MGsimba77

Just curious is there an updated blocked user list anywhere? 

On 3/5/2023 at 5:15 AM, Microchip said:

Is it just me, but is it that a rearly traded book?

Well I think it's in the shadow of 62 by the rule of "1st app" but yeah. Blastaar is in 63 much more than 62 which is just a couple of panels if I remember right. FF62 is more about Richards being trapped in the negative zone more than anything else. 

@CGC Mikeany chance the Mcfarlane scroll label will be made available for non private signing books? I mean primarily for reholders of previously signed Mcfarlane signature series books. 

On 3/4/2023 at 1:35 PM, WernerVonDoom said:

"First rule of government spending. Why have one when you can have two at twice the price."

Ughh...just need that 62 to make it 3 for 3X! Love to get my hands on that copy that's just right

On 3/3/2023 at 10:24 PM, Rob said:

Yeah, I'm a CAC member.  I just didn't know if it's caught on as mainstream in comics or is it considered a gimmick?

As with everything else in this hobby,  it's a matter of opinion and depends who's answering the question. Just my , I think there's a place for it. The sticker can be a factor in a certain grade range where there's often wide divergence in eye appeal like maybe mid grades. The higher grade NMs can have subtle finite differences between them that are tough to spot on a scan like tiny spine ticks. Other cases can involve color depth on some copies being a little more vibrant than others. Just one example but I know of a few ASM issues that are notoriously different in color depth from copy to copy. 

The fact that grading is so unavoidably subjective has given an opening to this type of thing. So overall I think it has a place except maybe for 9.8s where it can just be redundant at that point. Whether it's worth a sizable premium? That's up to the individual judging the copy for themselves to the best of their ability. 

On 3/3/2023 at 1:25 AM, Microchip said:

The latest Clink auction, a few books I was following.

I can't see a lot of ease going on here.

The TTA had a colour breaking hole in the centre of the cover.  #freegradernotes 

The SS #10 could have been in a 9.6 holder and no one would have looked twice.

 

 

Yeah very anecdotal but couple 9.4s I was after last night were most definitely not easing! Be nice if they were. 

On 2/27/2023 at 7:10 PM, Poekaymon said:

 

Hard disagree there.  What a lot of old timers might take for granted is how intimidating raws are to new people, and graded books make collecting easy, relatively safe, and fungible and therefore more accessible for the inexperienced.  I don't see that diminishing as the years go on and the people who collect for love, nostalgia, or because they made a life through the hobby start dying off--rather the opposite.  

(And this is speaking as someone who doesn't own a single graded book.)  

I might add the factor of color touch or other restoration. Even experienced hobbyists wouldn't have an easy time detecting an A-1 level color touch with the naked eye. There's also staple replacements like chemical cleaning or vintage staple replacements that are tough to detect for anybody. Either will result in a purple or conserved label. 

On 2/27/2023 at 5:59 PM, Microchip said:

 

 

Looking at the intrinsic factors of comic books now:

We keep looking at old paradigm of people going into comic book shops as their first port of call to read/collect/appreciate comic books.    

With the advent of CGC, the reading part has been taken away, and everyone cried it would be the death of comic books when they came along.   This hasn't been the case at all.   And now, where new collectors have joined the hobby entirely in the CGC era, where reading comic books isn't the first consideration at all.    So the decline in LCS's, or raw sales numbers isn't the prominent factor in detraining the longevity, and possible flourishing of the hobby.

People are coming from the cinematic universe, they know the stories all have their 'origins' in comic books.  A good number of them want to be a part of that history, nostalgia, and cultural phenom.   That in itself, thanks too the scale of the MCU to date, has decades to play out.

Hear Hear👍

On 2/27/2023 at 7:45 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:

Or the UPC box with the Mcfarlane sketch would be a giveaway. 

On 2/25/2023 at 2:01 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Hey that is a key book  Stans Favorite Character, written from the man, I agree to get it back to blue. I hate to see the damage, but sometimes meet is necessary.

Hmnnn never figured Surfer was his fave. I always thought it may have been DD or of course Spidey. Cool to know🤘. Wonder if he ever expressed a favorite villain?

If Bronze age runs through 1984 as indicated in the cgc screenshot above, it means that ASM 252 and Secret wars is bronze age. They are not bronze age. 

It ends in 1983 at the latest.