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They do. But the photos people take of their slabs tend to be bad as well due to reflections, refraction, light glare, or perspective warping. This just makes it easier to sell in my opinion, and the images are easily kept in the cloud.

If you pay for high res images like I did for my magazine slabs, you will wait about two weeks from notification of shipping. I actually got them about 5 days after I physically received my shipment. They will arrive via email for easy download. (Few people have scanners large enough to actually scan a full Magazine Slab in its entirety.)

SS Reholder (Triple Sig - Jim Lee Batman #608 Second Print 9.8 with white spots on inner well)

No. If huge companies cannot protect their data on a daily or weekly basis, why would you expect a company not based in the United States to safeguard your data? It only needs one person to create an app. Some comic related Apps are actually probably only run by one or two people. If you were to look to see if your past accounts on various websites were compromised, chances are some of your old accounts are probably listed. I am not even singling CLZ out here. This applies to any app that wants your data. I can see putting your books out somewhere if you're selling them...

That blog is from 2018 to address with GDPR came out. (They didn't have a choice.) Note that's actually when they started requiring their own websites to start using https://. Their whole issue with discontinuing updates with GoCollect should give you some insight into what really goes on behind the shiny veneer of the nicely designed front ends of these apps. Public Announcement: GoCollect's President Regarding CLZ - GoCollect What happened in more depth from an owner: (9) CLZ Comics | I am afraid I have some bad news for you today: | Facebook What this really tells you is that there basically was never a real API from GoCollect. They didn't have the resources or didn't want to allocate the resources to develop one... or it would infringe on their existing agreements with their data sources. So it was made with spit and bailing wire. (Was it secure? Robustly programmed? Kept Updated? Who knows.) CLZ used this temporary API for over 2 years. Many companies have the technical resources and money to have top-of-the-line security and programming and maintenance. Unfortunately, MOST DO NOT. IT Departments have to do what they can with what they have. What is "secure" in 2018 may not be secure in 2021.

Hi Everyone, So I checked out this CLZ app and quite honestly, it looks very cool. The interface is nice and it looks very convenient. The problem in my mind is that you've just possibly uploaded your entire collection into this just to have it online somewhere and conveniently on your mobile device. This is not like uploading part of your collection you're selling. This is basically an app that holds your collection. So where is your data stored? In your own encrypted cloud storage or theirs? So what is the problem with apps like these? What if they get hacked? What if they actually aren't that careful with your User Generated Data, or have people or third parties that have access to that data? Most users probably have collections not worth mentioning... but many of you here have major keys and variants not easily found. Here is an app that aggregates the collections of many comic book collectors. Think of the data mining opportunities. Want to know who has an Amazing Fantasy 15 and their names and email addresses? Once hacked and dumped onto the dark web, their data could easily spawn a list of people with expensive comic collections. Just some musings...

I know. I've just reached the point where I've accepted that I can't actually do anything about it... so I'm just going to continue to send in my submissions again and hope they get caught up. (And fix their QC problems.) Luckily, my submissions that have come back recently have not had the egregious errors shown in some other threads. They've been fine generally. (Some minor scuffing and only on a few.)

Clearly, CGC is trying to fix their processes and eliminate the bottlenecks. This is really a traffic and scheduling problem. If there were no bottlenecks, obviously an incoming package could be opened, sorted, entered into the system, graded, encapsulated, and shipped back out the same day. (Artificially accelerated grading for the test.) The various incredibly fast turnarounds you're seeing are just experiments and data points in an overall traffic project. The Bay Area where I live has the worst commute in the United States generally. Traffic patterns are a daily problem here. If you are a commuter, you actually live traffic theory. You just have to hope they're getting close to getting it solved.

1013 $7 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Available 1020 $10 Batman R.I.P. The Deluxe Edition Available 1029 $7 Wonder Woman Volume 5: Flesh Available 1031 $7 Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (no dust jacket) Available

I suspect most of us don't actually say anything when another thread gets hijacked into some sort of quasi-private, irrelevant, in-joke conversation. We just get annoyed, tune you out, close the browser window, and get on with life. You don't actually have to engage to check your submissions status.

People are saying "squished" when what seems to be really happening on mobile devices (at least on the iPhone I have) is that they are simply cropping the avatars (top and bottom) and showing the middle slice. This is because the size of the message header is now smaller to accommodate reading messages on a mobile device. (The avatar and poster name/time stamp would take up too much screen space otherwise.)

When we say Modern, we’re saying Modern tier which goes back to 1975. Most of the fast response slabbing jobs seem to be un-pressed Moderns, with a minimum of handling at CGC. This would be the “easiest” tier for new graders to theoretically handle and would also be the least expensive tier in terms of valuation usually. Express implies books over $1000 or books you really need back right away which would probably usually be allocated to an experienced grading group. That’s why I wouldn’t expect the beta test to include any other tier than Modern. It has the highest submission rate, cheapest valuations, and easiest to grade books. (Many submissions will end up being 25 copies of the same book if they are new releases… or in my case, 25 copies of warehouse books at a time.) This model would theoretically increase speed/efficiency for the most popular tier matched with new graders that may not have as much experience. (Since the grading is done as a group, there is still probably an experienced senior grader as the final grader.) Just some musings…

Consumer spending flatlines at the end of the year, but not for all sectors. Vehicle sales peak in December generally as dealers try to blow out inventory before next year's model come in (with another spike in Spring/Summer for New Car Sales.) This also coincides when people get their Tax Returns... with many filing early. While many companies also have end-of-year bonuses, many companies also operate on a fiscal year-end basis which may end the year during other months. (Common fiscal year-end dates are March 31, June 30, September 30, or December 31.) This would translate to bonuses or raises creating spikes during those periods. Given the holidays and number of vacation days for school/college/New Years, etc., I bet a lot of discretionary dollars are allocated for non-comic items during these months just paying for airfare/trips/family visits/winter break or mundane life needs. Heating costs also tends to balloon for some households.

I just re-holdered an SS and I think it will end up being around $80 actually. (The packing slip says $62 with imaging but it cost about $18 to ship it there with insurance.)

Personal spending is actually pretty flat during the last few months usually it seems. That chart can actually go back 120 readings. (I just found it after a cursory search for Consumer Spending.) I'm not sure how accurate it actually is. United States Personal Spending 1959 - 2021 (fxempire.com)

Or it could be an anomaly. I've been using GPA a LOT to help me identify books I didn't know were actually worth anything... (I've been away from the comic scene), and I've come across several anomalies. One is X-Men Annual #1 (1992). There is ONE sale in 2021 for $366 in 9.8 that skews the entire GPA chart and makes it seem like a hot book. But one sale does not a hot book make... There is a distinct LACK of sales for this annual even though it has a pretty decent Jim Lee cover. (There are only 11 slabbed copies in 9.8 which is not a lot... but more than #2.)

Old Comic Book money may think $300 is crazy for that Secret Wars #3 because of the historical charts and previous valuations, but New Comic Book money may simply not care. They may just want the comic and it's available. (New Comic Book money being someone who is perhaps wealthy from some other sector, but is now looking back at their childhood and re-assembling it in high grade.) There doesn't need to be a reason really.

In the long run and if this were for my personal collection, I agree. I'd bag everything in a Mylites2 and Full-back. Everything I'm bagging I'm assuming I will never see again shortly (hopefully), so I'm trying to keep my costs down while at least protecting the comic somewhat in the interim. (Some of these comics have been bagged for over 30 years with no boards. Some with NO bags or boards at all but actually look pretty good due to having been in a massive undisturbed block of long boxes.) There's also this weird tradition I've noticed that some people will replace any bag/board of any comic they buy with their own... so I while I hope everyone is recycling, I'm re-using used backing boards myself as filler/dividers/spacers for some boxes to help keep comics upright.

That was inked by Dan Green... Marc Silvestri's inker I think. Marc Silvestri's style was also not the technically sharp style he currently has now. It was MUCH more open and scattered with lines that frequently did not connect. Dan Green also inked Dr. Strange. Jim Lee started on Alpha Flight and then went to Punisher War Journal. He did this cover for Punisher War Journal #7 in 1989 with Carl Potts. I think Carl Potts follows Lee's line work much closer and it looks MORE like what Lee's work will become later once he's more experienced and working with Williams. X-Men #248 was published Sept. 1989 that same year.

It appeared in Wizard at least. I remember that.

Jim Lee started working for Marvel in 1987. Todd McFarlane's first published comic work was in 1984. (It's their clones that tend to be the problem.) Liefeld, I totally understand. I kind of feel the same way about Al Milgrom's art... although I'm sure he's a fine person. He wore so many hats at Marvel: editor, writer, inker, artist... that I felt that his artwork suffered as a result.

Did you just post this? The show is November 6... Saturday. (Today)

I've got like 6000 BCW bags and boards backordered and have had to pick up batches of 1000 here and there in the meantime from other manufacturers (separate from the eGerber needs)... so I checked out the Comic ProLine site but I can't get them to be even close to the BCW price for a case for Silver/Standard. (They're actually 50% over in general for a case.) You can also get further 10% discounts on the BCW site. It's unfortunate because since Fun Yet went under years ago, and since the current shortage, I don't have another current source. (The HotFlips bags and boards I received were very tight together for some reason and I had trouble pairing them. Using BCW Silver bags with HotFlips boards did work better for my temp/short term books when I ran out of BCW boards.) (I'm out again basically and need to order some more in the interim.)