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I was hoping you would understand the joke. Nothing wrong with your book, just that it isn't a remarque.

Your remark is noted, let me know if any re-marks are necessary.

This is my least favorite remark.

No, this one I bought a few years back. I still have a few that I had Stan sign personally and a few that I have bought.

At the risk of rubbing salt in some wounds; My X-Men 1 blank, previously signed by Stan Lee, was a 9.6 and after the Jim Lee sketch and added press it's now coming back a 9.8.

I happily joined the shipped today crowd.

Not sure what “it” is but the comics look like comics in bags and boards.

I agree with @comicparadox that I don’t think it’s so bad, it just alters my purchases because I’m always afraid I’m not getting the “best” deal on their exclusives.

That is always the way it is with Unknown Comics. Once you push buy that transaction is done with them (no additions or subtractions). I’ve had a similar experience to yours so I stopped buying their store exclusives. Sometimes they still have good deals for on books I’m looking for so I haven’t stopped shopping with them completely.

Again, you used the term investment and that was the main point of your initial post. When you present value the cash spent on the comics themselves and the bags, boards, boxes… over 30 years, then add shipping cgc’ing and the inclusion of books that don’t make a 9.8 (especially if you won’t sell those at a loss) I’d get concerned that with only 50 attempts you’d make any money at all (I don’t feel like doing the math on how many 9.8s it would take to cover the non-9.8’s).

You’ve kind of pivoted on the “investment” portion of this thread and relied on the fun portion. I don’t disagree that you have had fun and that makes it worthwhile, I disagree that it was a “good” or even profitable investment. The X-men 1 example loses a lot of ground when you can go buy raw copies for less than $30.

I get the concept of what you're saying. I just don't believe people when they have had success buying bulk comics and holding for 30 years, unless you were to tell me you had 500ish long boxes because now you've spanned books from the entire early 90's. Obviously you're going to make money on the sales side, i just don't think it offsets your costs as much as you think it does. Even your example of X-force 1 doesn't make sense, X-Force 1 in 9.8 sells for ~$100 on ebay right now. You don't have to use 90's comics to show 9.8s make $100 there are a lot of moderns that will bring in the same $100.

What about the other 100 titles that you bought 50 of that aren't worth anything, or did you only buy "winners". Also, which X-Men 1 is selling for $100? The take on this is people bought lots of stuff worth nothing and a few things worth something, and whenever someone says these don't work out everyone points to the few worth something. If you were doing it because you loved those specific books it would be cheer worthy as you bought what you loved, but as an investment it doesn't make sense.

Does anyone believe people when they say things like this? I mean I understand if this person bought 1 copy of a lot of different books, but to buy "in bulk" that many copies of essentially all "speculator" books they would need to have kept a warehouse for 30 years. Also, they would still have so many copies of 3-5 dollar books that they cannot ship out for a profit. There is no way that this is profitable.

My Greg Capullo remark just changed to SFG.

Call and ask cgc. If the comics were in for another signing the answer has always been no. I’ve never heard of anyone asking about a book being transferred from a universal to a signing. If it’s the latter let us know the answer.

Interestingly both books are sitting at $175,555 my assumption is that the same 2 people are bidding on both.

Mine with a press and remark shipped today. November 23rd was the estimate, 6 business days late is well within a reasonable timeframe.

Remarks were only allowed on “normal” covers and sketches were only allowed on blanks (no remarks on blanks).

I have about 6 copies of this comic and almost sent a couple in also (revisited the idea with JRJR also) but never pulled the trigger. Now I'm jealous, nice job with the Newsstand grade.

I agree with @revat that eBay is too risky with that high of value items (I have no idea if those are the right values or not). Using the big auction houses may not also realize the value you think they should. Anecdotally I’ve noticed that more expensive moderns pull lower numbers than eBay when compared to Heritage. I would consider Clink or mycomicshop for those.

Mine is also being pressed and is in for a sketch so likely pressing it into oblivion (mine was already graded 9.6 so they had a mark to meet).