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Some recent sketch additions!!

Seeing this one spike on Ebay lately, due to the upcoming film….!

I meant 'A Shop Called Quest'. More Funco pops and graphic novels than anything, but they had a few long boxes of back issues. Random assortment of late-2000s stuff and dollar bin selections.

@doomwhistle - I feel your pain. I relocated from Sylmar to Riverside and I was feeling the scarcity of rare books in the LA stores too. I was dependent on some of the IG vendors I would see at San Diego Con or Ontario Con. However, I have had some luck finding a few gems and even a few Mark Jewelers issues in a few places - A Tribe Called Comics in Claremont, Four Color Comics in Rancho Cucamonga and a few other random stores in the Inland Empire still have a good selection of back issues. There is a good store way the hell out in Victorville with a nice back selection, too. Geekdom, I believe it is called. I recall this issue of Spawn which had this homage cover to a Spiderman issue. McFarlane listed the names of all of these comic stores and distributors throughout the country on the cover. One of the stores lists, Pop UP Comics or something, was a store in Florida. I went out there for work for a week and gave it a look. It was actually a nursery/children's library kind of store, but the guy had about 8 long boxes under a Clifford and Paddington display. All issues were N/M Jim Lee Xmen, Larsen Spiderman/Punishers and a bunch of random 90s books. Pretty good find. Some of the older dudes, particularly down South, are still not going to be bothered with internet and facebook postings. So....although the gas prices truly suck out on the West Coast, there are some finds to be found in the stores a bit farther out or in states down South....

A bit of Mark Texeira flavor on a Punisher cover….!

Who is the artist?!? Madness!

Indeed. Twincitiescomics does it up!

Someone’s ‘Carnage over Spider-man’ remarque on here led me to this….

I agree 1000%. However, CGC is instructing me to send this book back FIRST, before they even try to locate my book. I was hoping they could at least find my book first, so this would be an even exchange. I don't want to send this book in and they lose it and then all of my leverage is gone. More to follow on this predicament. I will not be renewing my membership with them, after this debacle. I have sent maybe 90 books or so to them, over the last 8 years. I can only imagine how this must be happening to the big book dealers that send in 100-200 books for CGC grading per month....

Update: the CGC QC goblin struck again. I did not get the New Mutants 97, shown above, back. However, I got SOMEONE ELSE’s MJ New Mutants 98. Let me know if you are missing a book because, hopefully, you will have my book and we can work something out. I will try my best to get this one back to whom it belongs….

Concur, Stronguy. I have some Liefeld New Mutants issues with the MJI and I sent in a few for the Louise Simonson signing. A few blue labels and a few yellow labels. ALL missing the MJI metadata on the label. I have done Mechanical Error submissions so many times that two of the qc people at ngc.coin know my email address now. I think I’m done with CGC once my subscription period ends. When I first submitted books to them, back in 2006, they would even put the location the book signing took place on the Yellow label, like ‘….signed at Wizard World Texas…’ or something. That went away and now the MJI detail seems to be fading too. I’d be curious to know why, since their YouTubes paint them as such a meticulous and thorough grading company. But…yeh…the QC has taken a hit. Definitely giving CCS a look….

Definitely my favorite artist, along with Sam Keith…!

Sooo….this is the second book I sent in (with a Mark Jewelers insert) and the graders fail to annotate. One of the things I liked about CGC was their attention to detail, when a book included cards or a gatefold poster, etc. is anyone else experiencing this? Definitely sending it back as a mechanical error…. 🤬