MAY1979

IMHO: if no color touch you paid market value for the book in that condition. If is a color touch then i feel you overpaid. If you are an honest person you will have issues reselling it with that disclosed. Its more than worth the amount spent as a learning experience.

in 1940/41 the video monitoring of Superman on the Plane On 6/20/2022 at 3:17 PM, MAR1979 said: I'm more concerned with 1940/41 plausibility of the last panel.

Before I clicked on it based on the title I figured any books mentioned in this thread would have been ASM361, X-Men (1991) #1,#4 and Spawn #1. Very glad to see I was very wrong!

No, the video monitoring of Superman on the Plane

I'm more concerned with 1940/41 plausibility of the last panel.

Thanos Copter!

Annual 9 was a good read!

Put it in a trust so u dont lose it after she wises up and leaves

Is the point here why were there no grader notes? Or what has to be done to change a 9.6 to a 9.8? If you have de-slabbed, pressed and graded again your mathematical odds of receiving a lower grade on the 9.6's are way higher than if you leave them they way they are and move on.

Dear Lord...Iron Man 126 Romita Jr/Layton splash 102K with Buyers Premium. https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/splash-pages/john-romita-jr-and-bob-layton-iron-man-126-splash-page-17-original-art-marvel-1979-/a/7274-93125.s Not many good solid "Demon In A Bottle" saga issues splashes with Iron Man not getting the dickens beat of him. I do wonder if there will be 120-128 issue art coattail riding on this? To me it was all potatoes no meat. WW arms covering torso, hokey type background with all the different logos. At least to me does not have a display piece vibe.

They are cut off and sold to satisfy the insatiable demand of a cadre of Corner collectors

Eventually if enough customers file charge backs for CGC mistakes rather than the customer absorbing yet another hit, CGC may attempt to improve their business model. While that is a big IF, I do know if people do not file charge backs nothing will change except further in negative direction. FWIW the expense of investigating each Charge back is the merchants to bear. How much it costs them is based on amount of business they do.

The only Silver Age Book I have ever sold was a Showcase 78 CGC 9.6 - in my youth 20 years ago. It was 1/1 with none higher. For few years it bothered me but is no longer 1/1 nor the highest I do not sell comics and glad one of the few times I did it has not come back to "haunt" me.

Not to mention the preferred "Currency" of Drug Dealers, Human Traffickers, and Terrorists.

The masters that are left you mean Too bad Universal was not utilizing the facility prior to the tragedy in 2008. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/music/what-did-we-lose-universal-music-fire-blazed-through-archives-n1025556 The fire on June 1, 2008, destroyed anywhere from 120,000 to 175,000 master recordings - an exact number can not be pinpointed due to the overall lack of care Universal employed in inventorying. eBay is cheap,cheap,cheap,cheap, and stingy,stingy,stingy,stingy. Everything they say or do is for their own bottom line, proudly displaying a devil may care attitude towards buyers and near absolute disdain for their sellers, they most certainly will not be using Iron Mountain storage facility in Boyers, PA . Anyone who trusts eBay is a rube in the wait.

I went slightly overboard on this one given the OW/W and wrap.

If #1 was not a Cockrum Classic Cover #3 woudl easily be my favorite in the run. Looks great in the original Modern Red Label CGC slab to the point i could not care less that the wrap is a bit off.

In re Garza, 984 S.W.2d 344, 347 (Tex. App. 1998), Texas court has held that "Despite the old saying that "possession is 9/10ths of the law," mere possession and whatever right to the property that comes with mere possession does not grant the possessor rights in the property superior to those of the actual owner. J. CRIBBET, PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF PROPERTY 12-13 (1962); R. BOYER, SURVEY OF THE LAW OF PROPERTY 679-80 (1981). In other words, there is a hierarchy of ownership, as reflected both in the common law and � 1.07(35)(a) of the Penal Code. One in possession of chattel has a greater right to it than one who lacks both possession and title. Yet, one who has title maintains a greater right over the chattel than 1) one who simply has possession and 2) one who has neither possession nor claim of ownership. Id. Indeed, it can be said that the title owner has the greatest rights to the property. With that greatest right comes the power to negate the authority of those with lesser right. Similarly, those who stand in the lesser position lack the power to override or negate the rights of the title owner. Good luck proving title if eBay controls the records on their systems. IMHO saving a bit of sales tax is not worth the risk. I'm 100% positive in short order we will begin to hear horror story's about eBay vault. Here is an advance "I told you so" !

1st (only?) foil [re]printing of #16

It is plausible on SW37. I've also seen similar defect get 9.8 in past. I will not purposely purchase any 9.8 that looks like that. Still a few have made it into the collection one of the many reasons why my general rule for 10 years is do not buy a book I can not see in person, or purchase only from dealers that realize returns are simply part of the COB

A now "classic" scheme is: For several months or more buy up an item say Graded 1986 Fleer Jordon's in Mid grade and lower high grade. Then manipulate a Graded Gem Mint 10 auction or 2 of the same card to sell for say 500,000k+. Some might think why pay all those auction fee's? Well the cards they have been buying up in mid and lower high grades will ride the coattails and then they sell, sell, sell. Shelling out 50-100k in auction fees to make several million is rather shrewd business. Morally dubious at best, but moral folks are not Trading Card Dealers* Then we have schemes that a honest person like myself can't even imagine... Not saying is a totally rigged game but more often than not in in modern times it is. * = I'm positive an honest trading card, comic art, and comic book dealer exists, but in the past 40 years I've not met even one. That includes a good buddy of mine.

Anyone willing to pay ebay their final values fees can perform all the maket manipulation they want. Of the many different manipulation schemes the most effective are those which look the most legit BTW this is also being done in many other hobbies especially trading cards. Also with auction houses like Goldin and Heritage I'm positive an honest trading card, comic art, and comic book dealers exists but in the past 40 years I've not met even one. That includes a good buddy of mine.

I feel for most "vintage" OCA collectors Artists Editions scratch itch for merely for items that are unattainable due to value or being locked in a collection. I'd love to have a piece in an Artists Edition - way cool cred for collectors braging rights

7.0 possibly 7.5 with a good press as the back of book appears it might benefit.