grendelbo Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Point Five 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted January 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 11:13 PM, grendelbo said: FTFY. Juno Beach, s-dali, Larryw7 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman399 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 Based on the grading date of Dec 2020 and the Blackstone deal not being until July of 2021 looks like this isn't their doing. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grendelbo Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 10:13 PM, grendelbo said: I thought that was Jonathan and Martha Kent in Action Comics 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Gemini Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 11:10 PM, Iceman399 said: https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/1627321034/ Yup they are real serial numbers "not an actual invisible comic" AJD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qalyar Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 11:10 PM, Iceman399 said: https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/1627321034/ Yup they are real serial numbers Sigh. The twee label text doesn't help, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 The label only makes it worse. Tony S 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormboy Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 3:34 PM, THE_BEYONDER said: Are they actually selling them, or are they giving a limited number away? I can’t keep up with their shenanigans Yep, they’re selling them for “$1000 or more”. Posted in the other thread: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 1:27 AM, wormboy said: Yep, they’re selling them for “$1000 or more”. Posted in the other thread: Link I wonder how many they sold Larryw7, aardvark88 and Juno Beach 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Cat Posted January 2, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 4:27 PM, wormboy said: Yep, they’re selling them for “$1000 or more”. Posted in the other thread: Link Well there goes their thin veneer of actually being a legitimate company. mess on Leifeld's companies over the years all you want, whichever comic company you want, they've never resorted to anything this dodgy for a solvent company still at play. Absolutely disgusting, and now I don't care what they publish, hell, they could get the Transformers license, I still wouldn't buy their books out of principle. them. Larryw7, grendelbo, Juno Beach and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormboy Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/1/2022 at 10:36 PM, THE_BEYONDER said: I wonder how many they sold I’m guessing they sold at least five, sad to say. You could view this as performance art by an industry poking fun at itself, until you get to the $1000 part. s-dali and Tony S 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_BEYONDER Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 2:01 AM, wormboy said: I’m guessing they sold at least five, sad to say. You could view this as performance art by an industry poking fun at itself, until you get to the $1000 part. What happens when those 5 copies auction for 5k each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onlyweaknesskryptonite Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 1:45 AM, THE_BEYONDER said: What happens when those 5 copies auction for 5k each They either start selling the rest, or they run a second printing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sigur Ros Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 12:20 AM, Iceman399 said: Based on the grading date of Dec 2020 and the Blackstone deal not being until July of 2021 looks like this isn't their doing. Blackstone owns the company and these books remain on the census. They own this. Unfortunate, because that squashes the hope a new owner would fix CGC's bad rep, not enable it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1webslinger Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 How much did cgc charge to grade these invisible comics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 8:20 AM, 1webslinger said: How much did cgc charge to grade these invisible comics? That's a good question as I believe I have found the missing copies and would like to submit them. Tony S 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman399 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 11:07 AM, Sigur Ros said: Blackstone owns the company and these books remain on the census. They own this. Unfortunate, because that squashes the hope a new owner would fix CGC's bad rep, not enable it. They may have had no idea that this BAD IDEA was even there. They have millions of books on the census and they sure weren't gunna look at everyone when the deal was in prices or finalized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juno Beach Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 8:58 AM, Iceman399 said: They may have had no idea that this BAD IDEA was even there. They have millions of books on the census and they sure weren't gunna look at everyone when the deal was in prices or finalized "We didn't know" is a terrible excuse. MetalPSI and I like pie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceman399 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 12:30 PM, Juno Beach said: "We didn't know" is a terrible excuse. Oh come on. I'm all for bringing out the torches and what not but to say that 1. This is a Blackstone issue (which it very well is now). 2. That they knew this was done months before they purchased and had any knowledge that of the 3 or 5 or whatever million comics, CGC graded 34 invisible ones and put them on the census. There are guys on this forum that track the census like mad (Valiantman) how come it took them who are looking for "oddities" and rarities 6 months to find them. How would they have known? Hello CGC Execs we are about to buy the company have you graded anything we should be aware of that might be a bad idea? No Blackstone why would there be everything we do we run through all kinds of checks to ensure we only put out the best product (puddling, creep engine, newton rings, terrible marketing ideas like photoshopping a hulk 1 5.0 into a cgc 9.0 and creating a 15ft banner, making stupid IG videos of Brittany showing $1 bills over a CGC signing). So do you really have any reason to believe other than pure speculation that Blackstone knew this was done 7 months prior to purchase? Do they wish they'd have found out about it soon? I'm guessing the next few weeks will tell us that. I think this is an absolute steaming pile of trash as to what CGC has done and a grave disservice to their product but to say that Blackstone knew is legit trying to pull out the torches. MetalPSI and greggy 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalPSI Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 On 1/2/2022 at 11:02 AM, Iceman399 said: Oh come on. I'm all for bringing out the torches and what not but to say that 1. This is a Blackstone issue (which it very well is now). 2. That they knew this was done months before they purchased and had any knowledge that of the 3 or 5 or whatever million comics, CGC graded 34 invisible ones and put them on the census. There are guys on this forum that track the census like mad (Valiantman) how come it took them who are looking for "oddities" and rarities 6 months to find them. How would they have known? Hello CGC Execs we are about to buy the company have you graded anything we should be aware of that might be a bad idea? No Blackstone why would there be everything we do we run through all kinds of checks to ensure we only put out the best product (puddling, creep engine, newton rings, terrible marketing ideas like photoshopping a hulk 1 5.0 into a cgc 9.0 and creating a 15ft banner, making stupid IG videos of Brittany showing $1 bills over a CGC signing). So do you really have any reason to believe other than pure speculation that Blackstone knew this was done 7 months prior to purchase? Do they wish they'd have found out about it soon? I'm guessing the next few weeks will tell us that. I think this is an absolute steaming pile of trash as to what CGC has done and a grave disservice to their product but to say that Blackstone knew is legit trying to pull out the torches. The common sense is strong with this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
