Copper Age Joy and Pain: a tutorial

[seanfingh]

A lot of you guys in your early to mid thirties were pretty young during that awesome time. There is a ton of enthusiasm for the books that you guys bring, and it is infectious. I have been going through long boxes all weekend and have a way to describe for those who were too young to truly experience the joy and pain of collecting in the Copper Age.

 

Joy: the highlights of one particular long box.

 

 

[seanfingh]

Pain: together in a taped up magazine bag

 

[seanfingh]

And the ridiculous:

 

There was a handwritten note to myself reminding me of this -

 

That there was a copy with the Cable card in this eight pak and (choke) a copy with the Cable card AND the negative reverse Cap head!!!

 

[Bronty]

Are the xforces for sale?

[Bronty]

And yeah Sean it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

[seanfingh]

I want to see if anyone admits hoarding the negative Cap faces. The other funny thing, is that of 8 copies, I only had one with a Deadpool card.

 

[boomtown]

I want to see if anyone admits hoarding the negative Cap faces. The other funny thing, is that of 8 copies, I only had one with a Deadpool card.

 

 

I've got 100 copies of the negative Cap.

[DiceX]

I may have 3 or 4 copies of X-Force 1, but only from collections I've bought.

When it came out, I refused to buy a copy of that book off the stands.

 

 

[seanfingh]

I want to see if anyone admits hoarding the negative Cap faces. The other funny thing, is that of 8 copies, I only had one with a Deadpool card.

 

 

I've got 100 copies of the negative Cap.

 

 

That is awesome.

[boomtown]

I want to see if anyone admits hoarding the negative Cap faces. The other funny thing, is that of 8 copies, I only had one with a Deadpool card.

 

 

I've got 100 copies of the negative Cap.

 

 

That is awesome.

 

Truthfully, it's not like I'm hoarding them, I just can't find anyone to buy them.

 

I ordered them from Greg Buls back in the day. When he sent them out he mentioned it may take awhile for these things to take off, but at least they they were the negative cap version.

 

I didn't think he meant it would take 25+ years. Ah well, it's probably not the most embarrassing book i've got a hoard of.

[B-Smooth]

Pain: together in a taped up magazine bag

 

Yes. Much pain.

[vaillant]

I don’t know if I hated more X-Force #1 or X-Men #1. But maybe it was Spider-Man #1…

[vaillant]

Ah, and I recall I sold the duplicate copy I bought of New Mutants #87 a few months after it came out, IIRC for about $40 or so. But by the time #98 came out I was already too disgusted. At least #87 still resembled a New Mutants issue…

[ThoseBackPages]

is there a reason that CGC wont slab those XF#1's as is? (in the bag)

[joecgcmaniac]

is there a reason that CGC wont slab those XF#1's as is? (in the bag)

 

Kind of hard to open the book and verify that there are no minor or major defects inside if it's still in the bag. Missing pages, ripped pages, double-printed pages, or other printing type errors could occur, and without opening the book, CGC would be fools to give a certified grade without verifying that there are no issues inside a bagged book.

[joecgcmaniac]

Not to mention, it'd be hard to grade the amount of damage that the seam on the back of the bag caused the book without taking the book out of the bag and holding it up to the light.

[DiceX]

is there a reason that CGC wont slab those XF#1's as is? (in the bag)

 

The same reason when you buy a book as a NM and are disappointed when you open the bag to see that the seller didn't bother to take it out of the bag to grade it because it's obviously not "NM."

 

 

[ThoseBackPages]

those are some fair points. Thank You.

[Silver Surfer]

If you were hoarding that horrid artwork then you deserve it.

[seanfingh]