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THE ABSOLUTE BOMB as far as Venom VS Carnage goes ............... my sketch finished by Bill Dinh. And a big congrats to him for the piece itself. Rich

Nice books bro! Never did manage to snag up a RL SS book as of yet! Rich

ditto my good man.... ditto Sweet Mysterio

That ASM#29 cover is UBER SICK. Congrats if your the owner of that beauty.

Agreed..... SICK COLLECTION (RUN) OF ASM BOOKS IN SS.... Best I've seen. KUDOS bud!!!!!!!!! Rich

Ya know what bud? Forget the 9.2 Grades mean mess on sentimental books. From the Spidey in the top left corner to the Spidey in the bottom left corner where the UPC would be if it was a NEWSTAND edition, EVERYTHING BUT the actual title itself is BLACK & WHITE, WHICH is KILLER!!!!!!!! I love the book!!!!!! Rich

MAN THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME ! Can't remember where I've spotted these before but I think they were the first BTK sketches that I've seen. You can imagine my jaw drop right to the floor Very nice sketches.

I concur. It is cool to have both though. ;-)

LJB - GREAT SKETCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bryan91 let's see that puppy bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-) Rich

Congrats on owning one of the rarest sketch opp books of all time!!!!!!!!!! ;-) Would of loved to get my hands on a few of them. Rich

assuming the 80k bid is "real". I question alot of bids I see. If you go to comic link right now and run a search on Amazing spider-man 226 cgc 9.8. You have 1 copy with a misrap that a seller wants $528.00USD for & to top it off we have a bid at $375.00USD. Secondly we have another copy with pretty much perfect centering, but with OW/W pages at $60.00USD for the Sell price. Not a bid on it. Now wouldn't the guy that bid 375USD on the 1st copy just buy the one for $60??? Some things just blow me away. Now I don't think that's the site involved in any way whatsoever. But the person that consigned the 1st copy could very well have a friend jamming in a pretty hard and ridiculous bid to entice some dummy to pay alot more and create a bidding war. Maybe this is the same scenario. Maybe not. Time will tell I guess.

Love the spider sketch placement on this one (thumbs u Yeah I like the placement on that too Steve man. Can't replace my ASM#255-CGC-9.9 that I sold but what could? That was my favorite book of all time. Old label. May have hit a 10.0 if resubbed it was flawless. Although who's gonna start cracking ASM 200-300 9.9's for resubs? Let's see some more spidey books and Sketches fellows!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)

Well it's been what ahhhhh ...... TWO MONTHS SINCE LAST POST?!?!?!? EEEEEPPPPSSS Figured as I don't have books in hand but Fred was nice enough to send me images as the good people at CGC have finished grading the 17 ASM books I subbed through Fred for the Rubinstein opportunity and as this thread desperately needed a bump it was time to post something. I'll post my bummers first. 2nd ASM#271 CGC 9.8 Cracked - & - 2nd CGC 9.6 on return ;-( & as a Hobgoblin Fan as my fav Villain this one killed me too.... and the 1st appearance of PUMA .... needless to say the 3 books that dropped were major BUMMERS ;-( NOW ON TO THE GOOD OF THE LOT ... .14 of 17 did maintain a 9.8 with no 9.4's or anything lower so all in all a fairly good cracking and signing considering Joe took awhile to get it done, he added a small spider-sketch on each for me which adds to the rareness of my overall collection as I try to pull the entire run from 201-300 all in 9.8 SS!!!!!!!!!!!! Very happy that the BIGGER Registry point value books hit home such as ASM258/259/260 and a few others like 265. Good opp all in all and will have 2 sketches to show when I receive sketch images for them in the actual slab as well as books that I received a few months ago from Sean - NY COMICS such as ASM201/202/208/209/220/224/243 244/248/249 & 251 all in CGC SS 9.8 when I get scans of them up as my scanner is down currently. 5 of them are Stan Lee's with the remaining by JRJR. Rich

No law against it. Publish it in as many threads as you want. Nice book!

I thought those ASM 201 & 202 were my books and somone scanned them till I saw the John Romita Sigs and the ASM 200. Still can't get my scanner working. Have to buy a new one. Very nice books Enigma!!!!!!!!!!!! Rich

I love the sketch but if I could only do 1 book, it may be a wraparound of Spidey on front & back by Ditko & Romita or...... As it's more in my ASM ERA a JR & JRJR on back!!!!!!!! Either way killer wraparound & ultimate spidey sketch!!!!!! Rich

That Spidey Greenie is a dyno sketch!!!!!!!!

noice!!!!!!!!! NICE ASM#300 as well...

SICK GRADE & ESPECIALLY ON AN ASM SS SLAB!!!!!!!!! Beauty!!!!!!! Congrats bro Rich

....That is a great sketch! +1 MINTY MINTY!!!!!!!!!!

Love it! +1

I thought they were getting done at mid ohio but Fred said something about them going 2 be done on Saturday the 6th of November so I imagine ILL have more info soon. It isn't a new opp or anything bud. Its the one from awhiles back so if you have books involved you can expect them to be completed sooner than later I believe. Rich joe canceled mid ohio desertwind is helping out a little with pushing joe along. Ah ah. Thank god it's you that's looking after my 17 cracked ASM CGC 9.8s for this duration as your 1 of the most reliable people out there and Id be wary if they were with someone who just cracked em and had them laying around raw but I have seen pics of all the prepped books which calms my nerves alot. Rich

I thought they were getting done at mid ohio but Fred said something about them going 2 be done on Saturday the 6th of November so I imagine ILL have more info soon. It isn't a new opp or anything bud. Its the one from awhiles back so if you have books involved you can expect them to be completed sooner than later I believe. Rich

ALRIGHTY I got my Stan Lee and JRJR grades back although it'll be a few weeks till I have scans I imagine but here is an update or a bump in disguise. ........................... ASM#S 201..... Stan Lee .............................. CGC 9.8 WP an upgrade from ow/w ;¤) 202.... Stan Lee ............................... CGC 9.8 WP 208..... John Romita JR .....................CGC 9.8 WP 209..... Stan Lee ...............................CGC 9.8 OW/W 220..... Stan Lee ...............................CGC 9.8 WP 224...... JRJR ....................................CGC 9.8 OW/W 228... Juggernaut head sketch Joe Rubinstein 229.... JRJR ......................................CGC 9.6, I prequaled this as a 9.6 but it was in a 9.8 slab so was hoping...... 230.... JRJR ......................................CGC 9.4 The only book I prequaled so far at 9.8 to drop but as I said to Sean with such a tough dark cover all it would have taken is a NON Color breaking crease turning into a color breaking 1 for the drop. 243...... JRJR....................................CGC 9.8 OW/W 244..... JRJR ....................................CGC 9.8 WP , last 9.8 of 244 I cracked got a yellow 9.6 ;¤) 248..... JRJR ....................................CGC 9.8 OW/W 249....... JRJR ..................................CGC 9.8 WP also last 9.8 crack got a yellow 9.6 and 1 of my fav if not fav cover in run 251..... Stan Lee ..............................CGC 9.8 WP 255..... Rubinstein 256.... Rubinstein 258..... Rubinstein 259.... Rubinstein 260.... Rubinstein 261.... Rubinstein 263.... Rubinstein 264.... Rubinstein 265.... Rubinstein 268.... Rubinstein 270..... Rubinstein 271.... Rubinstein 272.... Rubinstein 273... Rubinstein 275.... Rubinstein 276.... Rubinstein And the only ASM book in yellow I have currently is ASM#293 CGC 9.8 SS Zeck -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I still have 17 ASM 9.8 cracks to get done by Rubinstein and should have either grades or pics in the next few weeks 2 share on those books I hope!!!!!!!!!! Rich

As far as I can tell, the logic is that eBay wants to coddle buyers as much as possible with the promise of no consequences so they come spend money on the site. It has made selling even more problematic. As a buyer who always pays ASAP so I get my books ASAP, I like that rule! Stops me from having to worry about a retalitory NEG. Agreed BS - Great from the buyer angle but believe me bro, as someone who also sells it's a freekin nightmare......... Rich