Nice find in a LCS

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 Just got back from my vacation hiking in NY state. Found a little comic store and pick these up for $3 - $5 each. I'd grade them all in the 8.0 to 9.0. Cant wait to read them.

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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC, Part 3

The results are listed but do I dare look. Just check my submission of the 4 Gang Busters issues that were graded by CBCS and broken out for a CGC submission. They said they were being shipped so that means the grades are listed online. Do I look or do I wait till they show up at the PO Box before I report back to you people. I've been getting a bad vibe since I saw that the #13 had a trimmed cover. I know I made some predictions of what I was thinking they would come back as and I'll stick to
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New comics in comic cave

It was time to change the comics being shown in the cave. The first 2 are in honor of  Halloween. The next 3 are up because I was in a wedding. The flower for my lapel is made of a comic book page.
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I'm so jealous of you guys who collect...

Must be nice to go to ebay and find the series you're collecting/looking for in CGC holders. Yeah, that's right, I'm feeling kind of jealous right now. Of who you ask. I'll tell you. All you people that collect all the popular series of comic books. Yeah, you know who you are. All you who collect Amazing Spider Man, Batman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and on and on I could go. Must be nice to do your eBay CGC search and see hundreds of hits for your series there in front of you, what excitment you
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC. Part One.

The sound of the crack, the flying of broken plastic, the sheering of the scissors. Okay, recently picked up four issues of Gang Busters off from ebay. All four were in CBCS slabs and within the grade range of books that I wanted to start my Gang Busters Registry set with. When I purchased them I told myself that I was not going to crack them out and send them to CGC. They would be just fine setting in the Gang Busters box with my only other issue, Gang Busters #51 CGC-7.5 ow/w Aurora pedi
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My own comic room???

I've always wanted my own room to display my comics in and now I have one. True, I do have to share it with other family members, but when I'm in there by myself it's my own little comic cave. The view's great whether sitting or standing or just digging some meds out of the pantry. Thanks to the family for letting me put up any comics I want. I've been changing comics every 2 or 3 weeks. The comics now on display are Summer Love #46 and 47 with Beatles covers due to the fact it is summer still a
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Nice find in LCS

Just got back from a hiking trip in upstate NY. I found a little comic store and picked these up for $3 to $5 each. Can't wait to read them.
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC. Part 2

Oh no, not going to well for CBCS. Make sure you read part 1 first. Here is a update. Just looked to see how my order was coming along and noticed that they had marked the Gang Busters #13 as having a trimmed cover. Hard to think that CBCS would have missed that. Think I'll be staying with CGC. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC, part four

Sorry this took so long. Okay, I'm back with part four. Sorry it took so long but I got the chance to go hiking in upstate NY for a week and the comics came back the day I was to leave. If your new to the series of posts please read the first parts to see what's going on. The first book to look at will be the Gang Busters #6. CBCS graded as 9.4 with white pages. I was thinking it would hold that grade but maybe have OW to white pages. CGC sent it back as a 9.2 with white pages. I guess I can l
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC, part five...

Trim or no trim, that is the ?. Well here we go. Purchased off from ebay for $44 in June along with 3 others Gang Busters comics (#10,18, and 6). All were graded by CBCS and this issue, #13, was graded 8.0 OW/W pgs. After deciding to break them out for grading by CGC I started this journal to let people know how things were going. CGC has since removed some or all of them I'm told. This issue came back from CGC as a 8.0 white pgs. but with the "Cover Trimmed" note. I was somewhat shock as to h
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Thanks

Just a small entry to thank CGC for my recent Best Of Bronze Age award. 
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC, part six...

Lack of info. Sorry for the amount of time between my posts. This journal is about the Gang Busters #10 that I broke out of its CBCS jacket and submitted to CGC. I do have a bit of a problem with it being lowered a full point from 9.0 to 8.0. This is the one comic I was thinking would be a sure lock for the same grade. I'm sure I didn't do any damage cracking it out or that anything happened in packaging or shipping. I'm pretty sure the covers grade a 9.0 so it must be something CGC found insi
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WARNING, WARNING,

Centered covers a must The first 15 covers of the Ghosts series are very difficult to find without some portion of the cover design cut off. I even think there may some cover that cannot be found complete. I just found the #5 cover in the ComicLink auction with a full cover. I had to pay a bunch for it but it's the first one I've seen. Check out my Ghosts collection in the Registry to see some other full covers and some almost full covers with just a bit of the design missing. To see old
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The test is on, CBCS vs. CGC, part seven..

No ace in the hole here. Once again, sorry for the delay. Life got going and I got to go visit my kid for a couple weeks. It's time to do the last book, Gang Busters #18. This was graded 7.5 by CBCS and came back 6.5 from CGC. I don't really have to much of a problem with that. There are a lot of little things that show up. Staples are out of place, a few little chips, edges a bit ruff, and a few bend here and there, and that's just the front cover. The back has a pretty big dust shadow, tiny
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How low do you go?

Is there a bottom grade that you never go below with your CGC slabs? I recently decided to start collecting more of the GHOSTS series other than the first 15 which have a different design to thier covers than the ones after issue #15. Now, its a long series with 112 issues and a few specials listed in other series. I decided to collect the first 15 issue because they are so hard to find well centered. After issue 15 they becomes a bit easier to find well centered. I've decided to still only b
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New varietyt for Aurora Comic Scenes #187-140, Batman.

Could I have just discovered a new variety for a Batman comic? Well, it took me awhile to find this, it's been sitting in the collection for a year or two, but take a look at the picture below. When the Aurora Comic Scenes hoard started coming to the market I decided to get one copy of each. After getting 5 of the 10 issues I notice that the other five were not coming up for sale very often. I did a CGC pop. check and found that the Batman(15 graded), Tarzan, Tonto, Spider-Man, and Lone Ranger
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Brownies Smoke Shop ???

Blue dealer stamp on a blue cover I have a Boy Commandos #30, CGC-7.5, that has a dealer stamp in blue ink that is almost the same color blue as the cover. The stamp has 3 lines and the top one says "Brownies Smoke Shop" but I can't make out the other lines. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the stamp or has the same stamp on one of thier comics. I would like to know what the other lines say also. Thanks and let me know if you know anything about it. Best2u To see old comments
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Whatever happened to...

Seems like ten years ago I heard about it. Anybody in the know have any information on the pedigree book that's be in production for the last decade or so. I looked forward to buying that thing for five years at Christmas time and it never came out. I then got mad for a few years that it was taking so long and then said if it ever came out I wouldn't buy it, I was just that pissed. Well, it's been another year or so and haven't heard a thing about it. Anybody know if it's still on the table or
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I'm a COMICLINK loser.

I won a auction lot, then why do I feel like a loser? After to going through all the lots in the latest Comiclink auction I had picked out all the Thrilling Comics lots to bid on. I was going to win one of those lots if it was the last thing I did. It's been a long time since I had added a comic to my set on the Registry and here was a good chance to do that. My main goal was to get either the #43 or #71 as they were the highest grade of the lots. Things started going bad as soon as the first
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Oh poop, wrong picture

Sorry Here's the right picture for my last post. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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Obsessed?

How many copies of issue does a person really need?

Just got done with putting a custom set together in my Registry of all my “Aurora Comic Scenes” collection doubles and realized I have more copies than any normal collector should. I mean, who needs 5 copies of the Lone Ranger issue. Oh wait, that’s not the worst of it, how about 9 copies of the Batman issue. I seem to justify the Batman issue by thinking he’s a very popular character and people will always want one of these issue as time goes by. Don’t think that’s really going to happen and so
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My submission has been graded!

A few journals ago I gave my predictions, let's see how I did. Following is a copy of my journal when I predicted what the grades would be, I'll let you know what they came back as after that journal. I just shipped off 6 comics to CGC and as always I write down what I think the comics will grade at when they come home. I'd like to share my predictions with fellow journal watchers. When they come back we'll see how good a grader I am. So without futher words here they
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#1 cover in my collection

Here it is. My favorite cover that I own. Check out my past journals to see my other top covers. From E.C. Comics in Jan. of 1953 comes Frontline Comics #10. This cover grabed me from the min. I saw it in the CGD gallery of covers for Frontline Combat. I do go there a lot to look at covers I'm missing from series I collect. Some of the finest artists in the comic kingdom worked on this cover. J. Severin did the pencils, B. Elder did the inks with M. Severin on colors and B. Oda on lettering.
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What ever happened to...

I posted this journal over 2 years ago, Anybody have new info? Posted: 2/26/2011 12:13:19 PM | Views:489   Seems like ten years ago I heard about it. Anybody in the know have any information on the pedigree book that's been in production for almost the last decade? I looked forward to buying that thing for five years at Christmas time and it never came out. I then got mad for a few years that it was taking so long and then said if it ever came out I wouldn't buy it, I was just that pis
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Tearable spellng and something that pisses me off. #3

Don't blame me there is no spell checking. Star Trek #1 needs fixing. First I'd like to say "Sorry" for all the bad spelling that happens in my journals. I just got done reading a few of my old entries and saw how many misspelled words and typos there were. I don't know how to type, I just pick, and sometimes spend 20 seconds looking for the right letter. There is no spell check for the journal and I'm to lazy to go back and correct them all. Once again "Sorry" and I'll try to do better. I
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Do you ever break your own rules?

When something comes along that's to good to pass up do you bend your rules a bit. When I start to collect a series of comics I plan it out and set a bunch of rules to keep me from getting carried away. You know, rules like- only CGC slabs, only grades between this and that, off-white pages or better, issues 1 thru whatever, and on and on it could go. An example would be my collection of "Ghosts". Rule #1 was issues #1-15, rule #2 is well centered copies with no elements cut off, rule #3 was C
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