comicginger1789

Found this thread and thought I’d revive it with a question. Any idea whose signatures these are on the inside of this program from the convention?

Without a back photo it’s hard to say. Looks 8.0 or better is the best I can give. As for grading it, unless you love it I don’t see the point. Book is worth maybe $5, you’d be spending more than it’s worth. Again if you love it and want it slabbed then go for it!

4.5-5.0 from me also!

Metamorpho is popular? Coulda fooled me.

Just some silver age Romita goodness to consider. Small stain mark on back as seen.

Lower mid grade GA stuff always throws me. Spine has wear but overall that cover presents nicely. 4.5-5.0 is where I feel comfy.

Recent eBay pickup. Wondering where this might fall. Small pieces missing top edge of the cover and about a 2 inch spine split from the top down.

True. If I’m being very honest though I don’t buy CGC books to begin with

8.5-9.0

Don't care. If someone is charging more for a 9.8 with white than the person with off-white, I am buying the off white. Money saving is key first, page quality comes second.

I would stay away from Disney books as an investment. Far away. Yes, there are certain issues (as with any collectible) that always have value. But they are few and far between. Yes you will always have Disney fans who will pay for nice condition books but there are lots out there of the non key stuff. Plus, I feel like most Disney/Mickey/Donald fans are older. Or at least I have not met any collectors younger than 35 who are hardcore into the comics. I may be wrong but I just feel like the demand is not there and I doubt it will be. If you can get som ekey issues now, sure, in a few years when we hit some Disney milestones, you could see a nice return. But in terms of collecting them beyond that, well it had best be because you enjoy them and not because you hope to have a gold mine worth of books in the future.

That Eternals ish loooooks mighttttyyyy familiarrrrrrrrr

That Ghost Rider bent me over and called me it’s b-$&? And while I appreciate the love it did not help my grading ego.

No you shouldn't feel responsible, my point was if you blatantly ignore the concern (a la a certain basketball player who ironically now has the virus and has infected teammates), well then I feel you should shoulder some blame. But heck no, if someone is just going about their life and gets it well how would you know? But if I am sick, I am not spreading it on people or if I am known to have been around someone who had COVID, I am not ignoring the suggestions to self quarantine.

Also, please dont accept hand sanitizer from clowns

We can call it national Netflix/Disneyplus month. Everyone sits inside and streams for a month Drones can deliver food for us

I don't think cancelling stuff is panic. I don't think closing stuff is panic. I think it is an appropriate response. Panic is buying up more supplies than needed. Or stockpiling for months on end. Panic is shutting yourself off in a bunker. No, people should still be allowed outside, to visit each other if healthy, to do stuff. Just not en masse stuff until the rates are under control. Travelling outside your city should be limited, visiting large venues within your city should also be limited. People with symptoms should stay home to be safe. Precautions and logic, no panic or fear in that.

Yeah suppose kids are virtually immune. Suppose you are too, or have a minimal chance of anything more than falling ill. Do you really wanna potentially spread it and lead to the death of another loved one or child? If you can live with that, you are a stronger human than I. And hey, maybe me believing 4 weeks or whatever is silly. Maybe this gets more serious, in which case, I am glad we started the precautions we did. I would hate too look back a month from now and have doctors, disease spreading analysts and whomever say "if only we were harsher, we could have saved millions of lives". We are shutting down fast and I am okay with it.

I don't think that will happen. Short term, oh heck yeah you will see stocks and a tremendous loss. I don't see this lasting more than a month provided the US and other nations take the necessary precautions. The economy will bounce back as we hit warmer months everywhere and the virus loses its momentum. Hopefully before its next cycle or season, we have a vaccine for it. If people are being told for the next month to avoid fun and public things, you can bet once this passes, they will head back out in full force to get their fills of the world. The economy will rebound.

I think the numbers for the virus as a whole are still in the early stages. You aren't seeing as many young kids because most people don't put their young kids near severely sick people. That being said, today Ontario (Canada) confirmed its first case of an infant (less than 1) with the virus. Again, only one in North America to my knowledge but it proves they can get it and I pray to whatever ruling power that he makes a full recovery.

I am intrigued to someday see a CGC 10 of an issue next to a CGC 9.8 of the same issue. In person. Maybe someday. Like could I tell the difference? If not I can't imagine paying for such a difference other than the novelty of owning a 10.0 which to me, excited me for about 0.2 seconds.

Invest now!

No offence, but your comment is insufficiently_thoughtful_person. Your logic says "oh, the swine flu was worse, why should we bother, y'all are overreacting". Yes right now it was worse but I don't think anybody wants a repeat of that. If that incident taught states and governments anything it was that they had zero clue or strategy to handle. At least now we are seeing a response, more extreme than before. Which is the proper way to handle a spreading disease. If you were in charge, I shudder to think what could happen. "Bah only old people and children are at risk, its not that bad yet, lets just do nothing". You wanna be responsible if it spreads from thouands of cases to hundreds of thousands? Or would you rather put measures in place to protect people? I think the latter is the better move, both at a humanitarian level and if you want to go there, a political one too. The short term devastation to the economy will hurt, but I believe it is the right thing. If world health organizations (you know, people who go to school and are world experts, not on computers in basements) say we should exhibit concern and respond in this manner, then I am inclined to believe em.

So that's good, this is at least a possibility. I suppose the challenge would be finding a book affordable enough yet graded enough to be found in all grades.

Grades sent earlier today. Way to start off tough