RockMyAmadeus

Bu the way...you do know that you're not ignoring anyone if you mention them, right...?

Now, now, no need to cuss. Grown-ups can make their points without resorting to swearing...

Now THAT is the funniest thing you've said all year, kav. Kudos for the belly laughs! It's good for the soul.

Good grief, kav, who are you screaming at...?

You must have misunderstood my comment: ignore only works if it's mutual. One person ignoring someone doesn't give the ignored party carte blanche to endlessly attempt to provoke conflict, nor does it give them some sort of moral victory if such provocation is addressed. I'm certain you understand that.

That's an interesting theory, kav. Here's mine: It's a recognition of the boundaries which the administration has set...right or wrong, just or not. It should come as no surprise that those who hide behind official skirts to provoke conflict here refuse to do so where there are no such skirts behind which to hide. Good thing there aren't any of those people around.

What...? A Shogun Warriors #13 for $24?? A steal at ten times the price!

Personally I don't think there is anything wrong with blocking people. I have a few folks blocked on the boards and it makes visiting threads and reading them much better Absolutely. If you don't like what someone says, the right thing to do is simply not interact with them. The children who need their babysitters are the ones who can't control themselves, and are compelled to try and provoke conflict. The "I'm not touching you!" type people, who never managed to grow past the age of 7. Why that is officially ignored, I'll never know, but for the most part, it works just fine. There are people here with whom I have not interacted in years, and vice versa, because we behave like decent human beings, rather than rabid mongrels, and avoid each other's virtual space. It's not difficult at all.

Printing artifact, will not affect grade. Very, very cool. I don't have an unslabbed copy at the moment; can you thumb through the book and see if it corresponds to an ad?

How eeeenteresting......... https://www.ebay.com/itm/Legionnaires-0-1st-app-of-XS-Flashs-granddaughter-CW-Rare-Zero-Hour-UPC/163325329344?hash=item2606f2bfc0:g:ltAAAOSwi5hbyxwS

That's just madness. 5 figures for 80s books. We're in uncharted territory, that's for sure.

I've never complained about TATs, unless there was something else involved that exacerbated them. Let's not get off-track talking about notes for 9.8s. As 9.8 is the de facto highest grade, I don't think anyone has an issue if they're not included. Notes are only FREE to the submitter so long as the invoices are on your account. Once they roll off...no more free notes.

What is often overlooked are fingerprints, loose/bent staple, tiny fuzzy at the staple hole, not just creases or bends. And don't forget about the interior, maybe a loose centerfold,maybe one of the pages has a bend or tear. IMO, the notion that a press will ensure a better shot at a 9.8 on what appears to be a flawless comic is dangerous. Sometimes, the press itself will introduce the slightest damage . Good luck with your review. They often relent just because it's not worth the hassle ! YouFoundDonon is an excellent example of what I'm referring to. A small grader note might have mollified him/her (as it occasionally does with me) to the point that I mentioned before: "yeah, ok I see where you're coming from. I accept your conclusion. Next!" Instead, there was a call to customer service, which I guarantee you took more time than it would have to add that small note. Another perfect example: I recently subbed a Shadowman #8 SS that came back 9.6. Now, I selected that book from several dozen myself, and made sure it was of usual 9.8 quality...but I apparently missed a small bit of foreign debris on an interior page, which was the grader note. It happens. I'll assume I was the one who missed it, and it wasn't introduced by anyone at CGC. And with that note, I'm perfectly fine with that book being a 9.6, and I will likely crack it, see if it can be fixed, and resubmit it. If it can't be fixed, I might resub it anyways. But it will be on my dime. Had I not gotten the note, I would have put it in the "goes back for review" pile, and I would have wasted my time and money. So, not only did that little note help CGC, it helped me. Everyone wins.

If the material is actually metal, or a metal amalgam, then it's usually of the "leaf" type, ultra-thin, and generally applied to a cardboard substrate. Since you're mostly dealing with cardboard, *generally* this can be manipulated by a press, to an extent. Think Venom #1, or, say, this book: If you're talking about any kind of plastic material, like the so-called "chromium" books (X-O Manowar #0, for example, or Danger Girl #1 Go-Go)...you're generally going to be out of luck....or, at least, I've been unwilling to experiment with very high heat to see if the plastic can be re-molded without doing permanent damage to the surrounding area. The new DC convention foils look like the plastic kind, rather than the metal leaf applied to a cardboard substrate kind, but I could be wrong. Can you tell, drotto? If it's actual metal leaf applied to a cardboard substrate, then yes, they can sometimes be fixed.

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If you want to be a dink, buy them all. It is up to the store owner to limit copies. If they are for sale, they are for sale. That doesn't mean you won't be a dink...but, if they're for sale, they're for sale. You're not doing anything remotely immoral or unethical if you do. It's a little rude, but again...that's not your problem.

Was it a variant of a regular chromium book? It was probably Zen #0? In either case, if the chromium was "the variant", then it doesn't fit the criteria I'm looking for.

Hyping is not reporting facts. These are different things. If I say, "hey, this comic got optioned." That's pump and dump? NO Read it again, this time critically.

Welcome to 4 months ago. Please tell me how reporting a fact is pump and dump? "when you are hyping something you own for the express purpose of building interest, and thus demand, and offering it for sale, either then, or at some future time"

My opinion, converging with other statements here, is that Modern was to Charlton what Whitman was to DC and Marvel, only on a much smaller, much less successful scale, and using reprints, for the most part. Did Modern take part in the early Direct market...?

No. It is when you are hyping something you own for the express purpose of building interest, and thus demand, and offering it for sale, either then, or at some future time, whether the information presented is true or not, whether the motives of the pumper/dumper are known or not. If you believe your definition, your accusations over the past year are even more insidious and offensive.

You and me both. My 30 copies of ASM #361 are itching to find new homes...

Speaking of which, have you subbed any of your Last Galactus Story in Epic, or is that on your radar? It was #25-34, right? What a fantastic 9.8 run that would be.

Interesting collection of books in that picture.