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Well, I finally found my favorite issue with a double cover and newsstand(as it was when I bought it from my local convenience store in 1983!) SO... that means my 9.8 direct has been moved to my business inventory! Just put it on today!

Ahhh, when Alex Saviuk was trying to stay hip by adding more crosshatching.

Popular book. NO double covers on GPA with plenty of sales records over the past 20+ years. Newsstand...double cover...you can name your price. I've sold lots of double covers. My general rule of thumb for pricing is 2x going value in grade if there are any other double cover sales on GPA in any grade. If it's possibly one of a kind, 3x+ going price in grade. If it's a popular book 4x would be the least I would place it for sale with best offer. So 9.6s go for $400. I would put it up for no less than $1500. My list price for this would probably be $2999 and would take 2000. 9.8 newsstands go for $3000 and there are way more than ONE 9.8 newsstand out there. Just be prepared to wait a while to sell it. Someone out there will want it and have the money(maybe me if it's up long enough). Otherwise put it in your "vault" and cherish it!!! This is an absolutely AWESOME book! Congrats!!!

I texted, and it shipped within a couple of days.

Sent this in for a friend:

You know, FedEx, USPS and UPS handle BILLIONS of packages a year. Sure, some get lost, mishandled, etc. But if you send multiple packages on the same day to the same address, they will most likely end up there at the same time, maybe one or two a day off...but not WEEKS off from each other... EDIT: Oh and BTW, their packing on my 25 Modern was less than impressive. They were pretty loose in the heavy box, I was lucky to have no damage. I have to wonder what your experience is there with your numerous---er, countless batches of 25.

Have to wonder if this guy is a danger to society. Not all con men are sociopathic killers, but all sociopathic killers are con men. "This guy crossed the line and didn't even blink."

Actually, now that I think about it. He wouldn't be able to resub the cracked out SS copy, but he could send it to that other company and get it put into a verified slab. So he could end up with say a verified 9.8 and turn a qualified 8.5 or something into a CGC SS 9.8. So he would have to have been selling verified slabs as well to show he was doing this...

Not necessarily. They could get a qualified book with a fake sig, then pop out the inner well and put it in the SS case.

My buddy's TMNT 1 2nd Print finally got shipped. He got a 9.4...not bad!

Texted CGC and they told me it's "in the shipping room" and they're "working hard to get it all out".

Rarer than 9.8!

You're calling into question the entire professional grading industry. How do we know the book is not just a cover and the interior is blank? If there wasn't a gif, did the tree actually fall? When you go to Chipotle, how do you know whether your taco beef is actually beef? Or if it was spit in? So many things in life are taken on faith. Is CGC perfect? No. Does every tax dollar you give go to where it should go? Hell no. If everyone realized just how tenuous and risky investing in company stock was, the entire economy of the world would collapse. Just go get a taco, eat and enjoy it because life is too short to worry about every little thing. *Gets off the soapbox.*

Oh, no grade! Fun!

Saw something about a shortage of certain labels...maybe magazine sized labels are out...

Been in QC for nearly a week. What's the longest a submission has stayed in QC for you all? The Modern batch of 25 seemed to go straight from G/E/I to Shipped, but this one book is languishing in QC...

Thank you Mr. Lee for giving me a finale* to one of my favorite limited series of the 80's! *As much as one gets in comics, anyway...

Hey! No running and yelling at the same time!