Grader Question

[MuadDib]

How is Comic-Keys on grading. Is he/she accurate? Has anyone bought from Comic-Keys in the past and thought the grading to be on point? I see that the seller offers some amazing and exclusively unslabbed silver age issues in really high grade and wonder why? (especially since one can triple their profits by sending these books to CGC) I understand that some people are against CGC, but why would anyone hold a grudge if they were maximizing profits?

 

Some opinions please? Thanks

[sckao]

 

I understand that Comic-Keys goes by the user handle "Hammer" on this board.

 

 

 

 

[BachelorOfComix]

I understand that Comic-Keys goes by the user handle "Hammer" on this board.

Indeed, Ebay's comic-keys = CGC Forum's hammer

[Illiterati-migration]

Y'know, instead of it saying "Name: Jesus Christ, Superstar", shouldn't it say something like: "Name: Jesus Christ, Avatar"?

[read_em-migration]

Grab some popcorn and a Mountain Dew, folks!

[ubiquiti]

How about...

Jesus Christ: 24 inch pythons?

I know it doesn't rhyme with superstar, but it has such a nice ring to it.

[Aman619]

...or Trent razor.

[hammer-migration]

He's the Devil in disguise, personally responsible for ALL evils, past and present. But, he's a schnappy dresser, has the testosterone levels of a shiver of sharks (can get you through the heaviest of doors QUICK, if you forgot your key!), and can help you change a flat by floor pressing the rear end of your car if your jack is jammed! Eh, you take the good with the bad.

[ubiquiti]

so whats the deal with the whole plague of locusts thing?

Isn't that a little hokey?

Also - please explain your father's thinking on making Stevie Wonder blind - that is just plain cruel, man. At least give him guys to dress him better.

[hammer-migration]

OH!! There's a reason. And a very good one to all your questions, which will all be answered as soon as all the comic folks get up here (please bring 2 valid forms of photo ID, and please remember your passwords so we can transfer your PayPal accounts to OUR banking system). You will be asked to take a number so first come first served. We even have a resident entomologist on staff, standing by to assist Bugaboo in his transition.

Coinees are asked to please bring along the above information plus a pair of fire retardent pajamas.

 

[Aman619]

way to go Hammer! Seriously. Those were two cool-headed funny answers to what must be (at best) an uncomfortable thread going here. You dont need my opinion, but they were much better than the old fire and brimstone in-your-face responses.....

[doyle033]

Also - please explain your father's thinking on making Stevie Wonder blind - that is just plain cruel, man. At least give him guys to dress him better.

Actually the whole stevie wonder thing is relatively easy to explain. You see

1)God is Love

2)Love is Blind

3)Stevie Wonder is Blind

4)Stevie Wonder is God!!

 

now doesnt that add a whole new perspective to this question?

[hammer-migration]

"Stevie Wonder is God"!

 

Well, that's too bad, Doyle! At this point I'm going to flip over all the cards to this segment of "to Tell the Truth". What a shame that you are beginning to suspect the truth about who's REALLY in charge up here. Now we'll be forced to dispatch "Knuckles", our company head-hunting angel, to have a little Pow-Wow with you about selective amnesia!!!

[fantastic_four]

How is Comic-Keys on grading. Is he/she accurate? Has anyone bought from Comic-Keys in the past and thought the grading to be on point? I see that the seller offers some amazing and exclusively unslabbed silver age issues in really high grade and wonder why? (especially since one can triple their profits by sending these books to CGC) I understand that some people are against CGC, but why would anyone hold a grudge if they were maximizing profits?

 

Most everything that can be said about comic-keys has already been said in these forums. To avoid further bickering in this thread--aside from information from comic-keys himself in an effort to disprove the industry-wide rumors about him, which we're all interested in hearing--I suggest you use the forum "search" feature using the phrase "comic-keys", behind which you'll find a bunch of information related to your question.

 

[Tomega]

How is Comic-Keys on grading. Is he/she accurate

 

Go by his eBay feedback rating, it is excellent and impartial compared to the opinions you may get here. Looking up past threads in the CGC forum may give you the wrong information and impression. Although I have not bought from him yet, I personally feel that he has the best issues I have ever seen -bar none. The only thing I do not like is that all his auctions are private and so is his feedback, I think it gives the wrong impression and , in the end, might hurt his business. A lot savvy eBayer's like to check the bid history of an auction to make sure there is no shill bidding and such going on but it is impossible to do so with private auctions and feedback. Of the few times we have conversed on here or through an email or two over the years, he was always professional, courteous, and seems like a stand up guy. Of course, that is what they used to say about Ted Bundy before he murdered 20 or so women.....hehe.

And there is my two cents

Tomega

[fantastic_four]

It isn't just in this forum you'll hear it--ask around to major collectors and dealers and they've all heard the same stuff. He's exceptionally courteous, and extremely knowledgable...I wish he'd make some effort to knock down the multitude of rumors flying around the ENTIRE vintage comics industry about him. But mostly all we get in these forums is denial and personal threats...which doesn't help his cause much.

[hammer-migration]

Like I've said FF, in personal emails to you when you've insisted to have proof of whatever you feel would bolster your personal witchhunt:

 

This isn't Saddam regime Iraq. This isn't Haiti under PapaDoc. I don't have to "prove" a damned thing to YOU. Who are you? The World Magistrate? I owe YOU explanations beyond what I've said? Beyond my Ebay record? Beyond my buyer's satisfaction? You've learned NOTHING from all your courtroom TV dramas you watch. You want proof of some wrongdoing beyond your asking, "Are you a crook", "Are you THIS guy", "Are you THAT guy" and my answering, "NO"? Like ANY good investigator, go find your proof of your continued slanderous allegations for no reason other than a seller deciding to deal in CGCed AND Raw books on Ebay, or one day YOU'LL find YOURSELF in the defendant's seat in a courtroom once you go to far in your ridiculous Crusade.

You want to investigate something Rudd? Investigate the root of your fixation with me. You remind me of the type of individual that publically vehemently crusades against porn and meanwhile, spends 8 hours a day viewing kiddie porn. Your morbidly obsessive and uncalled for protestations, to some who are schooled in the workings of the mind, are a strong indicator of your true nature, Rudd. Maybe if you find the answer to that, you can learn to improve your outlook on life so you can spare yourself the same bitter resentfullness you live with NOW as you mature into adulthood.

THEN, you can investigate OTHER sellers. See if you can find ANOTHER Ebayer on the planet who has an 855-3 record (2 being retaliatory for PURCHASES never received!) dealing solely in comics with an average auction end price of well over $1000+, with 85% being RAW, and maintains Platinum Power seller status. I'll bet you won't be able to.

[fantastic_four]

I don't have a fixation on you; I wouldn't even think about you except when your auctions pop up in my E-Bay search criteria if you didn't inhabit the same cyberspace as I do on these boards. And I told you 8 zillion times what made me originally ask around about you--that NM Fantastic Four #1 you offered to me that you wanted $40K for that I was seriously considering.

 

You try to focus all the blame for your rep on here onto me, and I guess I did put the info out about you before most people...but this isn't about me and I didn't originate that information. Every dealer I called knew who you were. You don't have to prove anything to me; I don't care much anymore. The personal threats of lawsuits, and the subsequent threats of malice, killed any sense of friendship I felt towards you. But I also don't have any reason to hate you...

 

It's your reputation; I'm just suggesting you do what it takes to clear it up. It isn't for me--it's for you! If you'd agree to go to a comic convention within a few miles of your house to show everyone you're not Dupcak, the rumors would end and your business would improve...

[Tomega]

Fantastic Four -

wish he'd make some effort to knock down the multitude of rumors flying around the ENTIRE vintage comics industry about him.

 

Wow, that is a pretty bold statement " the entire vintage comics industry" I do not know how anyone could say that. I must have missed it as the hot topic at last two New York Shows and Boston. I'm not a plebeian in the comic world, I've dealt with many in the industry and I can tell you that what you said is just not the case ( by the way , we have been competitors in auctions many times over the years.) I know you have bought from him in the past ( he did leave feedback for you;) were you satisfied? Was it restored? How was his customer service? Rumors are just that - rumors. I have yet to see any substantiated claim against him. It serves no purpose to rehash this because it has been beat to death. You seem like a nice enough guy in your posts and I agree that Hammer may get a but viceral in his responses ( which does not help anything) but I think that because of the way he was treated. I think the bottom line is feedback record - he is a member of Square Trade, he is a power seller, and has over 800 positives with only 3 negatives. I do not think he has anything to prove to anyone beyond what he currently does.

 

Tomega

[hammer-migration]

The rumors would NEVER end, and you know that. If I showed up ANYWHERE, people would just say, "Yeah, he hired a powerlifter to show up and pretend to be me". You know it, I know it. As has been pointed out MANY times, Dupcak was 135lbs., almost 6 feet tall, a literal skeleton, already in his 40s, in the early 90s. By the time I graduated High School, I was already a muscular 210 pounds at 5' 9", benching 400+, and a well-schooled, competitive Muay-Thai practicioner. "MY" showing up would prove nothing. And you know it! People don't morph from a bird-boned 135lbs. to a brick hard 240 lbs., changing their entire structure, especially late in life. Now, How about we get back to comics. I'm sure the opportunity will arise for you to beat your Dupcak drums enough in the future. Why continue this utter nonsense here? Don't you have a mother that you'd rather spend some time with today instead of flogging the dead horse carcass that you keep dragging out of the grave with every opportunity you see? Don't you tire of it, Rudd?