Dick Pontoon

I'd be shocked if CGC decides to grade books by putting them in a polybag with a sticker on the flap like the other grading service, and doubt it they'll invest in the tooling and production to make slabs that size unless the costs drop precipitously enough to make it worthwhile. Unless you're talking about a Treasury grading service I'm unaware of, in which case I'll take the eggs.

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Here's some Journey Into Mystery. I really need to upgrade the beat filler copies. One of these days.

Meh. I'm not buying it, sounds like bunk to me.

If you are inexperienced at grading and want your books slabbed in a specific grade then it would be best to buy them already graded.

Impossible to even hazard a guess without pictures.

Cool, a universal auction tracker could come in very handy.

I haven't posted more than I have already simply because I don't have all my books scanned. What I posted is just what I already had on hand. I think I do have some DCs, but I'm not an early SA Batman fan at all.

I better start posting some more of mine before *Bronze age fan* shows up and unleashes his. Maybe he's busy leaning over a railing...

Start with these: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/398339-comic-book-history/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/240146-books-about-comics/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/147313-college-paper-on-comic-books/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/127014-best-book-on-comic-book-history/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/386348-which-book-to-chose-about-the-history-of-marvel/ https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/437125-required-reading-%E2%80%A2-got-recommendations/

fyrestarter00 Bid a book up to $41. No payment, no response. Gave him a week, opened a case, no response. Case closed, thrill bidder blocked.

Didn't realize his renown reached the west coast!

Mike Royer on the East Coast is impressive.

Here's a few more. The Marvel's Greatest Comics #33 doesn't have a new cover, but was such a nice copy I couldn't pass it up.

Might be better off posting in Comics General: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/8-comics-general/

With that much text it must be Sam Rosen. He could squeeze in even more than Artie Simek.

I'll second that.

The best place to post questions about grades and condition is probably the Grading and Restoration Issues Forum: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/forum/27-comic-book-grading-and-restoration-issues/ That said, I don’t think a press will do much. Think of a shirt that’s wrinkled, torn and stained. Ironing will make it nice and flat but it will still have rips and spots. A press is not going to get rid of all those huge color breaking creases by the spine. It’s not going to replace color that is missing. It won’t get rid of the chip on the FC or BC, there’s paper missing. Its not going to get rid of soft rounded corners and edges. A press and clean might make it a bit more presentable, especially the BC, but I don’t you’d get more than a 4.5 out of it. It’s an important book, but I don’t believe there’s a huge spread between a 4.0 and 4.5.

The latest episode of The Baby and Pigmon Show is up and running.

Since I have most of the originals, I've never been tempted go after complete runs of the reprint titles except for those with new covers.

I'd like to upgrade someday. Here's my Marvel Tales #1, the grand-daddy of the SA reprint titles. This is as close to the originals as you can get, same paper stock and great reproduction unlike today's trades, Milestones or True Believers.

That makes sense. I only read the collected first edition, and the the second when it came our much later.

Cool, I'll check it out! They’re all great, and at least worth a read. If you enjoy “It’s a Good Life” try George Sprott Any of the hardcover Palookavilles. He ceased making floppies years ago Wimbeldon Green Unlike F for Fake, I thought Clyde Fans was swell. I find his comics as rich as a full-on novel.

This is true. Also curious to see if the scarity of this event -- splitting up a Strange Tales book that wasn't even on the 1980 inventory (in other words kinda coming from, ya might say, a black hole collection) -- makes this pop. Early answer is HOLY COW YEAH. Ditko did great work on Doctor Strange, and there's some lovely linework on these, but this ain't his best sample. It's a really good, if static, story. Has anyone read the new John Morrow book STUF' SAID? It's a compendium of everything Lee, Kirby and Ditko said about how the Marvel Universe was created. And something I hadn't picked up on before was how often Stan snubbed Doctor Strange. There's like a dozen contemporary pullquotes in the book in which Stan complains about it. It was hard to write, he didn't know what was happening in it. he never gave it enough space on the cover, etc. So this was mostly Ditko's baby, and that makes it an interesting strip. But also, minus Stan's involvement, there is zero emotional engagement with Doc. He isn't a hero with a problem. There's no agony and no joy, just a guy fighting magic with magic. It's cool but the personal stakes just aren't there. When Clea shows up in 126, that does light a narrative spark and the stories get better, but I always felt I didn't know Doc the way I knew Peter Parker until the '70s. The 117 pages have some cool design elements (someone more patient than me should figure out what else he took from The Spirit besides the window from Denny Colt's crypt) and I've always liked how Mordo and Doc Ock seem to have shopped from the same supervillain mail order janitor uniform catalogue, but yeah, these shouldn't go for Spidey prices. There's gonna be more of this coming down the pike. In other words, no one needs to bid on these. Just started STUF' SAID today, only about 20 pages in so far. Even feeling fairly familiar with the history, having it laid out chronologically is fantastic; accolades to Mr. Morrow.. Lee's feelings aside, Dr. Strange was always a little uneven both in art and story whereas with Spider-Man, Ditko seemed to be a bit more vested. ASM moved in a steady progression throughout his first 39 stories except maybe towards the end; Strange occasionally looked and read as if Ditko rushed through it for whatever reason.