etanick Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 actually i spoke too soon. I finally had a chance to look at all 100 books and 2 did get purple labels. Both had small amount of color touches on covers. I am likely to have the color touch remove because both are high grades and key books(X-men 14 and 94) and I think it is worth it to pay the pros to remove them. the majority of this batch were bought at conventions from 1989 to 1993 and some were bought on Ebay from 1999 to 2003. I were pretty careful back in those days at the conventions. I am sure the dealers hated dealing with me because i am one of those buyers that always asked to take the books out of the bags and spent a lot of time looking at them. I bought a bunch of raw books from Ebay from 1999 to 2003 and quite few of them were PLOD and I won't bother submit them because the restorations were so obvious. One of the main reasons I left the hobby by the end of 2003 until recently. Right before I left in 2003, I bought myself the x-men 1 as a parting gift since I wanted that book more than anything else back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash105 Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 X-Men one is a great way to exit the hobby. I actually exited by having a fire sale. Your way is much better. Conventions are what got me. I left because of dishonest dealers pure and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc120us Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Great story and great books. Glad to see you've come back. (thumbs u Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flash105 Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 That is the important thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvac Saga Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I'm not really collecting X-men anymore, but give me a HG, well centered, white paged, Ped copy anytime!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc120us Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I'm not really collecting X-men anymore, but give me a HG, well centered, white paged, Ped copy anytime!! Very nice book, Rich!! The White Mountains are very nice books!! Congrats!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvac Saga Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 Thanks Casey, I couldn't resist a 'five tooled" book!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanick Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 more higher graded recent slabbed books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc120us Posted October 24, 2009 Share Posted October 24, 2009 Very nice!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcade Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 Super nice books etanick. Job well done. (thumbs u I noticed that your 9.8 #113 does not have the blue line printing error by wolverines head. Congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanick Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 thanks man! I am so glad that I decided to send them to CGC a few months back for slabbing. It is such a relief that most of the books survived well for decade(s) when I left them with relatives that tossed them in heating and laundry rooms with all kind of water and flood problems. Most of the stuff that were damaged were my X-men from 230 to 300 and other titles but I really didn't care much about those issues so they are readers now for my nephew. I didn't realize there was a printing error on other 113 but I never really looked at another issue since I bought mine copy way back and i knew I won't likely ever need to upgrade. If anyone have a sample of this error, I would love to see it. Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcade Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Notice the blue line coming out of Storms ankle and running into the flames. Some copies have it and some do not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanick Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 thanks..now i know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colugo Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 I'll probably get this one slabbed it is flat and glossy with WP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanick Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 gorgeous looking book...damn, i love to look at your entire collection because I can' t recall you posting anything raw that isn't a 9.6 or better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcade Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 That is a stunning copy of #61. I would certainly slab that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcade Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Photos came out foggy for some reason, but here are two of my recent purchases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc120us Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Nice additions, Leon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etanick Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 nice books...it is tough to get the X-men from 67 to 93 in the high grades. I did win a 9.2 #47 for a lowest price at the Mound auction I am trilled because that one I don't have so it is not an upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colugo Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 They are pretty nice looking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
