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‘One-man crusade’ against CGC grading, slabbing

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comix4fun

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If you really cherish the book for itself, regardless of condition or monetary value, would you have it slabbed?

 

 

If I believed it would better preserve the book than in a mylar in a box, probably.

 

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Because of this severe leaning toward collectability limiting the readability of comics, the cartoonist has started what he calls a “one-man crusade against slabbing” by buying CGC books and “then free[ing] them from their plastic coffins.”[/i]

After that he sells them back on ebay; "CGC ready"

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Comicopolis

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If you really cherish the book for itself, regardless of condition or monetary value, would you have it slabbed?

 

 

If I believed it would better preserve the book than in a mylar in a box, probably.

 

Seems a pricey way of doing it.

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comix4fun

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If you really cherish the book for itself, regardless of condition or monetary value, would you have it slabbed?

 

 

If I believed it would better preserve the book than in a mylar in a box, probably.

 

Seems a pricey way of doing it.

 

I've seen people buy their friggin' cat a diamond collar....at what price is something for what you cherish "Too Much"?

 

A fortress protector for a silver book will probably run you the cost of slabbing too. I like those as well.

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For myself, a silver age collector, I say, why risk screwing up a high grade, high dollar book by handling or reading it? I try to have a high grade slabbed copy, and then a lower grade reader copy. With lower grade copies, I don't have to worry about accidently ruining them and they are an excellent option with a readily available supply in most cases that are very affordable. Now with super-high dollar keys, that maybe a different story, but reprints or trades of those books are also readily available, so there is just no reason in my mind to risk it. How many horror stories have you heard where that Amazing Fantasy #15 got a tape pull or tear just by trying to look at it? Yikes!!!! :cool:

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Buzzetta

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I honestly have no idea who this guy is or anything about his comic. Congratulations he has entered the public conscious by his rants and raves. Now when I pass his book by on the shelf IF (and I do mean IF) the comic store orders it, I will have a remark to make.

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FlyingDonut

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Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

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techvoodoo

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Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

 

 

I found it pretty obvious, once I read a few of his comic strips on his website. Without dragging this into any kind of political discussion, it's seemed somewhat clear to me that he is one of those hardline, shove his opinion down everyone's throat, tolerance of other peoples ideas/opinions is a one way street, kinda guys.

 

Looking at that kind of mentality and his comments discussed here in, it all fits together like a perfect little puzzle. He's a wingnut.

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Comic books are made to be read. But along the way they’ve grown to become a collectible in the minds of some, leading to an interesting bifurcation of fandom: collectors and readers.

 

My Friend Dahmer cartoonist Derf Backderf is a longtime fan who, while downsizing his collection, wandered upon the uniquely placed Certified Guaranty Company (CGC). The avowed comic fan who followed his hobby into a career was shocked at the degree to which comics collecting had subsumed the readability of comics, especially given that “true collectors” would hermetically seal their comics in CGC “slabs,” leaving them unable to be read — you know, the original intent for the comic.

 

“For someone who has devoted his life to making comics, and who takes several years to painstakingly craft each one … to be READ! … this is an abomination,” Derf wrote in a long post on his blog. “For baseball cards, fine. because you can still read everything on the card. With a comic book, 90 percent of the contents are lost forever! Most of these “collectors” wouldn’t know the difference between Wally Wood and Wally Walrus. They’re just collecting a number. It’s an affront to everything I hold dear.”

 

Derf, who has been reading comics since the mid-1970s, covers the growth of the secondhand comics market and the rise of collectability through the Overstreet Price Guide and now through CGC. Because of this severe leaning toward collectability limiting the readability of comics, the cartoonist has started what he calls a “one-man crusade against slabbing” by buying CGC books and “then free[ing] them from their plastic coffins.”

 

Wait until he finds out that someone has slabbed his Dahmer comic.

 

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Dr. Balls

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Why does this guy care so much about what I do with MY comic.

 

+One Zillion

 

This is what I do not understand about this. If you don't want to buy slabs, don't buy slabs. I want to buy some slabs. AMERICA FREEDOM.

 

I have a Little Idea Brewing of why hE Really thinks thAt Like that. :baiting:

 

(is this policitcal masking?) :ohnoez:

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