Real Elijah Snow

It definitely could have happened at CGC. 

Here's my experience:

I've subbed probably 20,000+ books over the years. I've never had anything that I thought was damaged at CGC besides 1 isolated book, and one 25 book order. 

The single book was a Chew #1 that was perfect when I sent it in. I expected a 9.8 as my experience has dictated that expecting anything higher is foolish. (I've gotten exactly 2 9.9's over the thousands of books I've subbed and they were both the same book;Forever Evil #1 lenticular, and the sub was done onsite) The Chew #1 did get a 9.8, but upon examining it, it had 3-4 deep creases on the back cover that weren't there when it was subbed. No way on earth anyone would have given that book a 9.4 with those creases. To me it looked like what happens to books when they're in a not full box and bend over. My reasoning was that it happened after it was graded. It could have happened at some other point, but that's just my speculation. 

The second example still makes me a little sore to think about, but here are the details. I sent in a box with 3 separate 25 book orders. These were all high grade moderns, with the expectation that most would hit 9.8, with a few getting 9.6'd. I checked the grades. 2 of the 3 orders were in line with my expectations. 1 of the 3 orders was waaaaay lower. (I'm talking 6.0-9.0 nearly across the board) When the books came in I ripped into that box to examine the books. Every single one of them had varying impact damage to the lower left corner. I've handled enough books to know that these had obviously been dropped on their corners while the stack was kept together in the bigger bag I put separate orders in, and depending how close they were to the edge of the bag/board, the damage went from major corner crunch to a few stress lines. 

I called CGC to discuss the situation. My reasoning was that with the 3 orders in the same box, and one taking a major hit, the order had to have been dropped after it was received. Otherwise the other 2 orders would have sustained some level of damage, but they had not. Keep in mind that every order I've ever sent in has been beyond well protected. I've had exactly zero damaged orders before or since. Explaining my reasoning got me a small amount of sympathy, but no accountability. They offered to press/regrade. The books came back with about 1/2 being 9.6/9.8 with the other half in that nearly unsellable 8.5-9.2 modern slab range. They were very nice about the whole thing, but no matter how many times I reiterated my logic, I couldn't get them to admit that the order had to have been dropped after it was received. I probably lost around a thousand dollars on the ordeal when all was said and done considering what 9.8's vs 9.0's sell for on certain moderns. Maybe more. I tried not to dwell on it, and haven't had a problem since. 

I probably wouldn't even mention this order that was dropped if they had done what they did after while also admitting that logically it was obvious what had happened. It was beyond frustrating explaining the circumstance, and getting the response of "Yeah, we didn't do it".  If they didn't do it, then somehow during shipping to CGC ,through some Sith magic, the double boxed and padded package of three orders was penetrated, one order was all corner crunched, and the other 2 orders were left completely unscathed. Amazing.  I love the service and it's been a major factor of my business for a decade and a half. I haven't had a problem since, and don't expect any. Humans make errors though. I get that. That's what happened there, and I'll never be convinced otherwise. 

Moon knight has been held back for something big. Otherwise he would have been on an episode of AOS, or used as a throw away secondary character in the Netflix stuff. I disagree that he can't translate to film well. He doesn't have to have a stark white costume that looks weird on screen. WWBN #32 sells and in all grades. I've sold probably 20 copies the past several years, and even low grades don't sit at all for a few hundred dollars. There is a lot of demand for that book. 

On 2/15/2019 at 2:02 AM, Hollywood1892 said:

A geriatric professor x and a washed up wolverine who seemingly gets the better of his younger self, yeah totally awesome, oscar worthy! Or a film where it takes a group of mutants uniting itself to defeat one bent on world destruction, I must not have many brain cells to be trapped in an argument that has very little to do with what I was trying to say, what I was saying was the vast difference in value between xfactor 6 compared with NYX 3 both first appearance,both vastly different impacts on the marvel universe.

What? 

Did you sell the Lobo page? 

You're going to have a hard time finding people to agree that X-men Apocalypse is better than Logan. Logan was an amazing film.  Oscar Isaac miiight agree with you since he played Apocalypse, but I doubt it. He has at least a few brain cells. 

1 hour ago, Sal said:

holy cow guys, take it to the Water Cooler already

Right? I was about to make a joke about how he must have found his ex wife at a flea market or garage sale. Then I didn't, but if only I could. 

Just now, the blob said:

Solid $10-20 book. 

 Yeah, it is. I've sold probably 15-20 copies this year, BUT I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT ANY OF THEM. 

1 hour ago, jdennis3 said:

As stated by seller  "I looked at over 200 RAI 0s, and only found 1. This makes it 1:200"

That Rai 0 he has is the only one I've ever looked at. They're all like that. That makes it 1:1. Common. Garbage. 

16 hours ago, Mycroft said:

I see you're selling them at comiclink ... 

Would have liked to know if i was right about those pages ... 

Sorry, forgot to come back to this thread after a while. 

I never did find the books that these came from. I did check the Spidey 2099 books you mentioned.

1) Early high grade New Warriors (if you can even find them). 

2) Alf #1-47, #49-50. There's a TV show coming. 

3) Mid grade 60's-80's Disney books. The market hasn't caught up to these yet. Now is the time to buy. 

4) Wizard magazine (any issues, but they have to be bagged with all inserts present) Look especially for when the magazine went to a larger format. Those are lower print, and very tough to find in 7.0 NM, and impossible to find with OWW or better pages. 

5) CGC 9.5's

Plunk 5k on the above listed and see your money triple in 2-3 years. Being a comic investor is super easy if you know what you're doing. 

Thanks for the insight. 

Just found this auction that ended less than a week ago for a raw #145. $187 isn't too shabby.

I think I'll just stick to slabbing the ones with Phantom covers as there are some raw sales for those the last couple of years in the $150-$250 range. 

I just got a run of Ace comics starting around #130-150. What I've noticed after a little research is that there are very few of these issues slabbed. 

I'm not super familiar with this title, so my first assumption was that it was a title that few people cared about and that is why there are no(or few) slabs for these books. Then I looked at GPA and saw the following:

#150 3.0 sale for $312 in September 2018

#148 5.0 $155 in June 2017

#147 6.0 $264 in September 2018

#146 6.5 $384 June 2018

Beyond that (ignoring a triple cover of #139 that sold in November) there are no sales of anything really after #100. 

Looking at the census there are no slabs for #129-138,140,141,143.

The common factor that I can see with the ones that have been slabbed and ultimately sold were the ones that had the Phantom on the cover. That, however, would make me think that #143 and #145 would have been slabbed by someone at some point..But they haven't been. #143 is even the first Phantom cover of this series. 

I would be slabbing these for resale purposes, as I don't collect these, and I also need to make the $ back from the larger deal these came from. At a cursory glance these all look to be in the 5.0-8.0 range. 

Questions I have for you guys that have more knowledge on this title:

1) Are these just super hard to find? OR do they fall into the category of not enough demand to slab?

2) The Phantom is on a little circle on the cover of #140-142, so would these have more demand than the preceding 10 issues that have no Phantom on the cover at all?

3) The #130-141 have those goofy kids on the cover, but still have Phantom, Prince Valiant, Brick Bradford stories in them. Would these still be slabworthy in 6.0+

I'm looking for opinions or insight from you guys that have more experience with this title. I'm pretty stumped, so I appreciate any insight.

On 1/4/2019 at 12:01 PM, marvelmaniac said:

I am not about speculating or collecting as an investment, I collect for fun and have been for 40 years but since you are into speculating about Movies/Characters you may want to consider the entire family tree.

FIRST BLACK KNIGHT

https://www.marvel.com/comics/issue/43373/black_knight_1955_1

 

 

You may want to include the original Black Knight's first appearance instead of that TTA. Unfortunately,  finding a copy is borderline impossible.  

1 hour ago, jsilverjanet said:

Where are all the JSC fans at? 

 

Story?

FF #49 and it's not even close. 

Here's what I know. I changed my name from "ElijahSnow" to "comicbooksgo" for a while because I started my own site to sell books on (that never went beyond the planning stages, but I digress). When I abandoned the site I went to change it back to "Elijahsnow" , but it was unavailable. I thought that maybe during the time I was "comicbooksgo" someone else had grabbed the "Elijahsnow" name for themselves. I then went with "RealElijahsnow" as kind of a jab at whoever I thought had stolen my name (It reminded me of the whole "Ghostbusters/REAL Ghostbusters thing from the cartoons, and it made me laugh) 

Someone I was talking to at some point around that time told me that the user names we have used are off the table unless you contact a mod about it. I actually kind of like the "real" part of my name, so I left it. I have no idea if that answers your question. I just woke up because I was going through books until 4:30 this am. 

4 hours ago, nearmint said:

What death?

Exactly. He never died on the show. It was only implied on the actual show that he could have for one commercial break. The whole "Rick Grimes's last episodes" thing was a ruse. I called it before it aired, and was very excited to hear that Rick Grimes would continue on. The show has definitely lost viewership the last few years, but Walking Dead is not "dying". This property may not be as popular with the general public as it was a couple of years ago, but it is still a force. I'm definitely excited by the news that was outlined by Gimple on The Talking Dead. Just knowing that Rick is still alive and will still be played by Andy Lincoln going forward was probably the best news that fans of this show/comic could have gotten. 

Kidding. (mostly) It sounds to me like you just want to wash your hands of this out of frustration. If it were me I would insist on getting the book back, but do what's best for you.

Uh...Can I pay $50 for the book and you just have him send it to me? I like extra staples.  

 I paused it to write that comment. This blonde kid starts talking about Valiant too! This video is awesome. Thanks for posting!

I'm the 3rd one interviewed in the Beavis and Butthead shirt. 

Ok, not really, but that kid is about the same age I was then, and he talks about Valiant and has a super sweet haircut, so it could definitely have been me. 

2 hours ago, F For Fake said:

I was about to say, this is Brian freakin' Bolland here, gang. That wasn't a good era for Superman in general, but Bolland did the job he had to do. And Wonder Woman likes as lovely as ever. That's one of the best cover runs of the modern era, so it's fair if there's a clunker or two in there. But to compare it to Liefeld, y'all are going blind.

Clunker? That's crazy talk. This is the best cover of his run. Superman hasn't looked so powerful before or since. 

3 minutes ago, kav said:

By 'beautiful' he means 'makes me sick to my stomach'.  I'm the Elijah Whisperer.

 I'm going to put that prelim under my pillow when I sleep tonight. 

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