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I go mainly for charity. I like the owner and I want his store to succeed and for him to do well, and he's a really nice guy. But I have been going less and less. Retailer incentive variants are always priced at the ratio, so a 1:100 incentive will be in his shop for $100 that I can get on ebay for $70. He offers a discount on new issues, but it's not as much as Midtown. Keys are pretty expensive too. I paid $80 for an old issue of ASM in mediocre condition because I wanted to buy something, then some it was half that price on ebay. 

Since you mentioned you were new to slabbing, I just wanted to warn you to not be surprised when your "looks like 9.8" book comes back as a 9.0, especially if it has been stored in a polybag. This is a hard realization that many first time submitters, including me, face on their first submission. My 4.0. GI Joe 21 is testament to that. Feel free to post high quality images of it in the Please Grade My forum if you would like some opinions before sending it in. 

All that white space and good ol' Stan just goes right across the crotch. Classic.

no one will want this book with a purple label so I wouldnt do any restoration. I can't get a good look at the stain. Campbell has a huge signature. I wonder if you could window pane to the stain area and have him "cover up" the stain with his sig. I don't know if cgc frowns on something like that though. What were the other defects listed in the grader notes?

@Celestial Comics any word on a possible 2019 summer signing?

10 hours ago, TwoPiece said:

Completely different argument you're making. Makes no sense.

How is it different and how does it not make sense? In both instances, you have submitted something for grading. The grader has reviewed it, returned it to you, and told you what you submitted has flaws, but not told you what those flaws are. The question is whether you want to know what those specific flaws are, or if you are satisfied with only knowing something was wrong?

9 hours ago, TwoPiece said:

You'd be wrong. School tests are (depending on course) based on objective facts. Comic grading is subjective.

I never said the test you took was objective or multiple choice. It could be a combination of objective and subjective, just like CGC grading. They have a scale they use and they make a grade determination based on that scale.  A test question could be the same. You could have a question like "What was the cause of the Civil War" and the grader bases their grade on how you have answered the question. A response of "assassination of franz ferdinand" would be completely wrong, but a response of "state's rights" could be wrong or right depending on how you supported your answer.  Would you not want to know why the teacher took off points?

It is 100% objectively incorrect to make a blanket statement that "educational tests are not subjective."

If you guys were in school and received a test back with a 96/100, would you want to know what questions you got wrong? Or would you be satisfied if the teacher said "you just missed a few questions, don't worry about it?"

I love it. It is certainly much more refreshing than the covers of Liefeld who depicts characters at the opposite end of the spectrum. 

4 hours ago, TwoPiece said:

It looks like it is on top of the bag.

2.0 IMO.

I think you're right now that I take a closer look. My bad. 

Why leave the book in the bag when asking for a grading opinion?

I just started watching ComicTom101 on Youtube a few months ago and really like it. He had a good video a few days ago on the Rob Liefeld freak out over the first appearance of MajorX, and yesterday I watched an interesting video on what is the true first appearance of Immortal Hulk. Weekly videos on what's hot and speculation.

Well that Hulk 1 SS should be pretty easy to track. 

53 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Why does it seem unfair to dealers?

I don't know. I guess because of the implication that the only way to obtain one would be for a dealer to meet the qualifying number. But you are right that they don't ever claim that so I guess they can do what they want. I unfortunately already bought a 1:100 variant today thinking this was the case, but won't fall for that anymore. I appreciate the points you made in the other thread. 

Just now, RockMyAmadeus said:

And yes, the publishers often print way more than qualifying dealers.

That seems wildly unfair to the dealers. Unless you're someone like Midtown or Mile HIgh, most LCSs aren't going to purchase enough copies to get a 50 or 100 variant. If they are getting an incentive variant, they should have a guarantee that the book is rare and be rewarded for purchasing all of those copies to chase a variant. Sucks that the publisher could then print an extra 500 copies due to some special arrangement they have with another company that doesn't require them to publish the regular issues. 

Thanks for the link. Interesting read. It appears they're asking the same question I am, and unfortunately the consensus is that no one has any idea. Was trying to figure out it an incentive book was worth the price. My main concern is, even without knowing the exact print run, there is a possibility of the publishers printing way more issues than the dealer qualifying numbers. Eg., only one dealer orders 100 copies of a 1:100 variant, woiuld the publisher then only print 1 copy of that incentive variant? Seems no one knows. I appreciate the link. 

If a book is 1:100 incentive, does that mean if the book sells 30,000 copies the absolute most of the variants produced would be 300? And do they automatically produce 300 variants and then distribute them? Or would they still only produce a variant is a retailer ordered 100 issues? In which case, there would be even less than 300 copies since not every dealer out of that 30,000 is ordered at least 100 issues? 

Symbiote Spider-Man has a 1:100 variant cover by Todd McFarlane.  Is this just an old cover Marvel owned from the 90s that they're using? I have searched all over and cannot find any information at all about it. Has Marvel had a McFarlane cover on any other books since he left? Does anyone think Mcfarlane would refuse to sign this?

1 hour ago, Buzzetta said:

Umm... not going into detail but my friend's husband just settled for $30,000 for illegally transmitting digital comics.  She is livid. The original claim was far greater but he settled for $30,000... 

Wow, I hadn't heard of anyone going after comic pirates so good to know. Can you tell us if if the husband was downloading comics from someone else, or were they actually distributing them to others? And are you able to tell us the publisher? 

On 4/2/2019 at 3:15 PM, CAMPER49 said:

Before I even go down that road, any idea if I am even allowed to do this?

Is there a copyright issue if I do?

 

Copyright currently extends for works published after 1923. There are some exceptions through the 1960s, but none of those books would be within those public domain exceptions because both Marvel and DC renewed the copyrights on all of these books. It will be around 2035 before that Batman #1 falls into public domain. Selling these would be no different than selling a USB stick with a bunch of digital comic books on them, and you may face a violation for each individual comic book. I think the fine is around $250,000 per copyrighted work. You could even receive a charge for giving away the books and not selling them. That being said, it is extremely unlikely you would actually be charged for selling them since comic book copyrights are not enforced as strictly as things like movies. I think it is likely that eBay would remove the auction though and might terminate your account if you tried to sell there. I do not believe it is illegal for you to possess them. 

Disclosure: I am not a lawyer and only work for one. 

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8 hours ago, sfcityduck said:

Back in the day, we collected far more than one title a month.  I can see why someone today would be limited to one.  

Sorry, I meant one issue of a title a month. Or two if it was a popular title like spidey or xmen

On 3/28/2019 at 9:20 PM, sfcityduck said:

Back when I was an avid collector of new comics, we wanted a complete title.

Collectors wanting complete titles and buying one copy a month isn't going to keep the publishers in business. There aren't enough collectors left to do that.

Yes, a golden age 9.4 is very different from a modern 9.4.

Anyone know about Alex Maleev? I can't find anything about his scheduled and the original post looks like it is for an old appearance. 

I would probably resubmit that ASM 9 and have it pressed. Not sure what I would do on the other one.