PurpleZeke

Book or no book, that sketch is awesome!

Sweet Flash #113! Grats

Sweet photos! Where is the dang time machine!!!

PM please, least I can do since I read 13 pages without seeing original post!

That Wolverine #10 looks sweet! Grats

WOW!!! What an awesome thread!

Sweet looking books, love the Halloween #4! Grats

Wow, those are some sweet looking books! Gratz

Love the framed display of original art from Chew #11!

Awesome memories, love a toy set myselfback in the 70's called Creepy Crawlers or somthing like that and of course Daisy BB guns!

Love that All-Star Comics #58 CGC 9.8! Gratz

Sorry about previous post as this is a modern topic!

Anyone know the estimated print run of Howard the Duck #33 which came out in the 1986? Low print run according to Overstreet!

So (The Dentist) has potentially the highest copies of Tec 27 and Action Comics #1, and as a seller he had some shady transactions in the past. Why is discussing this considered taboo? Really just curious as I have read tons of posts about shady dealers in the past and whether they should be placed on probation lists, etc... Just curious if certain dealers were trying to squash this in hopes of maybe someday trying to aquire those books themselves???

Thanks to Dale Roberts for the sweet Captain America issue 111 that I picked up at his table at Heroes Con, that was one of the three books I was looking for.

Sorry to hear about your cat, as I fully know how pets become part of your family. Great books though!!

I have read this entire thread and hope it ends soon. I hope Matt gets another grail he is looking for as well. One question I have is if it was originally listed as a 2.5, was Matt informed that it had been submitted for grading as I keep hearing how it came back as a .5?

That 8.0 #3 is sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet looking ASM #24!

Hope you find a nice copy of Tec 37 somtime soon Matt!

Thanks for the info!

Sweet Tomb of Dracula! What's the best way to scan a full page of original comic art? Granted I don't have but 3 at this time and two of those are from the Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1, and one page from an Ultimate X-Men book! Planning on adding to my collection in the upcoming months so would like to post the pic's when I have aquired some. Thanks for all feedback!

I usually submit several hundred moderns to CGC each year for grading and I must admit that anything that comes back less than a 9.6 will be sold for a loss normally, unless it's a hot title, etc. I purchase a lot of moderns each month (and I buy multiple copies of numerous titles), probably way too many and will go through the main titles and select the highest potential graded copies for submission. Any copies with slight dings, etc. automatically get reduced to VF or better for resale just to unload them at a loss. Average cost for submission for a moderns w/shipping is around 17.70 per book, so I will submit multiple copies of high grade moderns that are relatively hot (Blackest Night #1) or high grade copies from the 80's. The 9.8's which I receive will be where my profit comes from, 9.6's will off set the few copies which I recieve that come back with a lesser grade (9.2-9.4). And yes, granted few and far between 9.9's and 10's can pay off. I must admit that when I originally started submitting to CGC, I considered myself to be a good strict grader with over 30 years of collecting, but I was horrible at submissions as I would randomly pull bagged comics out of a box that I might have had 5 or 6 copies of and if the cover looked great I would send it in, that only took a few submissions and after I received a few 6.5 copper age books and looked on the back of the case and noticed manufacturing flaws, I made it a point to check copper/moderns especially close for any potential defects. I have enjoyed this thread and would love to hear any responses. Also for my personal collection, I will keep a copy of the titles I collect that I receive back from CGC for my own collection and sell off the rest to help support my Silver and Bronze Age sets I am working on. Mainly Captain America 100-454 for now and I try to keep the Silver Age at VF or better in graded condition until I finish the set.

Wow, sweet book!

Gratz on the Captain America 123! That's awesome!!!