Doctor Dositheus

Yeah, I was surprised yesterday by that. It must have been in the last couple months.

Pic #3 looks like there's some wear on the spine above the bottom staple. If there is some spine wear: 8.0 If it's just a low res reflection: 9.2

Maybe you can get one reslabbed with the note FIRST APPEARANCE OF STRANGE GRAY GREEN BACKGROUND COLOR

But only for one hour and then I have to be back in the water!

I will be there. I may or may not be square.

Same. There are some random grades just missing still while logged into a paid account, and I agree that not all of the sales data is there yet. I do like some of the new features. I'm getting used to it still. It's still a little overwhelming, but I've been waiting for them to give historical sales data in chart form like GPA for a while.

I like that it is now charting the same averages as GPA. It seems like not all the sales data is there yet from before but I expect it to show up.

The reply I got from support is they expect all this to be straightened out by 1pm tomorrow.

I'm inspired. I'm actually a little surprised I didn't hit it earlier, but I've been pretty quiet the last few months. Just observing the crazy market from a distance, but now it's delayed convention season and time to jump back in!

And now it's back. That was fast. Thank You Go Collect!

Maybe someday I'll have thousands of posts like CGC Illuminati. I sent support a message about the comics watchlist. We'll see if they can recover it.

Watchlist is gone? Now I went from to very very

I used to log in with a user name but now must use my email. This makes me sad

Yes a dry cleaning sponge with a gentle touch might work too, although the slightest bit too much and it will leave marks in the gloss. Another possibility might be very delicate scalpel work.

The highest grade I'm aware of a book with a hole all the way through getting in a blue label is 5.0. I think there was a Tales of Suspense that went from 8.0 green to 5.0 blue with two hole punches. Because the rest of the book is better than 8.0, maybe CGC could go as high as 6.0? Only one way to find out.

Just saw this old slab on CLink coming up next week. https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2021sept%26session%3D2%26pg%3D11%23Item_1504086&id=1504086&itemType=0 One of these things is not like the others. Come on, can you tell which one?

I'll say 3.0.

I'm leaning toward WW Chicago. I love Motor City but will I love it in October? I like to "tailgate" in the Motor City lot in my car for lunch. I think with the October weather Chicago sounds more enjoyable, plus it's closer for me.

I think somebody important said there's a chance of DD in She-Hulk.

How much does it cost to buy a lobbyist? Maybe we could all pitch in and get some legislation that says comic book profits are tax free.

That's a little bit bigger of an affected area with the water damage than would be seen in an 8.0 I believe. Plus they tend to hit that pretty hard so I'm going 7.0.

What if they hire 24/7 forum administrators? Other thoughts: As terrible as ebae has gotten, it would be nice to have a site like that more focused on the hobby or type of hobby. I saw the Turkish analog of ebae in the news and actually thought, "I wonder if comics sell there?". Maybe big money could do this with the CGC Marketplace. $$$ (30% premium you say?) The number of graders is obviously way too low. Many of us have been grading informally for decades. If they really wanted to solve this bottleneck they could start throwing money around, maybe even use term contract positions. In light of this change in ownership, perhaps certain entities accused of having undue influence at CGC might find their influence diminished. I doubt we'll see much change in the near term. At least I hope not. Change is scary.

Are you saying the Red Ghost and his Super Apes couldn't carry a movie?

Annihilus spec has been going on for about a year on this issue I think. Seems weird because there's no way he appears in the first movie, and with any luck we won't see Franklin in the first movie either, so definitely overheated. As far as prices in general, I'm seeing some mild leveling off on some 4 figure books. The next few months will tell if the lower grades also settle.

I call the wrap with the "M" around the backside the "warehouse wrap", since I presume the find was all from the same run and appear to be wrapped similarly. It's hard to find high grade copies without it as you said. Post prices!