Frisco Larson Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 trademarkcomics, mysterymachine and icp004 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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trademarkcomics Posted April 24, 2023 Share Posted April 24, 2023 On 4/23/2023 at 7:10 PM, Efrew said: That’s very cool….and creepy. On GPAanalysis, is there a flag for MJI so it’s easy to find? Or do you need to go through the detail?! Looked at my purchase and it’s indeed a 2019 purchase at around that price… Yep. At least it's more info than CGC gives you in their census... I go to each book, then use the "find" feature in my browser(with "mark jewelers" as the search term) to make it slightly easier. I did that through the Amazing Spider-Man title to make a spreadsheet on how many of specific issues had MJIs and double covers...surprisingly, CGC MJIs are nearly as hard to find as double covers! Probably because MJI copies were way less likely to be cherished than a rare error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Efrew Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 On 4/25/2023 at 1:50 AM, trademarkcomics said: Yep. At least it's more info than CGC gives you in their census... I go to each book, then use the "find" feature in my browser(with "mark jewelers" as the search term) to make it slightly easier. I did that through the Amazing Spider-Man title to make a spreadsheet on how many of specific issues had MJIs and double covers...surprisingly, CGC MJIs are nearly as hard to find as double covers! Probably because MJI copies were way less likely to be cherished than a rare error. Ah. This is more like hard cord research! Good job. You might have some of the best research in MJI in the world. I’ve always suspected MJI was something like 1-3% of the population for 70s comics. At high grade, <0.5% as it must have been hard to keep comics clean when stationed overseas. Been trying to find high grade key comics with MJI/Diamond for years, but so far, just the ASM129, a XM94 in 8.0 and an Iron Man 55 in 5.0. trademarkcomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trademarkcomics Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 On 4/24/2023 at 5:15 PM, Efrew said: Ah. This is more like hard cord research! Good job. You might have some of the best research in MJI in the world. I’ve always suspected MJI was something like 1-3% of the population for 70s comics. At high grade, <0.5% as it must have been hard to keep comics clean when stationed overseas. Been trying to find high grade key comics with MJI/Diamond for years, but so far, just the ASM129, a XM94 in 8.0 and an Iron Man 55 in 5.0. Thank for the compliment, I am actually rather new on the MJI kick compared to some of the other users on here, but I'm a fast learner and a bit OCD . As far as my best MJI/Diamond issues, I have ASM 97 in 9.0, 100 in 8.5, 101 in 6.0, 122 in 8.0, 194 in 9.2, 238 in 9.4 and 252 in 9.0. My highest graded MJI issue is X-Men #191 with the Bose wrap as well in 9.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Efrew Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 On 4/25/2023 at 11:53 AM, trademarkcomics said: Thank for the compliment, I am actually rather new on the MJI kick compared to some of the other users on here, but I'm a fast learner and a bit OCD . As far as my best MJI/Diamond issues, I have ASM 97 in 9.0, 100 in 8.5, 101 in 6.0, 122 in 8.0, 194 in 9.2, 238 in 9.4 and 252 in 9.0. My highest graded MJI issue is X-Men #191 with the Bose wrap as well in 9.8. That’s a very nice collection. 101 diamond isn’t easy to find. And 122, 194, 238 and 252! Didn’t even know 238 had a MJI! been trying to find a decent IH181 too but those seem super rare trademarkcomics 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trademarkcomics Posted May 19, 2023 Share Posted May 19, 2023 (edited) On my eBay personal ID, I had someone attempt to "school" me on Mark Jewelers after he thought he had purchased a "double insert" from me. I advertised a NDS on auction with Mark Jewelers in the title so it would be seen in search results by more people(yeah, yeah sue me). He won it under the assumption that it had both inserts even though I did not say so in the description or showed it in the pictures I provided. I informed him that a book with both NDS and MJI inserts is quite impossible, to which he dropped his knowledge that MJIs have been around since "1968" and that double NDS/MJI inserts, while rare, occurred. Then once he got the book, he informed me that it was indeed a "double insert" like he thought. Then a few hours later he proceeds to file a return with eBay stating "I do not believe this is a Mark Jewelers". Edited May 27, 2023 by trademarkcomics Cpt Kirk, Microchip and mysterymachine 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icp004 Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 On 4/24/2023 at 2:33 AM, Frisco Larson said: Staying with Frisco Larson’s Bronze Horror theme. OtherEric, trademarkcomics, Frisco Larson and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Larson Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 On 5/20/2023 at 7:29 AM, icp004 said: Staying with Frisco Larson’s Bronze Horror theme. Cool book!!! I'll need to keep an eye out for that in my travels!!! icp004 and Cpt Kirk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post trademarkcomics Posted June 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2023 This book came out a few days before I was born so it was on the stands as I entered this realm! Yeah I know, born in 1972 so I'm... icp004, Microchip, Cpt Kirk and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scburdet Posted June 29, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2023 Somewhere in this thread I posted the raw book. It's graded now ADAMANTIUM, WernerVonDoom, grendelbo and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post scburdet Posted July 11, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 11, 2023 Posted the raw book earlier. Now with a grade. Microchip, cgcsketcherz, OtherEric and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post scburdet Posted July 18, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2023 The companion to the above Fear 24. Also shared previously. Looks pretty nice, but has a small stain on the back that I believe kept the grade down a couple of tiers grendelbo, cgcsketcherz, icp004 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
