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1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

Ok, all kidding aside and on a more serious note.................anybody here have any idea where the Allentown Copy of Marvel 1 would stack up against this Windy City Copy?  

Especially since the Allentown Copy was graded as a VF/NM copy (with a small tear) by Payette at the time and we all know his reputation as being a very tough and strict grader.  

Allentown (R) vs. Windy City

On 11/1/2019 at 2:49 PM, Kevin76 said:

Sold for 59K in January 

https://comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAdmin%2FCL%2Fauctions.asp&id=1297653&next=%2FComicTrack%2FAdmin%2FCL%2Fauctions.asp

 

Its the same book, just got reholdered.  

NOPE!

Not the same book. For comparison, side by side.

Cert#1055400008 (CVA): Wear top left & bottom left (front cover), no ink smudge over "O" in GROUP (front cover), no red ink smudge beside comic code (front cover). 

Cert#0361745002: No wear top left & bottom left (front cover), ink smudge over "O" in GROUP (front cover), red ink smudge beside comic code (front cover). 

The Second City Loves ‘Avengers’ Director Joe Russo 3000

(20:30-21:00)

Joe Russo: "...you're never in this position in films ever and frankly it's probably not a good position to be in unless I think you've been doing it for 20 years in your perspective on it. It's helpful to have limited resources as an artist because it forces you to make compelling choices right now I'm about to say today we're in a position on these two films where we had unlimited resources...we could constantly correct things..."

Marvel Writers Stephen McFeely & Christopher Markus Explain How They Wrote MCU Blockbusters | Vanity Fair

How Avengers: Endgame's Visual Effects Were Made | WIRED 

Marvel's Avengers: Endgame - The Art of the Movie

39 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

Apologize on the overkill with the photos.

Don't apologize.

I love looking at unpressed comics. 

On 9/3/2019 at 8:08 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

Fixed that for ya.

Not to insinuate that you're perpetuating this culture, but I wish that people would stop thinking in a Marvel vs DC take-a-side fashion. They both have strengths and weaknesses. One film franchise started 5 years before the other.

I'll take this as a "too expensive for their own good" comment, then. I got a little booklet with my Infinity War and Endgame collector Blu-rays, and they're really cool (however small and only 20ish pages). They made me consider getting those "Art of..." ones.

Amazon's retail CDN & US prices.

I purchased my nine MCU books pre-order from AMZN Canada ($35-40).

I'm pretty happy. 

10 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

You're not wrong.

On a scale 1-10, how good are those "Art of..." MCU books? I've considered acquiring them. Do they have anything that isn't shown or detailed in the films themselves?

To a DCEU fan, the MCU books are -10! 

Besides, there's too many (23+) & they're too expensive! 

On 8/6/2018 at 8:46 PM, Wayne-Tec said:

Correction. I do not have scans for:

(1) 9.2

(1) 7.5

(1) 7.0

(2) 6.5

(2) 5.5

(2) 0.5

Some copies I have archived are no longer on the census, which probably accounts for a few of the books listed above (suspected grade-bump). 

I hope this helps?

6 hours ago, @therealsilvermane said:

 

These posters aren't official movie posters. They're just teasers for hardcore fans at D23. The last Black Widow poster is just Andy Park concept art which will probably the cover of the Art of Black Widow book next year. The official Black Widow movie poster is months away when they start the mainstream marketing push when the first trailer drops. Same with the Star Wars poster above. People are getting worked up over D23 concept art teaser posters.

It's awesome, the Art of Winter Soldier & Doctor Strange are the most expensive in the MCU books.

On 8/21/2019 at 11:10 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

I know it's just a poster, but... It sucks.

Another guy who doesn't own TOS52 

6.0

9.2

Andy Park 

Marvel Studios has the BEST Concept Artists.

Bought this in 1987 for $70...bloody bent corners!

2 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Prior to this age of encapsulation, there was much less financial incentive to press books.   It all really began with Chris Friesen and CGC. 

Chris Friesen from Paradise Comics?

9 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

Which is why 1952 to 1956 Topps cards all have the sawtooth edge. O-Pee-Chee produced them, the cutting mechanism, basically, a wire-saw.

Do you know in what form T-206s were produced?

Sawtooth edges?? 

The PSA Mantles are from Alan Rosen. 

OPC was located in London, Ontario Canada.

Topps Chewing Company was located in Brooklyn & production facilities were moved to a plant in Duryea, PA, in 1965.

16 minutes ago, comicwiz said:

All O-Pee-Chee cards were wire cut in the factory from the sheet in those years. That frayed/ragged edge is a characteristic that's important for the card to have, but it's not a deal-breaker for PSA when they are submitted with clean edges. PSA's reasoning (which isn't entirely flawed) is that the wires were sharper at the beginning of the sheet cutting process, and got duller over the course of cutting thousands of cards. It stands to reason that there should be clean edged examples. However, Gretzky RC's are not as common to find with perfect centering. Even that 10 is not centered. Most of the clean edge "sheet cut" I've seen are perfectly centered.

Are the sheet cut/perfectly centered 79-80 OPC Gretzky RCs in PSA holders?

I don't believe you!

2 hours ago, comicwiz said:

I realize that is the sentiment around PSA. I truly understand what you are saying. However there has always been a buffer between perception and reality regarding PSA missing things. Like I said, people had been talking up and down about the HW RC being trimmed, but until Mastro admitted it as part of his plea deal, it couldn't be proven in a manner where a judgement could be made against him. Even when that legal judgement was made, PSA didn't take any hit from it, because they found every which way to reason it was undetectable. Do you know how many Wayne Gretzky RC have been cut from sheets? How many of them are floating around out there in PSA slabs? It wouldn't really be a revelation on a sportscard forum, with some long-time collectors, because those collecting cultures actually care, and do look out for each other.

On these forums, you have the hecklers who pop up and do nothing to contribute to a discussion, but are quick to demonstrate their disatisfaction with "yet another pressing thread." Then there's the dealers who depend on the CPR game to make a quick buck, who get their backs up when threads like this try to bring this topic up for discussion.

And with all due respect, I still don't understand the analogies of "day and night" differences, when you have to ask whether the Ewart trimmed books are still in circulation. We're not talking about a single T-206 owned by someone with a net woth of over a billion, who doesn't care one bit it's trimmed, but hundreds of slabs that are floating around where people who have no idea have been trimmed.

The only (PSA10) 79-80 OPC Gretzky RC came from a pack (jagged edges). 

Do you have any scans of a high grade PSA8.5 or PSA9 cut from a uncut sheet with four clean edges & sharp corners? 

15 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Well, I would have to say so since he has virtually all of the Church Timely books, save for the odd ones such as Cap 1 since it had some slight work done to it.  

More than made up by the fact that he's got the Allentown copy of Cap 1, which like 'Tec 27, is better than the Church copy.  

Verzyl's MC1 (MH)

9.6s & 9.4 SA w/distributor spray.

I don't own any SA 9.8s with distributor spray.