lou_fine Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, Terry_JSA said: The 9.2 Suspense Comics #8 looks absolutely beautiful! But in Heritage's eyes, not as good as that big beautiful 9.8 number on the top left of the slab for Suspense Comics 11 as they have this book right at the top of their preview charts, followed by the equally big beautiful numbered 9.8 slabbed copy of Human Torch 23 with the classic Schomburg robot cover. Ok, you've convinced me here..............I'll take all 3 of them at not only full cover price, but rather even at full top of guide valuation. Edited June 23, 2021 by lou_fine Terry JSA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 8 hours ago, vheflin said: All the Detectives have their own numbering scheme The family is simply trying to help CGC with their horrid TAT's by providing their own preliminary grades to the book in order to help them to clear up their massive backlog. ThothAmon, Larryw7, vheflin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry JSA Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, lou_fine said: But in Heritage's eyes, not as good as that big beautiful 9.8 number on the top left of the slab for Suspense Comics 11 as they have this book right at the top of their preview charts, followed by the equally big beautiful numbered 9.8 slabbed copy of Human Torch 23 with the classic Schomburg robot cover. Ok, you've convinced me here..............I'll take all 3 of them at not only full cover price, but rather even at full top of guide valuation. I wish could take some of these books home with me from the auction, but I unfortunately don't have that type of money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, Sarg said: Man, the kooky decision to re-number Detectives sure devastated the grades. 9.4s are now 6.5s. CGC, CGC..............are you NOT paying attention to my written notes of advice to you here? No decimals or fractions or what have you, didn't you learn in school about rounding up as this is supposed to be a 7 due to all that wear running down the spine. Edited June 23, 2021 by lou_fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jimbo_7071 Posted June 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2021 Many of these books would be out of my price range considering the surprising prices that they've been fetching. However, I'd be reluctant even to buy one that's within reach. I'm concerned that this collection could eventually get a reputation as "the overgraded pedigree." It hasn't happened yet because few people read these boards, but it is likely to happen over time. When it does, even books with reasonable grades could lose quite a bit of value. Sarg, Larryw7, D84 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 30 minutes ago, jimbo_7071 said: Many of these books would be out of my price range considering the surprising prices that they've been fetching. However, I'd be reluctant even to buy one that's within reach. I'm concerned that this collection could eventually get a reputation as "the overgraded pedigree." It hasn't happened yet because few people read these boards, but it is likely to happen over time. When it does, even books with reasonable grades could lose quite a bit of value. Some of them are definitely overgraded, but luckily for CGC most people don't know how to grape properly anyway. That's partially why they exist. Larryw7, jimjum12, lou_fine and 1 other 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 I love it when a new collection comes to the market like the Promise collection👍‼️😷 ThothAmon and 1950's war comics 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sagii Posted June 23, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 23, 2021 This one will be insane Mmehdy, batman_fan, thehumantorch and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) Indeed! Interesting qualified Promise here, never had staples ... https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/crime-patrol-11-the-promise-collection-pedigree-ec-1949-cgc-qualified-nm-92-off-white-pages/p/7246-19085.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515 Edited June 23, 2021 by Pickie pic added Randall Dowling, ThothAmon and Sarg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry JSA Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Pickie said: Indeed! Interesting qualified Promise here, never had staples ... https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/crime-patrol-11-the-promise-collection-pedigree-ec-1949-cgc-qualified-nm-92-off-white-pages/p/7246-19085.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515 I wonder what this will fetch for in the auction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronty Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 if that scan was associated with a 9.6 or 9.8 green label I don't think anyone would say boo. Sharp looking book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vheflin Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 39 minutes ago, Terry_JSA said: I wonder what this will fetch for in the auction. A year's salary minus cost of two staples. Larryw7, ThothAmon, Point Five and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, Bronty said: if that scan was associated with a 9.6 or 9.8 green label I don't think anyone would say boo. Sharp looking book. It got downgraded with the staple hole in the "A" in "Patrol" Pickie, goldust40 and onlyweaknesskryptonite 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robot Man Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Pickie said: Indeed! Interesting qualified Promise here, never had staples ... https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/crime-patrol-11-the-promise-collection-pedigree-ec-1949-cgc-qualified-nm-92-off-white-pages/p/7246-19085.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515 Staples or not, that is a thing of beauty. Looks like he was just getting the PCH and Crime genres. Can you only imagine if he had collected say another 5 years? ThothAmon and Mmehdy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordRahl Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Pickie said: Indeed! Interesting qualified Promise here, never had staples ... https://comics.ha.com/itm/golden-age-1938-1955-/crime-patrol-11-the-promise-collection-pedigree-ec-1949-cgc-qualified-nm-92-off-white-pages/p/7246-19085.s?ic4=ListView-Thumbnail-071515 I'm a little surprised that they qualified this one. It was manufactured with no staples and they don't usually consider manufacturing issues to be defects so why qualify it? Mmehdy, Chief1332 and Funnybooks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pickie Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 2 hours ago, greggy said: It got downgraded with the staple hole in the "A" in "Patrol" Good catch! And the other two holes are beneath the red falling cube. So actually it was sealed with staples aardvark88 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmehdy Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 5 hours ago, sagii said: This one will be insane It is GA comic books finds like this that make me glad I stuck around for the last 50 years, if your pulse did not go up on seeing this book you must be dead. sagii, Spyder! and Chief1332 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterChief Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 50 minutes ago, Pickie said: 3 hours ago, greggy said: It got downgraded with the staple hole in the "A" in "Patrol" Good catch! And the other two holes are beneath the red falling cube. So actually it was sealed with staples The paper appears somewhat frayed and discolored in both staple hole areas. Perhaps an indication of staple removal sometime after production? GreatCaesarsGhost, ThothAmon and Larryw7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabcom Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 22 hours ago, vheflin said: All the Detectives have their own numbering scheme ‘Small sticker attached to front cover’ notation would be most beneficial if it was coupled with ‘comic book encapsulated in plastic.’ D84 and vheflin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 (edited) On 6/23/2021 at 3:32 PM, MasterChief said: The paper appears somewhat frayed and discolored in both staple hole areas. Perhaps an indication of staple removal sometime after production? Good catch. So it wasn't manufactured without staples; it was manufactured with staples about two inches off the spine. I wouldn't blame the purchaser (or even the clerk at the newsstand if he or she noticed) for taking them out. I'm not sure how I'd grade that sort of a defect, though. I don't think I'd be in the 9s, qualified or not. Edited June 25, 2021 by jimbo_7071 MasterChief 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
