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Finally scored #349 to go with my #347 & #348:

Newest addition:

Uh, quick re-cap for those of us who were too busy "furiously washing our junk" to pay attention. Please and Thank you.

Fine by me. Depressed prices means Imma goingst ta get my 9.8/9.6 CPV freak on!

Nice to see you back.

No worries. I've had GPA for it seems like forever, best $10 a month I spend. I use it all the time. No Batman #357 9.6 CPV sales listed on GPA but the 2 9.8 CPV's sold this year went for $660 & $840 while the two US newsstands went for $1092 & $1099! note: Clink sales are NOT listed on GPA. Even the last two ubiquitous Direct copies went for $798 & $600. I think there is still a lot of confusion among collectors about CPV's and other price variants. Oh well, more primo opportunities for me. I hope they stay sleepy....very sleepy.......so......very........sleepy.........

That's the one. I know Clink doesn't like listing books that sell for less than $300 in their Featured (Feb, May, August & Nov.) auctions so I didn't think I had much of a chance but my $249 bid just barely held up.

Latest Clink auction win. I threw in a lowball bid and won a cool book at a great price.

Thanks for the love but I only won the #20. I already have a 9.8 #21 that was missed as a CPV twice! (The Squish Chronicle - page #122-#123 of this very thread) I bought it as a 9.6 (no CPV note on label) and had it pressed and regraded. (missed CPV note again) I do know who won the #21. A fellow board member was trying to negotiate a trade for my copy when it popped on eBay. I think he got a solid price. I told him I wouldn't consider cash offers less than 3k for my copy. Just like #37, I believe #21, #20 and #25 are wayyyy undervalued as CPV's.

Yeah,..... my name is Dan and I'm a raging-hoarding Swampaholic. I faithfully believe that this key issue is wayyyy undervalued in CPV form. When (not if, trust me, they are out there) a 9.8 comes up for auction, I think it will sell for at least 5-7k with a ceiling of 10-12k. If it goes for less than 5k then it will be mine.

Just tried to register this comic, cert #4073168005 is not found. Any idea why? Any help would be appreciated.

Well Alright! I got a shiny new Best of Bronze Age badge on my Wrightson DC Horror Cover Set. Thanks CGC! Guess I'll wait till July 21st to get the details.............umm,.........wait a minute.

Congrats! In my experience I found that #204, #207 & #256 were the most difficult House of Mystery Wrightson covers to find in 9.4 or better.

Recent Additions: I also recently got back from cgc a half dozen Wrightson books reholdered with shiny new pedigree labels.

Recent additions:

Just scored a 9.8 CPV Swampy #20 to bookend my #21: Wahoo! Now just need #25 & #37 in CPV 9.8.

That would be the dude who has the only other set besides yours listed in Aliens (1988-1992).

Sell em to me! It would have to be cash plus trade but no worries cause I'm gripped up with goodies to trade. I got a chicken salad sandwich with only a single bite out of it, 7 blue marbles, a 4 dvd box set of Discovery channel animal porn, a leather fly swatter, a latex monkey mask and a rubber chicken.

I just checked and Joe Namath is not listed as a CGC board member so......No Guarantees.

Hello All, I bought a copy of Avengers #4 at a flea market for $10 in 1993. I had it graded around 2001 (cgc 1.8, it was a beater) and sold it shortly after for $150. I've been passively looking to replace it ever since. Well, fast forward to last week. I'm looking thru Pedigree's auction and there it is, a cgc 8.0 beauty in the OLD label. I slapped down a lowball bid (GPA average of what the last 7 copies had sold for in cgc 7.5) and went on with life figuring I had no shot to win. Imagine my surprise two days later when I got the e-mail advising me that I had won. Cross 1 grail off the list of books to acquire before I die. I checked and it was graded in May 2003 (before the pressing craze). The grader comments noted: Back cover light rippling/warping, right bottom back cover small chip out, right center front cover small chip out, top interior small smear. I'm thinking with a squish it has a good chance of grading higher. Thoughts?

Red Label also means they were graded before the pressing craze so they are candidates if valuable enough. I've seen a 7.5 pressed to a 9.6.

Still under construction.

I actually did, the distributors facility was less than 3 miles (a short bike ride) from my house. When I was 12-13 years old I just rode up and asked, using my boyish charm, if I could cherry pick. Did that for a couple summers in the late 70's but it wasn't always successful, depended on who was working that day. As for the comics delivered to the stores I worked at in the early-mid 80's, they had already been handled by several workers who were not concerned with preservation by the time they were delivered in totes and checked in individually by hand. Because workers were pressed for time, many tics and stress lines were created loading, unloading, checking-in & stocking. Those metal wire spinner racks and wire endcap racks didn't help either.