What's up with the trend in slabbing dross? 1 1

[waaaghboss]

I just think people will grade anything regardless of value, based in countless worthless comics I've seen.  I see endless new collectors with common 90s drek asking if it should be stabbed, as they're convinced somehow that it's the only way to preserve something.

Edited September 3 by waaaghboss

[kent allard]

On 9/3/2024 at 8:58 AM, Robot Man said:

Now, we have Pulp collectors drinking the Kool-Aide. 

Bingo!

That's what I'm concerned with.  Has the contagion spread, or is being helped along?  I've got my tin-foil hat securely in place ...

[kent allard]

On 9/3/2024 at 10:30 AM, waaaghboss said:

I just think people will grade anything regardless of value, based in countless worthless comics I've seen.  I see endless new collectors with common 90s drek asking if it should be stabbed, as they're convinced somehow that it's the only way to preserve something.

Alas, I fear it may come down to something as prosaic and sad as that ... W.C. Fields was right. 

                                                                                                                      brain fart ... meant P.T. Barnum

Edited Sunday at 08:20 AM by kent allard

[tth2]

On 9/3/2024 at 9:26 PM, jimjum12 said:

Like any Corporate Entity, they will be seeking new revenue streams, particularly if they exist among the current client base. If they are funding this new enterprise, I doubt very seriously there is some Machiavellian undercurrent to create a false market. Anyone who has ever collected pulps would understand the appeal. The slabbing of less-than-ideal specimens is a function of the individual collector or submitter, bearing in mind that there has never been a shortage of foolishness in any given collector base. There would be no need to fabricate that which already exists. A successful collector will focus on the proven, leaving the back-alley dice rolls to the inexperienced novice. That Citadel of Lost Ages looks like a Finlay cover, not exactly chopped liver, but certainly not iconic. Bear also in mind, not all Pulp collectors adhere to a simplistic "cover centric" mentality, and also focus on authors and first prints. Personal taste will always play a role, for example, I am fond of Fox and Crow, but not one issue sold in my recent thread. GOD BLESS ...

-jiimbo(a friend of jesus)

-jiimbo(a friend of jesus)

Another conspiracy, killed by common sense!