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HuddyBee
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21 minutes ago, calamerica2 said:
If you list your Iron Man's on the 'Bay I will at least take a look at them. If they look great I might buy them.
CAL2 who still spends the coin on pulp...
Hey your right.
Came back again after 30 mins, 3 more pages!
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Me: Gone for 1 hour
Thread: Gains 5 more pages.
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20 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:
people who have over 30,000 posts. They have credibility
20 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:I am trying to get my post count up
Post count ≠ Credibility
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11 hours ago, rlextherobot said:
the top of the book appears badly aligned and missing the top of the box
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.
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10 hours ago, dupont2005 said:
The new stuff is fantastic
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.
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46 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:
For one, the person who posted that a preview of the first panel from the story "seems closer to a cameo than say a preview."
But what does that have anything to do with what you said about it:
2 hours ago, Lazyboy said:You guys know that comics can be opened and read, right? It's not all about the covers.
I simply don't understand the point your trying to make. Yes, comics can be opened and read. I think most folks know that.
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39 minutes ago, APDallas said:
Hmmm. So if DC decided to "bring back" this GIRL OF STEEL then it would be the "first" SUPERGIRL.
Like for instance the first "BATGIRL" is not Detective 359 but Batman 139
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.
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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.
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28 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:
You guys know that comics can be opened and read, right? It's not all about the covers.
I'm confused. Who are you talking to?
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52 minutes ago, APDallas said:
How is this any different?
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.
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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.
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16 minutes ago, valiantman said:
Agreed, there won't ever be any concrete formulas that are 100% accurate for the hobby of collecting "funny books", however, there are almost 20 years of CGC sales data and more than 4,000,000 slabs on the CGC census. It's definitely time to look at what data is available now compared to the pre-internet, pre-CGC, pre-Ebay days of annual paper price guides giving us a few retailer opinions primarily driven by retailer's continuous need to provide for their families and an author's desire to put out a price guide each year with flat multipliers across all titles regardless of reality.
We don't have a "rule" that CGC 9.8 modern is always twice the price of CGC 9.6 modern, but it's true often. What makes it untrue? When CGC 9.8 is significantly harder to find than CGC 9.6, then the price can be more than double for 9.8. How do we know those things? Actual sales and the CGC census.
We've established lots of "norms" in this hobby, many of them from "gut feeling", but you could still run calculations on the results even if the prices were completely random (which they aren't).
There are still some questions in the hobby, what's a reasonable price/premium for a preview? How does it relate to the price of the first appearance? Does the market have a standard for preview pricing? Can we put together the data for case studies? How does the CGC census impact the results?
...and here we are.
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.
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53 minutes ago, Pontoon said:
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 $$$.
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Just now, Aweandlorder said:
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.
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12 hours ago, Lazyboy said:
Or how dumb will you admit to being?
What's with the white text?
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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.
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21 hours ago, Aweandlorder said:
Check out this.
And its PGX graded. I've no idea what this even is, yet alone how its already up to $76.
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3 hours ago, 1Cool said:
At this point almost all of the Golden Age books should be lumped into the key category since they are just red hot. There is still some subsets like most funny books and I think westerns but at this point even those books are probably taking off. But for all the lowly Silver-Age to modern collectors there is a plethora of books out there right now and putting together nice no key runs seems to have never been easier.
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.
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1 hour ago, Hollywood1892 said:
Okay...this is totally off topic ValiantMan is on to something here that could be the standard in premier evaluations,as long as his formula is concrete or becomes concrete.
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.
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On 5/14/2019 at 5:39 PM, RockMyAmadeus said:
Without the Qualified grade, they both grade ".5"...and that tells me nothing about the "otherwise difference" in quality between the two.
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.
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3 hours ago, Hollywood1892 said:
Why slab anyways?
I think it defeats the nostalgia of collecting.
I mean according to someone's thread nobody buys comics for financial value,rather very few, and slabbing prevents a person's ability to read the comic,thus negating its nostalgic value.
And if you wanted to slab without grade,why not just march down to your local comic store and pic up some of those large cases.
+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
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9 hours ago, Lazyboy said:
Why not? 0.3 and 0.1 are meaningless anyway. They don't tell you anything about the condition of what's actually there.
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.
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2 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:
9.7, 9.5, 9.3, and 9.1
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?
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