RockMyAmadeus

Batman #217.

Not applicable, nor did I state that benefit was a requirement for responsibility. A car accident results in damage for which someone is often responsible. PGX presumably did not cause the damage at issue, and therefore aren't responsible for missing it.

Are we...no pun intended...turning a page, here...?

You misspelled "sfcityduck."

Sacrilege!

It's funny cuz it's true....

I think that's a pretty fair summation.

Hope it gets found soon.

Bad news, all the way around. I do wonder where the OP went....

Another of my favs: This one was a tough one to get, because of the Joker cover. They all got sucked out of the marketplace by the time I arrived. That, and B&B #141 and #191.

I say what I mean and mean what I say. Instead of actually addressing the points it's the same formula ad nauseam. Disagree and you're making it a personal attack or dealing in bad faith. Now I expect the usual suspect(s) to come along and explain ( again ) how they've had many, many disagreements but can be civil and remain good friends. (Spoilered, so people don't have to read if they don't wish to.)

Man, that's such a harsh beginning to that letter. "Carmine Infantino is no longer associated with DC Comics..." Regardless of the circumstances, I would hate to read those words about me. It just sounds so...final and ominous. Thankfully, it didn't last, but still....eek.

No doubt. I'm sure that wasn't the normal state of the room and comics. Sure, or the guy wouldn't be able to sleep on his bed. However...would a collector allow a photographer to suggest he strew his comics all over the floor, stepping on them, and also make haphazard stacks of them on the bed...? Did the guy care about his comics? Clearly; he had a ton of them. He obviously enjoyed them. Did he care about preserving their condition in any way...? I'm guessing no.

Is that a real name, or is it always a nickname...? "JImbo"? I wonder if there are any "Jimbo" on birth certificates.

The most ridiculous Stan Lee SS is the one he never did.....

I remember there being such tentativeness when CGC first came around. And there were A LOT of dealers who were saying "this will never work, it will never last." I don't even remember when I bought my first slab, but I do remember, from the period of about 2000-2005 or so, that it was a fluke, an anomaly, to see things slabbed at a convention, never mind a store. There would have been a couple hundred slabs on eBay in total. I mentioned a Showcase New England eBay sale a couple days ago, which included every Marvel SA key. This was in mid 2001. I have the results somewhere, I'll scan then if I run across them. There were a handful of slabs...but only a handful. AF #15 was one. The FF #1 was NOT slabbed. I cannot imagine such a sale now taking place that would include ANY raw copies of those keys.

I looked up BCW, but they don't carry them yet.

Yeah, but they'd be junky British editions, and no one wants those.....

San Francisco is local to LA? As RMA would say: Well....it's local compared to Buffalo, I suppose.

RAM wants to poison the well, one of a number of fallacies he repeatedly makes here and elsewhere. If I ever teach a class on informal fallacies again, I've a wealth of examples thanks to him. Oh for God's sake, you two are more transparent than a sheet of window glass. "Stu" doesn't have to operate under the rules, which means he can say...and has said...anything he wants. Even YOU two wouldn't dare say the things that "Stu" says, because you know you would both be banned, too. You only say the things you do here because you think you can get away with it, despite being provocation. And you probably will. How do you "poison a well" that is already filled with arsenic..? "wealth of examples." Sure. Go with that. Let me know when that class starts; I'd love to audit it.

Look at that. Did Keith merely PREDICT what would happen, or did he INSPIRE it?

Definitely. I go back and read what Jon says, nearly 30 years after *I* first read it, and say "oh, yeah. That's where I got that idea!" Even more than the Big OPG, the Updates were just filled with all sorts of fascinating information on the state of the comics market of the time, written by dealers at the time it happened, who were doing this every day. It's an incredibly invaluable resource to understanding he evolution of the comics market.

Strange as it sounds, it was. And the book would still get a purple label, too. What about the concept that Jon and Roger laid out with regards to a "comic grading bureau"?

There is a LOT still to be told about CGC, and how it came to be, who, what, where, when, why. Maybe it's time to start making offers of interviews?