Drbearsec

I'll be curious to see what it comes back at.  This is where i find CGC grading weird.  I've seen coverless books or incomplete books in slabs at 0.5 and then whole books that are damaged liked this one at 0.5 or 1.0.  It seems like such a broad "standard" for the 0.5 grade.

6 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

0.5 at best 

On 9/28/2018 at 10:53 AM, The Lions Den said:

Sorry, but this looks to be a 0.5...

No need to be sorry.  Figured it would be something from 0.5 to 1.8.  Was not under a delusion it would be higher than that.  It's still a pretty cool piece of history and I'll probably hang onto it for a bit depending on the grade.  I am curious... do you think books like this are better in the original condition like this or do you think it's better to do restoration and just have a purple label.

7 minutes ago, Chillax23 said:

I would think a 0.5 maybe a 1.0 - but I would bet 0.5.

Still an awesome book - who doesn't love Alfred

Yep.   Got it for $300 plus 50 buyer fee, which is what the last 0.5 that was incomplete sold for middle of last year so feel pretty ok on that.   

5 minutes ago, Chillax23 said:

I would think a 0.5 maybe a 1.0 - but I would bet 0.5.

Still an awesome book - who doesn't love Alfred

Wonder if pressing will fix the damage?  

So I just won this in an auction (kind of bid on it a month ago and forgot about it....ooops).  Anyway, have not gotten books with this kind of damage graded before, but given it is a Key, I plan on doing so.  Was curious where a detached cover and this kind of damage gets you from a grading perspective?  0.5? 1.0? 1.8?  

Thanks!

https://comicbookinvest.com/2018/09/18/variant-heat-check-for-9-18-19/

read the the third one down.  We might be starting to see some movement here

6 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

The comments of the people who post on the CBCS forums should, generally speaking, be given the same weight as your typical speculation blog.

I usually give most posts citing anecdote as evidence that weight, regardless of the website. I will say in my own anecdotal, I don’t have any slabs I went from CGC to The other and the ones going form the other to CGC have all come out the same grade.  I just find famboyism of companies amusing is all.

21 minutes ago, NP_Gresham said:

Sent a few 9.6 to ‘Voldemort’

Their standard ‘drive-by’ grading has converted many to 9.8

That being said if you buy something with a lemon peel exterior why would anyone expect to find anything other than lemons on the interior

Interesting.  I've see several people on their forums post the EXACT same sentiments when sending their slabs to CGC.  

4 hours ago, Roddulate said:

Amazing! One of my grails too  GLWTS.

Yep.  Sadly FAR out of my reach in this quality.  Hell, even the 6.5 is out of my reach right now ;-)

ASM 300 9.8 - $2550 Shipped US or Canada

TERMS:

International will be billed at cost of shipping plus materials. 

Payment by Paypal.

Will consider trades

 No HoSers.

trumps all even if we are in the middle of negotiations by PM.

No returns on CGC graded books. Raw books must be returned in their same condition.  You must let me know within 7 days of purchase if and why you want to return the raw book.   

For whatever reason, my scanner does not do Slabs well.  So pics it is.

Kudos Thread

On 9/12/2018 at 10:31 PM, harvdoss said:

Already been pressed

Lol... sorry I wasjokingly  referring to the cell phone reflection with my comment.  Beautiful book GLWTS

Beautiful book!

Drooling.  One of my grail books. Looks great!

GLWTS

7 hours ago, revat said:

There are some people who 'press' and resub with some amount of success.  There are also some time periods where people believe grading was 'tighter', and some adventurous folks might take books submitted during those periods and resub them if they believe the current grading is more 'loose'. 

I don't really know if people are sharing how successful they are and what methods they use to determine what is a good candidate, other than if there are some obvious pressable flaws, or older graded books that were probably submitted before pressing was a thing.  I don't think you'll find hard stats you can trust, but there are people who 'try' for sure.

Interesting.  What time periods are those?

1 minute ago, Drummy said:

SIGH...this has been here too long!

 per our PMs!  Thanks, Terry --

Dan

Congrats that is a great pickup.  

I wonder if pressing can remove that Big Rectangle shape on the cover and back ;-)

On 9/10/2018 at 5:05 PM, PeterPark said:

I don't think the price is movie-hyped very much. It's a very important book for thw age and has been for a long time. To me, it is the most important readily available issue of the copper age, like a Hulk 181. NM 98 wasn't big til ten years ago or so...but ASM 300 has always been desirable.

ASM 300 or TMNT #1 (which wasn't really readily available)... fair points

6 hours ago, Kevin76 said:

Local comic store bought out another comic store way back in the 90's and stuff sat in an offsite storage for years since the owner said he never had any time or the store space to go through everything, fast forward to last year and now. since he has employees now work for him they've gone through that old storage. They found an entire unopened case of Spidey 300's, half sized boxes of Batman Dark Knight 1-4's of each issue, a bunch of killing jokes, TNMT 1 2nd and 3rd prints, a ton of watchmen 1-12's on and on. I've bought about a half dozen of those Spidey 300's over the course of this year, I've already went through 3 9.8's, 2 9.6's (brother bought 1 that came back 9.6) a 9.4 and a 9.2 and still have another at cgc now.  I just sold my last 9.8 last night for 2500.00, paid $225 at the shop before the book took off.  

I think we all kind of hate you right now :-P

19 minutes ago, joeypost said:

X-Men #101 CGC 9.8 OW Pages

Price $4,200.00

One of th books in this thread is not like the others ;-)

On 9/10/2018 at 2:47 PM, Bio-Rupp said:

RETAILER INCENTIVE HARDBACK OF FRANK MILLER'S SIN CITY: THE HARD GOODBYE - NM CONDITION, NEVER READ - $35

Comes with COA there in the scan.

per PM

Quick payment, excellent buyer!  Work with him without fear.

Quick Payment and easy to work with.   Very trustworthy and reasonable.  Sell to SpideyFein with no fear; he is a pleasure to work with.

Just got a 9.8 in the last Dig Auction.  Waiting for it to come home this week.

im curious from avalue standpoint, if we think the book continues to grow or after the movie, will is start to stagnate.  I mean long term is this on the same type of level that Punisher and Wolvie are in that the books continue to increase despite a lot of graded copies.

1 hour ago, VintageComics said:

I don't have a lot of experience with Pence variants but my understanding was that they used to be priced at half of their US Cents counterparts but that gap seems to be closing, likely due in no small part to the variant market expanding.

The werewolf by night 32 GPA for the one I just bought was the UK versions went for 80% of the US based on two sale average