Atomic Rooster

On 2/25/2024 at 12:19 PM, Buzzetta said:

I have said this MANY times before.  Slightly Brittle to Off White has gone to Tan to Off White or even Off White on a resub. 

From my understanding at some point they changed the page quality scale?  I resubmitted a batch of books originally in 1st gen holders (following pressing/cleaning) and about 90% came back one step UP in page quality.

Not a problem and thank you!

On 1/13/2024 at 9:30 AM, Iconic1s said:

Been seeing a lot of people citing the Heritage auction results as an indicator that there is no reason to be concerned about the market.

Honest question here… hasn’t Heritage been known to shill bid their own auctions in the past?  I’ve read articles going back 20 years now that the guy running the place has been pulling scams on people since he was 13 years old (was in fact fined) and is currently named in ongoing litigation.  Meanwhile CGC has Heritage plastered all over their website as testimony that their product gets second to none auction results!

I mean, c’mon… does anyone really think the Heritage results on these high end books in the middle of this scandal are going to show anything other than a strong showing for CGC/Heritage/the market??

Before anyone accuses me of committing a crime by stating this, read the articles yourselves… it’s all there in black and white.  To think that no one is currently involved in making sure prices stay high on these books is just flat out denial.  Truth probably is that these books never were and still aren’t worth the amounts being recorded… and when you get right down to it some loser opening slabs with a heat gun is small potatoes compared to what has probably really been going on with the comic market.

 

Per Heritage's auction terms....
22. From time to time, the Auctioneer, its affiliates, or their employees may place bids on lots in the Auction.

18 hours ago, KCOComics said:

The colors on the 5.5 really pop! 

Both books look great!

Thanks!  Hoping for the same on the 6.5 when it gets a new holder.  

Wow, I had no idea the prices have gone up that much on that book.  I sold my copy (CGC 9.2) some time ago for $900 and thought I did pretty good.  Ouch!

Interesting. Will have to take a closer look then. Given that info, I'm not too sure my initial impression was accurate. Thanks!

Thanks for the info....much appreciated!

Has anyone ever seen extra staples as a "bindery defect". I bought a TTA 27 and when I opened it to the centerfold there were 4 staples on the spine. The weird thing is only two of the staples were holding the cover on. It's like in the bindery process, before the cover was on, the stapler stapled the coverless comic, then the cover was laid on and then the stapler came down again.

 

Has anyone else seen something like this?

 

I would swear it all looks like original stapling and not something a collector did later.

I cracked a recently bought (blue label) Journey Into Mystery #84 out of the case and noticed the same thing. Only one set of staples holding the cover on but another set running through the entire book. In my case however, it doesn't really look like it was done in production. Am I to assume that anyone can just add another set of staples to a book to get the cover on and have it come back unrestored without notation? Pretty bummed out about it as it's the last JIM Thor issue I needed to complete my collection.