Redshade

On 9/23/2023 at 4:18 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Talking of Freddie, sad to see another one bite the dust. Comicana has now packed up the online shop too:

I saw on FBonk that sales had dried up.

Sad the way it's all going, isn't it?

Yes, 'tis sad indeed. I've both bought and sold with Comicana ( the chap's name eludes me at the moment ) over the years. Let's hope he is fit and well and in a position to bounce back soon.

I've looked in Overstreet's glossary under Subscription crease/copy but all it says is that "this is a defect" but provides no further guidance.
So hypothetically by how much does this decrease the grade?
Thanks.

On 9/13/2023 at 5:59 PM, Yorick said:

It's not you.  Pasting a spreadsheet into these threads is terrible, so he had to screen-capture the portion of the table for sharing here as a jpg. 

Thank you for the reassurance and explanation Yorick.

On 9/13/2023 at 10:26 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Thanks again @Albert Tatlock 

Challengers are now complete for the first four T&P stamp cycles. That gaggle of 'first' sixes gets bigger and bigger as the issues slowly roll in. But then they could just be late second cycle books, as we've discussed many times. Either way, the first in scope Challenger issue by cover date exists. 

 

I'm taking a break now boys. Play nicely, and be seeing you 

Forgive my ignorance here Steve, but there's something I've been meaning to ask for years but haven't in case I revealed myself to be the doddery old fool that I undoubtedly am.
Are these wonderful tables of yours meant to be opened and read in full, and how does one effect this? I can see in the lower image "Action Comics" down to "Challengers of the Unknown" but no further.

On 9/11/2023 at 9:41 PM, Funnybooks said:

you could find a fine copy that presents better

The search continues.

On 9/11/2023 at 9:30 PM, zzutak said:

And, for good measure, this is absolutely, positively NOT Marvel chipping, as the seller claims. 

So you found it then? At a price of £89GBP ($111) he's asking for a "FN" price but it's not for me. I do not like "chipping" personally.

On 9/11/2023 at 9:17 PM, Funnybooks said:

no
fine range imho...additional pics would help

The back cover and one internal page are the only photos shown.

On 9/11/2023 at 9:14 PM, zzutak said:

The oxidation halo and the shape of the missing chips are a big red flag that the cover edges may no longer be supple.  At a minimum, I would want to see a clear pic of the back cover, the inside front and back covers, and the interior.  Even without the chips, I'd have a very hard time awarding a VF to any book with an obvious cream/tan halo.  A book's final grade will always reflect age-related blemishes as well as handling wear.

On 9/11/2023 at 8:31 PM, scburdet said:

I think those are too big to be considered chips. More like a few small pieces out.

See the pinned thread for posting guidelines on PGM. The minimum photos required are full front and back shots to get a grade

I thought so too. But the eBay seller is a big name in the UK comics industry so I thought that I'd ask for a second opinion

"See the pinned thread for posting guidelines on PGM". Forgive me but I am an old duffer and don't know what is meant here. Could you supply a link?

On 8/30/2023 at 8:33 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

If there was one it would sit under the relevant King cents entry. Non-Marvel UKPV submissions to CGC are rare Yoz. You could probably fit every potential submitter on Earth into a phone box. That already had an elephant in it.

I've been in a few phone boxes that smelled as if they'd had an elephant in them.

On 8/28/2023 at 5:31 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

A single like from OtherEric, lover of the EsotEric 

We're still reading, and enjoying your posts Steve, don't worry. 

On 7/25/2023 at 8:33 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I spotted this lot on eBore in the week - lots of Miller's Book Exch. stamps and stickers in evidence (love that 9d sticker):

 

The seller was Philip. I know this because I wrote to him, not because I recognised his sock in the picture.

He said:

A bit of Googleation later and I find it's still there!

So I email the manager of the market and after a chaser get this from Helen:

Nothing since.

@Albert Tatlock Albert, you're a Northerner aren't you. Going to Brick Bradford anytime soon? 

Is this theirs, or nay!

I remember Millers Books in Bradford Kirkgate Market back in the late 80s/early 90s and it looked very similar to the photograph above. At this time the stall was run by an elderly (middle aged?) couple whose grown up son ran a comic book stall across the aisle from them.
They had stopped using those large stickers by this time, at least on the comics counter but I suspect that they were still in use on the books/stationery shop.
The son's name was Howard and I think and he will probably now be retired as he was about the same age as myself.
I haven't been to Bradford for decades so I have no idea who runs the business now.

On 7/8/2023 at 8:04 PM, themagicrobot said:

Ever feel you're currently living in an alternate reality?  

I wish I could find an alternative reality because anywhere else must be an improvement on the sh*tstorm that we're living in today.

 

On 7/8/2023 at 12:50 PM, themagicrobot said:

It looks like the last few visitors to this thread must be off on their summer holidays. When I first started buying comics they cost 10d. This was a perfect price point as it meant I got three comics each week for my 2/6 pocket money. I almost had a nervous breakdown when prices increased to 1/- and my allowance didn't increase. Fifty years later I almost had a nineteenth nervous breakdown when I realised comics had reached the heady sum of 85/- each.

Welcome to the Krusty Old Git's Komplaints Korner. A quick search of the 'net tells me that ten old pennies (10d) in 1970 is worth the equivalent of 60 new pence today (60p). So perhaps if comics (UK and US) were 60p instead of whatever it is that they now cost then the industry wouldn't be in the terminal decline that it is in today..

On 6/22/2023 at 10:07 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I didn't buy them Stephen - 35c did. I was just commenting on the photos he posted. I can't remember the last time I bought in bulk like that as it goes. I did have a go at an auction lot in person the other year. That was cool going through them, loads of books up my alley. I didn't win, but the ones I really wanted found me eventually, funnily enough. 

I really must read all of the recent posts before I jump in with a stupid comment, sorry.

On 6/22/2023 at 12:42 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

Some nice stamp and stickered cents copies in there, 35c, as well as the UKPVs. A fun lot to sift through indeed for the budding UK distribution fan 

I'm sure you got these at a price you deemed fair Steve. I don't do much buying these days but I do tend not to use the auction houses because of the great slab of fees they slap on and then the high charges of the mailing agencies.
Lots of fun unboxing though. and as you say lots of pence issues.
Have fun.

On 6/5/2023 at 8:03 PM, themagicrobot said:

I'm sure no one would ever consider faking an image. 

Haha! I really did have to look twice.

Albert and Robot. We've got a long way to go on the AI front admittedly.
My concern was the ease in which fake photographs, and more worryingly ersatz videos which are indistinguishable from the real thing now become so much easier to produce.
The potential to disrupt our modest pastime is negligible compared to the disorder that could be caused by fake news in the media. 

On 6/4/2023 at 10:00 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

If the fancy ever takes you, you could do a lot worse than peruse this handy guide.

Hahaha!
Unbelievable.

On 6/4/2023 at 9:51 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

And Supergirl's comment could open up a Freudian can of worms.

Better not go there.

Urgh! Who eats fried worms?

On 6/4/2023 at 9:13 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

 

Not to be confused with the real stories of various characters in tights flying around and so on.

Of course, when you are ten years old they are all real, far more so than the crazy adult world going on around us was back then.

On 6/4/2023 at 7:49 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Here is an example of an offering from a Doom monger on ebay........

Yours for £150

Haha! Good one Albert.

On 6/4/2023 at 5:04 PM, Albert Tatlock said:

Hmm..

Wonder why Lyla Lerrol, who perished on Krypton, would sign a photo (in English), and dedicate it to Superman, whom she knew only as Kal-El?

If that photograph ever comes up for auction, I would have to give it a very close inspection.

You have to be very careful these days, what with CGI, deep fakes, and so on.

I hope no-one doubts this is really me posting this.

Joking apart Albert you've touched on a very serious topic that could have consequential repercussions not only in our hobby but in society in general.
Fake or real indeed.
The doom mongers warn us that AI is going to destroy humanity. With this single development we are already quite a way down the slippery slope.

I hope that this does not make me one of the doom mongers.

On 5/19/2023 at 4:45 PM, Redshade said:

I remember seeing something like this years ago, it's actually a map of Kenya, but the ones that I saw also had the name of said Country printed along with the stamp above. 

 

Edit. I see Marwood beat me to it.