Cman429

I’ve been going to Fan Expo/Megacon for 7-8 years and that line waiting experience has always been a staple of their cons. Saturday’s especially are a nightmare as post pandemic it seems like the whole world wants to come on Saturday which is why unless a guest is Sat only I have no desire to even attempt meeting them. The problem is they run these celebs from panel to photo op to signing and everything runs long then backs up the next thing. And there’s no good answer because when they try controlling the crowd like with Hayden, who has shut off ticket sales weeks/months before cons, people whine about it. I don’t think there’s any good solution beyond what I’ve learned which is plan ahead, go multiple days, and always expect everything to take 3x longer than you plan.

Yes, most of them will have a sign on their table somewhere listing their prices for different types of sketches. If they don’t there’s no harm in asking “do you do sketches?” Worst they can say is no. You can ask them any time they’re at their table just don’t interrupt anybody already there. A lot of times they’ll have a handler or booth person who you can ask and will coordinate the process. Like the person above said, some artists don’t mind if you contact them on their website or social media in which case you usually pay them upfront (weeks before the con) to guarantee your drawing and then either pick it up at the show or find them there and set up what you want on the spot.

I see it like this when all your doing is returning something to its original state, like pressing or cleaning, nothing is being added so it’s still in essence authentic. When you perform restoration on something, you’re adding to it thereby negating what it is. To use another fine art example, if I look at the Mona Lisa, I want to know every brush stroke was performed by master Leonardo himself. Carefully cleaning it doesn’t affect my appreciation one iota bc at the end of the day it’s still 100% his. But if I found out some art school goof saw a chip in the background and decided to fill in the paint himself, well, then you’ve altered it and it’s no longer an original work. That’s how I feel about abominable purple label comics.

1) nothing in comics is forever 2) if you don’t like a current version/storyline of a character, chances are you have plenty of other versions/volumes to catch up on so enjoy those 3) Punisher will never be done “right” owned by Disney and in our current climate bc the people in charge don’t like the people who like what the Punisher represents and are afraid of appealing to then in any way

I was aware of Overstreet around early to mid 90s and had seen their grading scale/criteria but I just remember grading being very basic and general like Poor, Good, Fine, Mint and not the detail we have now with numbers and minuses/pluses. I’m pretty sure the price guides only listed a handful of grade categories for each book, I bought an ASM 24 at a con in the mid 90s and honestly don’t even remember the dealer talking about the grade. I don’t remember every book at booths being labeled with grades. When I bought a pricey back issue - and by pricey I’m talking $30-50 for keys not the ludicrous prices now - I just remember the dealer taking it down, unbagging it, and going into their salesman spiel pointing out what’s nice, what’s not so nice and why I’m getting a good deal. I miss those days but I guess life is easier now since there’s no debate or hucksterism necessary when you have a wall of CGC graded slabs.

If you’re just buying for yourself, I’d take the higher grade one. Investment wise? You always want the complete book bc that’s what collectors will want. So if you’re planning to resale it down the road, the lower grade but complete book would be the better buy.

Now I kinda wanna know what’s the smallest piece we can submit from a cover and still get a CVR label. It’s an existential question: when does a cover cease being cover?

Grader notes are free. Just enter your CGC slab certification # on the verify CCG page - https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/ - and it’ll give you the grader notes

Honestly it looks kinda fake to me. If I bought it I’d get it authenticated to be sure bc it looks sus

Your attitude of “well if you miss out on an autograph, that’s just part of the game” is admirable. However, say a dad is bringing his son and daughter to a con to meet Darth Vader. Paying the $40-60 con admission fee + parking + whatever the kids demand in snacks, then the hassle of driving to the venue, waiting to get in, then navigating the crowd to Hayden’s booth… Yeah, I think you can understand why “well, if we meet him we meet him, if we don’t, we don’t” isn’t going to fly with everyone…

Spidey’s MTU title was the first comic I ever subscribed to. For whatever reason, my favorite issue was the one where he teamed with Jack of Hearts. Ever since then Jack has been my all time favorite bizarre utterly forgotten character. If I was James Gunn, he’d be my Polka Dot Man.

I sent a stack of Spawn 1s into Todd’s signing and unfortunately one with the centerfold missing got mixed in. Came back a 7.5 yellow label (no qualification). So I assume that’s the “missing centerfold” version of a 9.8

Man,I just threw like 20 of them away from comic purchases I made. I had no idea they were so valuable

I’m more interested to see what new Disney Princess we get introduced to through the Passing Of The Torch Whip

I can see trying a scam like this on Reddit or FB marketplace but to come to a collectors forum where mostly hardcore hobbyists frequent and try and pull this takes some massive grapefruits

If you have absolutely zero intention of ever never ever selling them, glue prob would work. If you have even a small infinitesimal possibility of someday putting them up for sale, I’d suck it up and submit them for reholder.

I like to get photo covers signed. DC was good about making comic tie ins for their shows so I have 90s tv Flash and Smallville photo cover comics signed by the cast. There’s a Lois and Clark comic listed on mycomicshop as a “Lois and Clark the New Adventures of Superman/Batman The Animated Movie Preview Flipbook” that I’d love to get signed but I’ve never seen it anywhere. I’ve seen Dean Cain at many cons and never seen anyone with one either so I’m wondering if it even exists,

these 2!

I remember my elementary school did a magazine subscription drive where they enlisted entrepreneurial 3rd graders to push subscriptions on every one of our parents’ friends/relatives with the promise of certain prizes for x number of subscriptions sold. Anyway, they offered Marvel subscriptions so my mom let me and my brother get two each. I didn’t get any prizes but I did end up with a nice run of 80s ASM & Xmen and he ended up with GI Joe & MTU thanks to that nonsense.

CGC is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. (Wish I knew how to make memes)

I would assume the reason is pretty obvious. Just like in action figures where the female figures were produced in lesser quantities, I imagine WW had far smaller print runs and sales than Superman, Batman or GL bc little boys were less likely to be into a lady hero. Fast forward 30 years later and those lower print runs = higher value.

At Megacon CGC stationed witnesses at all the popular comic creators so they didn’t have to keep sending one over. You still had to go to CGC’s actual booth to get a book cracked, tho. There’s two kinds of CGC employees at cons, facilitators who crack books, do paperwork, etc and the witnesses who seem to exist to just stand there and scribble that they “saw” your book be signed. Can’t really know what the process will be for Lee unless we know if he’s going to be with a full fledged facilitator group (like some guys are) or just arranged to have a witness there at all times.

“Tear seals?” Is that a fancy CGC word for….tape? And was this slabbed before CGC went to color coded labels? I’ve never seen a blue label with conservation notes before. If I had that I’d be ecstatic I dodged the purple label of death.

I deal in trading cards on the side and it’s funny but POP 4 or whatever is a big selling point in that community but as far as I’ve seen comic people don’t seem to care about it

He didn’t pick bad books to submit. What’s “hot” in the comic “market” is largely tied to movies/tv hype. If marvel announced tomorrow Brad Pitt was playing Darkhawk that book would go from dollar bin flotsam to going for $200+ in any 9+ grade. Like Sandman definitely shot up for awhile when anticipation for the show peaked. Unfortunately for him it kinda bombed so now he probably won’t get much back on all those books he submitted. In a few years maybe HBO picks up a S2 and this time it is that GOT level hit some hoped then he’s sitting on some value. So in summation, he better hope there’s a Beta Ray Bill vs Devil Dinosaur movie on the horizon.