GreatCaesarsGhost

So you too owned a copy of New Book of Comics 2? Small world. And yes, that is a book that has faded from view. Prehero material was held in higher esteem 25 years ago than it is today. and I love the story about Rotor using surgical gloves to handle his books. I think Rotor got burned out on books and is now an engineer of some sort. I bought several books from him, but I don’t recall him talking about any Pacific Coast pedigree. Maybe I just wasn’t paying close enough attention

@Cat-Man_America

Do you Promise?

Hey Lou. Robert Rotor of PCE was a mentor of sorts, and he talked me into it the New Book of Comics 2. Probably not my best move. But I won’t throw Robert under the bus: He also talked me into an Action 1, so there’s that. I remember the latter book being a lot easier to sell than the former. to add insult to injury, these books have entered the atmosphere, and according to this ad, I sold them for pennies back in the day

3 weeks ago I made an offer of $3100 on eBay for a 4.5, BIN was $3600. Not only did I get turned down, the seller jumped the price to $5600.

You were a pioneer, woowoo

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I used to read CBG religiously. In fact, here’s an old ad I ran back in 1994. Note the prices on the Pep 34, the Punch 12, the White Mountain copies of Weird Tales of the Future 2 and 3, and the TOS 39! I need a time machine and take a do-over on this selling decision

Well I’m 66 and I want to salute my elders

@woowoo? get on in here

You whippersnappers

Actually you talked about it 15 years ago in this old thread. Don't go read it now; it'll only depress you further. Something tells me its more than just you and me wishing we had a hot tub time machine to undo our regrets.

Well that’s pretty far in my rear view mirror, so yes

As I go thru the old threads, I look to see when the last post was from any particular boardie. Most stopped posting long ago, and I am left to wonder their fate. In the case of Punyhuman, I just happened to know him and knew of his passing. @Larryw7, you are a unicorn. I see your 20 year old posts, and you are still here. The board benefits from guys like you

No problem at all. I think he would be happy that the torch got passed to younger generations

R.I.P. brother man

Reading thru old threads and found this:

If this is still for sale, I’ll take it

OK, I hear you. Still seems wrong

I’m sure what @Cat-Man_Americais saying is thank you very much for you work, no offense intended

That’s interesting. I wonder what circumstances brought that about

I appreciate your level headed answer, but what I'm saying is the Promise Collection was forgiven dust shadow after dust shadow, and publication defect after publication defect. And this is an absolute 180 for their grading standards from just a year ago. It's just so odd that I have the grader notes above specifically saying that CGC felt these were defects a year ago. im still happy the Promise collection is here, as I’ve said many times including earlier in this very string. And I have made my purchases. but the grading is just different, and that’s not just speculation on my part

I buy from the Promise Collection, and I try to avoid stuff like this, but I couldn’t disagree with you more. Here’s a book graded a year ago, knocked down in grade for exactly the things CGC turned a blind eye to in the Promise Collection: dust shadows and publication defects. Tell me, is this speculation?

While critical of the grading, I am happy the Promise collection came along when it did. I have maybe 5 more years in my collecting arc, and I now have books available to me that never would have been otherwise. I missed the release of other pedigrees, so I’m all in on this one. good thing for me it ain’t about the profit