Jesse-Lee

11 hours ago, jjonahjameson11 said:

 

By the way, there are more asm 238 cgc 9.8 than ASM 300 cgc 9.8 currently available on ebay

This is important to consider. I've said as much before, but people shouldn't use the overall number of graded copies in the census as their ultimate definition of supply, it should be the number of graded copies that are available to purchase in a given time-frame.

5 hours ago, DocHoppus182 said:

My baby girl sneaking around the comic room.  
 

Oh man, I used to have that Halloween Hulk bucket! Wow, I totally forgot about it until I saw this - I wish I still had that! Thanks for the nostalgia!

After recently getting back into collecting and buying my first slabs in the past year, I realized I was falling back into buying to collect and shoving everything into boxes. So I spent some time the other day pulling books - especially the slabs - and just taking the time to look at each cover and really enjoy what I had. I love reading comics of course, but I also love the way slabbed books look, and I like to just take the slab and examine it. Do you do the same? Or how do you take the time to enjoy your collection, rather than just filing it away?

I never posted a pic of my copy. Glad I picked it up, even in a 9.2 I think it's a cool book to own:

Thanks for doing this - I learned I'm probably too harsh of a grader (which I guess is better than too lenient...). Congrats to the winners!

Book 1 - 7.0

Book 2 - 2.5

Book 3 - 2.5

Book 4 - 5.5

Book 5 - 6.0

Book 6 - 6.5

Book 7 - 1.8

On 12/2/2020 at 9:26 PM, AwesomeSauce said:

Can someone who knows please explain to me the exact meaning of this quote?

I've talked about this before, but this is one of my personal examples embodying this quote - it's Batman 244, one of my all-time favorite covers and one of my favorite Bat-eras. This is a 6.5 that looks better than a lot of higher-graded books out there, because the back cover has some sun shadowing going on that likely brought the grade down. It looks gorgeous from the front and I only paid 6.5 level money for it:

2 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

The one on the left is definitely better centered

The one on the left looks slanted or miscut to me. There is less of the "300" visible on the top right than there is as you go down to the bottom right. It kind of does that on the right copy too, but it doesn't jump out to me like the left copy:

2 minutes ago, Hollywood1892 said:

Which one looks nicer? Serious

 

Seriously though, the one on the right feels just a bit more centered to me.

Orders from the past few weeks/months finally starting to come in:

Just wanted to comment on this with an update to be fair to Legacy Comics - it appears they created a label on 11/11 and shipped on 11/26, and the order is in transit. I didn't receive any tracking info, but they did respond to me today with it, so all is well that ends well. The first couple of times I asked about the order I did it via a direct email; this time I used the form on their site and received an update within a couple of hours. This wouldn't dissuade me from ordering from them again - I'd just know to make sure and ask for a tracking update and to do it using their main form instead of the email address I got from the PayPal transaction.

On 1/14/2020 at 3:03 AM, Samoyed Sabaka said:

As a side note, for those living in the Los Angeles Area, I did discover that my LCS - Legacy Comics in Glendale does offer a nice 33% discount on Marvel and DC, 20% off other publishers - so I'm definitely thinking about switching back to buying at a brick and morter - something I haven't regularly done in almost 20 years.  I will miss the ease with which I could place an order on DCBS, but hopefully, being able to deal with my local shop in a face to face situation will be better in the long run.

I apparently have the worst luck in choosing where to buy comics online - I already had to do chargebacks on two different places who never shipped and completely ghosted me. Now I have Legacy Comics - I bought a bunch of comics in September with preorders. The last issue that was preordered came out on Nov. 10, but I still don't have shipping confirmation and I emailed them twice now for a status update with zero response. I really want the books I ordered, but they're just ghosting me now too it seems. What the heck is going on with these online comic retailers? It's really frustrating...

Another 9.8 at $4,200 with 2 days left though: https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Amazing-Spider-Man-300-CGC-9-8/114513621952?epid=85528898&hash=item1aa98b33c0:g:knAAAOSwbdNfrJ0n

One of my favorites, I need to get this book. I guess the characters aren't actually messing with it, but it's still a cool way to implement it.

This cover is... nuts.

4 minutes ago, TTony said:

Does anyone have any updates?  I got one e-mail response from BatDan a couple weeks ago promising shipment within 1 week but then ghosted after that.  I'm going to file for refunds from credit card company if I do not get feedback by tomorrow.

I waited a bit longer, reached out a couple of more times without response and finally filed for a refund with my credit card company yesterday. I was half hoping it would prompt a shipment, but so far I've heard nothing. I assume I'll just get a refund at this point. Sucks because I really wanted the books and they're now going for a lot more than what they were when I ordered them, but I guess that's how it goes.

1 hour ago, Raze said:

These look great! Where did you get them?

Die!namite #1 is from Unknown Comics and the Batman #100 is from Bulletproof. Pricey books for a variant cover, but I just was an instant fan of his art as soon as I saw these, and I really wanted them.

He hasn't done a ton of covers yet, but he's got a few now and he's starting to have more each month. Puppeteer Lee is an amazing artist and I think he'll continue to do big things.

Here are a couple:

I've posted about GoCollect's seeming inability to keep up with this book in the past, but now I'm honestly starting to wonder if something shady is going on with them. Before I thought they maybe couldn't keep up with this book, since it seemed to continue to climb at an unbelievable rate - that was at least plausible and maybe understandable. But now... in the past couple of days they finally upgraded FMVs a bit - 9.8 was at $3,400, 8.5 was at $475 (I paid attention to these two as basically the top grade and the grade I own).

But today they updated again. They downgraded FMVs across every single grade. For example, they downgraded 9.8 FMVs to $2,700 and 8.5s to $375.

The last 5 eBay sales of CGC blue 9.8 were $4,999; $4,124.95; $4,451; $4,368 and $5,200. The last 5 eBay sales of 8.5s were $500; $585; $500; $675 and $600.

Up to now, it was a point of annoyance in what seemed like a situation where GoCollect couldn't keep up to the FMVs of a fast-increasing book. At this point though, after a half-measure upgrade two days ago and then a seemingly blatant downgrade of this book's FMV on 10/31, it begs the question if there are ulterior motives at play to suppress the true value of this book. I know GPA is the standard, but for a lot of people (like myself) who don't deal in a lot of graded books, GoCollect was billed as the best alternative. But if FMVs are this far off, and especially if they're being manipulated, that's a big problem.

44 minutes ago, BigLeagueCHEW said:

Difference is ASM - 300 in 9.8 = 1343, IH 181 in 9.8 = 137 

Sure, the total census amount is definitely a difference, but I'm not saying that ASM 300 is going to become a $40,000 book or whatever 181 is now in a 9.8. I'm just saying that there are parallels that can explain why ASM 300 is growing in price, if my theory is correct that people don't want to miss the boat on a relatively affordable key that still has some meat on the bone in terms of realizing more value. I think available supply is a better metric than total overall census too - and there are more total available copies of ASM 300 for sale than IH 181, but the comparison ratio starts to go down when you look at that in relation to total existing copies.

For example, there are currently 126 blue label CGC 9.8s of IH 181 on the census. 2 are for sale right now on eBay, which is 1.58% of existing copies for sale. And there are 1,048 blue label CGC 9.8 ASM 300, and 13 are available on eBay for sale - that's 1.24% of existing copies for sale.