HuddyBee

+1 Ya know this thread seems like the perfect place for @BITCOINSWAMI

Hey your right. Came back again after 30 mins, 3 more pages!

Me: Gone for 1 hour Thread: Gains 5 more pages.

Post count ≠ Credibility

Most people only trim books to fix bad alignment, not to cause it. If your book is badly aligned it most likely wasn't trimmed as that would make no sense on the trimmers part. A lot of mid-SA DC books seem to have the top part of the cover missing, its pretty common.

Is it though? I still can't get behind any modern artist. As soon as they started inking digitally (ie. '97-ish) I just stopped. I think as far as modern books go, we still have a lot to do, at least to get the modern comic industry back to how it was previously (ie. SA - CA). Back-issue market is doing fine though, thats for sure.

But what does that have anything to do with what you said about it: I simply don't understand the point your trying to make. Yes, comics can be opened and read. I think most folks know that.

I consider it the first appearance of the character or idea of Supergirl or Batgirl, but not the first appearance of the person Kara Zor - El or Barbara Kane.

Supes 123 is the first appearance of Supergirl, not of Kara Zor-El, but of Supergirl. Just like HOS 92 is the first Swamp Thing, but ST 1 is the first Allec Holland. Superboy 5 and 78 are also contenders, but don't count for much, if you actually read them.

I'm confused. Who are you talking to?

If anything this book has more going for it in the "first appearance" department then most "first ad" books. Not a lot, mind you, but more.

Here is a seller who sells a ton of GA replica books. https://www.ebay.com/sch/thethreeauctioneers/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from= However they are all for a reasonable price, which even more confuses me as to what these people think the are bidding on.

Agreed, and I love the math and think it's super interesting. I was just making sure all knew that a formula like this should only be used to predict the sale of an item. But not to be used to actually value the item, because the value should simply be determined by the market. Which as previously stated is what determined the formula, and not vice versa.

How is the bid at $102. I'm not nearly as surprised with those making these replicas, as I am with those buying them. Like I said earlier, I need to start printing some of these bad boys for that kind of $$$.

At first I thought, "oh just a reproduced cover," but no, from my understanding there isn't a single original wrap in it. What even is it? But heck if a photocopy can sell for at least $76, I gotta get my printer running.

What's with the white text?

Ads are never first appearances. So comics like MF 31 (just a copy of AC1 cover) couldn't be the 1st superman. But with Supergirl actually interacting with Superman, and having dialogue, not just with the reader, but characters in the DC Universe, it seems closer to a cameo than say a preview. I could see some people considering this more of a cameo, akin to Hulk 180, or ASM 360.

Check out this. https://www.ebay.com/itm/DETECTIVE-COMICS-29-PGX-GRADE-NG/303158710538?hash=item4695aad10a:g:WtgAAOSw6lZcieMN And its PGX graded. I've no idea what this even is, yet alone how its already up to $76.

Question here is, does value determine if a book is a key? Golden are books are expensive and hard to find, but I still wouldn't consider them a key as most aren't of much historical significance. I gotta say though, yes, SA (keys and all) runs are getting pretty easy and cheep to put together. Especially DC, with the MCU and Marvel taking almost all the market, most folks seem to have forgotten about DC.

I don't think so. The formula is cool and all. But keep in mind the formula didn't determine prices of the books, the prices of the books determined the formula. There are very few concrete formulas in economics and, although very cool and interesting, I can assure you this is not.

Just look at the comic. Wouldn't the grading notes and simply looking at the comic show you the difference. I can look at a comic and tell which one is more eye appealing and valuable. I don't need CGC to to give me an even additionally arbitrary number just to tell one book is nicer than the other, if they both have an unqualified 0.5 grade. I dunno. CGC's gotta make money, and I'm sure the qualified label pleases a lot of people, but I just don't get it.

+1 I only slab before I sell a book, or if I have multiple copies. (or yes if I want by sig authenticated by Voldy )

Yes, anyone can tell weather a "book" is an 0.3 or part of it an 0.1. But, by that logic we shouldn't have an 0.5 grade. Since the main criteria for that grade is incompleteness the 0.5 doesn't, "tell you anything about the condition of what's actually there." If a book is 0.5 its obvious and anyone can tell after simply noting its incompleteness. I just think it would be nice to have an actual number assigned to coverless books especially considering over street added 0.3/0.1s a little while ago, as well as the abundance of coverless books on the market.

How 'bout 0.3 and 0.1 grades. 5 wraps of a book and an otherwise complete coverless should not both be NG. Also, (a little off topic) can cgc stop encapsulating coverless books with facsimile covers. Why would anyone just want to look at a reprinted cover?