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If you're interested, you might want to post pics of any books you are thinking of having graded here: https://boards.cgccomics.com/forum/42-hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-grade/ You'll get some good sets of eyes on the book to point out any flaws and it's potential grade before you send the book in.

It is my first instinct and I absolutely hate that. Instead of blaming my parents though, I'll blame the people holding the yard sales who caved and sold to them at a lower price.

Count me in please.

I may have missed this, but did you submit the books through your own CGC account or the presser's? If this is through the presser's account and you go scorched earth right now, you may be out more than two books when all is said and done.

Thank you all for the responses so far. I really appreciate the input. I have 27 long and 20 short boxes, the majority came from two purchases. One, a father to son collection starter of undercopies of mostly mid-grade early bronze (1500 books) and the other an OO collection of mid to high grade bronze into copper (2900 books). I have a list of about 300 comics that I'd like to make the main part of my collection. None of them are major keys, but a fair number of them are pretty tough to track down. There are a couple (an Action and a Detective under 150 ) that seem to be the toughest to find sales on, while something like Animal Comics 24 doesn't seem like it's going to be as difficult. In the end, I'd like to have a spinner rack with 3 or 4 short boxes that I can swap in and out for display. The books that I'd like to read will either be in GN or digital format. The plan is to sell; likely the carp first while holding back anything with actual monetary or any sentimental value. I do not have the time, right now, to sell in a manner that would lead to continued sales success. Hopefully that will change in the next year or so. I missed out on the opportunity to cash in on my ASM 361s and a handful of other fly-by-night pan sizzlers. I'm sure that I will miss out on more. In the meantime, I will just try to continue learning as much as I can about the hobby.

I got back into collecting about seven years ago and have watched the prices of most books rise. It has made me think about what books I'd really like to have in my collection and what books I can do without. I feel very lucky to own the books I do, but I would like to downsize and focus on a smaller, more meaningful collection. Does anybody have any experience turning the books you own into the books you want? What advice did you get that helped you? What would you do differently if you would change the focus of your collection again? Thanks!

Sorry to hear, I hope you've made a full recovery. I meant it more towards those whose first and only post on the boards was to enter the contest, only to occupy a spot and not participate.

I think it went pretty well minus the large number of people that signed up and didn't take part in the fun. Maybe (depending on interest in future contests) anyone signing up and not participating has to sit out the next or even next two contests. In the first round you could zoom in closer with better clarity. I'm not going to say it affected my grading, but maybe those with more grading experience would have benefitted from it in the following rounds. Huge thanks to @CGC Mike for putting this together and running it!

Good luck to all the top 10!1 Good luck to those scoring at home as well!

I can't let @thirdgreenham give his collection away, especially when I didn't contribute to his last grading contest. Detective Comics 438, 439, 442, 443, 444 Willing to ship anywhere. Internationals, just point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

I may have missed this somewhere so I'm sorry if it's been addressed already. Are we going to be guessing on books that are going straight from raw to graded or are we guessing what the books will be graded after a press/clean?

I'd like to get a handle on my collection: get rid of the books I don't want, keep the ones I enjoy, and purchase the ones I don't have yet. I'd like to get some of my basement back. My biggest hurdle will be time. It's much easier, and I'm guessing more fun, to look and buy than to grade, list, package, and ship. I've never sold a book so if I can sell just one before Dec. 31st, I'll consider that a huge win. I'd also like to start reading more of my collection since it's mostly books from before I was collecting as a kid.

When I got back into collecting I learned my lesson with a lackluster duo of Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders 1 and 2 to the tune of $30. In my defense, those were the first books with a 12 cent price on the cover in my collection. I learned my lesson with that purchase. I saw nicer copies for $2 each at a small convention a few weeks later. I took a look at MCS and if I really want a Cable 1, there's a CGC 9.8 for only $75. The stains on the copy I saw must have come from a rare liquid to add that extra $20 of value.

Saw a couple antique shops while we were out this weekend and stopped in both. The first one had a lot of books and if I had the time I might've gone through the 20+ longboxes of mixed up books. I looked at some in an adjacent case and saw Cable 1 for $95 so I stopped looking. The next place had a stack of 40 hidden pretty well under a magazine rack. He was a nice fellow and wanted only $20 for the stack. I'm glad Jean McIntosh didn't toss her comics out! Edit: Sorry the pics are sideways. Can't seem to flip them around.

It should be "Sketch and Starlin sig by Stan Lee, Stan Lee sig by Jim Starlin." Right?

A friend once told me that any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

I will contribute four Giant-Size Marvels: Giant-Size Captain America 1: Reprints Tales of Suspense 59-63. Kirby art throughout and 63 is Cap's origin, if that's something you're interested in. Previous owner spilled something on the book, reds bleed through the pages giving many a pinkish hue. G Giant-Size Doc Savage 1: Reprints Doc Savage 1 and 2, which is an adaptation of a pulp based on a novel depicting events that may have really happened, I think. This one's got a pretty sweet John Buscema cover. Impact ding on LLC, goes through the book. F- Giant-Size Fantastic Four 2: Time travel to the American Revolution and the 1920's! John Buscema pencils the main story. The backup story is a reprint of FF 13. The Watcher Appears! There's a little road rash on the URBC. F Giant-Size Spider Man 2: Spider-Man and Shang Chi fight each other, then team up to fight Fu Manchu at the Empire State Building. The backup story is a reprint of ASM Annual 3. F+/VF- Willing to ship anywhere. International, just point me in the right direction and I'll get them to you. U.S., I can figure it out, usually.

In please.

I watched some of the auction and I thought that either "Heratige Live" is a very talented voice actor or that it was "Free Pizza Day" in the lunchroom and everyone got to shout out big numbers before going back to work. Cynicism aside, I'd never seen a comic auction live so that was pretty neat.

They are usually up front near the self-checkout among the baseball, Magic, Pokemon, etc cards. I have found some in the magazine section but that was at a Walmart that has not had them since.

I made a little trip yesterday and ended up near a Walmart that has usually had more 3 and 7 packs than others I've been to. I told myself that I'd pop in and take a look. I'd only buy anything with Star Wars or Moon Knight, figuring they'd be long gone by now. The shelves were more cluttered than normal; plenty of DC 4 packs, no Marvel on the top or second shelf. Then I saw the corner of a Marvel box on the bottom shelf. I crouch down to take a look, FF 7 pack, Iron Fist 3 pack, opened FF 3 pack. Then I see, pushed all the way to the back and turned sideways a packed box of Marvel 3 packs. I left the Alien (4?) three packs, awesome covers by the way, and picked these up.

I wouldn't say it was that tough. I found it and didn't even know that I was looking for it!

@Qalyar the history nerd in me pushed for these. I remember hearing about Conspiracy Capers, but hadn't seen it in person until today. I got my friend the Regan's Raiders mini as a gag gift, I hope that The Great Society is as good. I remember reading that O'Neill got in a little trouble because he thought he could use Mickey Mouse, figured I'd pick up some of his other work. Mom's Homemade Comics' (the only one I had time to read thus far) jokes last the test of time, it's nice to see that some forms of humor are universal. I am supposed to be on (self-imposed) buying restrictions until I decide what I ultimately want my collection to become but I think I made a good pick up with these.

I saw these for sale and they piqued my interest. They were little out of my comfort zone (as I'm very unfamiliar with underground comix), but isn't that what life is all about? Very glad to have picked them up this morning; excited to give them a read a little later.