The Urge to neurotically check on submission status 50 times a day
Not an exciting post, just my simple ramblings.
Ok, so its been a while since I submitted comics to CGC. Had my ups and downs with the last few submissions so wasn't so confident of my ability to pick the winners from my collection, and of course the sheer cost of submitting made me slow down a bit.
I chose a small group, all Golden Age superhero (DC - the old Marvel/Timely comics seem to be going for way too much these
Thoughts on how we look at the grades we get and why . . .
Unless you are a grading genius and have better than 20/20 vision, a magnifying glass, bright lights in your back pocket and assorted other tools of the trade wherever you go, you are in the same boat as me and, I am sure, countless other CGC submitters: you suffer from the soul crushing experience of total and utter comic overgrading. Well, maybe not soul crushing, but disappointing.
Yes, I thought I would have a few 9.6s, and ev
Not Steam Punk, but just starts moving ahead a bit more with my Fourth, and Largest, submission
My previous submissions have been mixed bags and I look at them as more learning experiences than serious submissions. I was submitting comics I had bought and thought were nice examples that would do well to be graded. I got some surprises (Brave and the Bold 14 at 7.5! Third highest graded and THE lone 7.5! and a great Tales of Terror Annual 3 at 8.5) and some disappointments (an Xmen 211 at 7.0
Despite the puns, an attempt at defining the issue
I think we need to understand both sides in the controversy over Pressing and thereby allow everyone to look at the arguments and make their own decisions, and thereby we can move ahead to decide if Pressing is to be considered restoration, nothing, or something in between.
The argument for Pressing is that you are neither adding nor replacing anything material to the book, and therefore it is still in its original state (i.e. it is the same
Wherein the Hero gets his first submissions back, and muses on sundry related items.
I got my first batch of comics back, 5 Moderns. I can't say I am disappointed by the scores (9.4, two 9.6's), but I was hoping for 9.8's (don't we all?). Two of the books were lower, but I knew they would be (2 ASM 238: one a respectable 8.0, the other had the Tattooz removed so it got a very low qualified 6.0, which was a surprise to me and I wouldn't have sent it out had I noticed the Tattooz were removed
So I decided to jump into the CGC pool with a nice little splash - 29 books in the system for my first round, with more waiting at the board to dive in.
I have collected off and on for a while (from way back before there was ever a grading company for comics) and in the last few years I started buying collections to finance my own collecting (I buy groups and sell them to cover the initial purchase and hopefully make a little in the deal so I can afford my expensive EC Fan-Addiction -- as my s
