BabyAteMyDingo

For my two cents: Don't ever forget WE are the market. They will only be as successful as we allow them to be. I love my books before money, mates. Remind them WE are the foundation. We don't work for THEM. THEY work for US. If submissions dry up, they will be holding the bag. And me Pappa told me "NEVER put all the eggs in one basket."

Consider it "refreshed".

Poor Ken. Has your life just been thrown into disarray? Aw.

How many pages would we have to go through to find it, eh?

I was just revisiting this cover. Human Torch severing a Ratzi's arm. Bucky machine gunning one in the face. Cap driving his bike up a Ratzi's chest. Plus the look on Cap and Bucky's faces are priceless! Toro poking his flaming fingers in the eyes of a Ratzi. A Ratzi putting the stranglehold on Namor while holding what I always assumed was a grenade. Busy cover, wot? LOL!

Oi. Who gave the idea is that grown women are ignorant and dyed in the wool? And what of women who treat men in the same fashion? Why do we not hear more of that? They are not rare. I bet every bloke here may have a story to tell regarding this. I certainly could. It is conveniently deflected away. It has been my experience that both parties usually know what they are getting into when they are getting into it. It is when one party sees the situation conclude in a fashion that is less than what they would have liked to have seen. It still takes two to tango, eh? So, if the bloke is a "sleaze", what does that make the lasses who posed naked? And agreed to that behavior? What was their motivation? Common sense says we don't pose naked in front of strangers and yet there they are. It insinuates women are oblivious to the desires of men and are shocked when after posing naked, are brushed aside. This has gone on in the world since mankind discovered cave painting. I find it unseemly and tasteless for any grown adult to act in that fashion, for nothing good really ever springs from it. To each their own though, yeah? Webcam "models" make bucketfuls of money doing what they do. Image can do what they like, of course. That is their privilege. But lets not pretend women are woolly white innocents.

Maybe someone in the signature thread could say.

I think this is an 8.0 as is. The pictures are a bit limited. Cool date stamp.

Well, mate. That is an illness.

I would say 2.5 w/0 the C&P. Maybe Kirby did sign it!

I bought an Incredible Hulk #1 back in 1986 or so. Roughly a 4.0. Sold it in 1988 as part of a lot of 8 books for $210.

I confused the reasonable with their care in handling and not reimbursement or cost. I withdrawn my statement. I went googlie-eyed. LOL!

Oh isn't that a peach? And White pages! What a grand book to own. Congratulations!

Aye. What determines "reasonable"? While reading some threads, I have not encountered an owner who said "I am happy with what they offered me in terms of compensation". I must assume the compensation would be in terms of point differences. Perhaps if a book WAS a 9.0 but it was damaged by the encapsulator and brought it to 8.0, the sum would reflect the grade point lost? It sounds too ambiguous for this old man. I am happy with mylar and backing boards. And top loaders, too!

"Ah yeah, mate! We got your book now! Shouldn't be long now!"

Is that right? It seems I have read several threads here concerning damages that occurred at CGC at their hands and the books were not insured. At least the members who began the thread were not happy at all. They were not telling the tale of a satisfied customer. If it were meself, I would carefully read the threads about what happens if my book is damaged.

That's great you are able to push it in the financial peoples faces. I have to wonder if this "good promotion" is actually a bad thing for comic books. Have you ever been on a project and everything gets set up just so by people who love the project and then some bloke who knows squat or could care less about it takes over? And turns it into something unrecognizable? And ruins it? Causing the fun and value to drop out of the bottom? It is like inviting a burglar in to admire our jewelry collection. This is this and that is that and this is how that works and that is how this works. They don't care about aesthetics. They care about money. When they wring everything they can out of something, they vanish in a puff of smoke.

So they say. It's witchcraft I hear tell.

That is some serious funk, there. Seems to be torn beyond pressing then wouldn't it need to be regraded? You dodged a bullet perhaps, mate. I would be playing Elton John's "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" if it were meself.

I can readily see it even in the low quality picture. The bottom left corner is easily discernible.

Good to know. I was at it like scraping paint off a boat.

Very strange. To me it looks neater than Kirby's normal signature. Roz Kirby did more harm than good, it would appear. Best intentions and all that.

This happens frequently I agree. When we were lads, we wished more people would understand our love of funny books. It came true and it has become a curse for the workaday collector. I also agree a grading company finds its central value with determining restoration. I can always refuse to buy a book if it is clearly a 6.5 for example and they are asking 9.0 quid for it. I don't know enough about restoration to swing a dead cat at it.

I see ticks always as color breaking. Those "folded" ticks I consider a "buckle" or a "wrinkle", if you will. It seems like graders take off for those as well.

Ah. So they send it back with a note saying "rejected" and you get your grade and a blue label. Sorry for that. Whose signature did they punt?