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If there are pieces that look like they can break off, or the spine could detach, I wouldn't risk the extra handling. Otherwise, I'm a fan of cleaning and pressing even if you DON'T get a grade bump. A cleaned and pressed 2.0 can look a WHOLE lot nicer than a not cleaned and pressed 2.0. But there is always a risk the more places you send your book.

On 3/27/2022 at 9:48 AM, steveinthecity said:

Your comics generally won’t get worse if stored properly.  Encapsulation isn’t a hedge against fluctuating temperatures, humidity, sunlight, etc.

 

"If stored properly". Yes. As long as you keep them stored. But if you want to take the books out, look at them, show them to people, encapsulation protects better than any bag / board.

On 3/27/2022 at 1:31 PM, Tafkap said:

Now, do I include information about the defect and mention how they could press them out and 99% chance get a better grade?

Or could it be simply opening a can of worms with little to no upside?

 

I would absolutely list "Possibly pressable defect" and then describe what and where. I would not say anything about chance at better grade. 

On 3/23/2022 at 4:58 PM, Professor K said:

Well that's extreme. Probably the one downgrade I wouldn't do. Then again sometimes its just not worth selling. Depends on the price gap right.

I have 4 books, all good money books, that I would like to downgrade one grade in a swap depending on the appearance of the other book. Some with a small amount of cash involved. Just so hard to do. I'm thinking maybe at some of the bigger shows I could do it. Then again I hate dealing with a lot of those guys. 

Oh I wouldn't do it on a high value item. I mean like i have a run of all Jim Lee's covers on X-men. I had 14 9.6s and one 9.8. I did a straight trade with a buddy. Difference between a $35 book and $50 book probably.

On 3/23/2022 at 1:23 PM, Professor K said:

All my BIG BRONZE KEYS (1970 to 76) are 9.0 or 9.2 Whites, so yeah it's that. There is a word for my affliction, just can't think of it. 

I feel you. All my runs have matching grades. I've straight traded a 9.8 for a 9.6 before because all my other books were 9.6. 

I use half backs and mylites and have never had a problem. Most likely someone got the wrong sizes. However, it isn't like it's impossible that they got the correct sizes but were errantly given the wrong sizes, either miss labeled or mistakenly shipped.

On 3/21/2022 at 8:50 PM, Professor K said:

I have a GSX 1 9.2 OW/W and wanted to trade with someone for a 9.0 White, with or without cash involved.

So you think the W instead of the OW/W is worth the grade drop? You prefer whole numbers? Or you have other 9.0s and you want the grades to match?

On 3/18/2022 at 2:02 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

One of the single best comic book investments I've ever made!

Thank you Mickey!

On 3/18/2022 at 1:50 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Look what’s coming up in CC auction tonight. Some kid kindly added to the excitement by inventing dialog

Wow. Sold for $1,900. Wonder what it would have gone for if there was no pen on the page.

On 3/18/2022 at 2:08 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

I think any of those are really nice.  I think the Batman one really wowed me because we're talking about the most well-known origin story in all of comics (only Spider-Man comes close in terms of penetration in the popular consciousness), pretty much exactly as it's been retold in the movies, and it's all literally there on those two pages (unlike Spider-Man where you'd need multiple pages to see the spider bite and Uncle Ben's murder and everything in between, and unlike Superman whose origin as we know it was not invented until much later).

And yes, I was also giving the special hat tip for a book I'll probably never own.  Here are my copies of the other two you mentioned.

That X-men 1 9.0 makes my heart skip a beat. Is that a book you got raw a long time ago? I love my collection, but my biggest books are under $15k. A $200k book blows me away. The stories behind it are always interesting to me. Amazing books.

On 3/18/2022 at 12:50 AM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

Regardless if one can afford the book or not, it is still a different thing entirely to actually see the action on a cool page rather than to be limited to the cover.

 

 

I couldn't agree more. I have an X-men 1. But now I want to start collecting the interior pages so I can appreciate and showcase them as well.

On 3/17/2022 at 5:47 PM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

My knee-jerk reaction was no, I wouldn't be interested.  But even though I'm a 100% Marvel guy, I gotta say that the single page from Batman #1 with the full origin told is a truly awesome collectible.  I think the Action #1 page is excellent too.

But you wouldn't be interested in the Thor origin page from Jim83 or the Xmen introduction from X1? Is it because you have / can afford the full book?

On 3/17/2022 at 10:20 AM, zosocane said:

I recently purchased a Hulk 1 page

Was it certified / encapsulated? What page was it? Do you mind me asking what you paid for it? Trying to gauge where the market is. Sales have been pretty random and sporadic so far.

On 3/16/2022 at 2:25 PM, comicginger1789 said:

I don’t regard those silver age grails as “graily” enough. I’d go for the book.

A golden age book that is virtually untouchable like a Batman or Action 1 or Tec 27? Definitely would consider a page there.

As for the amount well the market tends to dictate that so not much I can do but follow and try to outbid if I wanted one ☝️ 

Good for you. If you are in the financial position to get one that's awesome. But for a lot of people the chance to own an AF15 is gone forever and a lot of those other books are coming up fast. I have plenty of friends in their 30s that can't spend $10k on an X-men 1. By the time they might be able to that book will be twice as much. It's all about timing and where you are in life. For someone starting out in collecting in their teens or 20s those silver age grails are as far away as the golden age ones probably are for you.

On 3/16/2022 at 12:36 PM, gunsmokin said:

I’ve got a couple that I like very much! ASM 1 and JIM 83

Awesome. Thanks for sharing. I think these look so great. We're so used to seeing the covers that it is fantastic to see the actual interiors.

On 3/16/2022 at 12:17 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

And for off the rails crazytown, there was this

Wow. I saw that they were selling it, but I never heard how much it went for. Absolutely insane.

On 3/16/2022 at 2:50 AM, Dave2739 said:

November 1974 for me.

Now THAT is a cool birthday book.

With silver age mega key prices getting away from most collectors, even for super low grade copies, would you pay for a single page certified by CGC? I mean AF15, X1, H1, FF1, JiM83, ToS39, etc. I've been thinking about it. I think it displays really nicely and it would be cool to at least have a part of comic I wish I could have. 

On 3/15/2022 at 6:51 PM, D2 said:

June 1982. 

Hurtling towards 40 right along with me.

On 3/15/2022 at 2:23 AM, Pontoon said:

Since the fellow who was the President and Primary Grader at CGC, and who played a huge role in the institutionalization of modern day grading standards, is the Founder,  President and Primary Grader at the other grading company, I find this argument lacking in merit.

How so? He was a hired employee. He didn't come up with the idea. He took someone else's idea and copied it. You can find the argument lacking merit all you want, doesn't change that CBCS is simply a copycat of CGC. They even basically copied how the labels and case look. Is there anywhere that CBCS innovated?

On 2/20/2022 at 3:06 PM, Drake Dragoon said:

missed the red color completely (as shown in picture 2).

I don't see any image you posted that appears to be missing magenta. It is less magenta, but there is still magenta. Lots of color on that cover can't be made with just Cyan, Yellow, and black.

I once had a seller block me on ebay. He was trying to charge me more for shipping 9 slabs than 3x what he charged to ship 3 slabs. I politely told him to simply ship me 3 separate packages if it was cheaper. We went back and forth and then he blocked me. Kind of sucked because he sold a lot of what I buy and his auctions were reasonable. I actually created a second account just to keep buying from him.

On 3/14/2022 at 2:18 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

I saw the Director's Cut of the Watchmen movie back in the day before I read the graphic novel.

What are your thoughts on the ending? I personally like the ending in the movie better, although I know that opinion is somewhat blasphemous to some.

On 1/4/2022 at 4:15 AM, LudaToke said:

Does anyone find that reading in this manner takes away from the flow and joy of it?  It feels like it would be a different experience that just sitting, unwinding and reading what I enjoy every day.  

1,000 comics is less than 3 a day on average. That's 30-45 minutes. So it is a bit of a goal, but nothing all that arduous.