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It’s plausible, but you’d have to work at Metro to know why it says that. It can be useful to track your own grading against the “actual” slabbed grade so you can plan your submission values/tiers. Too high and you pay too much. Too low and you risk a bump up. I dont think we were supposed to ever see the Pre-CGC grade data. Prob a data entry error. So if the reverse were the case, getting a higher CGC grade than theirs, we might also see it if that book had same data entry error.. maybe Metro will come straighten us out!

if it meets the stink test. CGC isn't doing this for anyone off the street or that asks for it. Plenty of folks asked and got nothing but a laurel and hardy handshake..

seller will be crushed if that happens for the Superman 1 (same book)

prob the grade they were selling it at Pre CGC. Id think its leftover data in their database that made it onto the sticker. Like their grade when they sent it in to CGC to compare with later.

I hate that position. you dont want to keep bidding and maybe win it at too much. but also feels bad letting the other guy win it a the price you would be happy to pay either. grrrrrr But, depending on its scarcity, and the scarcity of buyers for it, with that buyer no longer bidding next time , you will have less competition! maybe...

in 1939 and still today, if you are a big customer of a printing company, they would do a specialty run for free as a favor to keep the relationship healthy and the new jobs coming in. If they still had the film from the first time they printed the stories, it makes it even easier and cheaper for the printer to oblige.

never saw the insides! pretty nice artwork... I can only imagine how kids reading it would be thrilled by the characters and stories.. as simple as they are to our eyes, they were fresh to theirs.

sure, but the serial number stayed the same which sounds more like a reholdering. Could have been sent to CCS to crack and maybe press and regrade, but was deemed a bad candidate, so ended up reholdered instead?

Cant help you with Canadian tax laws... but at least while you are alive you benefit from all the things Canada does Better than here in the States, right? Also, so long as your assets are under the Max exclusion (the 25.9M) selling BEFORE you pass on -- converting the assets to cash -- you won't owe estate tax on the cash, but, WILL owe Capital gains taxes to be paid the following year. So better to pass the collection down to your heirs intact -- get the step up -- and let them sell it. No capital gains unless the auction goes crazy and you net a lot more than the appraised value for it. But better 28% Capital Gains on just the increase than on the total collection value. One also has to consider that the tax laws passed by the last administration increased the Max exclusion to its new crazy high numbers...and that law expires in 2025. No-one knows whether it will go back to the 5M level again, stay the same, or be increased again. Current administration campaigned on lowering it, but his first year in office wasn't able to summon the political capital to get it done. I think taxing the very rich makes sense, in theory. It's sofa cushion money to the 1 percenters. But they own the politicians and will push hard against it ever happening. And I think there's also some justice in the everyday American NOT having to be taxed on their earned estates too. hope this isn't political. I'm not taking sides or advocating one way or the other.... It feels right that 99% of us won't owe estate taxes (meaning taxes on AFTER tax assets) : the other 1% just has to pay lawyers and accountants to pay as little as they can.

you're missing the forest for the trees. Consigning decisions usually factor in perceived advantages of the Auction house clients, their reach, fees and most importantly -- the relationships between consignor and the auction house owners. IMO its relationships that caused the collectors you cited to choose Metro. And for Action1 kid to resurface to chime in his Metro team colors. Long time friends of the house rarely go elsewhere for a few pennies, etc. so long as there arent any loss of trust and unresolved grudges at the time of consigning. Truth is, with auctions you can only guess which house will yield the best results on any given day and year.

Id pay to see that! not a lot, but...

Hard to believe this isn’t a satire of slabbing! Sure as a rigid holder it’s fine. But “grade your own book” has absolutely zero meaning to anyone but yourself. But maybe you’re a dealer, and want a buyer to know details about the book plus your grade. However you’re a dealer selling raw books, not slabs. Raw books in rigid holders costing 20 bucks more. it’s cleaner than a Mylar with a sticker… but much more expensive, heavier bulkier and takes up way more space. Nice video though.

yes. and double that if he was married and the first to die passed her 12.9 onto the husband. In essence NOBODY pays Federal estate taxes now (but may be liable to state estate taxes on a state by state basis). Only estates (of married couples) worth more than (this year) 25.8M pay the any federal estate tax. Thats all of us except the .1 to 1 percenters. An estate with more than the max exclusion amount (the 12.9M) pays fed estate tax on only any amount above 12.9 (or 25.8). And heirs receive the assets with a cost basis "stepped up" to current market values. Best to get an appraisal as a paper trail to cement the values in place. Overall though these tax implications only affect a small minority of collectors. Makes me wonder how the Promise Collection heirs dealt with this. What would the cost basis have been? cover price perhaps. Im no accountant, but I think their case gets a bit complicated as the assets were hidden for decades after the owner passed. Assuming they were worth very little at that point, all the increase in value is profit taxed as capital gains at sale, meaning the heirs pay that. Comics are more than the rate for long term held stocks: 28% Although, lets face it -- in reality, its all gravy for them, so whatever they netted was just dandy Im sure. And what about the Fantastical collection? they seriously need financial planning!

yeah, provided the sellers bothered to fill in all the data fields. Ive found searching with dates misses too many books. as for Photocopy listings, seems like you can turn it upside down and be cheered by the fact that you collect scarce cool copies worth putting photocopy covers on! -photocopy weed them out? search in descriptions and titles etc

I suppose I could find out reading a book, or even searching the internet…. I’ll do that at some point I guess. My take would be he drew a very light grid, and dabbed the dots with something like pencil eraser head at each intersection point. He’d then Kate to erase the lines. ( or not erasing the canvas might be messy, seeing the canvasses up close today they may still be visible.). Seeing how the source material was not his, the execution of the work was very important.

I haven't read the whole thread, but I think many of us have have this happen to us.. Met a special someone and Gotten lucky at a Con! DEALERS! Ive walked right up to them and was very lucky to score lots of cool comics!

please let this enthusiasm spillover to DC War books! but not as many lurid covers I guess..

might need a few extra touches when they get to coding it, like Comics General and other sections with subfolders. If possible these could be drop down menus .. Only 2 or three subthreads at most I think.. And of course, structurally they be some reason that prevented this from being in the design all along! But sure would appreciate SOME solution that makes switching threads more direct. or... This may be a bridge too far BUT--- why not allow users to format 6 or more buttons that they use most often! Think of a car radio etc: my favorite "channels" We would use checkmarks on a list of ALL CGC Boards sections on our ID/activity page that then populate generic buttons/links in our browser. Simple database tricks!

there's a new Netflix series HIGH SCORES about the creation of video gaming, and they highlighted the magazine, interview the editor too, interesting show. May of the actual creators are prominent speaking about the origins of the games, like Space Invaders. The spaceships were originally conceived of as octopi! Makes sense in Japan!

maybe grey is better...

Note, this will not make the pages deeper.... the strip fits in the already blank space above the copyright text.

For all these years through each change of the boards system, its always been frustrating to have to navigate back to "Forums" to move from say Silver Age to Golden Age. Can you try to add these simple navigational buttons in a thin strip at the top? They should be visible wherever you are. Say in a thread in Bronze Age, you can click Golden Age button and be looking at a list of topics -- without having to first go back to the main page. Here's what Im suggesting. PLUS an alternate where the comics sections are a different color. Make sure that since they are packed in tightly that hovering over them changes their color so we know we are selecting what we want!

"Lee, of course, is going after the cheapest talent he can get, who are loyal and somewhat afraid of him." you say things like this as if Stan Lee invented being a boss of a fledgling company with little money to work with in a cheap schlocky business!! sheesh

I hated that too. A nice Neal Adams cover then Frank Thorne inside. damn you Stan!

"Based upon an idea by Tommy and Jimmy Goodkind, Hewlett Harbor, New York". They were the kids who lived next to Stan at the time. nice kids.. Got a full set of Marvels every week/month, split between them. One became a folksinger!