MAY1979

All good things...

Final issues make She- Hulk sob in the cornerbox

I am sooooooooo jelly It was actually easier for me to find Fury 1972-1973 OA Cover and Splash art than the books in high grade

Its 2022 not 1982. I can read any comic i want with a few mouse clicks. cbr cbz pdf.. On a 12.2 tablet better than having real book in your hand as u can enlarge easily to customize for ones own optical needs

with a structural grade things like color depth, focus registration, gloss, centerering, eveness of covers are not taken into account. In effect the overall presentation quality of a comic is of no relevance. Many collectors take presentation quality into consideration Better is subjective. If you buy the book based on personal criteria you establish there will be 9.8s perhaps many that fall short and lower grades that make the cut. At least for me that holds true. There are no absolutes with collecting. My above comments except for outliers do not apply to copper and modern where its pretty much 9.8 or the highway

Exactly. CGC issues Technical-Structural grades. I do have a bunch of Silver and Bronze in 9.0-9.4 that look way nicer than many 9.8's I own. It cliche but true collectors buy the book not the slab label. Posers merely look at label and nothing else. The question to ask oneself is do you love the hobby or simply concerned with resale. Sadly the latter is the norm and will likely only skew more in that direction going forward.

Wow! cue the Peaches & Herb

Man, the FMV's of the key issues 1,4,8 are plummeting. It is DC after all.....

Back after a year. A 1998 $10 raw purchase from Showcase New England. I made the right call having it pressed, the very light finger bend on back is totally gone. Kirby/Giacoia cover. It may not be a popular opinion but I like franks inks over Jack's pencils. In addition to 1st Blood and Union Jack also the 1st Jacqueline Farnsworth later Spitfire, whom I guessing Roy based on Dannette. BTW my strips showed this as WP's. It's now 2nd from same submission with that situation, makes me really wonder what is going on with the lighting where they were graded.

Did not get much at NYCC this year. This turned out to be one of my 2 Comic Purchases. Issue was before my time, I first read it in the mid 90's - very creepy story.

Growing up there was a Carvel in my hometown. Looking it up now I do see its open in same location thus it survived Superstorm Sandy in 2012 - good to see. Now I've a hankering for some Flying Saucers BTW this has turned out to be one of the better threads on this forum

Please note there will always be exceptions and outliers! My take on Bronze Age High grade: Bronze that qualify for modern CGC grading tier (1975-end of Bronze) : 9.8w commands the highest prices. 9.8ow/w by most collectors is considered to be fine by most collectors especially on 1975-1979 books and on low pop stuff like Gold Key, Charlton, Whitman, Archie 9.6w - the newer the book the less desirable it becomes unless it is a key. Even then a very late Bronze 9.6w might only be 1/3 or 1/4 the value of a 9.8. 9.6ow/w starts to get dicey in value on non high demand books as high end collectors usually have low interest. 9.4 for some ultra-low pop and rare Gold Key, Charlton, Whitman, Archie, Harvey and other smaller publishers is sometimes the best most collectors can hope to find thus making it the only viable option in some cases. Especially if if no 9.8's exists and 1 or less 9.6's - example Twilight Zone #84 is sought after by Frank Miller collectors in 8.5 and above and to a lesser extent #85 (see my sig ) is as well Bronze that do not qualify for modern CGC grading tier (1969/1970-1974): 9.8w commands a premium! 9.8ow/w is most common in that numerical grade for the era. A subset of collectors only want WP regardless of Silver/Bronze/Copper they will pay the premium to get it. As for me ow/w pages is just fine for pre-1975 and some Pedigrees such as Oakland ow/w is the standard with WP being the exception. 9.6w or ow/w - Solid grade and probably the most populous as high grade goes for the era. My opinion is Keys major or minor are very desirable in this grade and for some ultra low population or condition sensitive books it may be the highest option available. 9.4 for many keys is a very decent grade and possibly the only "affordable" option. The bigger the key the more desirable this grade becomes. In addition for Gold Key, Charlton, Whitman, Archie, Harvey and other smaller publishers 9.2 or 9.4 may be the highest known extant grade . See my sig for Little Stooges #7 Bottom line; if not for investing simply buy what you like and don't worry about what some high end OCD collector like me thinks.

While I do not agree with your first sentence, I will say Truly Honest folks do not become Comic Book, Comic Book Original Art or Trading Card dealers. Still not honoring a deal or their word represents the true worst of the worst and the mark of true 4th letter of the alphabet-bag

Just received my NYCC 2022 survey. I will be issuing scathing comments about the self proclaimed illuminati Social Media Influencers

That is some Donnally Bros level BS by comicmylars. Seems as if they are only in it for them Mind Games, best to avoid their ilk

There are worse job's! Take having to examine those books for stains for instance. Unlike Playboy no airbrushing (usually performed to the point of absurdity) on those Vintage Hustler issues!

Remember assets under mgmt is not their money, impressive most certainly, but theirs most certainly not. The Net income in 2021 while highly impressive is still a few Billion lower than my firm's/employer's 2021 Tech budget Perhaps expanding grading in the Mag area to Playboy and Vintage (aka tame) Penthouse ain't such a bad idea....

Hi - That is good to read! Will the "download submissions" option be updated as well? Currently it remains at 8 months.

Right or Wrong, and I feel the latter, Keys are graded more harshly by CGC. 3.0/3.5

Bummer. Those are as much a part of the US and UK POP culture landscape of the past half century as Playboy or Sports Illustrated and more so than most Comics. Add Prudish to the growing list of CGC negatives.

Excellent Artist. All-time great inker! Superb Painter! Yeah pages are ow/w so what, this specific self-submitted book had personal meaning to me.

That is Good News As someone who works in IT glad to see your DBA team found the time to change the numeric of "8" to "16" I kid of course but the Finance firm in which I'm employed has a current yearly TECH budget of 16Billion and 50K+ tech FTE's so changes are always occurring to meet client and consumer demand.

Should DC comics bring back the original New Teen Titans and from them back up again ? Kid Flash was an original member of the NTT. Did you leave "Wallace" off by accident?

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