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On 5/22/2022 at 8:08 PM, Point Five said:

These Blue Ribbons will be the ruin of me. The absolute ruin. When I saw this wreck of a BR #21 I just HAD to have it... and paid accordingly. Second-to-last issue of the run and so friggin' rare! I feel the way about this one that Gino feels about the BR #19. Love it to death and I'll probably be buried with it.

Quite an interesting look. The images had 3d qualities to me.  More so than a regular comic.

Librarians, asking how to sort anything "reading material", seems like an exercise in free advertising.

No matter the grade, that book is getting some attention.  Love it

If interior is intact, I'm at 2.0-2.5ish

Good eye.  Good thing you caught it.  I for one would be upset.  But it's graded and had good pics.  At first, I thought the holes were stains maybe... 

On 4/25/2022 at 12:05 PM, manetteska said:

I almost bid on this Terrors of the Jungle #20 but then took a closer look at the back cover.

Also looked up the grader's notes this morning, and I have to say, IMO, that's a very... interesting grade considering.

Very surprising grade.  It must be Really nice, otherwise.

Not an easy decision, both great comics.  One has to be a better deal though?  Let us know what happens.

Trusted seller?  Someone with a very solid reputation, or just someone you've met or heard about?

Trusted seller would make it right with you if you are not happy with the book.

On 4/12/2022 at 10:12 AM, Inaflash said:

I love of good excuse to repost my only Sixth Street book. 
 

My word... what a beautiful book. 

Progress may be slow, but you long time collectors saw it firsthand when talking about changes in grading comics whether it be the use and types of grades, the introduction of the grading industry, terms like restoration conserved qualified and probably many more things.

I don't know about a 9.7 grade or what change will be next, but I do like consistency.

I always like to see the book with the fc flipped open, in order to get a better sense of the spine condition.  If spine is solid, 3.5

On 4/6/2022 at 11:31 PM, comicnoir said:

My new APC 8

Gorgeous copy

On 4/5/2022 at 7:03 PM, Professor K said:

Yeah. An X-Men 1 9.2 just sold yesterday for 276,000. About 300,000 after taxes. Shows how much more respect FF #1 garners. But FF 1 only has 8 - 9.2 or higher and XM 1 has 40.

Oh this is still the GA section. Question for those who may partake: I can't resist asking. Out of this Detective 36 2.5 C-1 sitting at 7,200 right now and my 6.0 A-3........which one's better? Give it to me straight, I can take it. I know I know. Neither.

Your copy looks great.  Flat, even, nice corners and clean.  The 2.5 has richer colors, and more character.

Your copy looks much better to me.

Have you an idea or guess of the grade prior to its restoration?

Replace the books and not the value.  If grade was agreed upon, should not be a problem.

These instances are just a shame.

When books are sent in and payment has been made, don't we have a contract with cgc?  Is it the comic owner's responsibility to ensure cgc honors the contract?

Why should the books TRUE owner, have to worry about what insurance cgc has or does not have on various carriers?  Isn't it up to the sender to get the book to the owner, and not the other way around?  And since the carrier is responsible to deliver the package to the TRUE owner, it seems the issue lies between cgc and the shipper.  I feel that the owner is just a third, albeit concerned party in cases like these, with little authority or muscle to make things happen.

Mistakes happen of course, and we've all been taken advantage of one time or another by grading company or shipper.  I hate being brought into a scenario like this, where the greatest company in the world can't get a book delivered as required, as contracted.

If the book is important to me, it is Signatures all the way, with full insurance, until it arrives at its assigned destination.  Other than that, it's up to someone else.

Good luck.

I'm wondering how many folks would really love to work for them, but not move to Florida.  Set up shop is a few large cities across the US maybe?

Timing, always timing.  Your grail may not come up for you again, or at least when you are prepared.

On 3/10/2022 at 8:24 PM, Changer said:

Nice one, stepping up the game! 

Thank you.  Very happy with it.

On 3/10/2022 at 7:55 PM, szav said:

Great looking copy, congrats!

 

Thank you

I considered selling a book to MCS. 

The first time I contacted them, they offered me 78% of what the last 8.5 blue label cgc sold for at auction.

The second time, they offered me 44%.  They said that the 8.5 sale may just be an outlier.

Oh, my book is a 9.0 blue label cgc with white pages vs the 8.5 with off white to white.

I won't be sending my book to them.

4.5

Just when a person says, it never happens, it has already.  I am definitely no multi cover guru

Very neat. 

I bet others have, but I've not seen a double cover item with same graded awarded to both.