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9 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

TwoPiece,

I appreciate you giving me advice.

Now I'm going to give you some.

It's okay to admit your wrong,even when you are right.

You got in an argument with people who have over 30,000 posts. They have credibility.

You are accepted.

I dont think I've spammed,but yes I am trying to get my post count up,to show I am invested in social interaction

And I went from 600 to 900 in three days,not one month.

I think this is the strangest post I've ever seen. 

1 hour ago, gadzukes said:

I very very rarely am offered a collection to look at, but today I get to look at one.  It'll all be Silver and I think it's about 13 long boxes.

The guy I'm buying from has spent a decade going thru his dad's storage units scattered all over the country.  I bought a bunch of Marvel Key Silver from him about a decade ago (Hulk 1, Xmen 1, TTA 27) so I know there's good stuff in the mix.  Most in the 6.0-8.5 range.

He (luckily) kept my number from all those years ago and gave me a call yesterday because he just opened another unit and found more comics (how these units have been kept current on payments I have no idea).

When I bought from this guy years ago it was a slow process, usually with me only getting 20 comics at a time, mostly because his wife wouldn't let him sell them all at once.  I bought from him over a year until the comics ran out.  But he told me that sooner or later he expected to open another unit and see more comics because his dad loved comics.

I'm going to try to pitch to him to sell them all to me this time in one fell swoop.

Do any of you pros have a good method you use to value large runs of comics.  I want to give the guy a great price that he'll be happy with, but obviously I want to be able to make my money back and still have a nice collection of comics.

I recently bought a decent lot of comics (3.5 long boxes) of mostly bronze and some silver age Spideys. There weren't any major keys, but there were some minor ones. Rather than try and value the lot (which would have taken too long), I threw out a number I was comfortable with based on an average price per book. In my case that ended up at just about $2/book. In the end I think we were both happy with the transaction: I got a good deal and he didn't have to worry about pricing out each book and got immediate cash. 

40 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

I agree.

For me personally I have a mixed approach. I buy comics that I think will increaseviver time.

Like Edge of the Spiderverse 002 and I dont mean an astronomical amount,like some progressive gains,plus I like spidergwen and Miles Morales, I also buy comics that I like ie New Mutants 26 or Asm 361

I try to buy moderns generally and in 9.8 grade. I rarely buy raw off of Ebay because I've had some poor descriptions.

So it's just doing something you love,and I enjoy it. I also enjoy coming on the site and chatting with other collectors.

I think some of the prices on modern variants and recently released comics are a little crazy,but hey, if I want it than I'll buy it.

I've passed on alot of stuff lately, and collecting comes in waves,but at the same time the collectors who are in it for the long haul, remain.

Didn't you just start collecting this year? And don't you own like 15 comics total? What would the long haul mean in that scenario, over a month? 

14 minutes ago, 1p36DSA said:

How long is it taking books to be received? I did online registration and first day show drop off at megacon (actually during first 30 mins they were open Thursday).

Earlier it was rumored that books were taking 2 weeks to be received.  Good luck!

4 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Daenerys Targaryen's final resting place revealed in HUGE clue you missed

I didn't catch that part when the small council was discussing Drogon.

"Drogon's resting place REVEALED!"

"We think he went to Valyria because they said a direction. But we don't know for sure. REVEALED!"

57 minutes ago, Catwomancomics said:

So , in the end there is still a Nights Watch. I would think that anyone that has said the oath in the past should still be apart of the Nights Watch. 

 

Wasn’t Samwell Tarly sent to the Citadel by Jon Snow to become the Maester of the Nights Watch? How the heck did he get to stay in Kings Landing and also father a child without punishment?

I guess Sam sort of forgot about the Night's Watch... 

1 hour ago, drotto said:

The two known issues with vaping are as follows.  With the nicotine containing products, the oils are very concentrated.  This level of concentration is toxic especially to children if the oil is drunk directly and not vaped. Since many of these oils come in kid friendly flavors, children are ingesting the oils and it is causing toxicities. Second, people are making vaping products that contain other addictive drugs (like marijuana) and vaping those.  When you vape a known drug it will have the same potential risks as the traditional administration methods.  Also if the vape oils contains any potential toxic or addictive product you are taking that into your body.

This is veering extremely off topic at this point, but is your argument against vaping seriously "think of the children"?  I've never had a cigarette or a vape but that sounds ridiculous. 

Also the fact that THC concentrates exist is not a "known issue with vaping". 

1 hour ago, kimik said:

Not really. Ties to a brother >>>> cousin, and Tyrion has a soft spot for Sansa. 

Like I said, Bran is the real evil mastermind behind things. He can see the past, present and likely future as well. That is why he gave John a choice re: telling Sansa and Arya. Taking the red pill meant one result, and the blue pill another. He knew the outcomes. All in Westeros should fear Bran the Broken.......

 

I'm not sure what you're referring to with the brother/cousin thing. The point is that 5 people in that conversation knew who the rightful heir to the throne is, and no one even mentioned it. I'm not saying Jon had to be king, but the fact that it doesn't even come up as a topic of conversation is baffling.

And while I agree with you that Bran is an evil little poopyface, I'm not sure I agree that he knew the "outcomes" plural. That implies that he can see alternative futures, although saying he can see the future also implies that there is no free will, so I'm not sure which is the better option there. 

Oh and if the person sitting next to Sam was Howland Reed (that's the rumor, but there is no way to know for sure) that would make 5 people that know. 

On 5/18/2019 at 4:01 PM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

They're putting cash on display??? 

2 minutes ago, bane said:

I asked this very question some pages back. Did his notes get out and to who?

I'm not sure it even matters. Four people on that council AND Tyrion knew his heritage, including the soon-to-be-appointed king. The fact that none of them even mentioned it is insane. 

Spider-Man: Blue

Absolutely loved that one. 

1 hour ago, Bosco685 said:

What does he know? Folks have read the books!

I'm not really sure how that qualifies as a defense. It's more like an excuse for why the show turned out the way it did. 

I am now hopeful for the future of the series. Apparently GRRM only gave Dumb and Dumber a few plot points: 

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It’s unclear how detailed that plan was—though rumors indicate Martin gave them less was once believed. Weiss and Benioff have revealed that Martin told them “three holy sh– moments” including Shireen Baratheon’s death, the meaning of Hodor’s name, and one final twist “from the very end.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/05/game-of-thrones-finale-jon-snow-kills-daenerys-foreshadowing-books

I agree with Robinson that the final twist was probably Jon having to kill Dany, and if that is true that means that all the other BS we had to put up with is an invention of the show. 

I'm just glad it's over and I can go back to anticipating the book releases. What a hot pile of garbage this show turned into in the last two seasons. 

On 5/15/2019 at 1:24 PM, ksalvini said:

Hi, new here and still pretty new at comic collecting.  I nothing pro graded.  I may get a book that has no cover, missing stamp, missing a page and the staples are taken out.

Would that be graded a 0.1, 0.3 or 0.5?  or something else?

 

Thank you!

0.1 and 0.3 do exist in the Overstreet Grading Guide, but as @TwoPiece noted above CGC does not issue those grade numbers. 

With no cover you'd get a "NG", which CGC describes as:

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NG – This label stands for "No Grade" and is assigned to comics that are either missing the entire cover, or one half or more of the interior pages, or both. It may also be assigned to comics that are only being verified as authentic, per CGC's discretion.

20 hours ago, blue808 said:

They are so far behind that they are just receiving/opening packages that arrived the week of May 6th. 

I have an express sub that was delivered to their office on May 13th that still has not showed up on my submission tracking. I called and was just told that I should write "Express" or Walk Through" on the box as they will look for those first.

That is insane. Simply for insurance reasons they are opening themselves up to some huge problems by letting boxes sit for that long. 

8 hours ago, zhamlau said:

Again though, this wasnt "all the sudden" heel turn. I think she has been becoming unhinged, albeit slowly, since season one. Is there a single season she doesn't engage in getting someone melted down with fire while she looks on coldly (or happily for that matter)? These are not the acts of a stable collected would be leader.

I think just everything came to a head over the weeks leading up to Kings Landing. She lost her children, her friends, he father figure, her would be husband, and every advisor she trusted from the ending point of the Battle of Winterfell. Every good deed she tried to do she felt was rebuffed or drowned out. As we came to the head of the entire journey every person of value in her life was either murdered, tried to murder her, or out right rejected her and her lifes work.

Add that to an established unstable sociopath who is already a charter member of "The burning inconvenient people to screaming crying cinders" social club...you get wholesale slaughter.

Except there is a massive difference between bringing violence against evil (the warlocks of Qarth, the slavers, etc.) and genocide of the innocent. 

I mean would you say that Superman suddenly going on a murder spree would be justified because he was violent towards super villains in the past? 

3 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

https://comics.gocollect.com/guide/view/126431

not sure if that's any help

It's not, here's the actual listing showing the two books:

Ignore the 9.8, because the data isn't there. Look at the prices below the book titles. 

2 minutes ago, ExNihilo said:

I don't have GPA, but you're going to have to post proof of that.

I can only refer to eBay sales, but two copies of FF48 CGC 7.0 sold in March for $2500.  The last FF49 CGC 8.0 sold in March for $1500.  Higher grade.  Lower price.  I imagine the same will be true when the price of the book is scaled up to a 9.8.

Can't really compare the 9.8, because FF49 hasn't had a 9.8 sale in a few years. Closest high grade is 9.4, and FF48 is about double the price of FF49 (over $10,750 vs $5,850). 

22 minutes ago, drotto said:

In retrospect, the first indication ( at least to me) that D&D were not up to writing " original" GOT plotlines was the handling of Dorne. Despite the issues with book 4 as a whole, a lot of that material was great, and what appeared on the series was an abomination.  This earlier plot exemplifies the simplified, ham fisted writing that is now destroying season 8.

 

I think there were questionable decisions from the beginning, but you're absolutely right that the butchering of the Dorne storyline was the first major one. Most of the earlier changes could be excused by the differing formats, but Dorne was just abysmal. 

I also wish they would've brought in Lady Stoneheart. 

Just got one in myself!

6 hours ago, Unca Ben said:

On a side note, having never read the books, I just ordered the first two from Amazon.  Should be a fun read.

 

One of my all-time favorite reading experiences was the shock of the red wedding. The way that was written was beautiful, and the shock was well earned. I had read it a few weeks before my wife did, and I remember being there when she read it for the first time. She literally threw the book at the wall she was so pissed. It was quite hilarious. I wish people going back and reading the books now could experience that moment, but unfortunately the surprise just won't be there. 

That said, the books are most definitely worth a read. Enjoy!

6 hours ago, Unca Ben said:

I wonder why there isn't more concern about Martin not providing the show with more source material.  8 years since the last book?  The royalties from the show must be tremendous.

We're waaaaaaay past that. That concern started in seasons 3 and 4 when the show started inventing plot lines. 

In the planning scene in episode 4 they said that all of their forces were cut in half. I would like to know where the other half of their army was hiding during the Battle of Winterfell, but whatever. So they think the logic is fixed by a conversation retconning the battle in the previous episode.