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Hey, man, im only 46 and I already use a huge magnifying glass to read my comics. I dont "really" need it yet but Its so awesome.

I know that most folks hate them but I switched to resealable bags a few years back and I really like them.

Well, Ive been thinking about cracking all my slabs because it will be easier for my kids to move my collection when im gone. Not the same thing, I know, but considering what Ive paid to have them graded/slabbed...still a pretty dumb idea to crack em, especially when you consider that I have reader copies or TPBs for all of em. Maybe ill crack em out when I get older. In your case, I dont know man...what if you want the book at the bottom of a pile? What if you accidentally tip a pile over? I know youre not planning on selling but you should preserve them for the next generation.

Howdy! Call a few law firms in your area and ask if they have any ceiling high file cabinets they would like to throw out. If they only have 4 drawer file cabinets, you can stack them. Most law firms are going paperless and it costs a lot to have those huge file cabinets taken away to the dump.

Do these stories involve Marvel Zombies or is it some other type of outbreak? Thanks!

You can type tits but I cant type id i ot?

Yeah, im imagining the boss... and its Michael Scott.

Mine had the line by the spine but no wavy pages. I had it pressed before grading and it came back a 9.8.

Is it actually possible these books are being graded by machines that are tearing them?

What B.S. I have over 200 CGC graded books and only one has a few light newton rings. Its a holder defect that I refuse to accept when buying graded books. I always reach out to sellers and ask if the book im interested in purchasing has them before I make my purchases. To say that all cases have them is an outright lie.

Every book you have is graded 9.8? If so...wow, thats very cool. I have the complete series but only the books I listed before are graded. All the raw books are around 9.4 - 9.6 ish though. TWD and ASM are what Ive been focused on the past 3 years but im out of money now. Time to just sit back and enjoy them until I pass them on to the kids.

Awesome! Are you going for all 9.8s? I really wanted to have all the keys in 9.8 but that trick was just too expensive to pull off so I ended up with: 1 - 9.6 2 - 9.4 3 - 9.6 4 - 9.4 5 - 9.4 signed by Kirkman 6 - 9.6 7 - 9.8 8 - 9.8 9 - 9.8 10 - 9.8 19 - 9.8 27 - 9.8 100 - 9.8 (McFarlane variant signed by McFarlane and Kirkman

Ive cancelled my membership. Im not a high volume customer but I dont think I'd be comfortable sending books in anytime soon so ...whats the point of being a member? I hope CGC gets it together. Good luck guys.

I could see that happening in the past, but damn...my father is 80 years old and he uses Google all the time.

He had no idea what Hulk 181 was worth?

Maybe its just a fake cover and the inside is real?

My grandmothers furniture is in my basement because if I didnt take it, it was going to the dump...no one wanted any of it. Am I ever going to use it? I dont think so but I just couldnt stomach seeing it get trashed. To me, the table she made breakfast for me to eat on so many times was not worthless. Nor was the chair she sat in to watch tv every night. Quick story. I worked at a law firm that did a lot of estate stuff. They settled a case involving family members squabbling over money and other valuables. When the case was over, I was tasked with shredding the documents. Along with those document were a dozen or so huge photo albums. They held pics going back to the 1940s. I sat there looking through them and it just depressed the chit out of me. These folks took the time to preserve these memories for future relatives and NO ONE cared. They had zero value to them. They just had them destroyed.

Damn...this thread went off the tracks. Nostalgia is no different than eating a good burger or getting laid. There is nothing negative about it. We are all gonna die...every last one of us. We already spend most of the prime of our lives working jobs for money because we have no better options. So with the little "you" time you do get, do whatever makes you happy and avoid looking for the dark corners of everything that seems bright.

100% nostalgia for me. Im lucky though, I collected in the late 80s / early 90s, a few years before Image was formed so it wasnt too expensive to rebuild my childhood collection. I did start building a decent ASM collection of books I never owned as a kid but that got too expensive so I had to stop. I also bought a few other things that I just couldnt afford as a kid like the Wolverine and Punisher limited series'. but Im done buying now. I have everything I want. The books make me smile at the end of a long day and I have something fun to leave for my kids when I die.

Maybe he didnt want wavy pages?

People with more knowledge may try and tear your post apart but I see many more newsstand copies for sale on Ebay than direct.