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There was a lot of back and forth but I'm not sure if this was explained properly. Yes, on heritage, what you bid is then added an extra fee, which is not the case with e-bay. However, since that extra fee is automatically tacked onto your bid, the final price a book sells on heritage will include that fee. So it does end up being the same as with e-bay. The reason for this difference is that E-bay makes all their money from the seller, so the buyer does not need to seehow much of their bid is spent on fees. However, with hertiage, they will take a fee from both the buyer and seller so they are disclosing to the buyer how much they are paying to heritage when purchasing the book. But in both cases, you see your final bid (which includes everything but the tax) rather clearly and that's the FMV used in GPA and other stats, so it comes out to the same thing

The best artist of that era is Brian Bolland. I also have a real soft spot for Sienkewicz. Perez and Byrne are good but they are very much the meat and potatoes kind, not offering a truly distinctive style. Perez could have done X-Men and Byrne could have done Teen Titans and I think the world of comics would still be pretty much the same.

Just so I understand better, are you saying it was probably detached originally and you didn't catch it or was it loose to the point that it could have gotten detached through further handling and that's the probability you missed? Also, I am looking at what you sent in and I am very curious as to the reason for the submissions. Was it to know the grade within your collection, to sell them or something else? I used to be into FF and have a decent run but I havent looked at the prices in a while, have they risen in the past 8 years and those are now hot books? Or did the slabbing process end up costing as much as the comics are worth?

Be as hard as possible. CGC can still be very strict and adhere to the overstreet grading guide, as they did when they first started out. Case in point, this book here has what I would call a small flaw in the corner and it was removed from anything close to a higher grade range: From experience most silver/bronze age books that were read once or twice are more within the 8.5 range (always just shy of 9.0). If you are curious, you can always scan some examples and post them in that forum for people to give their opinion of the grade.

That was some mighty strict grading, overstreet grading guide style.

That's what I think too.

Which of the defects in that pic are you referring to? That tear near the bottom of the J in June looks like a bindery tear, yes.

2.0

Wow, I am very surprised to see that, I would have thought the staple tear and colour breaks along the spine would prevent that. Good to hear though. I would love to hear more details about the other books you sent in to get a better idea of how much CGC penalized whatever defects you may have assumed were not as major as they turned out to be.

We can have a pretty good idea of what they will grade if you take some images and scans of the front and back and post them here: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/42-hey-buddy-can-you-spare-a-grade/ We'll know right away if they are a 9.8 or not.

Jr Jr is my number 1 pick for worst artist, i just don't get the appeal, it's really ugly art. And while modern artists, I must say Jim Lee and Mike Mignola would be on my list for best American artist of all time.

yes, i think the first step is to buy the grading guide (not the price guide) to get a better sense of what your grades are. Then you can see which book is worth spending 40-50$ on to get slabbed. https://www.amazon.com/Overstreet-Guide-Grading-Comics-2016/dp/1603601996/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=overstreet+grading+guide&qid=1591011962&sprefix=overstreet+grad&sr=8-1 Because remember that a 35$ book will still only sell for 35$ even if it's graded by cgc. https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?back=%2FComicTrack%2FAuctions%2Fbids.asp&id=1392946

In that case, dont spend the extra money to have them graded, you can get just as good an estimate yourself and it will cost much less. Buy this book on amazon, its the industry standard for grading: https://www.amazon.com/Overstreet-Guide-Grading-Comics-2016/dp/1603601996/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=overstreet+grading+guide&qid=1591011962&sprefix=overstreet+grad&sr=8-1 There are a bunch if examples and descriptions so that you can have an idea of what the grade of the book is. So just compare with that and jot down the grade of each of your books. Then go to ebay or other auction sites to search past auctions and see what that issue in that specific grade sold for and you'll have an idea if the value. You'd have to do that part even if you went through cgc since cgc doesn't tell you how much the book is worth, just the grade, and you can do that yourself. Plus, cgc requests that you give an estimated value of what you submit for insurance purposes, so you'd have to know the value using what I wrote regardless making the act of sending them redundant for your purpose.

I'd love that. But that means it's more for the dealer to spend money on these and not me.

If its going on ebay, just say its in the fine range.

The prices are not down in general, I can tell you that.

It's really impossible to know without seeing the books. But just percentage wise, 50% value to buy in bulk is usually as high as it goes. If he wants more money, he can sell them himself.

I always wanted some Alex Milne art and Stadium Comics was having an event with a virtual artist alley and a Q&A so I grabbed what I could before everything sold out in an instant. I got an Optimus Prime bust shot (50$, I am assuming that's how much I'd pay if I saw him at a show) and a Batman for 20$ (which will be perfect for my Batman sketch collection https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=103520). And they were having a sale on Artgerm covers so I said why not.

Shazam?!

wait what, what did he do wrong?

By the way, please be aware that the press might not change the grade at all and you may be wasting even more money on a 9.6. Instead of wondering if it's worth the chance of it being a 9.8, think about how comfortable you are if you spend all that money and it remains a 9.6. Including everything, it would be another 50-60$ and several months of wait till you know. You might be better off buying an actual 9.8 and selling your 9.6. At least in that way, you will get your 9.8.

CGC actually came onto the boards to discuss this issue specifically, which only happened when someone chose those special labels. So I have no doubt that's the issue. Can't find the message from Debbie, if anyone remembers where that was please post it.

those twin earths look like something else to me

Especially these days when your signed book is only worth something more if it's in a yellow CGC holder (unless the creator passed a long time ago).

Honestly, I've never understood trimming as a whole. I mean, I know what it is, but I fail to see what someone's end goal is when trimed comics usually have other defects that would lower the grade were it untrimmed anyway.