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Badger

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  1. Together 26 years so, yeah, I listened. Besides, she bought it for me.
  2. If I bought it "raw" I read it. If its slabbed, I find a reprint. There are a few books, like my All Select #1, that I bought "raw", would not quit reading/flipping through, so that my wife got tired of it and made me send it in for grading.
  3. Lousy pictures but its what I have. Contains: Santa Claus's Visit Mickey Mouse: The Christmas Hero Thumper's Christmas Tree Goofy's Seal (Text story)
  4. One of the reasons why the Green label is not liked is that the range of defects it hides is literally from the almost inconsequential, like a name on the first page, to being incomplete. Torn, soiled, and creased is obvious but a green label that is hiding the fact a book is incomplete is far from obvious and it confuses newbies about how much they should pay. The point of CGC is to help remove the uncertainty about grades when buying. A Green label on an incomplete book just leads to confusion.
  5. Not really, at least in my opinion, incomplete is incomplete. The qualified grade was created for e.g. a popped staple on an otherwise NM book. Do you take the blue 6.0 or the green 9.4? Meh. When you start glossing over such major not so obvious damage you start down the proverbial slippery slope.
  6. Yeah, it got a qualified 5.5. Not sure I agree that an incomplete should be eligible for a qualified grade but there you have it.
  7. I would hope so, yes. Looking at the census I do not see a variant entry for Scooby Doo #1 which seems to indicate that the one with the reader's pages is the only one there is.
  8. For what it is worth, the Grand Comicbook database includes those reader's pages in their page count. Scooby Doo #1
  9. Thought I'd list this and see if there is any interest. Feel free to email with offers but first , or equiv, in the thread wins. I will mark the item sold as quick as I can but if someone sneaks in with an before I do, they win. No returns on CGC graded books No reprobates or HOS. Paypal preferred but will take check/money order. Please allow at least 7 business days to ship if paying by check/money order. Payment is due within 3 days of posting or equiv in thread or through PM. $650 which includes Priority shipping within the Continental United States. PM if you is somewhere else.
  10. The constant reboots killed my interest in moderns from the Big 2. I know as a 50 year old white male schizophrenic martial arts expert that I am not the target of Marvel's marketing but I am the one with the disposable income that can help prop up current comics. You would think that this economic power would translate at least into maybe one or two classic titles not being rebooted every other year. I now only buy those series that I have complete runs in like Daredevil, ASM, and Uncle Scrooge. If I want to read anything else I wait until it is released through Marvel Unlimited or Comixology Unlimited. The odds of me being disappointed with the story-line or art is too great to justify paying full cover price on the vast majority of new books. Three words of dialog and art that looks like it was drawn and colored by an Anime enamored, 12 year old, glue sniffer using Daddy's Surface Pro just does not cut it for me when comic prices are hitting $7 an issue for some of these things. Thank you but, no. I will spend $69 on Marvel Unlimited, read what pops up and enjoy the fact that by the time a year has passed I will have read hundreds of new and old comics. The sweeter part is that every book I read out of Marvel Unlimited makes the per book cost even cheaper! If I want the smell of genuine newsprint I'll go riffle through one of the thousands of comics I've carted around with me over the last 40 years (Lord, I have a patient and wonderful wife. ). It makes me a sad Badger that the odds of me going into a comic book store and finding anything worth the money being charged by the big two are vanishingly small. Can it happen? Sure, Darth Vader is great. I read every 6 month old issue of it on Marvel Unlimited as its released to the platform. Then again, I got sucked into buying the Red Goblin story-line in ASM only to see it fizzle out and then reboot. I doubt I will be sucked in again but the fanboy personality of mine is a tough one to repress.
  11. I know I've that happen to me at least once.