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On 3/27/2024 at 10:20 PM, Stefan_W said:

So this is kind of strange. I was curious to see if there were any other copies at 9.9, and when I checked the certification number it would not link to the census. As a work-around I checked other GSX and linked to the census that way, and no 9.9 copies show up even though the cert number checks out.

**EDIT** not sure if there is normally a lag between grading and a book appearing the census. It seemed odd to be but it could be perfectly normal. 

 

I had an ASM 291 I believe at the time - CGC 9.8 SS that there was 1/1 on census. It took a couple weeks before it showed up as 2/2 on census data.  I could see my graded book on my account but the census didn't change until a little while after pics were taken by CGC and I received my initial comic data. Not sure on the exact time frame between certification and census updates but it's most definitely not right away whereas you can bet they'd be showing the book off right away.

Bit off topic but just wanted to point out that this thread has now made it as far as the original #'d run in The Amazing Spider-man series.  Onward to the Legacy #'d pages and to many more!!!!!!!!

Long live the Newsstand hunters! 

I have a lot of nostalgia from buying them off the newsstands and at comic shops and love many of the covers but as far as trying to get them all in 9.8 I could never see the return from collecting them as in the back of my head I was thinking "how many people actually collect PPTSSM???" Left wondering if even breaking even on something that seems to not move too much pricewise upon possibly having to move them later on, I stayed away from Web of and this title but still..... many nice covers.

One hell of a collection at any rate and can't blame someone for going on a fishing expedition. Someone with too much money might pay for the convenience of a full collection that well assembled. Who knows.

A few of my favorite covers other than the obvious Kraven's Last Hunt and early books in the run were:

On 3/2/2024 at 8:59 AM, Gaard said:

Don't know about CGC's keyboards, but on mine, the 9 and the 4 are not close together.

To be fair the 9 closely resembles the 4 more than any other #. Could be one of the Braille using graders. After reading through this thread I'm sure there's a few. 

On 3/1/2024 at 12:31 PM, awakeintheashes said:

Have you ever visited this thread? Anything is possible. 

 

The thread that keeps on giving or .... taking "ME"s 

On 3/1/2024 at 5:40 AM, DougC said:

maybe i'm the one taking crazy pills but this just looks like a pre-2016 slab, the inner well used to angled at the corners as the label was loosely attached.

Here is an example of the difference between pre-2016 and current slabs:

2008 grading for the book in question so you'd be correct on that assumption. Personally I've had the labels bending out or folding weirdly inside well on some of those old books too and it annoyed me to the point that I'd sell them rather than waste double money on shipping back and forth just to fix a label that never should have been bending strangely in the case in the first place. Book looks like a 9.8 to me from front scan that was posted at any rate. 

On 2/29/2024 at 10:01 PM, unclezebo said:

Did I miss an update somewhere?

 

Pretty sure during the Meth head who's boyfriend he met in jail arc in this story is when accusations of her stealing books from him had occurred. 

On 2/29/2024 at 3:48 PM, awakeintheashes said:

Be careful out there. Nowhere in the title or description does the seller note this is the facsimile. The barcode is conveniently blurry as well. Surprised they didn’t use different lighting to make the red marvel logo look not so red.

Ultimate Fallout: Spider-Man No More #4

 

Publication year of 2022 in item specifics but some don't look at all details. Shady Acres sales distribution nonetheless  

Beautiful shipping costs from US to Canada  

101 raw comics ......... 

Not todayyyyyyyyyyyyy 

On 2/28/2024 at 3:03 PM, sledgehammer said:

Here's a great one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296248366603?itmmeta=01HQRMZDHJF7T7J3XAF45DDGV6&hash=item44f9c7560b:g:4i0AAOSw2Rtl1sql

And I thought I was hungry for signatures.......... Yeah that's a beauty

On 2/28/2024 at 2:26 PM, Mr. Zipper said:

Stan was notorious for signing in areas of poor contrast. Probably because he was half out of it after being driven like a $2 mule at public signings the last few years of his life. From what little I can see, nothing obviously wrong with it.  

Very true. There was one during the McFarlane opp that Todd nearly signed over Stan's signature due to the darkness of where it was and then made a remark about it on the book of some sort. I tried to look up the book in the McFarlane signing thread from awhile back but all the videos are unavailable and think I saw it during one of them.

On 2/26/2024 at 9:03 PM, Stefan_W said:

He isn't wrong.

When I make comic decisions that are longer term I often think along the lines of "if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, what will help my family the most in the long term after I am gone?" My wife is not a comic person and would be likely to take pennies on the dollar for someone to haul most of my collection away. To counter that, I have a lot of slabs that will do well at auction and asked a friend to help her send them in if something happens. We are not immortal and the unexpected is a part of life. 

4 of the 5 Frenz submissions. Didn't bother to post the book that dropped from a 9.8 blue to a 9.6 yellow  

Yeah it baffled me to say the least. Had me looking up Shooter to see if he was in any way involved in any comics related to Street Fighter but I came up empty. The head scratcher of the day   But yeah as you said maybe someone wanted some kind of customized Gwen. Green turtle neck type shirt and that shaped hat was just too much coincidence but that may be all it is in the end. Definitely nothing to do with that area or arc of the ASM though yeah. 

On 2/12/2024 at 11:41 AM, pmpknface said:

This is odd.  Is it one of the tattooz from inside?  It doesn't look like a sketch as much as something put on and the label called a "sketch."

   Cammy came out 10 years after this book was done and it definitely looks like her    I don't know 

Maybe it started out as Gwen and he messed the head up and had to convert it to Camie using the hat to cover up some mishap  

First of all This book is not mine. I am always keeping an eye out for a good SS 9.8 copy and saw this upcoming in a CL auction. I am only posting it as it strikes me very freaking odd that Shooter would draw a Cammy from Street Fighter sketch on an ASM key book. I'm curious if someone paid for a sketch and Shooter just decided to go about adding this to the book or if someone actually would have requested something this bizarre    Anyway here's the book.

Nice timeline of an awesome book's history @MasterChief  Good info!

One thing's for sure. If someone tries to press that book again, it might end up a smear on the press. Time to shut that down at 9.4.