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Given the actual sales (not asking price) the past year, if not a sure thing 9.8 hardly seems worth grading costs.

Based on the pic's you may have a technical 9.4 with an outside shot at 9.6 if pressed and finger bends press out. However for many collectors such as myself eye appeal is important and that one does not present very well. Those who buy the slab crowd probably won't care. If it was a trading card it would be harshly penalized for centering, tilting and printer error with at best a middle grade possible. I for one am glad comics are not judged like trading cards.

Easier registrys to populate means more registry collectors and more submissions. Even if at moment CGC is overloaded that won't last forever , good fiscal times-bad fiscal times are cyclical.

Yes but that is Marvel! If Infinity Inc was Marvel it would be a valid point, but it's C grade DC. Its lipstick on a pig... I'm sure a few will sell in short term but buyers will get stuck. If you have 'em ready to sell, sell them now. Those thinking about sending submitting them for grading now, well the lake will likley freeze over by the time you get them back. Apologies for my rant but the best way to get burned in comics is to think anything DC will truly be hot outside a few select outlier's IE: Batman, Joker and Harlequin. Even Suicide Squad has not maintained and that is far more marketable and in public awareness than Mr Bones.

Actually was teased in the previous episode. It's DC folks, ain't batman related and ain't going anywhere. I've thought for 3 decades DC was undervalued and figured just a matter of time. We'll I've realized it will never happen. DC has had many TV shows last 10 years, still barely no demand. Marvel on the other hand even a minor mention and books truly do go nuclear. Take a throw-away single appearance (to best of my knowledge) villain from nearly 40 year ago "White Rabbit" not even mentioned on a TV show or movie, those who know what that MTU book commands realize DC will never,ever,never,ever,never do what Marvel can. Common there's almost no audience for the 1st Starfire/Cyborg/Raven 1st appearing in the same book, also for example 1st Courtney Whitmore the title character on Stargirl, near zero demand for other of those . Then take Suicide Squad DC closest film property to being "hot" small blip but that bubble burst Suicide Squad 1 is plummeting. Compared to those other properties Mr Bones ain't even worthy of being fools gold. McFarlane fans have stuff with true growth to purchase and Infinity is not it. Neither is Spawn 1 with the single largest CGC 9.8+ population in existence by a long shot - there are 10 metric tons of that book in 9.8 or higher! IMHO the smart McFarlane money now should seek out ASM's especially with what are now now classic but still somewhat "affordable" covers like 312 and 328. Will they become the next 316 is unknown but they could be, Infinity Inc will not be! BTW - I am a DC person (pre-2011 that is) but I'm also a realist. P.S. As DC goes Harlequin is an outlier and of course so is Batman. With Batman in terms of collectors point of view as being the only true DC property with Marvel level demand, although not A level Marvel demand.

I have a near full run in 9.8 either slabbed or not worth the time submitting. While it would be nice if these mediocre (sorry Roy, but after issues 1-10 Infinity was) books got noticed it's 80's DC and it's not Batman so it just ain't happening. IMHO Todd's Obsidian looks more like Spawn than Mr Bones.

DC books do not go "nuclear", and never will, 'specially not for a 1st app of Mr Bones. Yeah I'm a fan of Stargirl TV, but even her first appearance has been ice-cold for over year. McFarlane Infinity Inc there is very limited interest to Todd fans and some DC collectors. Smart money will buy TM ASM issues - while supply is high demand keeps growing. I won't even bother to submit my 16, the bubble, assuming there is even one, will pop before I receive it back. BTW Don't mean to harsh on you littledoom but In all the time I've been a collector DC in general at most is fool's gold.

Love the Marvel Published Hanna's There is an excellent article on them in the Back Issue 59 (Sept 2012). My Laff-A-Lypics 1, when the first CGC census appeared as I recall it was the highest and 1/1 - alas no longer either. 1st Mumbly, Daisy Mayhem and Captain CAAAAAVEMAAAAAAANNNN!

Hey man please let us know tomorrow if it did happen .

Very few did but people always should have been reporting income over $600. Only took the IRS 24 year to "catch on" to eBay. My guess is eBay takes a decent sized hit, while it's not their fault they certainly are not the "good guys" in the equation so not sheddin' any tears. As for me once they demanded a bank account to sell on the platform i was out. That said I only sold a few hundred dollars a year of non-comic book, non-collectible stuff mostly in lieu of simply throwing it out.

A while back this thread topic inspired to submit some of my favorite Sandman issues, all purchased when originally on-sale, to CGC. Delirium as she was portrayed in "Brief Lives", is right up there neck in neck with Death as my favorite of the endless. Issue #21 Seasons Of The Mist 0 is Delirium's 1st app and one of my top 5 favorite issues in the run. The submission #21 was in "popped" mid last week. This book, as i felt it would, is now in a CGC 9.8 slab

Scanned one of mine. It's got some Newton's Rings

Here is what I believe is going on. CGC is taking a small and random sampling of new arrivals, lets say 10%, pushing them through very fast and attributing it to some "new" but nebulous process in the "testing phase" What this does as word leaks out to Social Media, messages boards, etc, that some submissions are being turned around very fast it will instill many with hope that their orders will be on this new process and that all orders currently pending processing will proceed faster as CGC reduces backlog. I feel this alleged "new" process is nothing more than vapor-ware. The true result of which is order that have had no movement for many months will continue to have zero movement and turn-around will have no end in site. I have several submissions that have arrived at CGC in April that are either still in "Scheduled for Grading" status and one that has been in "Grading/Encapsulation/Imaging" now for 6 weeks. Conversely a submission that did not arrive at CGC until Oct 4 was graded and shipped early this past week. Guess I was lucky that il fell into the random sampling group - HOWEVER, CGC split up the order into 2 submissions so that only 25 or 40 books were graded and shipped. The other 15 I'm guessing will Winter and Spring in Florida. All submissions were on the same form same services levels, all modern - they were exactly the same - Baffling!

Did not realize the 361 had that defect. The 2 I purchased back when new do not have any tears - I sent 1 for grading earlier this year and got a 9.8. While I've never received 9.9 I thought mine had a punchers chance. If you are positive that it's currently recognized as a manufacturing defect then my opinion send it in. But if that is not the case then 9.6 sounds right and 9.4 not out of the question.

It's close to being totally bronze if kept to 45 and higher.

Great stuff. Josie DeCarlo was one of, if not THE nicest people you'd ever meet at a con. I was lucky enough to purchase some art from them in around 2000. Dan was great people as well. Shame the way the Goldwater's treated him. Why Bronze sub-forum not Silver?

I have 6 submissions since 1st week of April, the first one that had been shipped back to me is one that arrived in Sarasota on Oct 4th, Scheduled for Grading 10/25, Shipped 10/28. My April Submission was sent before the price increase was announced and flood gates opened as folks scrambled to send in before it took effect, it was Scheduled for Grading on June 14th. That early April submission has spent, spring, summer, fall thus far and what i assume what will be a full winter in Florida. Hardly seems fair that new subs are being worked on while submissions that have been aging in CCG's storage (hopefully temp controlled?) since April are not being addressed. Line cutting of the highest order

Agreed it was barely acceptable on a commerce site 15-20 years ago but in 2021 seems CGC and or parent company is too cheap to pay for couple of hours of coding and QA testing

I just now read the first post it explains JJJ11's goal

Interesting goal. My opinion OCA over Comics. Great thing about art is a small overlooked defect 10 years back does not affect the items value. Not to mention so much easier than various degrees of feeding into "OCD-ness" that exist with condition being king type collectibles.

A DC for which I did purposely seek, something I almost never do, the newsstand edition. As child on a summer trip to New York with my Grandmother I picked up WW283 at a Newsstand below World Trade Center Tower 1 (Never Forget) Excellent Perez cover and Huntress backup

Continuing my scanning "project" another I did not realize I had newsstand edition. My 2nd favorite Joe issue.

Now I have pics

"Fanttastic Four #112 Society" Curious is the misspelling intended?

"Decent" is highly subjective. If someone is seeking to begin collecting 60s or 70's Marvel Covers or even splash pages then yeah best to think about a different hobby. As for panel pages (likely non battle, non a-list artist) perhaps they can pickup a few nice items per year? BTW it's not what you make but what you keep I'd bet there are some in the salary range you mentioned who have little to nothing in the way of expenses. Still though your point is valid most vintage Marvel Art, and to a lesser extent DC has become a hobby for the wealthy. Although since at least the late 90's has always been a hobby for those with at least some "disposable income"