Jeffro.

On 4/15/2022 at 6:17 AM, The Lions Den said:

On 4/13/2022 at 8:27 AM, Bird said:

Talk out loud to a phone as you grade and it is converted to text, grading is done and notes are completed concurrently. Notes downloaded at end of grading session. Not much more time from the actual graders.

A great idea!  

 Good god! Why didn't think of that when grading my own comics? 

On 4/22/2022 at 8:26 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

What's going to protect the bubble mailer, though?

There's a bag for that

On 4/21/2022 at 12:21 PM, theCapraAegagrus said:

On 4/21/2022 at 12:12 PM, Jeffrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo said:

Pot, meet kettle 

I'm all-natural, you're just puffing your chest out.

It's more like kind of a long exhale.

Too bad the character limit wasn't higher. It'd be really obnoxious then

On 4/21/2022 at 11:55 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

On 4/21/2022 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo said:

Far too many people in this hobby think that buying a press and watching a few youtube videos makes them an expert on pressing. It's pathetic

Someone nerf this man's abominable username.

Pot, meet kettle 

On 4/17/2022 at 7:58 AM, Artboy99 said:

On 4/17/2022 at 7:39 AM, chrisco37 said:

You can buy the trade for $20 and have the entire series if all you want to do is read it.   

Why buy slabs at any sort of premium?  

Yes I still am baffled by that.

I'm completely dumbfounded by it. I just don't get it. Must be nice to have that kind of scratch

On 4/16/2022 at 12:14 PM, stinkininkin said:

On 4/16/2022 at 12:07 PM, Rick2you2 said:

What’s so terrible about Coletta? A lot of his work was done during a time when the art was not considered the way it is now—it was part of a package of story content and pictures sold to kids who were looking for a little adventure, or girl’s romance, or sci if, or whatever? And from what I have read, he was quick—a good character trait for entertainment selling for 12 cents. And by the way, he could draw beautiful women, in that old fashioned style. As for Sal, eh. I always thought he made the Hulk look like a pea-brained, overly muscled child.  

Nothing wrong with Coletta as long as you don't mind him obliterating entire Kirby backgrounds and characters. Yes, he was useful in terms of getting books out on time, which matters, but his work speaks for itself. That said, he WAS capable of doing very solid professional work, which makes it sad that the majority of his career would be spent being nothing more than a publisher friendly hack.

Not only Kirby but any penciler he worked over. He did a hatchet job (yes my opinion but also the opinion of many others) on every piece he worked on. 
He was fast and apparently he was valuable as a guy who could get book done on time but fast doesn't equate to quality.

To be fair, some of his 50's work isn't bad but by the time he got to the 70s? Uh no. Just no.

Sals' stuff is not everyone's cup of tea but I've always liked his work at least until the mid/later 80s when his style on Thor and Spec Spidey got much more angular. His 70s and early 80s work is, for me, quintessential Marvel.

Having said that, prolific output is not necessarily a criteria for "god" status. Colletta's output was massive too and...... well..... 

On 4/15/2022 at 6:24 PM, JC25427N said:

On 4/15/2022 at 6:15 PM, Jeffro. said:

I have a ghost book

  Reveal hidden contents

 

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 I was expecting the slabbed invisible books

That's called a Claude Rains.

On 4/14/2022 at 4:13 PM, szav said:

On 4/14/2022 at 1:06 PM, Ryan. said:

I've not read this issue or watched one second of the TV show.

You should watch the newer one, the 2003-2009 series was great and still stands out I think.  Just wait till they reboot this series again at some point! You’ll wish you hadn’t sold this.

Before then he can just pick up some of the bazillion other copies of this book that are out there.

On 4/14/2022 at 10:38 AM, Bird said:

On 4/14/2022 at 10:14 AM, Pontoon said:

I have no interest in going back and forth about this, and you've always seemed to be a fine guy here.

I can pull out just as many feedback comments regarding my packing, which always get there safely and does not use packing tape to hold down the comics to the cardboard, but what would be the point?

I didn’t realize this was an aggressive back-and-forth sorry if that’s how it’s coming off. 
 

The feedback is relevant because I wanted to point out that it isn’t stubbornness but more a response to feedback and packing being well received with the use of the tape. So I’m not sure peoples individual complaints reflect the market as a whole, at least in my experience

I'm not sure that ebay feedback reflects the market as a whole either. There is such a thing as using too much tape and/or packing too securely. I've done it. I don't do it anymore. 

People sing the praises of painters tape but I've seen that tape fail as well and rip. 

There's no right or wrong way unless something goes horribly wrong in shipping then there is a wrong way.

On 4/13/2022 at 10:12 PM, Point Five said:

On 4/13/2022 at 1:23 PM, Jeffro. said:

Boxed in a knock off of rice crispies.  Red flag right there

I'd leave a neutral. "Book was packaged in generic brand cereal box. Paid for premium."

You just can't trust a seller who ships in a knock off box.

I mean, who would you trust? The guy who shipped in this box?

Or this one?

On 4/13/2022 at 9:03 AM, Roo_Phillip said:

On 4/7/2022 at 6:07 PM, skypinkblu said:

If it was not mailed in a cereal box, then it's not at the top of my crazy list;)

How about a cereal box plus Saran Wrap?  

 

Boxed in a knock off of rice crispies.  Red flag right there

On 4/12/2022 at 5:59 PM, gadzukes said:

How is this only 8.0?  They mention "rippling" in the notes, but when it's slabbed you don't see even a hint of it.

Yeah but you do see rippling in the raw photo. Should have had it pressed I guess.

On 4/7/2022 at 6:07 PM, skypinkblu said:

On 4/7/2022 at 5:45 PM, DavidTheDavid said:

If it was not mailed in a cereal box, then it's not at the top of my crazy list;)

I always double box my cereal boxes just to be safe

On 4/10/2022 at 11:30 AM, Galen130 said:

On 4/10/2022 at 10:14 AM, Jeffro. said:

I propose we add .1 increments to every grade.

9.81
9.82
9.83
9.84
9.85, etc. you get the idea. We need more granularity and people need to know the difference between and 9.8 and and 9.82

Also, let's take take CGC grading to 11 because 10 simply isn't good enough. This post approved by Nigel Tufnel

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Using the dewey decimal system is all well and good, but is there a way to get CGC to properly grade and encapsulate comics like they used to?  Asking for a friend. 

The CGC boards is no place for sane and reasonable suggestions. P'shaw, I say. P'shaw!

On 4/8/2022 at 10:32 PM, oakman29 said:

On 4/8/2022 at 10:14 PM, steve566 said:

Telling of what? Haha the most common slabbed mags I could find were playboys and sports illustrated.. didn’t see the centering issue with sports illustrated for some reason though.. guess it’s a size thing

Bigger is better. My wife tells me all the time.😎

The question is.....

On 4/6/2022 at 9:51 AM, Galen130 said:

On 4/2/2022 at 8:07 PM, silversurfer275 said:

Nah it’s lightning 

Lightning?  Why are you taking pictures when there’s lightning?  

8.5/9.0

CGC hammers lightning damage 4.0