Axelrod

Well I, for one, am outraged! Outraged I say!

Incidentally, where do I buy the "raw" 9.8s for $30.00 on ebay? From suckers who don't know what they have? You make this sound almost as easy as taking candy from a baby, but can you really be certain that something is going to be a 9.8 just from ebay pics? Otherwise it seems like a huge gamble, yes? And, even if the seller is advertising a raw copy as such, then those sellers are not charging $30.00 for it either, when graded 9.8s sell for $200. I imagine they are sending in those raws themselves or charging a lot more.

Yeah, the issue here is that what you are saying depends almost entirely on the books you bought 30+ years ago , before CGC was even a thing, ALL being perfect copies and perfectly maintained, such that, now that CGC exists, they are ALL grading out at 9.8 for you. It’s the magic 9.8 bump that matters here. Because if it ain’t 9.8 everything you are saying goes out the window. Which, more power to you if that’s the case. I collected in the 80s when I was a kid, before CGC was a thing, and I took reasonable care of my books, yet I doubt very many, if any, would grade out at a 9.8 today.

I get unreasonably tilted by the obsession for "White" pages. Those books are sealed in plastic. Yes, I understand that people who obsess over White pages will pay more for books with White pages and so dealers in turn set premiums on White pages and it is a never-ending viscous cycle of dumb. I know that's not actually it. And it doesn't affect me at all what someone else cares about. I said it was unreasonable. But, the tilt persists.

So, the "drawing" is going to happen before the raffle selection. You'll get a number (1st pick, 2nd pick, etc.) and you'll know ahead of time what order everyone will be picking in. Before the day of the actual picking though, everyone sends in a ranked list of the raffle items they want the most, in order. So on the day everyone picks, if you are not around when your number comes up, then you automatically get whatever is the highest ranked item left on your list. If you don't send in a list before hand, though, then you kind of get skipped over. You can make your pick whenever you show up, but you would have lost your original pick order. *edit* also, everyone gets one pick, except that in the event there are more raffle items than pickers (which will be the case because several generous people have offered multiple items) the last person who picks gets to immediately pick again, and the pick order reverses back up the line until all the items have been picked.

My understanding is that CGC will note the printing of the issue automatically if it is not a 1st printing, and that does appear on the label. You shouldn't have to specifically tell them.

Just curious if this a situation where CGC would re-slab for free if it turns out that some of the info on the slab was inaccurate? Regardless of how old the slab is?

Had this poster on my wall for years. I always loved just the composition of it and the way it incorporated every character from the first three years of the NTT. Sadly, it was one of the things that got lost when my mother sold her house.

I personally prefer keeping everything in one thread. Just from my own efforts to go back in time and see previous gift exchange threads, the ones where people were showing off gifts in the same thread were more fun than also having to find a separate "reveal" thread. But I don't know how many people go back and read old threads like that....

My favorite artist. This one was pretty epic.

You guys are going to make me feel guilty for my Lightly Used Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Volume 12! I was going to tell whoever picks it that if (for some unfathomable reason) they don't actually want it, I would add the cost of whatever it would normally be to ship it to them wherever they are to the Amazon card. I would give up a real comic, I would. Except I'm still too attached. Even to the junky ones. And I'm real attached to the ones that would make actual nice prizes. Maybe next year I'll be emotionally ready. Maybe.

At least Book 6 does give them a reasonable place to end the series, as there's a natural stopping place before the But I feel like it's going to be unsatisfying from a TV standpoint not to resolve I'm getting the final book this week.

NOT from my Secret Santa, thankfully, but here's a nice example I received this week.

I don't have any plans to sell my comics right now, but I have imagined creating a list and soliciting offers for them, just to see. Then I ask myself why I would want to depress myself like that? Because I already know the kinds of offers I would get. My stuff is all 35+ years old, but that's still not old enough to generate any excitement, and looks like MCS wouldn't even want around 90% of it per their "guidelines."

It is somewhat surprising that, when you obviously had a lot of books with significant value, you couldn't even get even one serious bite. Although, it is my understanding that a dealer will only offer you, maybe at best, 50% of what they think they themselves will be able to sell it for. So, maybe the one guy who only wanted to buy the slabs and offered you 50% of what you sold them for was in the ballpark (*for a dealer).

So, was this just an experiment to see what dealers would offer you vs. what you knew the books were actually worth (since you already sold them?) Or are you just reporting what you actually got for (some) of the books vs. what dealers previously had offered you. To emphasize that dealers either (1) try to buy for as little as possible, or (2) don't know what they are talking about.

Posted my not-super-exciting story in this thread a little bit ago. https://boards.cgccomics.com/topic/481719-stories-about-our-first-contact-that-sealed-our-love-for-comics-in-general/#comment-11567388 Funny I was already thinking about it with the George Perez news today.

Man. My favorite artist, of my favorite series. Never met, but seems like such a class guy too. World is a little less bright today.

Well, I'm glad I saved the $4.00 not getting Sunday funnies wrapping paper. Because, oh my, I had no idea what shipping out of the States was going to cost. I probably should have researched how to best do that a bit more, but, ah well. It is off! (reiterate what Bird said above about not looking at customs forms....)

I will modify my previous statement to say that I am, in fact, a little bit tired of "dark, brooding Batman." Of all the comic movies coming up, the Robert Pattinson re-boot is definitely the one I am least interested in. Having said that, it still might be good. It just looks exactly the same as like the last three Batmen.

I am not tired.

Most any way you look at it, Eternals is going to be a financial disappointment to Marvel, but, on the other hand, comparing "worldwide" totals for films when some of those films include releases in China and some do not is not exactly comparing apples to apples either.

Man, I was going to buy a Sunday paper just for the comic section, and then I saw it was $4.00 and I was like, nuts to that. Didn't Sunday papers use to be like a dollar? I guess I haven't bought a newspaper in 20 years I am now sending a traditionally wrapped gift.

Best Boy. Bullet!