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Sea floor to sea floor.

On 2/23/2024 at 2:38 AM, waaaghboss said:

Surprised to see that dynamic issue on there.  Coulda swore I saw it pop up ebay multiple times back when I used to watch for the beaker cover.

I think I've seen quite a few Dynamic #10s and Scoop #2s over the years. I don't think either is particularly rare.

Blue sedan to red convertible.

On 2/24/2024 at 2:01 PM, lou_fine said:

I still remember when the whole pressing controversy was the hot topic of the day for the longest while back then and Borock said for those who wanted to differentiate between pressed books from unpressed books, just assume that every single book sitting in a blue slab has already been restored pressed.  

Yep. That sounds like the judgment of someone who thinks a ponytail mullet looks good.

On 2/24/2024 at 2:05 AM, lou_fine said:

Would you also be referring to the overwhelming majority of books being graded today, and in particular, to any of the books that have through the CPR process or have gone through CCS because pressing and cleaning used to fall under the restoration umbrella before CGC came into existence with their undisclosed grading standards and didn't bother to tell us that it wasn't until they got outed on these boards here years later.  

I wasn't even including those. There are plenty of blue-label books out there with glue and color touch on the spine.

I guess the latest gimmick is lightening covers with blue light. I don't know whether that can be detected, but if it can be, then it seems pretty clear that it should be considered restoration.

Double-o name (Buckaroo) to double-o name (Cooley).

On 2/22/2024 at 11:38 AM, thedagger said:

What's the issue with Goldin? I see them on tiktok pretty often and they seem pretty big. 

In sports cards, yes. In comic books, not so much.

On 2/21/2024 at 1:07 PM, adamstrange said:

Fawcett is not a hot company . . ..

You have a gift for understatement, Mr. Strange.

TLS ice to TLS iced out.

This article is about hand-written song lyrics, but could the case be relevant for golden-age comic books with sordid histories? For instance, the old-hoard Crippen books were allegedly stolen. Could Crippen's heirs try to reclaim those books? And what about the D.C. ashcans; weren't there questions about how those entered the marketplace?

https://www.clickondetroit.com/entertainment/2024/02/21/an-unusual-criminal-case-over-handwritten-lyrics-to-hotel-california-goes-to-trial-wednesday/

Web of Evil creep in a torn red shirt to Web of Evil creep in a torn red shirt.

Hot lead to molten metal.

Ka'a'nga recsuing Ann to Ann rescuing Ka'a'nga.

On 2/18/2024 at 4:34 PM, MattTheDuck said:

Here's a link to the GOAT's easel-back Yellow Kid collection.  RIP.

 

Thanks! That thread must be where I heard about them. My memory needed refreshing; I'm at that age, I guess.

On 2/13/2024 at 11:34 AM, Robot Man said:

Most of these are over 120 years old!

The baseball one refers to the NY Yankees.

Don't some of the buttons have an "easel back" that allows them to be stood up for display? I thought that I read that somewhere, but I'm not sure exactly what an easel-back would look like.

On 2/18/2024 at 3:22 PM, Professor K said:

Yeah that would be good. I only noticed because I was going to try to grab it. I did write to Goldin but got kind of a generic response saying the book represents 1/12 of the census but they'll look into it further. Now I'm just curious why it's not showing up. # 4356456013 

 

 

 

It does take some time for books to show up, right? Maybe it was JUST graded (i.e., this month).

Dr. Neff, Ghost Breaker to Grimm, Ghost Doctor.

On 1/14/2023 at 6:19 PM, rjpb said:

30 $1000 comics

 

Bingo. I only collect GA, and $100 doesn't buy much of anything in the GA world. (I have a few $50–$100 GA books that I like just fine, but I wouldn't be able to find 300 books in that price range that I would want.)
You can only spend so much time looking at one book, so buying one $30,000 book wouldn't be much fun, either.

On 1/14/2023 at 6:22 PM, Dr Zen said:

What about 3 $10000 books?

or 10000 $3 books?

or even 3000 $10 books?

3 $10,000 books would be my next choice.

On 12/26/2018 at 3:57 PM, BB-Gun said:

The contents may have been consistent from one year to the next.  The first year of gift according to Rick in Slam Bang 2 contained:

Captain Marvel 5

Bulletman 4

Ibis 1

Wow 5

Whiz 26

There isn't a year between the issues which would make me think it is a random group but I don't have any info to say for sure.  I only saw one other issue of Gift 2 and it was the same as mine.

 

 

 

 

I guess the consensus was that each issue contained the same contents as other copies of that issue?

I am surprised that CGC slabbed a 324-page book; I don't remember seeing anything else that thick slabbed. Are the Gift Comics the GA comics with the highest page counts? If not, what comics top those? 

ETA: I just found this thread that showed a slabbed trade paperback, so I guess the slabs can get pretty thick.

Lost Valley with Venus, Goddess of Love to Lost Valley with Mars, God of War.

On 2/16/2024 at 11:10 AM, ft88 said:

Spirit Sunday Star Newspaper Section 21-Jun 1942 $90

That one is creepy as ----!

On 11/30/2021 at 11:39 PM, Bat-Hound said:

I'm now the proud owner of that book, and @Bat-Hound's photo doesn't do it justice. I've picked up a few other white-pagers since last posting, too.

This one isn't a recent pick-up, but I had it slabbed recently:

On 2/18/2024 at 1:51 AM, PreHero said:

CC, CGC & Goldin made money.

That's how it usually goes, LOL.