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When I worked at Eddie Bauer while in graduate school (circa Heroes Reborn), a familiar face approached the register to purchase a sweater. He pulled out the first Platinum AMEX I'd ever seen. "Rob Liefeld" it read. Played it cool and rang him up like any other customer, but immediately regretted that I didn't get a sig, sketch, or even chat him up for a minute because I was a huge fan of his work at the time. (Don't judge me!)

Just read this after I read the PM. By "million $$ auction business" he actually means "I'm broke and selling everything of value in my garage."

SO WEIRD. We had a number of exchanges last night as well, including a lengthy apology! So the guy threw both his son AND wife under the bus? Or do you think it’s a dad covering for his son’s inept eBay selling? Or is it a man using his fam as scapegoats?

I’m currently having an issue with this guy! Wild. Came into this thread on a completely unrelated issue, to ask if it’s worth adding transaction cancellations to the list (winning bidder of my Punisher LS backed out immediately after auction win). Bought a mid-grade $9.99 copy of a SA Strange Adventures off of “foundbymurph”. He shipped it Media, but three weeks later still no book. No tracking info. input, so I asked him to track down the receipt. Apparently (according to him anyway), his wife mails his sales and keeps the receipts, but they “lost” this one somehow. To his credit, he did offer me a 150% refund, so I don’t think I’m being scammed out of $15. Still, really weird seeing his name pop up in this thread. (For what it’s worth, the buyer who backed out of my sale is pamen43.)

As Adamantium mentioned, $5, which would add another $100 for the Daredevils I’m planning on slabbing. So, nope. Thank you all for the feedback in the this thread. Opting out of the specialty labels (at the moment, anyway).

I didn't even realize that there were non-Marvel labels. While I'm liking the Marvel labels less and less, I love these Walking Dead labels. If I collected WD, I'd be all-in on the zombie labels.

Torn because of the added expense (could use that $$$ to fill gaps in my run), but also because my OCD is bad enough that I'd want all of my slabbed Daredevils to have matching labels and I know for certain I'll be buying pre-slabbed books with the normal blue label in the future. That's a great point about the additional art being a distraction from the cover image.

I love the idea of having Silver and Bronze options, especially for Spider-Man and the Avengers. The Thor label is another one that looks way too contemporary to pair well with SA Thor comics.

This is great advice.

(My apologies if this has already been discussed to death, but a search didn't turn up anything.) I'll soon be submitting some SA and key Daredevil books to CGC, but I'm torn between the standard blue label and the new Daredevil label. I may opt for the Daredevil label because I love how it looks and the books are for my personal collection, but I'm curious as to where you stand on CGC's Marvel labels. Would you buy a high grade SA issue of the Avengers if it was slabbed with the Avengers label, or would you opt for a similarly-graded Blue Label? Have you, or would you, re-slab a book just for the new labels? Haven't seen any for sale on eBay (at least for the titles I watch), so trying to gauge their popularity among the more serious collectors.

Not quite the nightmare scenarios posted above, but my biggest regrets/near misses: I stopped buying ASM at issue #299; sold ASM 252 and Secret Wars 8 for about $5 apiece; bought TMNT #1 (3rd print) for cover price at a local shop and then stupidly stored it in a regular long box for 30+ years so now it's creased and faded and chipped to CGC 2.5 hell; bought a copy of Iron Fist 14 for a quarter at a used book store and then flipped it for a life-changing $10.

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Good to know. Thank you for the response!

Wasn't sure where else to post this, but since I'm a CGC "n00b": How long does it usually take a correctly-packed submission to show up as "received" in the CGC's system? Tracking shows that my delivery arrived on Monday, but it's well into Wednesday and nothing yet from CGC. Thanks in advance!

Ah, got it. Thanks so much the explanation. What a treat it must be for the signers to see such a well-cared for book with so many impressive sigs.

Bravo on such a unique and beautiful item! My apologies if this is an incredibly stupid question, but what do you mean by submitting for a signature from Conway? Does that mean you’ll crack open the case again, get a sig at a con, and then resubmit to CGC for a new grade and slab?

Thank you all for all of the replies! Will get it pressed and slabbed regardless due to sentimental value. Because this was THE book that got me into collecting when I was 12.

Thank you! Discovering this board has reignited my interest in comics. Pics of back and interior:

So I finally dug into my lone long box that I've been lugging around from move-to-move for 30+ years and found a first-six issue run of TMNT. The good news: waves of nostalgia! Bought the first three at a neighborhood CBS in Milwaukee in '85. It was these issues, and a the first few issues of Elementals, bought during the same trip, that ignited my love of comics. And the (very) bad: Well, check out these pics! A double-whammy of reading the hell out of them when I was 12, and naively storing them in a regular-sized long box, hence the cracks and rolls. Currently kicking my 12-year old self. I know low-grade TMNT are still occasionally coveted, but how low-grade is this? Would it be worthwhile to get pressed and slabbed, or should I just re-bag and board it and be satisfied with the nostalgia it triggers?