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1st Gold color armor as I recall.

I do agree but it's a very high pop book and going rate in 9.8 is sinking. Going rate now in 9.6 is $60-$70 and dropping. In 8-10 months when the book returns to the submitter a 9.6 might be as low as $35-45 . IMHO simply not worth the grading and pressing fees and probably loosing money if it falls short of 9.8.

Or how about rewarding people still on the job and try to retain some of the under 20 comic graders they have left. Laughable that 2 full years into the deluge and CGC has less graders than before it started. For those that disagree CGC would be jumping up and down hyping how many new additional graders were on the job if there were any. Expect the TAT's to increase each day as the few comics graders they do have dwindle further. Rather than Comic/magazine graders CGC is now seeking VHS tape graders and soon to come Booger collection Graders think that's absurd; well it snot

Auction ended, no bids after the initial few hours. Shenanigans not only called but confirmed IMHO!

I've been wrong before but Blackstone analytics actually show this as bringing in real revenue over next 5 years? Well I guess anything to keep from allocating money to introduce a semblance of quality control at CGC I guess. When will they start to grade NFT's? Funny don't read much about those lately.

does not belong in modern - self removed

Moon Knight be chillin' , flippers and spectulators be illin'. 3 years build up for at most what was a pedestrian show that relagated Moon Knights screen time to cameo status. The hippo received more cumulative screen time. Now speculators grasping in hyperbolic desperation that there will be some small appearence in some future film. Quote the Joker; HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

By this point Heck was a sick man. Milgrom however was NOT In today's market a splash page of this quality probably commands 1.5k - that is the scary thing!

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Europe's even nicer, topless women selling breakfast cereal on regular TV.

"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf"

I own a mere 3 books from the last 12.5 years that are slabbed this is one of them. Which makes sense given I've not purchased a newly on-sale book since Aug 30, 2011. Now this is how you sell a book!

Man , this is a tough one to deal with A Great Artist, A Great Person, A Great Loss

The safest route is never purchase a raw book through any method other than in person or through a seller that you are very tight with. Still the former is safest.

I'm am totally positive without a doubt there are honest Trading Card, Comic Book and Original Comic Art dealers! I do hope to eventually encounter one.

Even the first woman rendered pictured above who is rendered non humanly surreal looking by excessive Digital Noise Reduction and heavy handed makeup is still much more of a selling point than say Anthony Snyder's or Bechara Malouf's horrific mugs Hey it's proven for over a century to work in many industries why not comics...

2.5 if staples are fully attached. Caveat; I find low grades more of a challenge than high ones to determine

I think it had to do with when marvel crunched the numbers and found they were losing money on ads and had been for years. Galton and Shooter then figured why not place an add on the cover since they had to print one anyhow.

First month Marvel used ad banner was same month books jumped from .40 to .50 . Not only were you paying 25% more but you got ugly advertising on front cover. Kids back then with $2 a week budget (assuming they were even that lucky) had to drop from 5 books to 4.

A decade and a half back there was a conversation on the old comicart-l board in which it was overwhelmingly determined that unpublished cover is an oxymoron.

Harsh man! Bear in mind some like hero's to look like they are continually going through heroin withdrawal.

The Real real thing: Boyd inspired tracks; George Harrison's/Beatles "I Need You", "If I Needed Someone", "Something" and "For You Blue", and Derek and The Dominoes "Layla", "Bell Bottom Blues", and Clapton's overplayed, overrated, and over-sappy "Wonderful Tonight".

Registry collecting I'm guessing provides many with a nice challenge and or diversion. CGC and PSA (outstanding example) started down the registry path to boost their own business and it does work. Until I have a way to use input via barcode through an app as I do with PSA dealing with CGC Registry for me is way too time consuming . There is no wrong or right nor 1 vs 0 for collecting comics. However registry collecting for sake of registry collecting most often is not fiscally-wise but if your having fun and have the dough the Rock On

what about the no limit upward trajectory!

Some registry collectors are like that. They always think they will never see another. Remind me what you get in $ for having a completed registry set? Is it nothing or less than that? Thing is when dealing with a "registry war" is when those involved in the fighting obtain what they want the going rate of the book plummets. Although in case of this title I think many have noticed the "cool" factor of specific issues like 23. #20 worst Reed Richards ever. Wrong hair, wrong color, no trademarked gray temples. How on earth did that slip by Jim Shooter! For me it totally ruins the cover