Aman619

Year one story was brilliant… and Mazuchellis art was amazing. A classic comic series. And killer combination of talents.

Like many comics greats over the years, if you were reading them as they came out, at the same time you were reading other comics in your piles those days, it was clear that these artists and writers were tapping into some new vein, or style with the same old characters that were handed to them. if their careers eventually included average work or even bad work later, that doesn’t diminish their impact in our eyes. A little disappointment maybe but that’s it. But if the lesser work was what you read first it might.

Use Masonite 1/4” or 1/8” thick and the boxes slide easily ! Plywood grabs the box paper. Such a pleasure pulling out the boxes and sliding them back in. Sliding them left and right too!

haha... or does it?? anyway, maybe Supes 1 is an easier sell to new money after the 8.0/8.5 set a world record sale price recently, and it's scarce enough in unrestored grades that a 4.0 is a decent grail copy?

Comparing PGX to CGC is like comparing the corner drugstore to Amazon. One is run out of a garage. I was just commenting on the comment that slabs were designed as a fortress for comics. That was not the primary goal. Just a strong enough deterrent to chicanery like switching books to protect the integrity of the grade, not the comic. Of course, again, damaging books within a sealed case that is never mishandled is never okay and has to be rectified.

Again, much thanx for excellent explanation. I didn’t think the volumes I bought in 80s managed to increase in value. But seeing big sales for “limited edition foil covers” did sound like what I bought. Makes sense that the truly limited later editions gave value, and the low print run other volumes. There’s so many economical reprints to choose from now too.

thank you! exactly what I was hoping to understand. Which MMW volume was the first after restarting (with the limited Edition editions? Meaning how many were published consecutively before Marvel stopped, and which volume did they start up again with?

What are the gold foil covers called? Variants or limited editions? They came out same time as the regular versions, that didn’t gave foil. Aren’t these foil covers the limited editions of 500 or so?

Thanx. That was the site I mentioned. Looking closer I see some lusts I missed before.. thanx

Can anyone point me to a site that can help me identify which printings I have, and, rough values for them? I bought the first 27 when they came out, most with the gold foil and the fake marble bkground. Are these the limited edition copies? What did the regular versions look like? And, what changed after the first few rhat reprinted the earliest comics were released? I seem to recall there were many reprinting, but maybe not too the 2000s? thanx. And I’m not great doing searches here even after all theses years so forgive me taking the easier route and asking. I saw a link to a website and forum for Masterworks, but didn’t really see a simple issue by issue listing that gave me the whole picture.

real fact cover(s) too. there must be more!

not quite. Slabs exist to first protect the integrity of the CGC grade, second, do no harm to the comic or object inside, and only then protect the comic. They needed a sturdy encapsulation technique such that when they grade a book, its extremely difficult to tamper with the grade. But as we have seen, dropping a slab, or constant rattling it can cause damage to the comics. The slabs from all grading companies have been designed from this general principal, theres never been a guarantee that once slabbed they are impervious to harm or damage if handled carelessly.

From a selling perspective I can see the problem you face. Course I’ll be selling some day too. Can’t I just refuse to deal with finicky buyers? Guess it depends on the books I’m selling right? Like how scarce they are compared to anything they can pass on and find a week later.

There by the grace of god go we? Statistics are a comfort in this harsh cold world.

I slabbed around 1000 books in the last year… admittedly I don’t have the same zero tolerance for tiny defects many of you do, but not one had any issues that were cause for complaint back to CGC. I’m not saying IT doesn’t happen, I see the evidence here, just that the odds are good. And saying pretty pretty good was a Curb Your Enthusiasm phrase, not a quantitative one. Lol.

Seems to me that for you guys who say you are "holding back submissions" due to QC, that's like never stepping outside your house because a bird may poop on your head. There are problems and issues, but your odds are pretty, pretty good your book will come back just fine. and don't need to wear a hat to go outside!

so you're saying CGC should change their grading to match collectors? Those of us around 22 years ago who quickly realized we didn't know how to grade our books honestly, accurately and consistently would beg to differ. We had boxes full of NM comics that in reality were 7.0s etc. Sure there have been hiccups in 22 years, and honest disagreements with their methodology, but to reverse course wholesale based on the results of people grading SCANS of comics they've never seen in hand? Nobody should ever ship books encapsulated upside down, or be told to just conform to the masses as you are suggesting.

And…. They’d have to buy again at todays Sky high prices, or pay capital gains. AND interest rates are Sky high (relatively… my first mortgage in the 80s was 9%. ).

I guess Im confused... wasn't there a big book that was later revealed to have been bought by Goldin at (Heritage or) another auction house last year? I thought it was this 6.5

Definitely cover photos! They should really get someone to spend a months matching up GPA database to Comics.org. Displayed on each page or as a link to Comics.org…assuming there something in it for them. I wish CGC would do it too. And great idea of more sortable results for each comic. But beware what you wish for when the list for silver and bronze books is 300 deep with just 9.8s!!

Exactly. Markets are already down 20% overall and much more for most stocks. Too late to go to cash. And timing when to buy in again? How about now? Not selling is buying in again. Chances are your friend will buy in after a few big up days, when it looks like the bloodletting is over. … but will have then missed a large % of the gains coming back to 36000 again.

What did they pay for it? Didn’t they buy it recently at auction?

Catelogging your collection now would be a big job… but that’s what the covid holiday was for! For me though, I was already keeping a database of SA and GA mostly to know what I had in order to keep my want lists up to date. I had a habit before of buying books I already had! Of course, all such duplicates paid off nicely in the end. Sooner or later you will need to see exactly what you have, so why delay the pleasure of discovery?

How can you tell a rainbow not to be a rainbow?

I don’t feel the need to add to my stuff anymore. It’s not a problem to stop buying, especially at today’s prices… and there’s a lot of collecting fun to do going through all the stuff and cataloguing it. So the collection is still alive in my life even without plugging holes like I used to. Same but different now and takes up a lot of time just as before.