Rosland

Also very pleased with this one

On 7/24/2023 at 9:47 AM, Slayah said:

Is Adventure Comics #247 hard to find in grade? I'm surprised it's not lower on the list.

There are five copies graded 9.0+

9.0 (OW/W)

9.2 (OW/W)

9.2 (C/OW) Mohawk

9.4 (OW) Bethlehem

9.6 ??                   (Could this be a White Mountain?)

Would you know collection size and average quality? Is there an inventory?

I remember bidding on some of the books...

Been a fan of Doc Smith for most of my life, in reprint form.

I have a couple of them as original Pulps as well.

I would like individual books to be graded by market value (approx) and set scores should include

completion percentage, covers, and comments. The trick is how each gets weighted. Covers are simple,

but comments need to be evaluated for quality, not just having some random text.

Maybe: SlotScore * CompletionFraction * 80% + 10% for images + 10% for comments?

Just got this one back from slabbing.

www.comiconnect.com easy winner.

The auto-scroll on the advanced search makes me nauseous and the ordering of the search results is never useful.

There's been two enthusiastic bidders on TtA prehero issues in the last year. I've lost on a number of books.

I view it as a temporary speed bump that will subside when they've filled out their collections. They have driven up prices...

Patience.

If we're part of the problem (by requesting scoring changes) we can also be part of the solution (by providing justification in detail)

I have one slightly older Mile High II

On 1/14/2023 at 1:59 PM, Prince Namor said:

ANATOMY OF A STORY

Amazing Fantasy #15 - Here we go! Ditko's explanation of events...

Page TWO:

Has there ever been any information about the fate of the Kirby 5 pages of art?

You've come to the 10c -> 12c transition, which I think DC initiated one month before Marvel.

Is this transition significant regarding the economics of comic publishing? Is there a connection between this and

Marvel not publishing any issues in October?

Thank you for the great thread!

I'm curious about the coloring of the original art.

Who was the colorist and who made the decisions for e.g. the cover art?

What about a presentation modifier?

Set description, slot descriptions, front images, back images, ...?

Will there be a completion bunus (that last filled slot pays off big) or an incompleteness penalty (having tons of empty slots really really hurts) or both?

If one starts with 

     f = occupied slots / total slots

The set score could be modified by multiplying by f, or for more extreme adjustments f*f or sqrt(f) depending on the desired result.

A drawback of this system is that collectors collecting a subset of a set would probably ask for that subset to become a new set to avoid a bad modifier.

I personally like having slots scored by fair market price (as much as possible) and set scores having modifiers for occupancy and presentation.

On 10/24/2022 at 10:14 AM, wytshus said:

Not that I'm aware of. if I implied that, it wasn't my intention.

 

Just a quick thought:

 

There are 297,985 separate titles in the population report

1st Print ASM #15 alone has 49 different grading categories

There are 25 different "grade points"

Just think of how many different possible combinations there are!  It's mind blowing and soul crushing at the same time...lol

 

 

 

 

The 25 grading points are the grades from 0.5 to 10.0, and they seem to be auto-generated. If we look at the

grades from 8.0 to 9.6, they are in the following ratios:

             0.42, 0.67, 1.0, 1.5, 3.0, 5.0

so they seem to auto-generated from one source value.

I assume that the 49 different grading categories are also auto-generated from the one source value?

In which case there's only 297,985 slots to score? The 49*25 is then automatic.

Just bite the bullet. Pick your poison. Color boxes are the current scoring system.

I'm not much for collecting the variants, but I do believe that any item graded by CGC deserves a slot in at least one set.

On 10/21/2022 at 10:38 AM, wytshus said:

@Sauce Dog

The minimum requirement for set creation is for NEW sets.  I really don't want to delete existing sets or slots.  

My intention is not to get rid of entire sets/series.  I would very much like to eliminate duplicate sets, where ever possible.

 

Take Amazing Spider-Man for an example.

There are 33 separate competitive sets for ASM alone.  There is a Complete Set, a Complete with Variants set, a set for 1st appearances, issue specific sets, issue run sets, foreign issue specific sets, etc.

Now, I understand this, because the title has so many individual issues, across 40 years.  Once you include variants,  it becomes impossible to put them in one set and expect someone to collect them all. 

And this is just for one title. Once you take into consideration other popular titles, you can see the problem.

I have never seen the value in having a Complete set, and a Complete with Variants Set for the same title. 

 

But, like I said, I am not going to make any drastic changes until after next year's awards.  I am just looking for input from the community.  

 

 

Suppose users can generate custom sets based on a Complete set. For example, I want a specific artist run on a comic and I can mark each

issue of the Complete set as Enable/Disable. The Disabled slots become invisible, and what is left is my customized version. That could even

work for issues between titles if a massive "Complete Silver Age" (for example) set was available for customizing.

Some thought would be required for set scoring and set awarding...