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Concorde

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  1. Yeah I have not personally had the same issue with Heritage. I have bought a lot of raw books from them and on balance, mostly agree with the grades. Thanks for the feedback everyone...I will call this a "lesson learned".
  2. I know this has been discussed in the past, but after not having bought anything from them in a while I recently bought a few lots at what I thought were very reasonable prices from Comic Connect. The image below is of a copy of Tales of Suspense 55, sold as part of a three book lot graded at VG+. One book was VG+...other was VG...then this one. So much for a VG+ average. Same was true for an Iron Man lot graded F+. More like VG+ Is this an isolated problem or do I need to do the old "subtract a full grade or more" trick before buying from there again?? Thanks
  3. For all intents...pretty impossible to get a decent scan/photo...even with a light box. I need a bigger scanner! Too much glare on these to really see what is going on, but maybe a little better. Note that I took the second one at a pretty oblique angle and squared it up as best I could in the photo app...so, the book may seem off.
  4. Thanks! I was half way into a Manhattan when I wrote that! Yeah...grader notes say "small amount of color touch on top front cover"
  5. I am helping a friend with his dad's collection. These were all bought off the rack and have been in his closet for 50 years essentially. Seems kinda odd that one gets purple and the others don't. Is there an appeal process?? Maybe it's all correct, but has anyone tried to argue with CGC in this situation? It makes no sense, given the pedigree, that this book is restored. Not trying to be an as$. It just doesn't seem likely that this book is restored. Thanks
  6. Hi. A rather nice copy of this book. Main thing is a small piece out of the spine. Otherwise great colors and eye appeal. Book is Fine. 2021 Guide at $348. Asking $340. Been selling on eBay recently. Just took this down from there and thought I would try here. eBay ID is sundry_collectibles. First to “I'll take it” in the thread wins. DM with questions. No probation or HOS. US only please $10 for shipping. Book will ship out within 3 days of payment No returns Payment by PayPal Goods and Services only. I think that covers it. Thanks for looking!
  7. Hello...I am helping a friends dad sell his collection. Pretty great group of books. ASM complete to 300ish, X-Men 1 to ~300, bunch of TOS, FF etc. Question...He bought quite a few of the books off the rack in the 60's. Many are high grade. If a book has a FMV of over $25K...how does CGC insure the book when shipping back to the owner? USPS only insures to $25K. Thanks in advance. P.S. Funny story - he bought the ASM #1 from Howard Rogofsky (the guy that used to advertise in the comics back in the day), for $1.
  8. Do you all think $400 is recoverable? I would be happy to have a book signed by her in my collection, but dang...seems like a hefty premium.
  9. All good points. As for more NFTs being issued though...by definition, there can only be one for any given digital object. The "concrete mechanism" is the association with the blockchain. Anyway...it is a pretty philosophical topic. One that really demands to be discussed over adult beverages. (Eagle Rare? Glenlivet 18?) We shall see what happens! Maybe it takes...maybe the whole thing collapses.
  10. I understand, and you may be right. And by no means a Luddite! But I was thinking about how I can buy a very nice reproduction of, say, the Starry Night by Van Gogh and put it on my wall at home in a reproduction period frame. It is a copy. It is not the "real thing"....but despite its very close resemblance to the unique and "real" Starry Night, it is not the real thing and I know it is not the real thing Same thing applies here. If I have, for example, a 1/1 piece of digital art and an associated NFT that identifies it as the one true original, and that NFT allows me to sell that piece as the original, that should make that piece more valuable than a digital copy. It might seem insane....but is it really any different than an authentic Star Wars #1 in CGC 9.8 vs. the Whitman reprint in 9.8? The books are for all practical purposes identical, but one sells for substantially more than the other. ($6300 for the first print vs. $450 for the Whitman reprint based on recent sales). Bottom line...comic books are just paper objects with no inherent value. All the value is assigned by a community of people who have all agreed that they carry value. If a group of people all decide that the NFT has value...it's no different, IMHO. Heck, I live in California. The Native Americans that used to live in my area traded clam shells for food and other goods. The shells were hard to come by (just like a copy of FF1 in high grade)...and everyone in that community assigned value to them as the basis for trade. Anyway...my opinion...but I don't see how this cannot end up being a part of the hobby. Just my opinion.
  11. This is a reasonable explanation...if you watch the NBC clip though, none of the announcers get it, at all. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/nft-boom-digital-collectibles-rcna430 And here: https://www.investopedia.com/non-fungible-tokens-nft-5115211
  12. I *think* this post is appropriate for this forum, but moderators please move as needed. After a piece of digital art by the artist Beeple with associated NFT sold at Christies for $69M a few weeks back...it got me thinking. Why would this not be the direction comics are headed?? There would be unlimited books available of course...no collectible value and purchasable at all times online. But then there would be limited books (aka variants) with associated NFTs that would be collectible and essentially act as a currency. You could read the book and see it on a tablet or computer, but only you would have access to the aspects that define the variant....and you would have the freedom to sell or trade that work and its associated token. This is where baseball cards and the like are headed (check out all the news about Topps last week) so why not comics? I know some will absolutely detest this idea. See attached poll to provide your opinion. But like it or not...this may be the future of collectible comics. Thoughts??
  13. Yes...watercolor and ink. Cover for high republic #6 variant
  14. So this showed up in the mail today. Can’t wait to get it framed and displayed!
  15. I don’t see that getting much higher than a 4 with that corner. Maybe a 5...max.
  16. Agree...but the rate of increase is not sustainable (of course). The big question is, will things level off, or crash? Who knows. I sold a collection for a guy that I know last year. His wife wanted him to throw the books in the trash during a move. X-Men 1, Avengers 1, Spidey 3 and a bunch of mid 60's related books...but those were the keys. I ultimately traded to keep the X-Men 1 and we put a value of $3500 on it. It is ~a 3.0. It is indeed, insane.
  17. Added a couple new copies of Eternals #1...one for every price point. Actually...I do have 9.4 and 9.2 (sorry...my bad, I only have 8.5, 9.0, 9.4, 9.6 and 9.8. So no 9.2 All books are OW/W). If interested...DM. These copies all came out of Robert Sidebottom's store in San Jose, CA about 25 years ago.
  18. The greatest splash of all time (in my humble opinion)
  19. Yes! Saw that. Is what it is. I traded mine based on a trade value of $9K based on info at the time! Oh well...I still have the JIM 83.