William-James88

Grades submitted. some of these were tough

Added lots of Jim Lee (and some Todd) to my collection today

More dollar bin finds (mix of $1 and $2 comics, these 34 came out to $54) Includes first bishop, first tri sentinel,first circuit breaker, first Monet, first Omega Red, first Jim Lee comic interior art and first Jim Lee cover art.

Incredible find for that Superboy, congrats!

Yup, as others said, not worth grading. This could knock the book down to a 9.2

Count me in

Yup it was a really long time coming. And all these years I had no clue if that Captain Marvel Adventures 25 looked good or not. But it turned out to be the best looking of the bunch so I am overjoyed. Thank you so much for you comment and thanks to all the wonderful people here for letting me share my love and passion with you.

Here’s one for this thread, Detective Comics 135, Canadian Edition. OSPG is 171 in GD for the less rare standard edition. only 3 in census

I have Heritage Auction hold my wins until I have enough for the shipping to Canada to be worthwhile. So I wait years to get these books finally in their new home. Got 7 lots in today, lots of Golden Age books, and made a video to savor the event. The highlights are in the thumbnail (first Captain Marvel Jr and first Mary Marvel).

I’d call it outsourcing

While I get you not wanting that, I think this is what's gonna happen. CGC isn't spending all this money on an acquisition to make as little as possible from it. The way they get the most business from this is to create a service people will want to purchase and what people would want most is for their non witnessed sig books to be as marketable as a witnessed sig book.

They will at least remove the stigma green labels had. Like I don't know if a JSA yellow label would command more than a universal label, but it wouldn't command less (I'm assuming that's the case with green labels these days, with ASM 300 for instance).

ok that makes sense. So half of what's necessary for a witnessed sig could have come from Kevin's team while the other half came from the shop owner I dealt with. I mean, neither are people who work for CGC, which was my main point. But I guess that doesn't matter since what's necessary is the approval from CGC, not their direct presence.

I know for a fact that this sig below wasnt supervised by CGC. Eastman appeared at a local show which had 0 CGC presence. A local comic store owner applied to be a witness and got approved and had Eastman to sign a bunch privately, away from the crowd. While there is 0 incentive to forge Eastman’s sig when he’s right there, all I can do is take their word for it. Could be that they missed or forgot a book and thus forged a sig among the others sent to CGC. unlikely, but there’s no proof one way or another. CGC wasnt there, CGC didnt witness anything, they didn't supervise jack. They are simply taking the word of someone who is bringing in more business for them. And that gives me this nice yellow label book that makes it look like an official CGC witnessed sig. As we saw with the recent scandal, this whole CGC thing is merely trust based, and there could always be people abusing that system.

Aw thanks man! And I’m glad to see you join in on the discussion. What I find so fascinating here are all the balls of yarn this unravels. Like, I may not send my stan lee and jim starlin sigs in, but at least those books wont suffer from a stigma and can retain their value. plus, it means we will get some slabbed kirby sigs on the market in non green holders