Artboy99

Look at that blue! Very nice.

Even so, I have a hard time calling it a "fine". Good luck to any that might be trying to win it.

Tell him he is lowballing you and show him the CGC 9.6 on Comiclink http://www.comiclink.com/itemdetail.asp?id=1102274&showprice=1&next=%2FComicTrack%2FAdmin%2FCL%2Fmatches.asp%3FTITLE%3Dx-men%26ISSUENUMBER%3D1%26Artist1%3D%26Artist2%3D%26PRICEFROM%3D%26ORDERNUMBER%3D%26DATEFROM%3D%26DATETO%3D%26SELLER%3D%26SELLERID%3D%26BUYER%3D%26BUYERID%3D%26BUYERSTATE%3D--%26PEDIGREE%3D%26CGCCOMMENT%3D%26SELLERCOMMENT%3D%26TYPE%3D0%26FILTER%3D%26Payment%3D%26Verified%3D%26Shipped%3D%26SPBP%3D%26SPBP2%3D%26SearchConditionFrom%3D09.6%26SearchConditionTo%3D09.6

some of the high grade "collectors comics" from that collection:

Very similar! Ranged from golden age and silver and bronze books he called his "collectors comics" which was one shortbox, the rest was 1985-1993ish books all bagged and boarded and never read in 37 long boxes. Many books that came out of that collection were 9.8's.

The same happened to me. Seller had 37 longs, made our offer and we left. A few days later he contacted me and we bought it. Still the best collection we have bought.

Especially if you are paying tax on it.

Even more annoying are the non committal types. Another collection local to me, is a couple dozen long boxes and it does have some great books in it. We finally get a chance to look at the collection, we get to the guys house at 10:30 AM on Sunday and after viewing about 10 boxes he tells us we have to leave as he has to be at a breakfast at 11 AM. Head scratcher there. Anyways we make an offer, he says kind of low, we ask what he was expecting and he quotes us a figure so we raise our offer to in between the 2 numbers. No negotiation from the owner, he just declines. Over time we contact him again and we offer him the price he was asking. Even then he hummed and hawed, said he needed to ask his wife and we never heard from him again. Actually offered him his asking price and still didn't get the collection, the ultimate in a negotiation that went nowhere.

I have had several dealings like this one. You can spend a lot of time on it if you really want the collection, but the thing is time is money! You made your offer, I recommend moving on. I have a guy local to me that I met at a local comic con, he and I went to university together. He looked at my booth/ display, and asked me to come see his collection and make him an offer. Over time he kept contacting me, asking me to look at the books again, and I kept making my offers. He would send me an email asking questions, and in attempt to gather his trust I would tell him honest answers and show him auction site information like Ebay and Heritage. Then his price kept going up as he was gathering more information, such as seeing an auction result for a CGC 9.8 Wolverine #10. He has 10 of them, and they are "like brand new". Except due to storage and the fact the books were never bagged and boarded they are VF to 9.0 at best. Over time I also noticed he only contacted me when there was a local comic show coming up, and he would ask for a ticket/ vendor pass saying he would help me out. I give him a pass and then he would leave the show before closing time and he did nothing but hang out in the booth learning / gathering information. Now it is 3 years later, I never did acquire the collection, and he has stopped contacting me now that he doesn't get any free passes to shows out of me. I learned my lesson. Now I make my offer and move on. My time is valuable to me.

If it makes a difference: I only bought one item, and I paid for it the day after the auction closed ( so on day 2 ). I paid for FedEx priority. They shipped it the day after the auction closed. My item was from the day 1, and typically Comicconnect ships the items in the order of the auction.

latest piece: a sketch cover of the Taskmaster.

Hi all, I recently completed a sketch cover on a blank for someone and I am going to be sending it in to CGC for signature series and grading. I have a form sent to me by the person who asked for the sketch and I am wondering if any board members have used this form before? My question is: the section for CAW, I believe pertains to a witness. If I send this in without anything in the CAW section, I think it won't get Signature Series. Am I correct?

it would look great either way. If I was to do this page I would thicken the lines a little. Yeah it would look great in color.

strongly disagree. Some of the best silver age reading comes from the FF: 25-26 48-50 is extremely good for story.

I would do the Superman 14. Especially if you are doing it in black and white, the image has lots of black which will give it a lot of viewing "punch"

therein is the problem. They don't need to reimagine anything just simply do the great silver age stories from the comics and do a well done translation and it will be successful.

The one I have seen was awful.

I didn't see any of the previous films. Are these movies made for kids? If so they need to cater to them and not put in clearly adult themes and lines. I can't remember exactly how it was said but there was a scene where the female lead asked Wahlberg for something and Mark replied with "I was planning to do it organically" which clearly meant he intended to have sex with the female co-star.

Against my better judgement as I knew this movie would be terrible I still went and saw it last night with a couple of friends. It needed far more story and perhaps the hiring of some decent writers could provide that. I think what I dislike about Michael Bay films is that there is so much going on, and the pace always feels the same. The Transformers are very detailed and are hard to look at when they are spinning in the air while there are 10 explosions happening around them. It is just far to much. This movie is either a chase scene, or a fight scene with dozens of things flying in the air and explosions all rapidly moving about on the big screen. Just tiresome to watch, save your money and don't be...me. If you do have a lapse in judgement I recommend sitting at the very back of the theater otherwise the fast moving objects on the screen will give you an eyestrain headache trying to watch it.

I always felt it was because he feels he is homosuperior.

Love it. Thanks for sharing

Never seen this book before.

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

a simple definition: A collector will possibly sell parts of the collection or even its entirety whereas a hoarder will not. A hoarder will retain what they possess.