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22 hours ago, ganni said:

Some fun to knock off the negative waves

And a couple of characters 1st appearance...

Is that the one where she tells the fairytale? She named the dragon lockheed didn’t she, is that a first appearance or is it when she meets the actual dragon?

6 minutes ago, IronMan_Cave said:

I'd rather see this grading stuff controlled/governed by non-profit organization

It would be nice if everyone could agree to a consistent standard to minimize subjectivity. It seems like everyone is based on overstreet but has their own secret recipe on top of it.  

The real value of grading, I think, is in having pros detect restoration, trimming, etc. Things you can’t see in pictures. That’s what draws me to them, for expensive older books at least.

5 minutes ago, Randall Ries said:

It's a "quality" sticker that says the book has perfect staple placement and "preferred" cover alignment. In short, something to stroke someones weak ego. It's neat when companies try to define aesthetics to everyone else.

Isn’t that what the original grading is for? Maybe we should start a new service that grades and encapsulates slabs 😄

37 minutes ago, IronMan_Cave said:

I didn't trash them, read my post carefully again......I'm just posting the fact, their books don't move as easily as CGCs...and personally I will never buy their books, because of the liquidity issue 

I shouldn’t have quoted you as I was more responding to the thread in general, I apologize. 

I’ve never used pgx, I’ve never even seen one in real life. I have used the other service and was satisfied with the grading. If anything I found them to be stricter than cgc 🤷‍♂️

20 hours ago, Randall Ries said:

 

What’s that QES sticker?

50 minutes ago, IronMan_Cave said:

I don't understand the logic sending books to PGX/CBCS to grade, the books are much harder to sell....they are not as liquid as CGC graded books

From buyer perspective, the only way I'd buy PGX/CBCS if they're mega-keys, at the price I could afford, other than that NOPE, I won't buy PGX, CBCS graded books. PERIOD.......even though we enjoy collecting, we still want to have that choice to sell books easily, just in case........with PGX/CBCS, they just don't move in the market

If selling them is the main reason you buy them you may be right. If you just want to collect a high grade preserved copy then one of those other services is a viable choice. I trust their grading. It’s not the one that starts wit a ‘p’.

I know this is a cgc board but why trash the other companies? If people like them let them use them, competition is good for consumers, right? 🙂

22 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

Definitely sell it if you need the money or you don't want it in your permanent collection. 

If you want one with you forever, you should keep it or you may have to pay premium if you want to buy back in the future.  It looks like it's following GSX-1 surge now... maybe an even a sharper slope...  

Has GX1 settled on a value or is it still rising? Maybe 94’s ascent will mirror that?

2 hours ago, Broke as a Joke said:

A better question is why did it even go to a second or third print when the first is still out there in abundance.  

I’ve been thinking about this lately. It used to be they’d reprint a comic if it sold out and there was still demand. That makes sense. Now it seems like every issue of a series gets 2nd and 3rd prints, sometimes 5 or more. These seem to be planned before the first print even comes out. Not to mention all of the variant covers. Why do they continually reprint when they earlier prints ate still available?

6 hours ago, ThothAmon said:

Not in Fantasy Quarterly range but has the time finally come to dig out all these? There must be TENS of thousands of these sitting in people’s collections in darn near perfect shape

 

Didn’t they sell eight MILLION of these? Can you imagine that happening now? I believe it though, I know I bought one of each cover and everyone I knew did the same. They’ve all been sitting in bags and boards since. What were we thinking? 😄

On 3/23/2021 at 1:29 PM, lbcolefan said:

From my early 80’s investing phase. If they make a X-men vs Murderworld movie I’m all set

Murderworld was probably the weirdest idea Claremont ever had 😆

I love those days of futures past books, I’ve always wanted those 

53 minutes ago, the blob said:

She was just regular hot in godzilla. Her character was supposed to be more mean than alluring.

Yeah she was a vampire stripper in the show, so...

The show itself wasn’t that great.

2 hours ago, mr_highgrade said:

Undergrading is putting it midly. 

So have their standards changed? If so, does that not invalidate the grades on older slabs? Or is just our imagination? I’ve heard other people saying they seem to be stricter lately on youtube. Grading lives or dies on consistency.

3 hours ago, the blob said:

This book that got a 9.4 I thought I saw one super faint spine tick and was not even sure it wasn't part of the cover. i am traumatized.

Is cgc grading harshly at the moment? I rarely send anything in but I was planning on sending some this weekend, not sure if I want to if they’re undergrading

14 hours ago, Concorde said:

So this showed up in the mail today.   Can’t wait to get it framed and displayed!  

That’s really pretty! Looks like a watercolor painting 

1 hour ago, ThothAmon said:

I think I overpaid. All newsstand fwiw. 
 

This makes me super nostalgic, awesome!

3 minutes ago, the blob said:

she was so hot in the movie with the mean blonde lady who rips off old people and peter dinklage

Check her out in the dusk til dawn tv show. That’s the first time I ever saw her. Yowza...

5 hours ago, Capn17 said:

Do wonder if it is inspired by this cover or what transpires in this issue.

It does look like it. 🤔 That’s Hawk on this cover, right?

37 minutes ago, fastballspecial said:

Does it have the insert ?

Should it have an insert? I didn’t know that either.

at 1900 or 2500, time for my weekly amazed face

Where do you think it will settle? I’m tempted to sell but I don’t want to sell too soon

On 4/2/2021 at 11:05 PM, Mephisto said:

I got this Hildebrandt Brothers painting that was used for a lithograph and I was pretty certain blondie is Duke...and then I started reading Marvel G.I. Joe and now I’m sitting here thinking...spoon is that Hawk? Early Hawk looks way too much like Duke. 
 

I’d still assume it’s Duke but seeing Scarlett and Snake Eyes running around with Hawk in the early issues I’m still a little 🤷‍♂️.

 

 

I would guess Duke, even though the uniform is wrong. Cool to have, congrats! 🙂

17 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

X-men 94 3.5 is nearly becoming a $1,000 book.  https://www.ebay.com/itm/X-MEN-94-1975-CGC-3-5-Key-2nd-NEW-X-MEN-Team-3rd-Full-App-WOLVERINE/303935754740?epid=85482721&hash=item46c3fb91f4:g:h08AAOSwNHJgXnwt

Ended at $910! Astonishing! 😳😳😳

Midtown has Eniac 2 for sale online this morning, looks like it may be easier to get than 1?

https://www.midtowncomics.com/product/1995363

43 minutes ago, Falcon760 said:

I wasn't even keeping my Thundercats #1 bagged until I saw the prices on comiclink.com ... 

I’ve been trying to organize my childhood books, I found my Alf 1 unbagged and decided to bag and board it. That’s how crazy these days are...

On 3/31/2021 at 5:00 PM, Crops068 said:

The only one I know for certain is a different cover completely is the Walmart Star Wars High Republic #1.  It is a completely new cover.  See below, the 1st is the Walmart SW and the 2nd is the normal #1.

I wonder if that will make this one more desirable?