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Likely a good thing https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23919666-thalervperlmutter?responsive=1&title=1

You'll soon be an expert and can pay it forward.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/ https://eh.net/encyclopedia/a-history-of-the-bar-code/ https://blog.comicspriceguide.com/comic-book-upc-code-history-and-price-implications/ https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-covers-upc-meaning/

The first/starting month Marvel issued a Direct Sale and Newsstand editions for all regular sized comics books was the cover Date of June 1979. To some this date is significant and to others it is not . Surprisingly @valiantman falls into the latter faction. But still he does recognize the date as being the first month Marvel did it for regular comic size line wide. For DC it's regular sized and digest books starting from cover date Oct 1980 Prior to June 1979 cover date Marvel's Direct Sales were in the form of Whitman distributed books nearly always in multi-packs. Search the CGC forums for thread called "are Marvel Whitman's a thing" or something thereabouts as I forget the exact title.. lastly see valiantman's video; while not perfect, it's an indispensable primer and truly excellent effort.

Price in Diamond and line through Barcode indicates Direct Sale for Marvel Books cover dated June 1979 until they employed the Spidey face in UPC less then a year later.

Nope

Perhaps if you mean Impossible or Beyond "meat". This thread is for Vegans; All Veg, no Beef

To focus on stuff like #1,4,8,9,22 or simply continue to hunt down those 1977-1978 late bronze issues. Enough Potatoes how about some real meat

Buh Buh Buh NFT's were going replace actual collectibles. Buh Buh Buh... You purchased nothing, and it's now worth nothing, [Sarcasm] oh what a surprise! [/Sarcasm].

I do agree about aging out when it comes to certain genre's like Westerns, but for hero stuff with with linkage to the present the GA stuff demand will always be there. Of course there will always be peaks and valleys...

Remember a lot of folks using comic link are also consigners so the spending of "free/found money" effect is always possible. IMHO it's very smart to cull and consign extras of Copper key-like books and use the funds to purchase Silver. Even I did that recently, first time I've sold any books in over a decade in my case the credit was utilized to fund buys of high grade Silver. yeah getting less for the copper's than if it had been 1-2 years back but the Silvers are selling for less as well so it mostly but not entirely balances out.

IMHO currently with the total lack of QC I'd never send in a slabbed 9.8 for a sig especially if pre-Copper book. I would do it on a 9.6.

Uh-huh, sure you are...

More like an established method of proving one-self as being a true dbaaaaagggg

I've a bunch of Pedigrees mostly raw late Silver and early Bronze, but I'm a buy the book not the flip (label) person. While a Pedigree is nice to have I'll take the nicest presenting book every time. That said the Pedigree's I have are a bunch of Oakland and Northland's an occasional Boston and a Mohawk or 2. Can't say for sure how I'd feel if I had Golden Age Church's but I do know that will never be a situation I'm lucky enough to be in

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ok. still it is not a 9.6 and even if noting the tape pull in descripion i feel totally wrong to advertise it as 9.6. Sad that CGC will not be honorable and remunerate owner for their error and re-slab correctly for free as a 6. Just give us your money and shut up applies when no viable competition exists. My guess is if this was a trading card they would own up...

"We matter more than Pounds and PENCE, your economic theory makes no sense" Sting (1984)

Buying is riskier than selling with them from an IT Security POV.

Also the book being horribly off-center in the slab wreaks of end-to-end slipshod quality control. CGC's or their parent company's solution to handling QA issues was to reduce the return window. It appear to have got to the point where they are saying just give us your money and keep quiet, and it works!

@cgcmike perhaps show this to your QC mgr. The poor person who purchased this at minimum will lose money even if the lion share they are getting back. Thing is it never should have got that far. Not sure your QA mgr, QC dept, and superioers care but your errors have detrimental consequences to the average person. As for the seller, I will be searching eBay to find out who it was to add them to my own private seller avoid at all cost list which given nature of Comics Seller is rather long

As DC goes Batman is Blue chip. I have been picking up late 60's DC which is favorite collecting era of mine even if way before my time. If I was smart I'd buy less books but all Marvel of that era. To lose money with DC it's easy for fastest route simply buy slabbed digests as you remind yourself over and over they are the rarest high grade DC or Marvel books of the late Bronze and Copper age. Then watch as your ROI as expected circles the drain - see my current signature images

So for drek buy early, sell before interest is lost. Seems like a lot of effort and risk in current times to grind out a decent ROI.

So Proven Keys for near half-century that became even more Key. Fair enough. But 1st Hypno-Hustler (The word hustle is first clue to stay away) or 1st Zaniac or similar drek ain't the same and that is really to what i am referring. P.S. FOLKS no Hypno-Hustler film will ever be made. I repeat no Hypno-Hustler film will ever be made. Recent FLOPS at The Mouse and and DISCTW will cause Sony to think very hard about dumping money into E level Spidey characters . In addition Sony lost money on Morbious and insider "buzz" is at absolute best Kraven will break even. Ain't no profit for Sony in feature film Hypno-Hustler.

Outside of the pandemic bubble. I do wonder how many times buying books based on rumor or when hot has actually paid off over long term. Many carpetbagging flippers and speculators have taken their leave of Comic Books but some will always be around. No wrong way to collect but ain't seeing any upside to buying a book when hot or on rumor other than the occasional outlier. FOMO or whatever it was called prior to that term being coined is a human weakness thus an integral part of most Cons and rip-off schemes. Say NO GO to FOMO!