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He replaced the comics he took with convincing forgeries to avoid altering history, yet he provided authors, artists, and creators with insights from the future. I guess he forgot about the part where he didn't want to alter history.

No worries!

Ah, that tallies, because "an FEH" is incorrect, while "an MLJ" is correct because of the vowel sound at the start of "em". Doesn't FEH has a vowel sound at the start as well, "ef"? And not directed to you, but shouldn't the thread title be Black Hood?

Yeah, I thought that might be the case, but it's definitely hard to tell for sure without the book in hand.

It looks it came back as a blue label CVR and it is listed on eBay now for $80K. This reminds me of the time 10 or 15ish years ago that another boardie purchased an early Action with Superman on the cover (#10 I think) for pennies on the dollar on eBay and flipped it for a lot more.

I'm in. Thanks, Mike!

From what I've seen CGC has consistently given 0.5s to comics missing either the front or back cover that are otherwise complete.

Thank you. I thought I tried that number, but I must have screwed it up!

P.S. I think there is (or was) a website that had loads of pictures of Action #1 &/or a few other mega keys in various grades (not just from one source like Heritage, or ComicConnect, but pictures from all over).

Yes. It took me bit of searching to find the old thread, but here's an old thread that has pictures of a 0.5 brittle Action #1. It looks like the notes on the label state "Spine of cover completely split & cover detached". I can't seem to get the cert # to show up in the CGC Certification look up tool, so either I'm misreading the number (it's not that clear), or it was removed for some reason.

Hey Sup, That seems to be al correct. Thanks. In my experiences this year on shipping it was quite less to ship registered with a declared value as opposed to priority with the same amount insured. Books were about 3 to 10k each time. Like I said in the past it was the opposite but I think priority insurance costs have gone way up. I spoke to the fellows at comiclink about this and they were going to look into it. Try to save us all some dough. Hey Professor, in my experience it has been that way for at least the past 10+ years (I sent a registered insured item about 10 years ago and that's how it was back then too). Insurance rates for priority, and registered may have changed slightly during that time, but the relationship between them has been fairly steady. I'm not as familiar with historical insurance rates for Express; I thought they have always been more on the high side like Priority than on the low side like Registered, but I don't recall for sure.

Here is my understanding: Registered mail is a USPS service, just like express, priority and media mail are USPS services. Insurance is an additional cost for registered mail, just like it is an additional cost for priority mail. I believe registered mail costs a bit (or more than a bit) more than priority mail, but for shipping pricey items (at least those worth between say $5K and $25K) with insurance, using registered mail is a no brainer, as the cost of insurance for registered mail is significantly cheaper than for express or priority. The cost of registered appears to start getting pricier for items worth over $25K per link below. USPS insurance costs for priority and express: https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2007/html/pb22218/kit1_011.html USPS insurance costs for registered mail: https://about.usps.com/postal-bulletin/2008/html/pb22247/html/not123_063.html For registered mail, you enter the value you want it to be insured for next to "Customer must declare full value", and then you're charged based on the registered insurance rates rates in the link above. Keep in mind that if you ship with registered mail you'll need to paper tape around all the seams of the box. When I used registered mail many years ago the usps clerk provided me with some tape that I used to prepare my box appropriately (along with a water sponge thingy to get wet the sticky side of the tape).

Following is a summary of the old and new grading tier names as I understand it; What was previously called "Walkthrough" (3% fee, subject to $150 min & $5K max fee) is now called "Unlimited Value" (4% fee, subject to $150 min fee & no max fee) What was previously called "Express" is no more (it had a $3K FMV limit, and $100 fee per book) What was previously called "Standard" (with $1K FMV limit & $65 fee) is now called "High Value" (with $1K FMV limit & $85 fee) What was previously called "Economy" (with $400 FMV limit & $38 fee) is now called "Vintage" (with $400 FMV limit & $37 fee) What was previously called "Value" is no more (it had a $200 FMV limit & $27 fee). IIRC there was also a minimum number of books submitted requirement to qualify for the Value tier.

Hey! Right, I'm trying to do the math as to how much $150.00 gets you.. 6,000? I think you can get a book claimed as 6,000 graded for 150.00? After that technically you would be charged more? 2 days is pretty quick so that's a plus. What you said, except rather than $6,000, it is $3,750 (calculated as 150 / 0.04). As a check, 3,750 x 4% = $150.

One edit that I would suggest, based on my understanding: -if the book comes in at a grade that puts the value above your estimate, CGC may adjust what you pay (but typically won't bother if it's relatively close) -if the book comes in at a grade that puts the value below your estimate, CGC will not adjust what you pay

Yep. That's about the amount their CS said they did a while back in this thread. Even assuming they have 3-4 separate teams of graders to divide up the labor, that's still less than 20 seconds per book. Every minute, every hour, every day. Without knowing how many graders CGC has, and how many graders look at each book, it's tough to determine how long it takes to grade a book on average. I suspect that CGC has more graders than the 20 second estimate accounts for, and that it might take a minute or longer per book, rather than just 20 seconds per book. Still just a wild guess though...

Wrong thread - that one belongs in the most overpriced comic of the week thread!

Possibly 11-23 based on info in this old thread.

Thanks to Mike for providing results for the last couple rounds that I could copy and paste into Excel.

The cumulative CGC grading contest rankings that I determine do not include scores from tie breaker rounds, so without further adieu, following are the "MVP", "Diamond Club", and "Honor Roll" award winners based on performance through the first 7 CGC grading contests(with a minimum of 3.5 contests = 3.5 x 4 = 14 rounds to qualify): Congrats to TheGeneral for moving into the 1st place spot through contest #7, and congrats to all other award winners! A few additional thoughts based on contest results through the first 7 rounds: 1. 405 participants have submitted grades for 1 or more rounds 2. 83 participants have submitted grades for 3.5+ contests, and thus qualified for the awards above. 3. Amongst qualifying participants, the average score ranged from 18.5 points per round for TheGeneral to 50.1 points per round for the 83rd ranked qualifying participant. Average scores of 22.2, 28.8, and 36.6 get you in the top 10%, top 50%, and top 90% of qualifying participants.

Congrats, guys, and good luck in the tie breaker round!

A copy of the spreadsheet would work great on my end. Thanks a lot!

Hi Mike. Thanks for the info. Since it sounds like it would take some extra effort to provide the format I requested above don't worry about it, but if you could provide a version that can be copied / pasted (rather than just a picture) after each round in the future, that will give me everything I need, without having to manually enter any data (I can just electronically combine the data from each round like I've done in the past). Thanks!

Hey Mike, I just did a data check on the dates you provided above in preparation for updating the cumulative boardie grading contest performance rankings through the current contest, and it looks like the data above doesn't include boardies / scores for those boardies that dropped out after round 1. No worries though, as I have manually added in 1st round scores for those boardies to my spreadsheet (and double-checked my data entries), so my data is all up to date through round 3 of this contest (FYI - boardies that dropped out after the first round: AbsoluteCarnage, davidking623, divad, FigaroToe, Filter81, Frederic9494, grebal, realitytrip). I noticed that the total score for those boardies that have dropped out after the 2nd round is 70 higher than their actual cumulative score through round 2. I guess that was your way of bumping them to the bottom of the rankings for the current contest, which is cool (for my purposes I don't add 70 to their scores). Using the scores you show by book for all other participants, I match the total scores you show for everyone else (good). P.S. If it's possible in future contests to provide a list similar the one above (i.e. that can be copied and pasted), except without removing any participants that drop out after any given round, it will make my job of copying / pasting the data into the spreadsheet that I use to update the cumulative boardie grading contest performance rankings through the latest contest super easy. If you did that, then technically I'd only need one list that I could copy / paste after the 4th round of each contest, but if you provide a list after each round, I can perform some checks before the final round. With that said, whatever data you provide in a format that can be copied / pasted is much appreciated. Thanks for everything you do with these contests, and as a CGC liaison.

No worries, and thanks, buddy! I'm looking forward to updating the rankings through contest #7.