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There's several of them for sale on Ebay.  Put them on your watchlist and see how the sales turn out

3 hours ago, thunsicker said:

It's by the group that did the super power beat down episodes a few years ago?  Were they also the ones who did the valiant movie?

Search for "bat in the sun" in YouTube and you'll see all of their videos.  Most are several minute videos featuring battles between 2 characters.

My fav was "Batman vs Darth Vader"

On 7/2/2021 at 10:11 PM, D84 said:

Something that has been bothering me ever since my mother brought it up.

This movie seems like a setup for the new Black Widow. Aren't they replacing Scarlett Johansson for a younger model? I know they killed her off in Endgame, but since Feige has plans years in advance, they knew they were going to do this. Scarlett is 37 and Florence is 25. Are you telling me a woman in her 30s is too old to take over? Look at Charlize Theron, she's older than both of them and still doing movies as a kick- character.

She prob comes alot cheaper than what Scarlett would want to get paid.  Poss she wants to do other roles and not be tied to another multi pic deal?

1 hour ago, Gino Purple the Purple Boy said:

Bump

I would say to read the sticky in the "Brother can you spare a grade" forum, and put up some pics/scans as the details in the sticky notes. You want the pics to show the faults clearly.  Various members then can give you their  ideas on a poss grade as well whether a clean and press could improve the grade. Pressing won't remove a color breaking crease, though.

From there you could look at gocollect.com and ebay sold prices for copies at and around the same grade and make your decision. 

Gocollect lists  grades in the 6-7 range around $150.  At those grades I would sell it raw.

Blackstone could partner with Rally Rd so we can buy & sell non-voting shares of the company!

2 minutes ago, wiparker824 said:

This thread:

50% memes

20% panic

25% philly talk

5% logical thoughts 

…and 100% reason to remember the name

 

Ok we have to push the Philly  talk. Does commenting about Barkley on the Bucks/Hawks halftime show count?

Cgc won't care about the COA.  All they care about is the comic.  

No.  CGC  only has a sig witness program.  If they  didn't witness the signing  then they treat it the same way  as if u signed ur own name

2 minutes ago, NewWorldOrder said:

Sixers or the Phillies? 

That is straight from the 700 level of the old Vet!!

where were you try to sell it and were you pricing it higher than recent sales/GPA etc

If that's your home address you may want to use a pic w/o that info

I suggest someone contacts Blackrock and explains to them the concept of the "Friday thread"

if they get it, then we're going to be OK

However if they say 'that's stupid" ... hmm well maybe they still get it.....

also from the article

"Additional investors in today's transaction include Roc Nation; Michael Rubin, founder and executive chairman of Fanatics; SC.Holdings, a growth equity platform; Mastry, founded by Rudy Cline-Thomas; Andre Iguodala; Daryl Morey, President of Basketball Operations for the Philadelphia 76ers; and Main Street Advisors, a leading investment advisory firm to prominent athletes, recording artists, and other leaders across entertainment and business."

76ers president?    first the Ben Simmons debacle - now this....

quoted from an article

"Mark Salzberg, CCG's founder, and Steven R. Eichenbaum, CCG's CEO, will retain a significant minority stake"

so they're not running off

over the last 30 years I think everything that could possibly be done to my house has been done.  By far the best thing I ever did was to have the kitchen redone and the addition added to it.  Besides the monetary value added to the house, just the benefit of having/using it over the last 15 years would outstrip the value of the comic to me. People spend a lot of time in their kitchen.  Adding in that you will still have a mega key, I'd go for the kitchen.

Now if it could be financed thru a loan or some other means, that would sway me to keep the book deal with the payments.

Good luck

PS I also agree that turtles are cool!

On 6/26/2021 at 10:15 PM, Nannerzz said:

I would love any information and what anyone thinks, never had anything graded and torn whether i should spend the money on grading or if its better off selling as is... i have a few rare comics i was going to let go of.

 

The current turnaround times in the Economy tier, including pressing, plus the wait time to get the package open means you won't see it for a year (or some more)

Standard tier roughly half the time and double the cost, so factor that into your decision.

try hunting around Ebay sold listings to look for graded & raw issues in similar shape (and/or try comcspriceguide.com but not sure how accurate their price guide is for raws - try gocollect.com for graded prices)

26 minutes ago, steveinthecity said:

Then there was that time MagicDan visited the CGC boards to tell his story...

 

thanks for the link - I got thru 10 pages or so then skipped to the last page  - so was there ever a definitive answer as to what happened?

That last page had a post which read:  (edit - just realized that you wrote that post)

"A week or so back a forum member(goldeneye), claimed that MagicDan had admitted as much to the whole thing being a fraud on the CPG forum in order to burn PGX. No link was provided. My impression after viewing the video initially was the entire thing was staged."

1 hour ago, Yorick said:

I have not heard about a TMNT switcheroo.  Interesting.  I've only heard about their "gift grades" and lack of restoration detection.  Comic grading should never be a monopoly, otherwise our hobby may not last.  I sent all my Golden Age books to CGC for cross-over service back when they were offering it for $5 a book (IF the grade dropped).  There are some threads here where other collectors note the before (PGX or CBCS) and after grades (CGC).

If you have modern books that are not worth high-dollar amounts, but you want to do more than putting them in a bag and board - what is the cheapest course of action?  PGX will also note things on the labels that I tell them to (I give them accurate info).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZJ4VwFHSp4

Here's a signature of mine which was verified by CBCS

3 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

Out of my last 20 sales, I think I’ve received maybe  2 feedback.  It seems that buyers just don’t bother any more.

The way Ebay is trying to make l it look like a wonderful place (sellers can't leave neg FB etc), I surprised they don't implement  some automatic positive FB system triggered off of tracking showing a delivery.

2 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

That's unfortunate. I have posted before that I expect sellers to leave feedback first, and that I will leave feedback every time if they do so. If I don't get feedback as a buyer, but I receive some sort of excellent service, then I will break that 'rule' and still leave feedback.

I always leave feedback when selling simply to show the # successful transactions (in the event the buyer doesn't leave fb and it seems ~1 out of 5 sales only get fb from the buyer).  I'm not a high volume seller so I want to show that I've done more than a handful of sales

3 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

I was referring to books that you can have a comparable SS yellow label to, since the discussion here was about Donny Crates. I thought of editing my post to make that clear but felt it would be obvious. Though I do still wonder if any of those Kirby Signed books would have made much less money either sold raw or in a blue or green CGC holder. 

Would one even know it, for a CGC slab, since he signs on the splash page vs the cover?  Does CGC note "name XX" written on page 1? I've never come across any while scanning for sales

hmm, no idea but what are the odds that you bought back the same book?

53 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

Sadly, I've yet to see a time where that was worthwhile since that extra validation is costly. I do own a few of those, but that's because I placed a low bid on auctions and won. So I don't mind owning those types of books at all but whoever was at the other end of that transaction lost money.

 

Over the last 2 years I've watched a handful of auctions for Jack Kirby verified books (cause I have one) that have reached several hundred to over a thousand dollars.  I think there's certainly a market - especially for bigger name artists who weren't around when the SS series came to be.    That's about the only real benefit of the service I see