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again, boldface by me... The seller must have, because Dr. Balls was able to check out and pay for the book at an offer price. It wasn't until his other purchases arrived that he realized there was a problem. I'm not sure how long CL would wait before they initiated a claim. Presumably they assumed the book in question was en route. You're right that CL should have refunded by now. It's a ridiculous system we tolerate, but see it all the time. A few months ago my hotel was supposed to be paid by for by my employer, but it wasn't. I paid myself, knowing I could get reimbursed. My employer sorted things out, and paid for the hotel room themselves after the fact. The hotel told me they would reverse the charges in 5-7 days. My card was charged in 5-7 MINUTES, my reverse is in 5-7 DAYS. I still got mad at my employer's travel coordinator instead.

Boldface added by me. CL should have refunded days ago, agreed. However, the original seller DID apparently want to deal with CL, as he volunteered his book for the Exchange and even actively accepted an offer on it days before simply trading the book to someone else. One of these is an unpleasant business practice, one of these is an explicit violation of a contract. If this had happened on eBay, and a seller accepted a best offer and then said "nuts to you" but Paypal had to wait for official resolution to reverse the charges, that seller would be facing probation or a HoS nomination and Paypal would get an eyeroll at worst.

Depending on how finely you slice it, I think mysterymachine got it immediately. Danger Girl #1 had an Another Universe exclusive cover with the "Another Universe" logo in March 1998, followed by an AU exclusive Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1 in Sept 98 and #2 in Oct 98. I think Dynamic Forces started getting exclusive covers around this same time. Maybe this is the "prototype" phase of the cover variants exclusive to one retailer? I read somewhere the Star Wars: Dark Empire gold foil logo sets were exclusive to QVC or HSN back in 1992. Maybe these don't meet the OP's intent with the "current store exclusive thing," but they're definitely examples of variant covers unique to a single retailer.

Two people were willing to pay up to $18 plus shipping for a 3.0? Still taking a loss on the cost of grading, but I'm surprised anyone would pay for it at all. I checked to see if it was downgraded for unwitnessed signatures or some other justification... nope, it's just a well-read kid's copy like so many I have from the old days. Which is fine, plenty of people grade their personal nostalgia copies, but how does it end up on Comiclink?

Just to help with the comparison, according to Comichron the average cover price of the Diamond top seller's list (304 comics) was $2.14 for April 1993 (https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/1993/1993-04Diamond.html) and the average cover price for the top 300 was $4.80 for April 2022 (https://www.comichron.com/monthlycomicssales/2022/2022-04.html) This particular inflation calculator (https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/) says $2.14 in 1993 would be worth $4.33 in 2022, so it's actually really close as far as that goes. Might be better to then take those numbers and compare it to real wages or something to figure out what percentage of an average household income would be spent on comics, but that's a lot of work to likely result in "it's pretty close."

Start a new thread: "Where in the world was the quality control at Marvel?" The "legacy" numbers were interesting for characters like Venom, who had so many limited series and one-shots, but failed miserably for others, like Thor, which counted Journey into Mystery 1-82, prior to Thor's introduction, in order to accelerate the count to a big 700 issue. The first 99 issues of Tales of Suspense were also counted twice, once for Captain America and once for Tales of Suspense: Hawkeye and Winter Soldier. But as for Miles, here's their math, which includes issues of Ultimate Spider-Man prior to the introduction of Miles, but not Ultimate Fallout, which actually introduced Miles:

It's Marvel's newest way to have their cake and eat it too. Whichever numbering system gets to an "anniversary" they can do a special double-priced issue. For example, here is the 10th issue of the series you referenced, with the "250" prominently displayed...

Ultimate Spider-Man 241 is the "Legacy" title and number of the issue. The 241 is there on the front cover under the big 1that's there to bait people into buying it. Unless there's something else?

I had a similar situation a while back... I submitted a book I estimated would be a 9.0/9.2 but it came back in 9.8 with multiple visible flaws. I did not feel like I could justifiably sell it without expecting a return, so I took it in-hand to a convention, found a big dealer, and worked out a trade. He had the slab in hand when he made his trade valuation offer, so had every opportunity to review the book inside and accept or reject the deal. As others have said, it was submitted and graded as normal, I just didn't think I could sell it without dealing with returns.

This seems to be actually the best explanation. Gorr can do those things because the writer wants him too. There was no logical progression from how he was a regular mortal to being a "god-butcher." If the symbiote sword he has was so all-powerful, how was he able to get it at all? The god who had it before, Knull, fell to the unnamed golden god...? A god wielding the sword was less powerful than a mortal wielding the sword... a sword that is a small fraction of Knull's total power... Knull who himself was killed at the end of King in Black... it's just nonsense. They have to keep escalating to make weird, cool fight scenes because there's no worthwhile story. Think of it like a boss fight in a video game, maybe. He's powerful because he's powerful.

The 24th would be the deadline for @DELTA 62to receive the comic, which would then be taken to the creator you've requested for signature and then submitted by DELTA 62 to CGC for grading. The comics would then be graded by CGC and returned directly to you from Florida.

I read them all as they were released, and I'd generally agree with this, too. Jack was a tough character to like, but that kind of was his character, so I stuck with it. Definitely got tiresome though. For the sake of completeness, there were also two Cinderella minis: Fables are Forever and From Fabletown with Love, intended to be pastiches of the James Bond genre. They were okay too, but I really enjoyed Chrissie Zullo's cover art.

I shopped Florence/Firenze back in 2017 and kept notes on these two: Comics e Dintorni - Via Enrico Guido Bocci, 67/75, 50141 Firenze Large shop with vast quantity of old and new comics Fumetti e Altre Storie - Via Uguccione della Faggiola, 17r, 50129 Firenze Tiny shop crammed full of comics, large quantity of old Italian Corno Marvel, mostly in low to mid grade. No idea if they're still there, of course. Also, if you're unfamiliar with Italian comics: for 1960s-70s issues the distributors were much more carefree with their inking, so it's common to see large swaths of ink over the top portion of the cover. Also, many 80s comics came shrinkwrapped with stickers. Expect to pay a premium for one still shrinkwrapped, but most collectors don't expect the stickers to be there.

Yep, I checked the Instagram account for tyrannosaurusry and the artist is Ryan Palmer, so you bought it directly from the artist, who also has several other pretty cool looking pieces.

I see a lot of other art with a matching signature style on the instagram of the ebay seller: tyrannosaurusry Either the ebay seller did the art himself or is an agent for Palmer. I think the Donny Cates aspect of the listing title was just to draw in Absolute Carnage fans.

@Dork Buzz does a lot of work in Texas, and is available through Facebook. No idea if they plan to attend this particular show.

Yeah, I think it's the second one, the "Ant-Man" variant with the rest painted over. That's based on the color and style of the title logo.

Years ago, it was commonly reported that if the two graders couldn't come to an agreement, a third, more senior grader would review the comic and make a decision. Again, this was several years ago and may not still be the policy but it seems reasonable. In fact, it may have never been the policy, just boardie speculation.

In this case, it seems like there was little-to-no additional damage done, but the problem is that a relatively high-dollar purchase was packaged surprisingly poorly. MCS needs to determine how and why this happened so it doesn't happen to a high-grade raw (which it seems like is occurring, so +1 to MCS customer service).

I don't *think* so, unless you just want all the covers...? I may be overlooking something, but it looks like the ones with the "Battleworld" banner across the top also have the "Secret Wars" logo at the bottom, so the contents are the same, with just the two storylines: Battleworld and Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies.

I'm pretty sure the Secret Wars are the same as the Battleworld ones. It was all a big cynical nostalgia-play to rip off the 1986 Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars brand, which had as its locale "Battleworld," a planet made up of other planets all jammed together. In the 2015 the Battleworld was basically a composite of "What If..."-type alternate realities.

I would guess it's a 2015 Secret Wars crossover #1 blank cover with original sketch artwork, but it's hard to say for sure. The logo coloring and positioning seems to match.

From the original post and announcement. The Tattooz from ASM 238, Marvel Value Stamps, etc will still be noted on the label.

They think it's this one... which actually has been graded before so they probably just pulled the wrong one on the drop-down list. Should take about 2 seconds to distinguish between a 1986 comic and a 1954 one.

I thought this had something to do with the custom Perez design only being made on the yellow labels. I guess they'd rather use the labels than just reprint blue ones when the signing got cancelled.