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CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 4

CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 4 In march I sent to CGC 30 books...They received them on the 16th of March, and in almost exactly 40 working days (12th of may 2011) they were finally graded. Most were modern plus a bunch of Eternals (I want to build a set in high grade asap!). This time I am quite satisfied ...with my forecasts being met for most of the books or within an acceptable "grading range".   One comment about the eternals must be made though...I bought them raw 3-4 m
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CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 3

CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 3 CGC just graded 3 more of my SILVER AGE books....let's compare their grading with my forecast! This time I was VERY unsatisfied. All books were purchased from very reliable dealers few years ago...but 2/3 of my books were graded one full grade below my forecast when I got them! TITLE ISSUE FORECAST CGC Amazing Spider-Man 29 9.4 CGC 8.5 Amazing Spider-Man 32 9.2 CGC 9.2 Amazing Spider-Man 43 9.4 CGC
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XXXPHOENIX HITS 100.000 !!!!

XXXPHOENIX HITS 100.000 !!!! Just to let the CGC Collectors society know that....I finally HIT the 100.000 target. I am so excited! When I joned this community I thought that this rank in the registry was close to impossible to achieve....but I did it!!!!!! Considering I live in Italy it's a huge success... 371 MARVEL COMICS cgc books in my collection .... 353 made it into the registry! AND...no book grades below 9.0!! CIAO FEDERICO
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CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 1

CGC just graded 30 of my books....let's compare their grading with my forecast! Hello to all! I have submitted 30 nice modern books to CGC...and this is what I got! 1x 8.5, 1x 9.0, 4x 9.2, 10x 9.4, 10x 9.6, 4x 9.8 My forecasts did not go that far a part for a couple of book I had graded 8.0 (the authentix Romita sr DF books) that CGC graded 9.4 and 9.2 and for 6 books that CGC strangely graded much lower than my predictions... Anyway I am quite happy both for the grades and my grading sk
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CGC vs XXXPHOENIX grading contest PART 2

CGC just graded 6 more SILVER AGE /BRONZE AGE books....let's compare their grading with my forecast! I just noticed CGC finished grading more books I submitted... They were some very nice Spidey early annuals + a Silver Surfer (1st series) 14 + a what if 1977 1... Once again I was quite satisfied ... no books below the 9.0 and an average 0.2 difference between my forecast and their grading... Modern age books are much easier to grade, but when I submit bronze or silver age books, due to
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I submitted AF15 and AS33 for the private Stan Lee signing and this is what I got..........

read read read HELLO fellow collectors... last month I received an email from CGC with the opportunity to submit books for a private Stan Lee signing. I thought it was a great thing so I bought a relatively cheap Amazing Fantasy 15 on ebay and took out from of one of my boxes my favourite book: Amazing Spider-Man 33. The AF 15 had been badly restored in an amateur way decades ago so I decided NOT to have the book PRO-restored... The book was effectively not worth the pain of being PRO exte
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Let's stop the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (and maybe MARVEL) VARIANT MADNESS

Have all become Variant slaves? Hello to everybody!   I decided to post about what I call the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN VARIANT MADNESS. We have been seeing variants over variants of the same issues in the last few years... and I wonder: DO WE NEED THEM? 1. I HATE THIS HABIT OF ARTIFICIALLY MAKING A VARIANT BOOK "RARE" JUST BECAUSE IT COMES OUT AT A 1:50 RATIO 2. DO ALL THESE SO CALLED "NEW ARTISTS" DESERVE TO DRAW AN AMAZING SPIDER-MAN COVER? I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT AN AS COVER SHOULD BE
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 1 ...FROM A DARK CLOSET TO A 9.0 SLAB!

When dreams come true! I can't believe it...my AS 1 was CGC GRADED as a 9.0 with WHITE PAGES!!! How many books in such a nice shape still exist? This copy has an almost unbelievable story? My father travelled to NY in 1963(!) for a business trip. He saw some superheroes comics at the newstands and bought a bunch of them. The cover of Spider-Man 1 looked so intriguing to him that he carefully placed the comic in the middle of his papers and brought it back home to Italy. Once there he p
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