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Growing up long ago, I collected coins, cards (Star Wars and Wacky Packages) and comics. I stopped coins and cards long ago, and continued with comics until college. I stopped for 20 years (work, family) before picking it up again this year (working from home). I first started with Casper, Richie Rich, Uncle Scrooge and Dennis the Menace. Then, one day in 1979, I saw Fantastic Four #204 on the rack at the local store and was blown away by the much more sophisticated artwork and story. Since then, I've collected mostly Marvel and some DC, Image, Valiant. One of the coolest things was just finding out yesterday that my mom loved reading comics when she was in her teens and early 20's (she's almost 90 now). Her favorites were Wonder Woman, Archie, Casper and Incredible Hulk. She was intrigued by the question mark on the front cover of the Hulk and initially thought he was a marine coming up out of the mud. She was 26 when #1 came out and she had to be discreet about buying it, since she was a single woman back then. In those days, she said that she and her friends loved going to the drugstore every Saturday and buying a comic or two. Once they were done reading, they would pass it to their friends at school and never kept any. I also just found out that my cousin was named after Wonder Woman (Diane). My dad liked reading comics, but only from the newspaper. In my parents world, they loved reading comics but they never thought to collect or keep them. My mom remarried and I remember one incident when she was wondering what to do with her 2nd diamond ring. I was around nine or ten at the time and I asked her how much it was worth. She said $10,000 and I begged her many times to sell it so I could buy more comics. Of course she didn't, and now I tell her, if I had $300 back then, I could've bought AF15 and now it'd be worth xxxx... You can definitely tell what I cared about... For me, it's nostalgic and it's been a lot of fun coming back to this magical world. And with all of the Marvel movies and TV series coming out, it's exciting to go back and see if I have any of those issues that skyrocketed in value due to a first appearance (like going on a treasure hunt). However, even if there were no Marvel movies or TV series, I'd still be here on these boards, buying comics and enjoying them (though at much more reasonable prices!). Thanks for indulging me.

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Same here - really liked how white the pages were on some of the earlier ASM books. Very nice collection.

Any raw ASM?

This was a great buying opportunity - many desirable keys at affordable prices. I need to check these boards more often during the day... Congrats to the seller and buyers.

Thanks for sharing your experience, however bad it was - this is helpful. What do you mean by facsimile version? Was it a different copy of a New Mutants 98 (maybe a direct version vs. newstand edition), and was it in similar condition to your submitted book? If so, why do you say it is worthless? I am assuming that your experience with CGC wasn't that bad as you are still here on the boards. Hope that you at least broke even financially. Really appreciate your story, though.

Sorry, I'm really late to this thread. I'll take this if still available, at 25% off

Yes, I only recently joined these boards and found the discussions to be very informative with a lot of wide-ranging opinions, some of which are critical of CGC. So, while I understand that some folks may leave due to issues with them, I hope that CGC has been able to address and resolve most issues to everyone's satisfaction.

Good point!

Thanks, I just wanted to see if anyone had any experiences they could share. I always wondered what the walkthrough tier was, but it makes sense now for those really valuable books. I assume that those books won't leave the sight of any CGC employee / surveillance system at any time, as the stated turnaround time is only a day.

Thanks for pointing them out, although I still couldn't see them. I guess the moral of the story is that printers creases can be undetectable from their image, but, fortunately, they won't affect the grade at all.