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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.

I dunno, seems somewhat reasonable to me. It's not like they're going to divert comic graders to do VHS or use the same pressing or encapsulation machines or whatever. I do agree the VHS degrades inside the case, just like the problem of graded G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero figures (if you didn't know, those 80s GI Joes were held together with a rubber band that degrades with age and they can fall apart on their own). With as much nostalgia as there is for the 90s cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series and X-Men I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot of crossover from comics fans sending in their tapes. I've got some sealed GI Joe and Robotech tapes, as well as some early dubbed anime that aren't really good to watch anyway but are a fun collectible. I'm looking at you, "Clash of the Bionoids" (a crappy version of Macross: Do You Remember Love) and "Warriors of the Wind" (a crappy version of Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind). Might be nice to be able to display with similar merchandise and not worry so much about the shrinkwrap getting torn or something.

Oh, whew, I see the original post has been deleted. I read it initially as satire because of a few red flags, but most other people began to take it seriously so I started to worry about myself. So, @Cool Ghoul, I got the joke, if it was a joke, but if it wasn't a joke, I'm a monster.

Both CGC and CCS have the same in-processing center, so it should show as "received" as soon as they get around to opening it. Last time I submitted and used CCS my submission was just "received" until it got back to CGC from CCS and was checked in for grading, then I could click on the submission and see the breakdown of the whole order by book. Looks like an estimated 31 working days for CCS, plus 8 working days for grading on Express tier, so you're at the very early end of the window. Personally I wouldn't worry about it for a while, sending emails after only a week or two will just give you heartburn.

I know it's a drastic departure from what you expected and what you paid for, and I have no idea why the colorist didn't think he could color the bow, the skintones, or the rest of the costume, but divorced from the backstory you've got a book that I think is gorgeous. It does look like a quickie convention sketch, which is definitely not what you described arranging, and I completely understand how the disparity between what you wanted and what you got affects your view. Other than the bad experience, I love it. EDIT: After decoding the hidden serial number and checking the artists, I would definitely be surprised by these results. I would consider this very atypical compared to other sketches by this penciler. That being said, it's still in an art style I like, and reminds me a lot of work by Richard Moore (Boneyard, Far West).

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I'm just glad I got some of mine done before the current policy. Of course, that's not what it would look like now. At least they corrected the publisher.

Also, this one apparently would not be marked as ASM 101/102, because its cover is redrawn from an interior panel instead of the cover. Labeling comics by anything other than the actual given title is just a mess.