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On 4/20/2024 at 2:44 PM, adamgf01 said:
Yeah where the heck is Keith Richman? Maybe he has the two missing pages ha ha ...
His name is written on the cover of your comic book.
There are a few coverless copies for sale online at the moment.
Congrats on completing your run of X-men.
Make sure whatever you decide to do make you happy in the long run.
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I didn't mean to reply. Is there a way to delete my comment?
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On 4/4/2024 at 1:12 AM, CPaige said:
Well, in the end I picked it up for $150. No regrets! I am certain if/when I ever sold it, I would recoup my $$. And in the meantime, I filled my Claremont run for a reasonable price.
Congrats on getting a book you're happy with. Just so you and anyone else following this thread, if you are buying books and plan on holding them 40 years or so then the advice Tony S gave is golden. A common regret/bitterness long term collectors have expressed when they sell off their collection is they bought restored books and those books are only a fraction of what the books would be if they just spent a few more bucks originally.
On Wednesday Heritage auctioned off a 8.5 Action 1 (Kansas City) and an 8.0 Restored Action 1 that sold in the same auction this week. The 8.5 sold for over 5 million dollars more than the 8.0 restored copy did. Not saying an X-men 94 will ever reach that value in the future but I was watching the Heritage sale to see the difference in the results.
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On 4/4/2024 at 4:33 PM, pmpknface said:
If you were trying to post the result of Wonder Woman #2 you accidentally posted Sensation #1 by mistake.
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On 4/3/2024 at 6:14 PM, grendel013 said:
Less than an hour left on the auction and it's at $10k.
It says "This listing was ended by the seller on Wed, Apr 3 at 3:36 PM because the item was sold."
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No new bids yet, but the 8.0 restored Action 1 is at $280,000.00 ($336,000.00 with buyers premium)
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On 3/30/2024 at 11:43 PM, tth2 said:
When people will still be arguing about it.
I wasn't aware people felt so passionate about Crackajack Comics. It was the first time I heard of stars being on them.
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On 3/28/2024 at 11:33 AM, Aman619 said:
while we are at it and having fun, here's another similar situation. Same comic but some copies have the star, others dont. Unless that star was some kids collection marker stamp, there must have been 2 printings. Did this publisher license out the comic to someone else and they used a star to track them? thoughts?
Thanks for sharing this. If you or anyone else find examples of additional issues with a star on the corner - please let me know. Even if your reading this thread 20 years in the future.
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On 3/19/2024 at 9:24 AM, KaileeS CS said:
Hello @Chris/RisingPhoenix, Thank you for contacting us. Hope you are doing well! We can indeed grade VHS tapes with autographs. However, we will be unable to authenticate the autograph on the tape, so once graded, your item will receive a "qualified" label. This allows the graders to ignore the signature for grading purposes and the book is not downgraded for the writing. Label Description | CGC.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions. Thank you!I'm curious, you had answered this question on the 19th and the next day the press release went out about the acquisition of James Spence Authentication and it is unclear if your original answer stands as stated or now has changed,
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On 3/30/2024 at 1:10 AM, Hepcat said:
Please do! I take it diecasts of Richard Petty's 1971-72 Road Runner are available:
Here's a pic of my MPC Petty-Charger anyway:
And my Tyco Richard Petty Racing set:
I had a sealed JoHann Richard Petty Superbird Kit at one point. (was new old stock I found in a small Hobby Shop) Sold it at a swap meet in the 1980s.
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On 3/28/2024 at 11:28 PM, Hepcat said:
The Superbird is the Street Rod version of the kit a modeler could build. It could also be built as Stock or Super Stock (for the drag strip).
I can't answer your second question because I didn't buy the kit as a collector. I bought it from Tuckey Hardware just around the corner in 1973-74 because I was fascinated by Plymouth Road Runners, Superbirds and Richard Petty's NASCAR Roadrunners and Dodge Chargers! My father bought us (actually me since he didn't drive) a red 1973 Charger at Glassford Motors in late 1973. I got a cassette car stereo with Pioneer 6x9 speakers for it in the summer of 1974. Then came B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A's a few years later. In 1981 I sunk thousands of dollars into it when I had Jesse at the Hemi Shop in east London drop a souped up 340 with T/A exhaust manifolds (halfway to headers) into it and got it painted candy apple red. (Very impractical paint job.) Sadly now I've grown old and I only dream of my days as a hot rodder. Maybe if I won a lottery I'd get several classic muscle cars and take them to cruise nights wearing one of my many "Big Daddy" Roth T-shirts and pretend I'm still a greaseball....
There's a box lid on Ebay at the moment and I can see all five sides of it. I would of loved to build this kit as a kid! It is a 1971 Road Runner inside the box - but comes with the Superbird nose and wing that you could glue on - plus the 440 can be built as a six-pack or 4 barrel. I would of chose the six pack. I tried to buy a Sebring Plus (same body as the Road Runner just with a focus on luxury when it came to the interior) off a used car lot - but couldn't meet at the right price. Always loved the look of it. And as I try to remember the asking price for the car it boggles the mind. Used cars were dirt cheap back then. Probably was only a few hundred dollars.
At some point I will have to post a few pics of the models I have when I'm able to access them.
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On 3/22/2024 at 1:07 AM, Hepcat said:
Okay. I guess it's high time I showed my stuff. Don't say you weren't begging for it. I've been collecting unbuilt model kits since about 1983. I have a den where I keep my comics and many of my other collectibles:
Here from nearly ten years ago are some pics of the main model cabinet in my den:
And here's the miscellaneous toy cabinet in which I keep the overflow from my model kit cabinet:
And a few close-up shots featuring Styx:
And here's Styx standing guard to make sure no interloper, two legged or otherwise, trys to build any of my three Monogram Fred Flypogger kits:
I have of course added a few slot car and other kits to my collection in recent years. If any of these kits are of particular interest, I have dozens of close-up shots of most of the model kits visible in my cabinets.
Great collection of kits Hepcat. I find it hilarious seeing a non-existent 1971 Superbird on the Road Runner kit. Is it just an error that box artist made or is there really a Superbird body inside the box? Does it make the kit more or less sought out by collectors?
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On 3/27/2024 at 7:30 PM, pemart1966 said:
Not too sure what you mean by "checking copy". Do you mean the "Pay Copy"?
What I mean by 'checking copy' is the copy that was used to verify if corrections needed to be made before they ran the whole print run. I'm not a Marvel Comics 1 guy so I don't recall the exact details, but I'm pretty sure the checking copy is different copy from the Pay Copy. You would have to ask Vincent what he remembers.
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On 3/27/2024 at 9:13 AM, Professor K said:
Just to be clear do the October copies of MC 1 actually say Oct. on the top right? To be honest I never paid much attention but now that I look all I see is Nov. written on every copy I just looked up. Do they all say Nov? And if so how can you tell the difference, especially if it's encapsulated?
I believe even if the top corner of the cover is missing you can identify the version by the indicia on the inside front cover. The November copies have a black rectangle over the word October and possibly the word November was also added to it. I'm not a Marvel Comics 1 guy - just trying to recall when what I saw a few decades ago.
Also worth noting is Vincent Z. had access to the checking copy of Marvel Comics 1 and he compared it to an October printing to see if there were any changes brought about during the checking process. He did not see any difference between the two.
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On 3/26/2024 at 5:16 PM, sfcityduck said:
Edgar Church was the Original Owner of the group of books bought after his death by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics which were initially called the "Mile High" pedigree but for reasons we don't need to delve into (many pedigree names are not those of the OO) have evolved into being called the Edgar Church/Mile High pedigree.
The "Dentist" or "DA" etc. is the owner of that comic. Steve Borock was the chief grader for CGC & CBCS and Stephen Fischler is part owner of Metropolis Comics/Comic Connect who invented the numeric grading scale, and both have seen the book and offered their 9.2-9.4 views on the grade. Most folks believe the MH is the "best existing" Action 1, but you never know. There have been rumors of other longtime collectors than DA who are sitting on really nice Action 1s. The perception of the number of high grade GA comics generally gets deflated due to the perception that almost all are encapsulated, which is certainly not the case. Action Comic 1s were a lot more available then people think they were back in the early days of comic collecting. They were also a lot more affordable. Mitch Mehdy's Guiness Book of World Records Action 1 cost but a fraction of the cost of a house in 1973 at $1,800 and change, but ten years earlier Action 1 was available in the low hundreds and less. Who knows where those are? Richard Kyle bought his copy off the stand and still had it according to Xero 8 which came out in 1962.
The best collection ever seen on these boards, Bangzoom's, is entirely unencapsulated and I don't think he ever denied owning an Action 1 even though he did not admit. The guy did, however, own the check paid to Siegel or Shuster for work on Action 1 and I just don't think he'd have that if he didn't have an Action 1. BZ is a guy, after all, who was collecting in the early 60s and dealing nice key GA books (which suggests he had great books before he picked up the key group of OO books in the 1970s that wowed everyone on these boards).
The problem with estimates of the number of Action 1s is that a lot of numbers were thrown out at various times that were based on just local guesses. Mitch Mehdy, who I am not picking on here but he did get a lot of press so what he said entered the zeitgeist, told the press when they covered his purchase that his Action 1 was one of only 9 known copies. That wasn't true then. Wasn't a lie, just that Mitch didn't know the true numbers because he was a Sacramento teen in 1973 and there were collectors all over the country but no internet or reliable sources of information for him to tap. My guess is that there are other high grade copies out there, but one likely to top a 9.2 MH Copy? Unlikely, but not impossible.
The two 9.0s are owned by Hariri and one is the stolen but recovered "Nick Cage copy" and the other was brought to market by Darren Adams after several upgrades in its holder (the book has a spine split but blinding white pages and the 9.0 might be technically generous but seems to have some beauty contest accuracy). The copy Adams sold was owned for many years by an established dealer who kept it in the same cedar blanket box in which he found it. This has added to the perception of the magic power of cedar to preserve comics as the MH comics were, in part, stored in a closet with cedar paneling.
FYI: The cedar chest was just another part of the fictional story Darren Adams was using to hype up the sale.
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On 3/25/2024 at 8:07 PM, CGC Mike said:
Here you go, guys!
CGC will begin listing in the grader notes which ad appears in Superman #1. For those copies already encapsulated and not confirmed, a high value reholder fee will be applied to check the interior ad and reholder. The ad type will be added to the grader notes.
Great news Mike! Thanks for your help in finally making this happen. Twenty years ago I was trying to get cgc to start identifying which version it was before encapsulating it so it would be clear which version of the book I would be purchasing. The people in charge at that time wanted to keep this information hidden from the buying public. Are grader notes free to access or does CGC still charge for them?
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On 3/25/2024 at 6:50 PM, woowoo said:
Can I open a thread about the 2 Batman 1s
The Dot or no Dot which was the first print?
The house ad for Batman 1 shows the dot.
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Currently up to $4,050,000.00 ($4,860,000.00 with buyers premium)
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I remember the site. But off the top of my head I'm not sure what it was. Did you try asking Ian Lavine if he knows about it. It wasn't set up by him, but one of the other DC giveaway completists. If he doesn't remember it he should be able to give you a lead on who else to ask as there are only a handful of giveaway completists collectors out there. Please let me know what you find out. I also have an interest in giveaways.
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On 11/16/2023 at 10:37 PM, fifties said:
Not in either my view or what seems to be generally accepted by many. AFAIAC the Golden Age ended in 1955. Your definition is apparently different.
Please stop your attempt at trying to bully me by shoving your viewpoint down my throat as if you are the arbiter of truth. You sure didn't make any comments when I gave my strict viewpoint on the subject on the first page of the thread. Take your toxicity elsewhere.
The Dot or no Dot which was the first print?
Sad News - R.I.P. Richard Olson - Yellow Kid
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I had a question for him about his original short article about the platinum age in Overstreet in 1995 and the original platinum age section (before it got bloated up so large). Do you know if his research for that first section got donated to a college or library so researchers can access his papers?