Albert Thurgood

On the basis of the FC, I would grade the book as a 3.5. CGC hammers the grade if there are stains even on the back cover, so could get to 3 or even 2.5 even before considering the missing stamp.

On 3/16/2024 at 9:01 AM, Point Five said:

OK, it's 9 PM, and frankly guys it's been one hell of a week.

Thanks for all your work in running this competition! 

That ebayer certainly loves his "!" key.

Maybe you haven't noticed if you have been posting regularly here but I have had a break for a year or so from the grading pages and these grades seem more generous than they used to be. I see that people are making similar comments elsewhere in the PGM forum.

After finishing equal last on the Round 1 grades, it seemed to me that CGC was grading at least 1 grade higher than they did when I started learning about the grading system here a few years ago.

So I added 1 level to what I thought the grade should have been and got two bullseyes. 

If this is not a fluke, the good news is that my entire collection of raw books has got a huge upgrade!

Grades in!

1. WolverineX

2. thehumantorch

3. Wipple

4. frozentundraguy

5. grendelbo

6. Albert_Thurgood

Thanks!

On 10/11/2022 at 4:18 AM, sfcityduck said:

A really beautiful FF 214, because of its colors, just blows the WSF 29 away (it was supposed to have been a FF cover, right?). To nitpick the WSF 29, I always wondered why the hero's arms were out of proportion and he has a lot more hair on his forearms than the Neanderthals.  Once seen its hard to un-see.

Agree completely with you about FF 214.

To even more nitpick the WSF29, I don't see the central figure as "the hero" but as a ruthless invader. The others are obviously trying to defend their home, with what look like juveniles in the cave.

At one time I had about a dozen or more FF#1. I wouldn't have thought I would discard them, but after decades and many moves, they are no longer with us.

On 2/2/2024 at 5:54 AM, ExNihilo said:

Yeah, I was confused by this bit as well.  Why does CGC have a person specifically for handling eBay packages?

Could it be that buyers of raw books from ebay get the sellers to send them direct to CGC?

Buying any comics that I wanted, for up to double their cover price.

On 12/22/2023 at 7:59 PM, BA773 said:

Imagine that you find a book which is your absolute Graal but the seller are totally no open to send it oversea, is there an alternative, does he exist some transit office? I could have asked to someone here on cgc but i have no enough strong relationship with an user to do it...

I use myUSA freight forwarders. They are very good with the lowest charges I have found. As a bonus for you, they can ship by DHL so you can get it delivered in a couple of days. Coincidentally, they are also based in Sarasota FL.

The books I have bought from people here (hi!) have all been sent to myUSA who then forwarded them to me.

Info here:

https://www.myus.com/about/

^was just going to post that too. Probably the best Man-Thing issue.

On 8/19/2023 at 7:53 AM, Every Day A Story said:

Hello fellow Pence friends.

Wanted to share this latest mail call that will soon be off to Sarasota (they are already listed for grade thoughts in Hey buddy, can you spare a grade? - feel free to chime in).

 

Very nice! I hoped I had one of the best SA collections in Australia but you beat me by having Hulk1. 

I would be interested how you got these. I assume you did not get them as OO because Australia got books with US prices in the '60s. (And we usually did not get the first three issues of a series).

@Math Teacher on the ball with the math! Even throws in some geography ;-)

On 4/14/2023 at 12:15 PM, Average RE said:

Thanks guy for the feedback, the only reason I want to get it graded it just to protect it. 

If that's all you want to do, put it in a mylar bag with a full-back backing board!

On 3/18/2023 at 10:56 AM, Math Teacher said:

However, I am still kicking myself for missing out on ToS #48. That's what I get for scheduling a doctor's appointment at 8:00 AM followed by another appointment at 11:00 AM. 

Try living 10,000 miles away in a time zone with ~12 hours difference. I missed out on #40 by about 30 mins early this morning my time.

Agree with Cat. I don't buy from eBay international.

Anything I do buy in N America is sent via a trusted third party shipper, or direct if from dealers. Though two of the direct shipments from MCS just vanished somewhere over the Pacific.

On 3/13/2023 at 1:20 PM, N e r V said:

We have a CGC 7.0 and CGC 7.5 TOS #52 for sale at the same time on the boards so that might be causing somewhat of a log jam. 

I took one for the team and broke the logjam.

On 3/13/2023 at 5:57 AM, 87richarm said:

Tos 52 cgc 7.5

$1950

On 2/5/2023 at 1:06 PM, Albert Thurgood said:

Interested in  this one but the image does  not display.

Thanks for PM with image

Take X-Men 95

On 2/4/2023 at 1:19 AM, drbanner said:

X-men 95 F+ 3rd appearance New X-men, Death Thunderbird $85.00

Interested in  this one but the image does  not display.

1.0 

I thought the creases would have made this a 3.5. Compared to the result of your other book, we can see the CGC giveth and the CGC taketh away.