SteppinRazor

Agree, 3.0-4.0

, that advice was passed on to me in my first PGM

I can't help with your pressing questions because I barely know what it is, so I won't offer a grade, but I will offer this advice - it's a good idea to wear cotton gloves to handle it, because fingerprints will cost you.

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Great price on the OP holders. $20 is a steal for anything powder coated. Hope the guy is doing well Definitely use LED bulbs in the room. Also, there are some acrylics that are UV filtering that can be slipped in front of the slab, though they aren't cheap. Additionally, there is an aerosol UV protectant spray. I haven't used it but plan to on an art piece, so I can report back on it when I do. It could be sprayed on a sheet of plexi, then placed in front of the slab into the holder. I've been working on a display idea myself, based on a wall mounted wine rack and a couple lamps I've fabricated. Once I get my first slabs back from cgc, I'll test out the concept.

All good. It's an amazing drawing, print or original. Nice piece!

Does anyone take pictures of comics before submission? I did, but moreso to post questions here. Is there a standard, or is it basically one trusts that cgc won't inadvertently cause an issue through imperfect handling?

No thoughts on what ding this would cost?

Nice! I'd love to see a closer shot of that Walking Dead piece

Set 3: Sold

Set 2: SOLD

Set 1: $15

The Swag: Claimed

Closed

I'm guessing ( 7.0 ). (Highlight between parentheses)

I'd say ( 6.0 )maybe. (Highlight between parentheses to see)

I'd be interested in that answer, too

Is there an indentation? Kind of looks like what might happen if a pen cap or coin were slid across

1- The preorder system sets up new comics for failure (Dealers preorder comics to sell, Marvel and DC base sales figures off preorders, can cancel a series based on that even before release date) 2- Marvel constantly resets with #1s, exacerbating both the problem of #1 above, plus destroys any coherence of story, which is the actual thing that creates sales 3- Marvel constantly changing creative teams drives readers away because if you don't commit to a team, readers aren't going to commit to a story 4- Marvel's marketing team is worse than the Cleveland Browns. 5- Parent companies don't care, they just bought Marvel/DC as intellectual property farms.

Thanks. I definitely wouldn't do individually on ebay, just here. Making a little less on sets is okay, I'd rather successfully move them than max return. Thanks for the input

Both of these things would be very bad. Defeats the very purpose of independent grading.

My suggestion is if you want to maximize your dollar gain, get the keys graded and sell them. It is by far the most profitable, but does take a significant investment to grade them. You could end up spending say, $2K on shipping and grading, for a return of $5K in a couple months, so $3K profit. Sell the keys raw and you're probably looking at a fifth of the graded value. I'm new to this so others can probably give you more accurate numbers, but in my research, that seems about the average difference. That is of course assuming a decent grade (increasingly important the newer the comic). Old high grade comics can earn quite a bit of money on the initial investment in grading. The fillers, it depends on how much time you want to spend. For your Avengers for example, leaving 420 non-keys, you can try to sell them individually for a few bucks to a buck each, or take the stack to a local store and get roughly .20/book. That's probably about a hundred dollar difference, so if you were give yourself say a $20/hr rate, you would need to individually sell 420 comics in 5 hours (not likely) to break even. Unless you don't value your time at all, then you're losing about a hundo selling to the local guy.

Mine got stacked and left alone since '95, which did not help any of the silver and gold foil comics. OTOH, if you have a bend, it can help flatten that out. A consistent 30lbs of pressure over 20 years will lay the books pretty flat.

Hopefuly this is the right place to ask, I have runs of comics to sell, do y'all think it's better to list books individually for say $1, or put them in lots? The latter would obviously be easier for me, but these are just the unimportant books, so someone might just need one to fill a hole. I'm torn because listing a book for a dollar hardly seems worth the cost buyer would pay to ship, but if one is all someone needs... Thoughts?