciting and Thrilling Comics. Hopefully CGC would recognize it as such and would give a blue label 3 to 4. Here is a miscut Thrilling that I picked up raw. It has a severe miscut but it does not go into the interior art. It came back a Blue label 7.0 when I submitted it. Structurally, I had it at an 7.5.

circus to circus

Wow. I love Subby #12. I have owned many copies but this one...hurts me. I know I've defended CGC grading on this Pedigree but I do not understand this one at all. Did someone take a pair of scissors to it? I do not see how that top edge is production related. Did the cover get cut a few times by the press? How is that possible? My current copy is below and I feel it is higher grade than the Promise copy. I'm assuming that's a sun or dust shadow on the back corner of the Promise copy. I miss the days when dust shadows and sun shadows counted as defects.

Those look purty high grade to me! Nice books!

Couple of AAA covers

One of the best Bark's covers IMNSHO. Very Nice!

I could actually post every Barks cover. I love them all!

AA B AA AAA C A

AAA

Is Central Valley the one that was offered, complete, on eBay for ~$200,000?

If Lou_Fine ever disappears we'll know what happened.

I don't think it's quite as bloodthirsty in gold as it is in silver or bronze but it definitely exists. The competitive instincts in these Type A collectors can't be overstated. The Registry was a brilliant money making scheme for whichever grading company came up with the concept first and I'm shocked that Voldemort has not followed with their own Registry.

Good plan, buddy! I need to make an inventory of what I can sell.

Jumping cat to jumping man

@Cadillackid liked one of my posts in this thread earlier today so I was like...why not! Plus, it is just such an amazing book.