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If you provide them with grades and paper quality, it certainly makes their job easier.

If they limited it to 1200 subscriptions, I'd think there can't be many unopened sets floating around. I'd offer them as an unopened set at auction, if I wanted to sell.

There was an ad that advertised subscriptions to this, and if I recall correctly, it was a limited number, maybe 1,000 or 1200. I don't know if they sent regular copies of if the set is different. I don't recall ever seeing a set for sale

CGC deducts little to nothing for most date stamps on silver age books.

Evelyn Wood Speed Writing.

When I had my shops in NY, I'd try to visit them every six weeks or so. I don't think they were open to the public back then, and he had an odd rule that you had to buy an average of three per item. You could buy 100 of one item and one each of twenty others. Joe was great to work with, as was his entire staff. I've never been in a warehouse like his. I'm not sure another one like it will ever be seen. I've heard Doug Sulipa's is similar, but I have never seen photos.

While Marvel released many of those multi-packs, distributors occasionally provided empty bags so retailers could make their own bags. You can usually tell the retailer bags as they aren't sealed as good as the factory ones.

I think I was the one who said you don't know what you are talking about, and I asked you to put a Bronze-Age Marvel into a current bag. Your answer was quite comical, although I doubt you intended it to be.

Just for the record, I've never walked away from or tried to negotiate a lower price on a book with an off-center label.

So in this case, newsstand really means returnable, right?

This showed up this morning. I have to research it, but I like the artist.

It might be good that he declared bankruptcy in 2020, as I understand it, as he won't be able to seek it again for a few years.

This thread is getting shilly.

Some chains put their own UPC stickers on direct editions. Putting a UPC sticker on a direct copy gives you a direct copy with a sticker, but it doesn't transform the book into a newsstand. Placing a sticker over a newsstand, UPC causes it to be qualified.

Would I buy a $1000 raw book from a trusted seller like Storms , Reese or Harley? Yes. Would I buy one from a stranger with low feedback on the internet? No I trust my skills that I'd consider it in person with most books

I've been thinking about this, in light of the various scandals hitting CGC. If I take a VG book, mark it as a VF book and it sells, has a crime been committed? If CGC overgrades a book and a dealer sells it, has he committed a crime? If he removes a CGC 8.5 from its slab and sells it for a 9.4, has he committed a crime? Is tricking CGC into awarding a book a grade it doesn't deserve a crime? I'd say no to the first three and I'm not sure about the fourth. I wouldn't be confident a jury of non-collectors would see any of those acts as criminal.

We had Stan Lee!!! Who needs Plato. With great power comes great responsibility. Nuff Said!!

Nothing to see here, just another in a very long string of coincidences.

Read CGCs court filing. It is addressed there.

You shouldn't be peeling at all. Instead of peeling off the sticker, work on dissolving the glue that keeps it on the book. I'm sure multiple videos will show you how. If it were an expensive book, I'd let a pro do it.

A Stan Lee sketch would be kool!

Keep trying. It gets easier.

GI Joe 1 did not come in a bag. Perhaps the shop we bought them from put it in that bag. In any event, that book isn't HG and I wouldn't submit it.