RockMyAmadeus

I'm starting to get that feeling again.... The feeling I had at the beginning of May, 1999.... ....my inner 5 year old is getting giddy.

Make the pico, then we'll tell you. There's a bat flying around your helmet....

Can't have anyone evaluating that grade. I wasn't going to respond, bc doing so lends credibility to you, but here's the deal. I move scans from a "For sale" folder on photobucket to a "Sold" folder on photobucket only after the buyer receives a book and either has a few days to let me know of any issues or tells me it's all good. Case in point, the rest of the books listed are still there. The only ones not there were sold or, in the case of a DC Presents #49, given as a freebie to a buyer of a Marvel Family #1. I don't understand why you never want to discuss the factual allegations made against you. Instead, you always try to deflect with criticism of me or my slabbing books or my grading. When you're shown to be an insufficiently_thoughtful_person when you accuse me of never selling raw books, you respond by saying I can't grade. You don't give any examples of that. You just say it. Then you try to insinuate I remove scans to cover up something. If anyone wants, I'm happy to provide scans of raw books sold here or on Ebay. I keep most of them in the Sold folder until I start to run out of space on photobucket. Why don't you just respond to allegations in a constructive manner instead of lashing out with charges continually shown to be false? Here's the scan for the book that you quoted. If someone wants bigger scans to verify my grading, I have them. Trying to reason with people on the internet is a fool's errand, as you well know. The most well reasoned, articulated, and eloquent arguments, with the most concrete evidence to back it up, are brushed aside as easily as one brushes away a spot of dust, with nary a further thought given. Worse, you develop "fans" who make it their mission to find any fault they can, and nail you on the most insignificant, irrelevant detail. You must be bored.

Oh, hey, thanks for reminding me, Ditch. Please take me off the send to list. Thanks!

Avengers 83 isn't the first appearance of a character, just the first published depiction of a character's likeness - as portrayed by an impostor. You might as well just go full Ween. You never go FULL Ween.

My Apple IIe is on back order!

Well... ...at least I'm not in negative territory.

I dunno... Maybe it's my crummy old monitor, or my crummier old eyes, but I just don't see the overgrading on the ASM #298 that is being claimed. Sure, there's some dirtiness and a little stress near the "McFarlane", but I'm not seeing all the color breaks on the back cover. Maybe someone can do a fancy photoshop for me.

(Man, I can sound like a condescending biznatch when I want to. )

This is, and has been, common knowledge for well over a decade. In fact, it's never been other than this situation, as far as Marvel is concerned. I have tried for many years here to correct this "print run is tied to amount ordered" misconception, but people still want to believe "welp....71,982 copies ordered through Diamond, that means a 1:100 variant only had 720 copies printed." It's patently false, but some folks around here just refuse to be corrected on it. Then, when you DO correct them, you're 1. the bad guy; 2. ignored and then the same damn misinformation is repeated again by the same people somewhere down the line. Facts are like kryptonite to these people. Perhaps Jaydog and others like him want to keep pimping this misinformation because they're invested in these books, and don't want to see their "investment" suffer. They've been corrected over and over and over again, by multiple people, and yet....same old same old. And worse, skewing the discussion with silly, irrelevant hyperbole, like "well, I guess when these WAREHOUSES filled with ASM #667 Dell'otto show up, then I'll be concerned", when no one says anything like that. It's very taxing.

You know, it doesn't get much attention these days, but the death of Ferro Lad in Adventure #353 was a pretty big deal when it was released. A super hero? Dying? At DC?

Not true. Forties, fifties and much of the sixties. Taxes were high on the rich, unions were strong and the middle class was thriving. Oh boy. What part of "no politics" isn't understood? It means you can't keep talking about it.

Price?

Groo enjoyed a surge of popularity around 1990. Groo #1 (Pacific) was a $25 book in the OPG, and the Eclipse Special was even more. I traded a Groo #1 Pacific for a Batman #251 in VF/NM that I have to this day. Since then, however, he's been out of favor. A lot of that has to do with the erratic publishing schedule. Out of sight, out of mind. Maybe someday there will be a Groo cartoon.

Not even remotely true, in every fathomable, conceivable way, and STILL not allowed on the CGC boards.

maybe food was hard to come by for him? That's not what he said. Politics. Banned from the CGC boards since 2004.

Yeah, the only thing my folks could afford were old shoe boxes. Filling but bland. It was a real treat when someone forgot the dessicant pack in the box. mmmm good You had SHOE boxes...?? That's some high quality fiber, there! We only had old newspaper to munch on. All the news that's fit to eat! Yes, we knew how lucky we were. Even now, 30 years later, I save all my shoe boxes to distribute to the less fortunate. I saw one person chewing on old yellowed backer boards. No one deserves that. No one I'll bet they weren't even acid free. Oh, the humanity!

Thank you. I thought "5.5" myself, but 5.0 might be closer to reality. It makes me wonder if there's some massive opportunity to snag MCS offerings, then directly over to CGC for an uptick. Toss in fluff services and the mind boggles. There's no way that book is a 5.0 or 5.5 - it's crazy how people undergrade books from scans here all the time, with the sole exception being when they're actually selling the books themselves. +1

Yeah, the only thing my folks could afford were old shoe boxes. Filling but bland. It was a real treat when someone forgot the dessicant pack in the box. mmmm good You had SHOE boxes...?? That's some high quality fiber, there! We only had old newspaper to munch on. All the news that's fit to eat!

You win. /thread

Just notify and move on; replying just takes space from others.

I could extoll the virtues of Swamp Thing #1 for days, but it is everything that made the Bronze Age special. Oh, sure, "social relevance" and whatnot in HFH...but man, Swamp Thing captures the essence of the return to mystery, noir, spookiness, thrillers that are the hallmarks of the BA.

Pffft. The best bronze age #1 was Swamp Thing. Everything else pales.

Ack! LAME!